The Almanac
Today is Monday, June 29, the 180th day of 2015 with 185 to follow. The
moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus.
Evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Those born on this date
are under the sign of Cancer. They include William Mayo, co-founder of
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in 1861; astronomer George Ellery
Hale, founder of the Yerkes and Mount Palomar observatories, in 1868;
French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1900; actor/singer Nelson
Eddy in 1901; composer/arranger Leroy Anderson in 1908; Broadway
songwriter Frank Loesser in 1910; composer/conductor Bernard Herrmann
in 1911; actor Slim Pickens in 1919; baseball Hall of Fame member
Harmon Killebrew in 1936; black power advocate Stokely Carmichael in
1941; singer Little Eva -- Eva Narcissus Boyd -- in 1943; actor Gary
Busey in 1944 (age 71); Swiss fashion designer Egon von Furstenberg in
1946; comedian Richard Lewis in 1947 (age 68); actor/former U.S. Rep.
Fred Grandy, R-Iowa, in 1948 (age 67); actor Sharon Lawrence in 1961
(age 54); musician/actor Bret McKenzie in 1976 (age 39). On this date
in history: In 1853, the U.S. Senate ratified the $10 million Gadsden
Purchase from Mexico, adding more than 29,000 square miles to the
territories of Arizona and New Mexico and completing the modern
geographical boundaries of the contiguous 48 states. In 1933, Fatty
Arbuckle, silent film comedian and one of Hollywood's most beloved
personalities until a manslaughter charge (he was eventually acquitted)
ruined his career, died while preparing a comeback. He was 46. In 1941,
Isabella Peron took office as president of Argentina, succeeding her
husband. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment,
as then administered by individual states, was unconstitutional. In
1992, doctors in Pittsburgh reported the world's first transplant of a
baboon liver into a human patient. (The recipient, a 35-year-old man,
survived three months.) In 1995, the U.S. shuttle Atlantis docked with
the Russian space station Mir for the first time. NASA's chief said the
docking marked a new era of friendship and cooperation between the two
countries. In 2003, Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn died at the age
of 96 after a six-decade career in which she won four Oscars in the
Best Actress category. In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled U.S.
President George W. Bush didn't have authority, under military law or
the Geneva Conventions, to set up military tribunals for terror
suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In 2009, Bernard Madoff, mastermind
of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 150 years in
prison. The federal judge who imposed the sentence in New York City
said Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil. Madoff apologized in
the courtroom, saying, I am responsible for a great deal of suffering
and pain. In 2010, Rodolfo Torre, the leading candidate for governor in
the violence-torn Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and four others were
ambushed and killed. In 2011, Greek lawmakers approved some of the
toughest economic measures in the nation's modern history in a
five-year austerity plan that included tax increases and job cuts.
Observers said the severe budget could be critical to the future of the
euro. In 2012, thousands of people at a rally in Cairo demanded that
the military transfer full power to new Egyptian President Mohamed
Morsi, who told the crowd, There is no power above people power. (Morsi
was ousted by the military just over a year later.) In 2013,
temperatures of 119 in Phoenix and 115 in Las Vegas sent dozens of
people to hospitals. Death Valley, Calif., had a high of 127. In 2014,
Emmy-winning actor Meshach Taylor, who starred in Designing Women and
Dave's World and had numerous other film and TV roles, died of cancer
at his home near Los Angeles. He was 67. A thought for the day:
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to
live as one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wilde .
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