The Almanac
Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2015 with 183 to follow.
The moon is full. 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 German philosopher Gottfried
Leibniz in 1646; French novelist George Sand, a pseudonym for Amandine
Dupin, in 1804; grammarian William Strunk Jr. in 1869; pioneer aviator
Louis Bleriot in 1872; French Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leon Jouhaux
in 1879; actor Charles Laughton in 1899; blues, gospel
musician/composer Thomas Dorsey in 1899; film director William Wyler in
1902; cosmetics executive Estee Lauder in 1906; blues musician Willie
Dixon in 1915; actor Olivia de Havilland in 1916 (age 99); actor Leslie
Caron in 1931 (age 84); filmmaker/actor Sydney Pollack in 1934;
actor/writer Jean Marsh in 1934; actor Jamie Farr in 1934 (age 81);
choreographer Twyla Tharp in 1941 (age 74); actor Karen Black in 1939;
actor Genevieve Bujold in 1942 (age 73); singer Deborah Harry in 1945
(age 70); actor/comedian Dan Aykroyd in 1952 (age 63); Britain's
Princess Diana in 1961; nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis in
1961 (age 54); actor Andre Braugher in 1962 (age 53); actor Pamela
Anderson in 1967 (age 48) ; rapper Missy Elliott in 1971 (age 43);
actor Liv Tyler in 1977 (age 38). On this date in history: In 1847, the
first U.S. postage stamps were issued. In 1859, the first
intercollegiate baseball game was played in Pittsfield, Mass., and it
was a high-scoring contest. Amherst beat Williams, 66-32. In 1867,
Canada was granted its independence by Great Britain. It consisted at
the time of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and future provinces of Ontario
and Quebec. In 1874, the Philadelphia Zoological Society, the first
U.S. zoo, opened to the public. In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough
Riders led a charge up Cuba's heavily fortified San Juan Hill in a key
Spanish-American War battle. In 1916, in the worst single day of
casualties in British military history, 20,000 soldiers were killed and
40,000 wounded in a massive offense against German forces in France's
Somme River region during World War I. In 1932, Democrats nominated
Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president. (FDR was elected to four
consecutive terms.) In 1941, NBC broadcast the first FCC-sanctioned TV
commercial, a spot for Bulova watches shown during a Dodgers-Phillies
game. It cost Bulova $9. In 1946, the United States conducted its first
post-war test of the atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. In
1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, known as the Soundabout, in U.S.
stores. It sold for about $200. In 1990, the West and East German
economies were united, with the deutsche mark replacing the mark as
currency in East Germany. In 1997, Hong Kong was returned to China
after 99 years as a British territory. In 2002, in a rare high-altitude
accident, a passenger airliner collided with a cargo plane over
Germany, killing all 71 people on the two planes -- 69 on the airliner
and two on the cargo aircraft. In 2004, Hollywood legend Marlon Brando
died of lung failure. He was 80. In 2005, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,
the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, announced she planned to
retire. In 2007, Moshe Katsav stepped down as president of Israel, a
post he had held since 2000. Rape charges against him were dropped in
exchange for a guilty plea to sexual harassment. In 2012, a military
court in Israel sentenced a former Hamas commander, Ibrahim Hamed, to
54 life prison terms for his role in 2001-03 terror attacks that killed
scores of Israelis. In 2013, a year after Mohamed Morsi became
president of Egypt, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in
cities across the country, calling for him to step down. (Morsi was
ousted by the military two days later.) In 2014, a U.N. report said
conflicts in Iraq killed about 2,400 people in June, more than half of
them civilians. The report it was the deadliest month in the country
since 2007. A thought for the day: If you treat people right they will
treat you right -- 90 percent of the time. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt .
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