The Almanac
Today is Friday, July 3, the 184th day of 2015 with 181 to follow. The
moon is waning. 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 Welsh poet/writer William
Henry Davies ( The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp ) in 1871;
actor/singer/composer George M. Cohan in 1878; Czech novelist Franz
Kafka in 1883; actor George Sanders in 1906; journalist/columnist
Dorothy Kilgallen in 1913; Jerry Gray, bandleader/arranger for Glenn
Miller, in 1915; English filmmaker Ken Russell in 1927; jazz
clarinetist Pete Fountain in 1930 (age 85); English playwright Tom
Stoppard in 1937 (age 78); singer Fontella Bass in 1940; former Polish
Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek in 1940, (age 75); celebrity attorney Gloria
Allred in 1941 (age 74); humorist Dave Barry in 1947 (age 68); actor
Betty Buckley in 1947 (age 68); overthrown Haitian dictator Jean-Claude
Baby Doc Duvalier in 1951; talk show host Montel Williams in 1956 (age
59); pop singer Laura Branigan in 1957; actor Tom Cruise in 1962 (age
53); actor Thomas Gibson in 1962 (age 53); actor Yeardley Smith in 1964
(age 51); actor/singer Audra McDonald in 1970 (age 45); champion
Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel in 1987 (age 28). On this date in
history: In 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the
Canadian town of Quebec. In 1775, George Washington took command of the
Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass. In 1863, the Union army under the
command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by
Gen. Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, Pa. In 1971, rock star Jim Morrison,
27, was found dead of heart failure in a bathtub in Paris. In 1986,
Rudy Vallee, one of the United States' most popular singers in the
1920s and '30s, died at the age of 84. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq
War, missiles fired from the USS Vincennes brought down an Iranian
airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. The United
States said the ship's crew had incorrectly identified the jetliner,
believing it was an attacking Iranian fighter jet.. (Years later, the
the United States agreed to pay millions of dollars in reparations for
what it called a terrible human tragedy. ) In 1996, Boris Yeltsin was
re-elected president of Russia, defeating Gennadi Zyuganov in a runoff.
In 2009, Sarah Palin, who became a national figure as the Republican
candidate for vice president in 2008, announced she was resigning as
governor of Alaska with 17 months to go in her term. In 2010, at least
230 people were killed in an explosion sparked by a cigarette near an
overturned oil tanker truck in the Republic of the Congo. In 2012,
actor Andy Griffith, most famous for his role as a wise, folksy sheriff
in the long-running TV show that bore his name, died at his home in
North Carolina. He was 86. In 2013, the Egyptian military removed
President Mohamed Morsi from office and announced it was suspending the
constitution and planning new elections. In 2014, the Dow Jones
industrial average reached the 17,000 mark for the first time. A
thought for the day: What is the essence of America? Finding and
maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and
freedom from." -- Marilyn vos Savant .
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