The Almanac
Today is = Monday, June 8, the 159th day of 2015 with 206 to follow.
The moon is = waning. Morning stars are Mercury, Neptune and Uranus.
Evening stars are = Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Venus. Those born on this
date are under the = sign of Gemini. They include German composer
Robert Schumann in 1810; = architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1867;
science fiction publisher John W. = Campbell in 1910; British
geneticist Francis Crick, who helped determine = the double helix
structure of DNA, in 1916; College Football Hall of = Fame member/U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Byron White in 1917; actor Robert = Preston in
1918; painter LeRoy Neiman in 1921; former first lady Barbara = Bush in
1925 (age 90); actor Jerry Stiller in 1927 (age 88); comedian = Joan
Rivers in 1933; actor/singer James Darren in 1936 (age 79); singer =
Nancy Sinatra in 1940 (age 75); singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs in 1944 =
(age 71); actor Kathy Baker in 1950 (age 65); actor Griffin Dunne in =
1955 (age 60); Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams in 1957 (age 58);
comedian = Keenen Ivory Wayans in 1958 (age 57); rock musician Nick
Rhodes in 1962 = (age 53); actor Julianna Margulies in 1966 (age 49);
rapper Kanye West = in 1977 (age 38). On this date in history: In 1789,
James Madison = proposed the Bill of Rights, which led to the first 10
amendments to the = U.S. Constitution. In 1869, Ives McGaffney of
Chicago obtained a patent = for a sweeping machine, the first vacuum
cleaner. In 1967, the USS = Liberty, an intelligence ship sailing in
international waters off Egypt, = was attacked by Israeli jet planes
and torpedo boats. Thirty-four = Americans were killed in the attack,
which Israel said was a case of = mistaken identity. In 1968, James
Earl Ray, an escaped convict, was = arrested in London and charged with
the April 4 assassination of civil = rights leader Martin Luther King
Jr. (Ray died in prison in 1998.) In = 1994, two of the major warring
factions in Bosnia, the Muslim-Croat = federation and the Bosnian
Serbs, signed a cease-fire agreement. In = 1995, U.S. Marines rescued
downed American pilot Scott O'Grady in = Bosnia. In 2003, U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said he stood by = his testimony before
the United Nations that Iraq did have weapons of = mass destruction
before the war. In 2006, the leader of al-Qaida in = Iraq, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, and seven others were confirmed killed in an = airstrike on
a house north of Baquba. In 2009, North Korea sentenced = American
journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling to 12 years in prison for = illegal
entry. (They were released after a visit by former U.S. = President
Bill Clinton.) In 2011, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vowed to = fight
on to the death as NATO bombed his Tripoli compound and his forces =
counterattacked in Misurata. (Gadhafi was killed 4 =C2=BD months
later.) = In 2012, U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO
forces in = Afghanistan, apologized to the Afghan people for the deaths
of 18 = civilians, including children, in an airstrike. In 2013,
Princess = Madeleine of Sweden married British-American businessman
Christopher = O'Neill. In 2014, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as
president of = Egypt. A thought for the day: It's a very sobering
feeling to be up in = space and realize that one's safety factor was
determined by the lowest = bidder on a government contract. --
Astronaut Alan Shepard .
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