The Almanac
Today is Thursday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2015 with 203 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 English playwright/poet
Ben Jonson in 1572; German composer Richard Strauss in 1864; Montana's
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives, in 1880; undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau in 1910;
Hall of Fame football Coach Vince Lombardi in 1913; author William
Styron in 1925; U.S.Rep Charles B. Rangel in 1930 (age 85); actor Gene
Wilder in 1933 (age 82); actor Chad Everett in 1937; actor Adrienne
Barbeau in 1945 (age 70); Scottish auto racer Jackie Stewart in 1939
(age 76); drummer Frank Beard (ZZ Top) in 1949 (age 66); football Hall
of Fame member Joe Montana in 1956 (age 59); actor Hugh Laurie in 1959
(age 56); TV host Dr. Mahmet Oz, in 1960 (age 55); actor Joshua Jackson
in 1978 (age 37); actor Shia LaBeouf in 1986 (age 29). On this date in
history: In 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,
Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman were appointed by the Continental
Congress to write a declaration of independence for the American
colonies from England. In 1919, Sir Barton became the first horse to
win thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. In 1920, U.S. Sen. Warren G.
Harding, R-Ohio, was chosen as the dark horse Republican presidential
candidate. (In November, he was elected the 29th U. S. president.) In
1927, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge welcomed Charles Lindbergh home
after the pilot made history's first non-stop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean, New York to Paris. In 1963, facing federalized Alabama
National Guard troops, Gov. George Wallace ended his blockade of the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allowed two African-Americans
to enroll. In 1967, the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab
neighbors ended with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. The Israeli
forces achieved a swift and decisive victory. In 1985, Karen Ann
Quinlan died at age 31 in a New Jersey nursing home, nearly 10 years
after she lapsed into an irreversible coma. Her condition had sparked a
nationwide controversy over her right to die. In 1987, Margaret
Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win
three consecutive terms. In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an
anti-flag-burning law passed by Congress the year before. In 1994,
after 49 years, the Russian military oc'cup'ation of what had been East
Germany ended with the departure of the Red Army from Berlin. In, 2001,
Timothy McVeigh was executed in Terre Haute, Ind., for the April 19,
1995, Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured
hundreds. In 2010, flash floods swept across Arkansas campgrounds,
killing at least 18 people. In 2011, the leader of al-Qaida in East
Africa, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, was killed in a shootout with Somali
soldiers at a checkpoint in Mogadishu. In 2012, Teofilo Stevenson of
Cuba, winner of three Olympic gold medals and considered one of the
best amateur boxers ever, died at of a heart attack in Havana. He was
60. In 2014, Rep. Eric Cantor, on the day after an unexpected primary
election defeat in Virginia, said he would step down as U.S. House
majority leader at the end of July. A thought for the day: Being
powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you
aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher .
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