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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 03:
1761 Henry Scrapnel English inventor (shrapnel shell)
1804 Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League (fought to remove price controls and import barriers for wheat)
1808 Jefferson Davis Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
1844 Garret Augustus Hobart (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
1864 Ransom Eli Olds auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
1865 George V king of England (1910-36)
1895 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar India, statesman/diplomat/writer
1904 Dr Charles Drew Washington DC, pioneer of blood plasma preservation/first director of the Red Cross blood bank
1906 Josephine Baker dancer/singer/Parisian night club owner
1911 Paulette Goddard [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (The Great Dictator)
1913 Ellen Corby Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-The Waltons)
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz], actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
1926 Allen Ginsberg beat poet (Howl)
1926 Colleen Dewhurst Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
1929 Chuck Barris Phila, TV game show producer/host/CIA spy(?) (Gong Show)
1942 Curtis Mayfield singer (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
1946 Ian Hunter England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1951 Christopher Cross Texas, singer(?) (Sailing)
Deaths which occurred on June 03:
1875 Georges Bizet France, composer
1881 Japanese giant salamander dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1924 Franz Kafka (b.1883), Czech writer, died
1949 Amedos Peter Giannine founder of Bank of America dies at 79
1963 Paul Maxey actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
1963 Pope John XXIII dies at 81
1975 Ozzie Nelson actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 69
1987 Will Sampson actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
1991 Harry Glicken volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
1992 William Gaines (70), MAD magazine publisher died in New York
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
03-Jun-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Atanasio Haro Marin Jr. Balad Hostile - hostile fire
03-Jun-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Todd J. Bolding Landstuhl Reg. Med. Ctr. Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A Good Day
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
1098 Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey
1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif
1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1851 1st baseball uniforms worn. Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1864 Battle of Cold Harbour continues
1875 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #144 Vibilia & #145 Adeona
1863 Gen. Lee, with 75,000 Confederates, launched a second invasion of the North. Lee led his troops into Maryland and then Pennsylvania, to meet the Army of the Potomac again, this time around a small town called Gettysburg.
1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair
1888 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
1916 ROTC established by Act of Congress
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1933 A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11 (Great pitchin)
1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
1942 Japanese carrier-based planes strafed Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands
1946 US Supreme court ruled that race separation on buses is unconstitutional
1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1949 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1949 Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1957 Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
1966 European DX Council formed in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1968 Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
1969 Last episode of (original) Star Trek aired on NBC (Turnabout Intruder).
1971 Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0
1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1977 Balt Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
1979 Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1980 ESPN begins televising college world series games
1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life
1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
1986 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3767
1987 Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
1989 Troops in China shoot & kill 100s of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan. Worst eruption in Japanese history
1991 France signed the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which prohibits signatories from helping other countries to acquire nuclear weapons.
1993 President Clinton announces he was withdrawing the nomination of University of Pennsylvania law professor Lani Guinier to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department.
2002 Pakistan blocks financial assistance to 115 Islamic schools for their alleged involvement in militancy and violence.
2004 CIA Director George Tenet, resigns for personal reasons.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Kentucky, Louisana : Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
Massachusetts : Teachers' Day (Sunday)
Ireland : Bank Day (Monday)
Bahamas : Labour Day (Friday)
New Zealand : Queen's Birthday (Monday)
Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838)(Monday)
Japan : Broken Dolls Day
National Repeat Day (I said "Repeat Day")
National Frozen Yogurt Week (Day 4)
National Adopt-a-Cat Month
Religious Observances
Buddhist : Memorial of Broken Dolls
RC : Feast of St Clotilda, queen of the Franks
RC, Ang : Mem of SS Charles Lwanga & 21 companions, Ugandan martyrs
Luth : Commemoration of John XXIII, Bishop of Rome
RC : Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
Religious History
1098 Armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) captured the city of Antioch (in modern Syria).
1726 Birth of Philip William Otterbein, German Reformed pastor who in 1800 helped found the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (an early branch of the modern United Methodist Church).
1853 Central College was chartered in Pella, Iowa under Baptist auspices. (In 1916 the university passed to Dutch Reformed leadership.)
1930 Missionary linguist Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'As we grow older all our paths diverge, and in all the world I suppose I could find nobodym who could wholly understand me excepting God.'
1972 In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sally J. Priesand, 25, became the first woman in Reform Judaism to be ordained as a rabbi.
1999 Catholics and Lutherans agree to sign an accord over the theological issue of "justification." They agree that divine forgiveness and salvation come "solely by God's grace" and that good works flow from that.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Mints and coffee smell like safe driving
Different odours affect the way motorists drive, with fast food scents likely to increase the potential for road rage and other smells like peppermint and coffee deemed to improve concentration, the RAC Foundation motoring organisation in London says.
"More than any other sense, the sense of smell circumnavigates the logical part of the brain," RAC Foundation consultant psychologist Conrad King said.
"This is why the smell of perfume can turn men into gibbering idiots, the smell of baking bread can destroy the best intentions of a dieter and the smell of baby powder can make a child-averse individual quite broody," he said in a statement.
The RAC Foundation said it has conducted research into the impact of smells on driving after the release of an odour study by Bryan Raudenbush of the Wheeling Jesuit University in the United States.
Dr King said good odours to have in your vehicle, other than peppermint, include cinnamon, lemon and coffee.
A blast of salty sea air can also encourage deep breathing and help relieve stress.
In contrast, the smell of fast-food wrappers, fresh bread or pastry can cause driver irritability and a tendency to speed because they make drivers feel hungry and in a hurry to sate their appetites.
Other "dangerous" odours are chamomile, jasmine and lavender because they can cause drivers to overrelax or fall asleep.
The plants are commonly used to treat insomnia.
For those motorists who might opt for a neutral-smelling interior, be warned. Studies of astronauts found an odourless environment created irritability and even olfactory hallucinations.
Cars of the future are likely to have in-built systems able to detect a driver's mood and react by altering the car's seating, lighting, temperature and even smell.
In the meantime, motorists are advised to keep a packet of mints handy.
Thought for the day :
"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is yourself."
