On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 12:
1519 Cosmos de Medici art patron (Accademia del Disegno)
1771 Patrick Gass Falling Springs PA, Sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1819 Charles Kingsley England, clergyman/novelist (Westward Ho!)
1829 Johanna Spyri Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
1851 Oliver Joseph Lodge England, early radio pioneer
1885 Werner Josten Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
1897 Alexandre Tansman Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
1897 Anthony Eden Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
1908 Otto Skorzeny, German-Austrian SS colonel
1909 Archie Bleyer Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey)
1914 William Lundigan Syracuse NY, actor ("Men Into Space" (1959) TV Series, Col. Edward McCauley)
1915 David Rockefeller banker, Secret ruler of the world
1916 Irwin Allen disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno)
1917 Priscilla Lane US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
1919 Uta Hagen Germany, actres (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting
1924 George Herbert Walker Bush (R) 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989- )
1928 Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (the Street Where You Live)
1929 Anne Frank Holland, diarist/Nazi victim
1932 Jim Nabors Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle)
1941 Chick Corea Chelsea Mass, jazz musician (Delhpi I, Toy Dance)
1943 Reg Presley rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1962 Ally Sheedy, [Alexandria], NYC, actress (Wargames, Blue City)
Deaths which occurred on June 12:
0816 Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
1799 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Evening), dies
1946 Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese field marshal, dies
1957 James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1963 Medgar Evers NAACP official, murdered in Jackson, Miss at 37
1972 Saul David Alinsky radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1980 Milburn Stone actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1994 Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the charismatic Orthodox Jewish leader, died in New York at age 92.
1998 Leo Buscaglia, columnist, lecturer and social philosopher known as “Dr. Hug,” died at age 74.
2003 Gregory Peck (b.1916), film actor, dies ("Moby Dick" and "To Kill a Mockingbird.")
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
12-Jun-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist John K. Klinesmith Jr. Fallujah Non-hostile - drowning
Afghanistan
06/12/02 Tycz II, Peter P. Sgt. 1st Class 32 Army Afghanistan
06/12/02 Corlew, Sean M. Tech. Sgt. 37 Air Force Afghanistan
06/12/02 Shero, Anissa A. Staff Sgt. 31 Air Force Afghanistan
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0746 Estimated date for the dedication of the Mayan Temple 22 in Copan, (Honduras).
1099 Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights. The Virginia Declaration of Rights granted every individual the right to the enjoyment of life and liberty and to acquire and possess property. The Virginia document was written by George Mason and was a precursor to the Declaration of Independence. Mason refused to endorse the Declaration of Independence because it did not include a Bill of Rights.
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins (Bad move)
1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 Territory of Iowa organized
1839 1st baseball game played in America
1845 George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon territory
1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1862 J. E. B. Stuart began his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia..
1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1880 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll
1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1913 "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC
1931 Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating Prohibition laws. Capone was indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words).
1936 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1942 American bombers struck the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time
1942 Anne Frank receives a diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam
1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Br Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
1952 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 The Beatles are awarded the MBE
1967 Israel wins 6 day war
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premiered
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC (WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!)
1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
1987 President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate: “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
1990 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1991 The Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines began erupting.
1991 The Chicago Bulls won their first N-B-A championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
1992 In a letter to U.S. senators, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes in the early 1950s and held 12 American survivors.
1996 UN passes Resolution 1060, the 1st of many many many condemnations of Iraq's denial of access to UN weapons’ inspectors.
1997 US Treasury Dept. unveiles new $50 bill. It was meant to be more counterfeit-resistant and to replace the old bill design in use since 1929
2000 50 years after the Korean War began, the leaders of North and South Korea met in Pyongyang for the first-ever series of talks.
2001 A federal court in New York sentenced Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, a Saudi Arabian follower of Osama bin Laden, to life in prison without parole for his role in the deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya.
2002 An AF MC-130, carrying 10 people crashed on takeoff in Afghanistan, killing three Americans
2004 It was reported that engineers had created a “metal-rubber,” a substance that conducts electricity like metal, but also stretches like rubber up to 250% of its original length
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Finland : Helsinki Day (1550)
Phillipines : Independence Day (1898)
Turk & Cacios Island : Constitution Day
Massachusett : Children's Day(Sunday)
Paraguay : Chaco Peace Day (1935)(Sunday)
Shelby, Mich : National Asparagus Festival(Thursday)
Great Britain : Queen's official birthday (National Day)(Saturday)
National Bathroom Reading Week ends
National Machine Day
Manheim, Penn : Festival of Red Rose
Portable Computer Month
Religious Observances
Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's Ascension
Christian : Feast of Bl Guy of Cortona
RC : Commem of SS Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, Nazarius, martyrs
RC : Commemoration of St John of San Facondo, confessor
Religious History
1458 In England, the College of St. Mary Magdalen was founded at Oxford University.
1720 Birth of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayerbook published in America.
1744 David Brainerd, 26, was ordained a missionary to the Indians in Colonial New England by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
1914 The first edition of A.T. Robertson's monumental 'Grammar of the Greek New Testament' was released. Its 1400+ pages make it the largest systematic analysis of the original New Testament language ever published.
1950 American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Earthly blessing is no sign of heavenly favor. Behold how many wicked prosper.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
SA man paid cousin to go to jail
A South African man who paid a relative to serve a jail sentence in his place has finally been put behind bars.
Engineer Rupert Reddi was sentenced in 2001 for kidnapping and assault. After an appeal process, a man believed to be Mr Reddi was imprisoned in 2003.
Three months later, prison officials discovered that the prisoner in question was in fact Roland Archery, a relative of Mr Reddi.
Both men have now been sentenced to three years' jail for the fraud.
Mr Reddi was originally sentenced to four months' jail in connection with an assault on his employees following a robbery at a factory he owned.
He had already been taken into custody to serve that sentence before the fraud trial began.
Tip-off
Officials believe the case is unique in South African legal history.
"It is the first time in my 27 years in court that I've encountered this," magistrate Hein van Niekerk said when passing sentence in Bethlehem in Free State province.
According to one report, court records were tampered with, so that papers received by the prison bore Mr Archery's fingerprints and not those of Mr Reddi.
A tip-off from a member of the public prompted the authorities to investigate the true identity of the man in prison.
Thought for the day :
"You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God."
