Almanac for June 16th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 16th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-16-M4M21GMIPO
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Bloomsday

Artist Birthday: Daniel Brühl

Beatles Trivia

June 16, 2001, South Bend: Once upon a time, South Bend had a summer festival called the Ethnic Festival. Tit and I, living in a downtown apartment near where the festival took place, visited it both yesterday and today. On this day we ate lunch while listening to a reggae band named Indika. 

We went home for a while, but came back out after dinner to have a funnel cake and listen to a Beatles tribute band. They wore the full Beatles suits and wigs even in the heat. They played many lesser-known songs such as “Boys” and “Taxman.” For a free concert on a beautiful night in the park, it was great. We watched the fireworks afterward.

Bummer June 16th

June 16, 1944: 14-year-old George Stinney becomes the youngest person to be executed in the U.S. in the 20th century when he dies by electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. The African-American teen was convicted of the murders of two white girls, aged seven and 11, although the South Carolina court vacated his conviction and declared Stinney wrongfully executed in 2014. Stinney’s body was so much smaller than the average prisoner, he had to sit on a Bible as a booster seat in the electric chair.

June 16, 1959: Between 1 and 2 a.m., actor George Reeves is found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head in a bedroom of a home in Los Angeles where is a party is taking place. Officially ruled a suicide, witness reports conflict, and some of Reeves’s friends and family members have questioned whether the death may have been an accident or perhaps a homicide.

June 16, 1970: Chicago Bears halfback Brian Piccolo, age 26, dies of embryonal cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of testicular cancer, that has spread to his lung, liver, and other organs.

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June 16, 1994: Kristen Pfaff, bassist for the band Hole, dies of a heroin overdose. She is 27 years old.

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Almanac for June 15th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 15th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-15-X8X31GMIR3

Bummer June 15th

June 15, 1785: The first recorded deaths in aviation history occur when hot air balloonists Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre-Ange Romain crash into the French coast while attempting to balloon across the English Channel.

June 15, 1996: Legendary jazz and popular vocalist Ella Fitzgerald dies of complications of diabetes.

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Almanac for June 14th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 14th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-14-E1E21GMIZ8

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Bummer June 14th

June 14, 1949: 19-year-old typist Ruth Ann Steinhagen shoots and almost kills Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus in one of the earliest recorded cases of what comes to be known as stalking. Steinhagen, a resident of Cicero, Illinois, has been obsessed with Waitkus since she sees him playing for the Chicago Cubs in 1946. She even leaves an empty plate at the dinner table for him when eating with her family. Steinhagen was seeing a psychiatrist, but this didn’t stop her from traveling to Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel, leaving a note with Waitkus’s roommate asking to meet, then shooting the baseball player with a .22 caliber rifle when he came to see her. She shot him in the chest, puncturing one of his lungs.

After shooting Waitkus, Steinhagen allegedly looked for a second bullet with which to shoot herself, but was unable to find one. Instead she called the police and told them, “I just shot a man,” allowing Waitkus to reach medical care before his injury killed him. He had to sit out the rest of the ‘49 baseball season, but returned in 1950. Eddie Waitkus developed a drinking problem and died in 1972 of esophageal cancer.

June 14, 1986: Three roller coaster riders are killed and a fourth is permanently disabled when their car derails on the Mindbender at Fantasyland (now Galaxyland) Amusement Park in West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada. 

June 14, 2017: The Grenfell Tower apartment building in London catches fire due to an electrical fault in a refrigerator on its fourth floor. Fire and smoke spread rapidly, trapped by the building’s exterior cladding and insulation, which act like a chimney. 70 people die in the 24-story tower before the fire can be extinguished and two more die in the hospital. 70 others are injured.

On the same day in the United States, six people are shot at a Congressional charity baseball game, including U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (a Republican), a Capitol Police officer, and a Congressional aide. The 66-year-old perpetrator is shot by police and dies of his injuries. All of those who are injured eventually recover fully, aside from physical and psychological scars.

Almanac for June 13th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 13th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-13-J3J01GMJ0X

Bummer June 13th

June 13, 2012: 26-year-old Indonesian singer Irma Bule performs in a village in West Java, using a live king cobra as a stage prop. The snake bites Bule. She continues performing, but collapses and dies from the venomous bite 45 minutes later.

Bule wasn’t a well-known performer. Like many other young, single mothers in Indonesia hoping for more lucrative musical careers, she performed for a small fee plus whatever tips she could get from the audience. Performers who incorporate snakes into their act are paid slightly more, but the snakes are generally non-venomous and often have their mouths taped shut. Bule’s mother believes Bule did not know the snake she was performing with was venomous.

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Almanac for June 12

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 12th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-12-D1D21GMJ1Z

Bummer June 12th

June 12, 2015: Musician Dave Grohl falls from the stage, breaking his leg, while performing with the Foo Fighters in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Almanac for June 11th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 11th: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-11-E1E31GMJ32

Bummer June 11th

June 11, 1955: The 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race turns disastrous when Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz rear-ends Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey. Macklin had swerved in front of Levegh to avoid hitting a third driver. The Mercedes-Benz leapfrogs over the Austin-Healey, flies over an earthen barrier, strikes the spectator area twice (breaking apart in the process), and comes to land on the barrier. In the process, Levegh is thrown from his car onto the track and killed instantly.

83 spectators are killed in the accident. An additional 120 people are injured. Levegh’s car burns for hours after the crash; its body is made with magnesium. Water poured on the car by rescue workers intensifies the magnesium fire. Among the injured are spectators burned by the magnesium sparks. 

June 11, 1979: Marion Morrison, who acted under the stage name John Wayne, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 72. 

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Almanac for June 10th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 10th: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-10-F2F31GMJ3T

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Fanny Burney

Bummer June 10th

June 10, 1692: One person found guilty of witchcraft is executed by hanging in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

June 10, 1898: The last-known native speaker of the Dalmatian language, Tuone Udaina, dies. Udaina is killed in an explosion caused by road work. 

June 10, 1990: British Airways Flight 5390, flying between Birmingham, England, and Málaga, Spain, experiences explosive decompression when an improperly-installed front windowpane falls off the aircraft. The captain, 42-year-old Timothy Lancaster, is partially propelled outward, with his lap belt and crew members managing to prevent him from exiting the aircraft. Remarkably, Lancaster survives, and the aircraft makes an emergency landing without fatalities. Lancaster suffers cuts and bruises, frostbite, shock, and a broken right arm, and later develops PTSD from the incident.

June 10, 2016: 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie is shot as she signs autographs after a performance in Orlando, Florida, and will die the following day. The perpetrator also killed himself.

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good hot dogs
mom and dad
grocery shopping with dad
cooking
visiting Grandma
go outside tomorrow!
podcasts
kombucha
baking brownies for friends
birthday plans
things work out! don't catastrophize