Almanac for June 7th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 7th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-7-J3J61GMJ6G

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: The ancient Roman goddess Vesta

Bummer June 7th

June 7, 1937: 26-year-old actress Jean Harlow dies of kidney failure. Her illness may have been a complication from a case of scarlet fever she contracted as a teen.

June 7, 1984: On or around this date, the Indian Army burns the Sikh Reference Library building in Punjab, India, to the ground. The library held approximately 20,000 materials, including irreplaceable handwritten manuscripts. The status of these materials is unknown and considered classified by the Indian government; they may have been destroyed, sold off into private collections, or held in an undisclosed archive somewhere.

June 7, 1993: NBA player Dražen Petrović is killed in a road accident while riding on the German Autobahn highway system in Bavaria. Petrović is not wearing a safety belt and is ejected from the vehicle, which is driven by his girlfriend.

June 7, 2016: Recent college graduate Colin Scott, age 23, goes to see his sister Sable. The two visit Yellowstone National Park together. Near the Norris Geyser Basin, Sable and Colin veer off the boardwalk where visitors are encouraged to walk. Colin falls into a natural hot spring, where he dies by some combination of drowning and burns from the scalding-hot water. Colin’s body cannot be recovered, having largely been dissolved in the hot, acidic water. 

Almanac for June 6th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 6th: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-6-S6S21GMJ82

Bummer June 6th

June 6, 1867: Archduchess Mathilde Marie Adelgunde Alexandra of Austria, who is smoking a cigarette, attempts to hide the cigarette from her father, Archduke Albert, Duke of Teschen, by concealing it behind her back. She accidentally sets her delicate gauze dress on fire and very shortly afterward dies of her second- and third-degree burn injuries.

June 6, 1892: Yale University student Wilkins Rustin dies of peritonitis. He’d participated in a Delta Kappa Epsilon hazing in which he’d been led through the street toward Moriarty’s Café while blindfolded. Rustin walks directly into a carriage pole, rupturing his intestine.

June 6, 1968: U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy (Sr.) is assassinated by gunshot in Los Angeles.

June 6, 1971: A mid-air collision between a U.S. military plane that had deviated from its flight plan and commercial Hughes Airwest flight 706 kills 50 people. Only 1st Lt. Christopher E. Schiess, the radar intercept officer aboard the F-4B fighter jet, survives the collision that occurs over Duarte, California. Schiess, 24 years old at the time, is able to eject himself from the jet and parachute to safety.

June 6, 2006: American artist Luis Alfonso Jiménez Jr. dies in his Hondo, New Mexico, studio while working on his 32-foot-tall sculpture titled Blue Mustang, which is now at the Denver International Airport. A large piece of the sculpture came loose from a hoist, fell on him, and severed an artery in his leg.

This is a completely different blue Mustang.

Almanac for June 5th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 5th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-5-Love-and-Friendship-J3J41G1GUR

Artist Birthday: Federico Garcia Lorca

Bummer June 5th

June 5, 1981: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issues its first report on a cluster of medical cases in what will soon become known as the AIDS epidemic. This report described an unusual cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in people who otherwise appeared to be healthy; this opportunistic infection had previously been seen only in people who were known to have compromised immune systems. The human immunodeficiency virus would be identified some time between 1984 and 1986.

Almanac for June 4th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 4th: https://ko-fi.com/post/February-19-Queenie-Z8Z41AZGDD

Beatles Trivia
June 4, 1969: The Beatles release “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in the U.S. In the U.K. it came out on May 30th. 

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: National Cognac Day

Bummer June 4th

June 4, 1923: Jockey Frank Hayes, age 22, has a sudden fatal heart attack in the middle of a horse race. His horse, Sweet Kiss, is the first to cross the finish line, still carrying Hayes’s body. Hayes’s heart attack may have been related to his crash dieting, since jockeys are required to weigh as little as possible.

June 4, 1978: A search party discovers the body of Ted Weiher, age 32, inside a remote camping shelter in Plumas National Forest in northern California. Weiher died of starvation and dehydration and has severe frostbite on both feet. He and his four close friends (all of whom had intellectual disabilities and/or mental health challenges) had last been seen by their families on February 24th of that year, when they attended a basketball game together. The bones of three of the others were discovered in the woods nearby, apparently dispersed by scavenging animals. They’re thought to have died of hypothermia. No trace of the fifth man has ever been found. 

June 4, 2004: A 52-year-old man in Granby, Colorado, goes on a spree during which he uses a steel- and concrete-reinforced bulldozer to destroy several buildings, including Granby’s mayor’s house and the town hall. The man had modified the vehicle over the course of a year and a half, plotting his revenge against the town based on a grievance stemming from a bill he owed for illegally dumping sewage from his business rather than properly connecting the business to the town’s sewage system. In the process of destroying the local hardware store, the bulldozer falls into the building’s basement and the engine stops working. The man, armed with several firearms inside of and protruding from the armored bulldozer, then dies by suicide. No one else is harmed.

Almanac for June 3rd

Today's Observance: Feast Day of St. Kevin of Glendalough
Artist Birthday: Josephine Baker

https://www.everand.com/audiobook/919398501/Josephine-Baker-in-Berlin

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 3rd: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-3rd-Thermos-H-Christ-N4N21G1G66

Bummer June 3rd

June 3, 1943: In the so-called Zoot Suit Riots, white servicemen stationed in Los Angeles go on a racist rampage, beating young men of Mexican, Black, and Filipino backgrounds. The military members are allegedly outraged that largely Latino members of the “pachuco” subculture wear the flashy style of suit that requires a large amount of fabric, which is supposed to be rationed during wartime. More than 150 people are severely beaten, and police arrest over 500 people. Young men of color, not their Caucasian attackers, make up the bulk of those arrested.

June 3, 1991: Mount Unzen on the island of Kyushu in Japan erupts. The eruption kills 43 people, include married vulcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft. 

June 3, 1998: A high-speed train in Germany derails and crashes into a bridge, killing 101 people.

June 3, 2009: Actor David Carradine dies at the age of 72 of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation in Bangkok, Thailand, at what was then the Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel (as of 2022, Mövenpick Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Wellness Resort).

Almanac for June 2nd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 2nd: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-2nd-The-Greatest-Show-on-Earth-Y8Y21G1G3Z

Bummer June 2nd

June 2, 1919: Anarchists simultaneously set off mail bombs containing dynamite and sulfuric acid in eight U.S. cities. Night watchman William Boehner and anarchist publisher Carlo Valdinoci are killed. 

June 2, 1937: Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral organist Louis Vierne plays a farewell concert for an audience of 3,000 people. The 66-year-old finishes his performance, then turns to his assistant and says, “I’m going to be sick.” Vierne suffers a fatal heart attack at his organ, holding down one final, continuous note.

June 2, 1941: Heinrich Ludwig “Lou” Gehrig dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at age 37.

Goudey Gum Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

June 2, 1990: Twelve people are killed in the Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak that affects Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.

June 2, 2013: Grizelda Kristiņa dies at the age of 103. She was the last fluent native speaker of Livonian, a Uralic language closely related to Estonian.

Almanac for June 1st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 1st: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-1st-R6R31G1FZR

Marilyn Monroe was born 100 years ago today, on June 1, 1926.

Bummer June 1st

June 1, 1600: Quaker preacher Mary Dyer is executed by hanging in Boston for the crime of repeatedly preaching Quaker doctrine in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where it’s illegal to be any religion other than Puritan. Offered a last-minute reprieve, Dyer refuses it, choosing to be martyred for her cause.

June 1, 1981: A mob of Sinhalese people in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, burns the Jaffna Public Library. The mob formed in protest of the killing of three Sinhalese police officers the night before, at a rally held by a Tamil pro-democracy political party. The burning of the library, which destroyed an estimated 97,000 books and manuscripts, came as part of clashes between the Sinhalese, who make up about three quarters of the population of Sri Lanka, and the Tamil minority.

June 1, 2001: According to an official Nepalese investigatory team, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills nine members of his own family. Among the victims were his father King Birendra, his mother Queen Aishwarya, and Dipendra’s younger brother and sister. And additional four relatives are wounded. Dipendra shoots himself following the massacre; while he is in a coma, he is declared king. 

He dies on June 4th. Riots break out at his funeral, since many Nepalese people believe Dipendra’s body doesn’t deserve any of the ceremonial honors traditionally bestowed on a deceased king. 

June 1, 2009: Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after the flight crew fails to recover the aircraft from a stall. All 228 people on board are killed. Among the dead are composer Silvio Sergio Bonaccorsi Barbato and Classical harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu.