Almanac for June 27th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 27th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-27-Emma-Goldman-E1E81HQ7JE

French Republican Calendar Day Name (9 Messidor): Absinthe

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Artist Birthday: H. Addington Bruce

Bummer June 27th

June 27, 2015: Colorful corn starch thrown into the air as an amusement at Formosa Fun Coast water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan, ignites, causing a fire. Performers on a stage throw the dust at guests who are dancing in a drained swimming pool. The dust ignites in a fire ball low to the ground, resulting in burns to many guests’ legs and lower torsos. More than 500 people are injured, 200 of them critically, and 15 people die.

Almanac for June 26th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 26th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-26-Hieroglyphs-R6R81HQ7DQ

Bummer June 26th

June 26, 2015: Although apparently not coordinated, a series of terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, Syria, and Tunisia kill approximately 750 people. The Syrian Kurdish town of Kobanî is hardest hit, with more than 220 civilians killed by the Islamic State of the Levant (ISIL). 

Almanac for June 25th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 25th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-25-King-and-Queen-of-the-Fairies-F1F81HQ799

Artist Birthday: George Orwell

Bummer June 25th

June 25, 1959: 20-year-old Charles Starkweather is executed by electric chair at the federal prison in Lincoln, Nebraska. Between December 1957 and January 1958, Starkweather and his 14-year-old accomplice, Caril Ann Fugate, kill 11 people, including Fugate’s mother, stepfather, and half-sister. Fugate is sentenced to life in prison and paroled in 1976.

June 25,  2009: Singer Michael Jackson, age 50, dies from improper use of the medication propofol. Jackson’s personal physician had administered the drug to Jackson at home, although it is typically only used for anesthesia in hospital settings.

Almanac for June 24th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 24th: https://ko-fi.com/Post/June-24-St-Johns-Day-M4M51HQ735

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Bummer June 24th

June 24, 1938: Linda Laura Hazzard, a con woman and quack medical practitioner who advocated extreme fasting, massage, and enemas as a cure for everything, dies of starvation while undergoing her own “fasting cure.”

June 24, 1973: An arson attack against an LGBTQ+ bar in New Orleans, Louisiana known as the Up Stairs (or Upstairs) Lounge kills 32 people. Although no one is charged with or convicted of causing the fire, a patron who had been ejected from the bar earlier that day is considered a suspect.

June 24, 2006: Three men in Pretzien, eastern Germany, burn copies of Anne Frank’s diary and the American flag in apparent support of the Nazis. The members of a far-right-wing group are charged with incitement of racial hatred.

June 24, 2023: Hikers in the San Gabriel Mountains of San Bernardino County, California, discover human remains. These turn out to be the remains of actor Julian Sands, age 65, who had been reported missing after failing to return from a hike on January 13, 2023. Winter storms, avalanches, and record snowfall in the area had hindered the search for him, although eight official searches were conducted during the five months he was missing.

Almanac for June 23rd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 23rd: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-23-Madeline-Miller-J3J51HQ6YE

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Bummer June 23rd

June 23, 1985: Air India Flight 182 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb over the Atlantic Ocean approximately 120 miles from Ireland. All 329 people on board are killed.

Friday, June 23, 2006: An imam in Kolkata issues a fatwa against Bangladeshi-Swiss physician and author Taslima Nasreen. The then-imam of Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Mosque accused Nasreen of making anti-Islamic remarks at a conference in that Indian city on Saturday, June 10, 2006. He called her a "Jewish spy" (there is no evidence that Nasreen has any ties to Israel) and offered a bounty of 50,000 rupees to anyone who drove her out of India. (Source: The Times of India)

Almanac for June 22nd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 22nd: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-22-Tropic-of-Cancer-G2G41HQ6TR

Bummer June 22nd

June 22, 1918: Near Hammond, Indiana, a 26-car train bearing workers and performers from the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus crashes when the engineer falls asleep at the wheel. An estimated 86 people are killed in the accident. The fire resulting from the crash is severe enough that some of the victims are never able to be identified. 

Here is an article about the train accident at Smithsonian Magazine.

June 22, 1969: 47-year-old Judy Garland dies of an apparently accidental drug overdose.

Judy Garland at Aurora's Gin Joint blog: https://aurorasginjoint.com/tag/judy-garland/

June 22, 2015: Composer James Horner, who composed the score of numerous films from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) to James Cameron’s Titanic and Avatar, loses control of his Short Tucano single-occupant aircraft over Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County, California. Horner, apparently under the influence of prescription medications he took for headaches, appeared to have been unable to navigate the forest terrain and came within 100 feet of crashing into a nearby mountain before he fatally crashed into the forest.

Almanac for June 21st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 21st: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-21-Solstice-W7W21HQ6PX

Today's Observance: Fathers Day, First day of summer (Northern Hemisphere)

Artist Birthday: Marcella Detroit, a.k.a. Marcy Levy, co-writer of the Eric Clapton hit "Lay Down, Sally," and the American half of Shakespears Sister

Bummer June 21st

June 21, 1858: Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens’s brother Henry dies of wounds he received on June 13th as a crew member on the steamboat Pennsylvania when the boat’s boiler exploded. Mark Twain, at the time working as a crew member on the riverboat A.B. Chambers, felt guilt for the rest of his life for convincing his younger brother to work aboard a riverboat.

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June 21, 1964: Young civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan for registering African-American voters in Mississippi.

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