Almanac for July 1st

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Artist Birthday: Andre Braugher
French Republican Calendar Day Name (13 Messidor): Clove

Beatles Trivia
July 1, 1968: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s collaborative art exhibit You Are Here (To Yoko from John Lennon, With Love) opens in London.

Bummer July 1st

July 1, 1955: Actor Isabel Bonner collapses and dies of a cerebral hemorrhage while performing in the play The Shrike, written by her husband, in Los Angeles.

July 1, 1976: 23-year-old West German woman Anneliese Michel dies of malnutrition at her home. Over the last year of her life, Michel has been cared for by her parents and priests from the Roman Catholic Church, who performed rites of exorcism under the belief that Michel was possessed by demons. Michel had previously been diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy and major depressive disorder, but was not being seen by health care professionals at the time of her death. Her parents and several members of the Catholic Church are tried and convicted for negligent homicide.

July 1, 1996: Model/actor Margaux Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, is found dead inside her home in Santa Monica, California. She has died by suicide after overdosing on the barbiturate medication Luminal.

Margaux Hemingway in 1976. Publicity photo, unknown author, public domain.

July 1, 2002: 71 people die when passenger jet BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL Cargo ship collide in midair near the border between Germany and Switzerland. The Russian passenger jet carried nine crew members and 60 passengers, many of whom were gifted children on a UNESCO cultural exchange trip to Barcelona. The DHL cargo flight carried two crew members. 

The crew of the Russian jet received contradictory instructions from TCAS automated guidance system and from Swiss air traffic control. At the time, Russian pilots didn’t have a clear set of instructions on whether TCAS should override verbal commands from air traffic control or vice versa. (Now, pilots are told to prioritize TCAS, which gathers more data at a quicker rate than a human being on the ground.) Air traffic controller Peter Nielsen, who was the only person on duty at that time and therefore had to monitor two air traffic control work stations at the same time, set the Russian jet on a course that caused it to directly collide with the cargo plane. 

Almanac for June 30th

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Bummer June 30th

June 30, 1882: Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield, is executed by hanging.

June 30, 1995: 45-year-old jazz singer and Broadway actress Phyllis Hyman dies in the hospital after having been found unresponsive in her home. She has overdosed on prescription barbiturate medication and alcohol. 

Almanac for June 29th

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Bummer June 29th

June 29, 1950: Ring Lardner (Jr.) reports to prison to begin his 1-year sentence for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He’ll serve nine months. 

June 29, 1967: 34-year-old American model/actress Jayne Mansfield is killed when the car she is riding in collides with the back of a tractor-trailer. Her 20-year-driver Ronnie Harrison and her attorney Sam Brody are also killed. Manfield’s three children, Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay, all of whom are riding in the back of the car, suffer only minor injuries.

June 29, 1971: Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov die aboard their Soyuz 11 space capsule when their cabin depressurizes. As of 2025, they remain the only three human beings ever to have died in space.

June 29, 1978: Hogan’s Heroes actor Bob Crane is found dead in his apartment in Scottsdale, Arizona, by a dinner theater co-worker when he fails to show up for a meeting. Crane is 49 years old.

Unknown to the public, for whom Crane was considered uncontroversial, Crane had a habit of videotaping consensual sexual encounters with women. His friend and partner in these escapades, Sony video equipment salesman John Henry Carpenter, is considered one of the primary suspects in Crane’s bludgeoning death. The weapon used to bludgeon Crane is believed to have been a camera tripod, although this has never been conclusively proven. Carpenter was tried and acquitted of the crime in 1992; he died in 1998.

June 29, 2013: 31-year-old aerialist Sarah "Sasoun" Guyard-Guillot dies of blunt force trauma after a fall while performing in the Cirque du Soleil show Kà in Las Vegas, Nevada. As she is being lifted to a catwalk, approximately 94 feet in the air, Guyard-Guillot’s harness comes free of its safety wire and she drops into a pit. Guyard-Guillot is pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

Almanac for June 28th

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Achille Beltrame, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bummer June 28th

June 28, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin are assassinated in Sarajevo (then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Gavrilo Princip. 

June 28, 2018: A gunman attacks the offices of Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper The Capital. The assailant became enraged at the newspaper after it published a story about his arrest for harassing an acquaintance through social media. Reporter Wendi Winters, sports reporter John McNamara, columnist Gerald Fischman, editor Rob Hiaasen, and sales assistant Rebecca Smith are killed. 

Almanac for June 27th

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French Republican Calendar Day Name (9 Messidor): Absinthe

Koroven, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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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

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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.