Almanac for June 3rd

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

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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.

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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. 

Almanac for May 31st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 31st: https://ko-fi.com/Post/May-31-Channel-One-News-M4M01G1FUC

Artist Birthday: Kyle Secor

Bummer May 31st

May 31, 1889: The South Fork Dam of the Little Conemaugh River fails, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2,200 people are killed.

May 31, 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre begins the destruction of 35 blocks of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma by white supremacist terrorists. Officially, 29 Black residents of Tulsa and 13 white residents die as a result; historians believe the true death toll to be between 75 and 100 people. 

The exact cause of the violence and destruction is unknown, although it may have started due to rumors that a 17-year-old white teenager working as a elevator operator was touched or harassed by a Black teenager. A precipitating incident appears to have been an attempt by a white man to disarm a Black man, leading to the weapon firing. A gunfight that killed 12 people ensued. After this, small groups of white people began randomly attacking Black people walking alone. Whites burned and looted Black businesses and homes. 

As a result of this domestic terrorism, many Black survivors chose to leave Tulsa. The Red Cross counted 1,256 houses burned, 215 houses looted but not burned, and $1.5 million in damages in 1921 money, roughly equivalent to $34 million in 2021.

Almanac for May 30th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 30th: https://ko-fi.com/Post/May-30-Were-the-World-Mine-V7V21G1FM7

Bummer May 30th

May 30, 1955: William John Vukovich Sr., who won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500s, dies in a car crash during the 1955 Indy 500. Vukovich’s car went over a wall, sailed through the air, flipped several times, and struck a low bridge. Vukovich is partially decapitated and dies instantly when his car struck the bridge. His grandson, William Vukovich III, will die during racing practice in 1990. Metal roll bars installed in vehicles and safety-certified driver helmets were mandated starting with the 1956 Indy 500. 

May 30, 1958: Pat O’Connor is killed during the last lap of the Indy 500 amidst a 15-car pile-up. O’Connor’s car strikes Jimmy Reece’s car, sails through the air, lands upside-down, and catches fire. His death is due to head trauma from the car’s upside-down landing.

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Almanac for May 29th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 29th: https://ko-fi.com/post/May-29-Sing-Blue-Silver-M4M51G1FJT

Artist birthdays: Melissa Etheridge and Melanie Brown

Melissa Etheridge at Dorothy Surrenders: https://dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com/search/label/Melissa%20Etheridge

Bummer May 29th

May 29, 1985: A riot at the football (soccer) match in Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium leads to the deaths of 39 people, some of them crushed when a wall is partially knocked down. 

May 29, 1997: 30-year-old musician Jeff Buckley drowns in the Wolf River in Tennessee.

May 29, 2021: Registered dietician and pastor Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Franklin, Tennessee, to marry her religious and weight loss beliefs, dies in the crash of a Cessna 501 Citation I/SP into Tennessee’s Percy Priest Lake. All seven people on board are killed, including Shamblin’s husband Joe Lara and the pilot. Shamblin’s congregation later learned that although the preacher was a multi-millionaire, she left none of her fortune to the church. 

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Almanac for May 28th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 28th: https://ko-fi.com/post/May-28-What-a-Feeling-B0B71G1FK1

Bummer May 28th

May 28, 1977: A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky kills 165 people and injures an additional 200 people out to dinner during the Memorial Day weekend. Fire code allowed for 1,500 patrons to be seated in the club at a time; on this night, more than 3,000 people were packed inside. The building had no fire walls, no sprinkler system, and numerous problems with the electrical wiring. 

May 28, 2010: A Jnaneshwari Express train derails in West Bengal, India, killing 148 passengers. The cause of the derailment is thought to have been either a terrorist bombing or sabotage. 

May 28, 2016: Harambe the gorilla is shot and killed at Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden after the animal grabbed a 3-year-old child through the bars of the gorilla enclosure.