Almanac for June 24th

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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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Almanac for June 20th

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Don't forget: Tomorrow is Fathers Day!

Bummer June 20th 

June 20, 1756: The infamous “Black Hole of Calcutta,” a dungeon belonging to Siraj-ud-Daulah, the ruler of Bengal in Mughal India, kills approximately 43 prisoners who are either British or supporters of the British. The fortress cell was designed to hold two to three prisoners; an estimated 64 to 66 people are forced inside by military officials, although apparently without Siraj-ud-Daulah’s knowledge. The men suffer crush injuries, heat exhaustion, and dehydration. Only 21 to 23 people survive. 

June 20, 1973: An 18-year-old man drowns in the river surrounding the Tom Sawyer’s Island location at Disneyland. He and his 10-year-old brother had attempted to remain on the island past the park’s closing time. When told by park security that they have to leave, the two brothers try to swim across the river; apparently, neither knows how to swim. The 10-year-old is rescued by a staff member.

June 20, 1979: ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart and interpreter Juan Espinosa are executed by a member of the Nicaraguan National Guard while attempting to cover the Nicaraguan civil war for the televised news broadcast. Their film crew captures the murders on camera and survives to escape and share the footage, which is aired on the evening news broadcast.

June 20, 2007: A young couple (both 21 years old) climbs to the roof of the Palmetto State Armory building (a gun shop) on the Isle of Palms in South Carolina in the early morning hours. They take off their clothes to have sex. Unfortunately, the metal roof of the building is rather slippery. The couple suffers an accidental fall from the roof. A homeless couple witnesses the accident and alerts a taxi cab driver, who finds the couple severely injured, lying in the road. Both are taken to the hospital, where they die from their multiple traumatic injuries.

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Almanac for June 19th

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Today's Observance: Juneteenth

Bummer June 19th

June 19, 1986: Two days after being drafted by the Boston Celtics, 22-year-old University of Maryland standout small forward Leonard (Len) Bias dies of cocaine-induced cardiac arrythmia in his dorm room. His friends see him have a seizure and call paramedics, who attempt to revive Bias, to no avail.

June 19, 1999: Stephen King suffers a broken leg, a broken hip, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated scalp when he’s struck and thrown 14 feet by a Dodge minivan driven by Bryan Edwin Smith. Smith, who was distracted by the movements of his unrestrained dog in the back of the vehicle, pled guilty to a moving violation and received a six-month suspended sentence.

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June 19, 2016: 27-year-old Russian-American actor Anton Yelchin dies of blunt trauma asphyxia when a design flaw in his SUV causes the vehicle to slip into neutral gear, roll down an incline, and pin the actor between the vehicle and a wall.

Almanac for June 18th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 18th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-18-Paul-McCartney-Richard-Nixon-P5P31HQ6E0

Beatles Trivia

June 18, 1942: Paul McCartney and Roger Ebert are born.

June 18, 1968: London’s Old Vic theatre performs the stage adaptation of John Lennon’s first book, In His Own Write. Lennon attends with Yoko Ono, but the audience is horrible to her and shouts racist insults at her.

June 18, 1973: John Lennon-Ono and Yoko Ono-Lennon attend the Watergate court hearings and hear John Dean testify. They sit beside Nixon adviser Elvin Bell in the second row, behind Dean’s wife Maureen.

Sandy Allen was born on June 18, 1955.

Bummer June 18th

June 18, 1982: A postal clerk crossing Blackfriar’s Bridge in London finds the body of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi hanging underneath the bridge. Calvi has about $14,000 and five bricks in his pockets. He had recently lost his job at Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano and was under indictment for embezzling the bank’s funds. The death was officially ruled a suicide, but Calvi’s family suspects murder. 

June 18, 1984: Jewish talk show host Alan Berg is gunned down by two members of a white supremacist terror group in Denver. He is 50 years old.

June 18, 2023: Five people die aboard the submersible craft Titan when the underwater vehicle’s pressure barrier fails on a voyage to see the wreck of the Titanic. The Titan’s designer, billionaire Stockton Rush, had the submersible’s hull made of carbon fiber and titanium, materials which are not typically used for deep sea submersibles. It was not subject to the safety regulations of any nation since it operated in international waters.

Rush is one of those killed when the submersible implodes. Also killed are the voyage’s guide, deep sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet; and three paying passengers: English billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani-English billionaire Shahzada Dawood, and Dawood’s 19-year-old son Suleman.