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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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

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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.

Almanac for June 17th

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Beatles Trivia
June 17, 1974: John Lennon is in a New York recording studio working on his album Walls and Bridges when Elton John pays him a visit. Elton John hears the potential in the track “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” and agrees to play piano on the song.

Bummer June 17th

June 17, 1871: Clement Vallandigham, an attorney who once represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives, dies after accidentally shooting himself in the abdomen. The wound happened the previous day while Vallandigham demonstrated to a courtroom how the alleged victim of his client (Vallandigham represented the defendant) may have accidentally shot himself.

June 17, 1952: 37-year-old rocket scientist Marvel Whiteside “Jack” Parsons is killed in an accidental explosion while mixing explosive fuel in his home laboratory. Since Parsons was known to be meticulously careful in the lab, some have speculated that his unexpected death could have been the result of suicide or foul play. 

Sadly, when she heard the news of her son’s death, Parson’s mother Ruth Whiteside killed herself by taking an overdose of barbiturates.

June 17, 1966: A 19-year-old man who illegally entered Disneyland in Anaheim, California, is struck and killed by the park’s Monorail. 

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Almanac for June 16th

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Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Bloomsday

Artist Birthday: Daniel Brühl

Beatles Trivia

June 16, 2001, South Bend: Once upon a time, South Bend had a summer festival called the Ethnic Festival. Tit and I, living in a downtown apartment near where the festival took place, visited it both yesterday and today. On this day we ate lunch while listening to a reggae band named Indika. 

We went home for a while, but came back out after dinner to have a funnel cake and listen to a Beatles tribute band. They wore the full Beatles suits and wigs even in the heat. They played many lesser-known songs such as “Boys” and “Taxman.” For a free concert on a beautiful night in the park, it was great. We watched the fireworks afterward.

Bummer June 16th

June 16, 1944: 14-year-old George Stinney becomes the youngest person to be executed in the U.S. in the 20th century when he dies by electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. The African-American teen was convicted of the murders of two white girls, aged seven and 11, although the South Carolina court vacated his conviction and declared Stinney wrongfully executed in 2014. Stinney’s body was so much smaller than the average prisoner, he had to sit on a Bible as a booster seat in the electric chair.

June 16, 1959: Between 1 and 2 a.m., actor George Reeves is found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head in a bedroom of a home in Los Angeles where is a party is taking place. Officially ruled a suicide, witness reports conflict, and some of Reeves’s friends and family members have questioned whether the death may have been an accident or perhaps a homicide.

June 16, 1970: Chicago Bears halfback Brian Piccolo, age 26, dies of embryonal cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of testicular cancer, that has spread to his lung, liver, and other organs.

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June 16, 1994: Kristen Pfaff, bassist for the band Hole, dies of a heroin overdose. She is 27 years old.

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Almanac for June 15th

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Bummer June 15th

June 15, 1785: The first recorded deaths in aviation history occur when hot air balloonists Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre-Ange Romain crash into the French coast while attempting to balloon across the English Channel.

June 15, 1996: Legendary jazz and popular vocalist Ella Fitzgerald dies of complications of diabetes.

Good luck, España, in today's FIFA World Cup soccer match vs. Cabo Verde!
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