Almanac for August 15th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for August 15th: https://ko-fi.com/post/August-15-Dr-Sax-X8X811LC4I

Artist Birthday: Edna Ferber

East St. Louis (Illinois) Daily Journal, Oct. 18, 1925

Beatles Trivia

August 15, 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium, home field of the New York Mets, in front of a crowd of 56,000.

Author Julie K. Howlin post of the day: Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Bummer August 15th

August 15, 1868: In what is believed to be a racist and anti-Semitic hate crime probably carried out by the Ku Klux Klan, a group of masked men break into a store belonging to a Jewish man, Samuel A. Bierfield. The men shoot and kill Bierfield and his Black store clerk, Laurence Bowman. No one is ever charged with the crime.

August 15, 1914: Julian Carlton, a servant who worked in the household of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sets Wright’s Taliesin house in Spring Green, Wisconsin, on fire, then murders seven people inside the house with a hatchet. Wright is not inside the home at the time, but the victims include Wright’s lover Mamah Borthwick Cheney, her two children, gardener David Lindblom, worker Thomas Brunker, draftsman Emil Brodelle, and the son of another worker. Carlton will drink hydrochloric acid in a suicide attempt but, despite severely damaging his esophagus, will live another seven weeks.

August 15, 2021: 30-year-old Ellen Chung, her husband Jonathan Gerrish (age 45), their year-old daughter Aurelia (known as Miju), and the family’s Akita mix dog Oski embark on a day hike in California’s Sierra National Forest. Although they try to reach help via cell phone, service in the mountainous region is spotty. With the temperature reaching 107 to 109 degrees along some parts of the hiking trail, especially in those parts that receive full sunlight with no shade, all four succumb to hyperthermia and dehydration. Their bodies are found on August 17th.

Almanac for May 5th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 5th: https://ko-fi.com/post/May-5-R6R71EMSJ3

May 5, 1927: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is published.

Bummer May 5th

May 5, 1821: Exiled former emperor Napoleon Bonaparte dies at age 51 of an unknown ailment on the British island of Saint Helena. His cause of death has been speculated to be anything from stomach cancer to accidental cyanide poisoning to deliberate arsenic poisoning.

May 5, 1945: Six people are killed by a Japanese incendiary device near Bly, Oregon. 

May 5, 1968: Character actor Albert Dekker is found dead of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation by his fiancee inside the bathtub of their Hollywood home. Police found no evidence of either foul play or suicide. Dekker appears to have practiced self-bondage, including placing a ball gag in his own mouth, and died as a result of accidental self-strangulation from a noose wrapped around the shower curtain rod.

May 5, 1994: American Michael Fay, age 18, receives four lashes with a bamboo cane after being convicted of vandalism in Singapore. Fay attended the Singapore American School and lived with his American mother and Singaporean stepfather. This is believed to be the first time an American was sentenced to corporal punishment in another country.

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