Some say it is the inhumane experimentation of people like Mengele which drive knowledge in large strides. The body of that butcher was exhumed in the land he had fled to, on this day in 1985. An outrageous abuse of power had led to the scientific discovery of the process of digestion. It involved an accident that happened on this day in 1822. Alexis St. Martin was shot in the gut, and there was insufficient remaining flesh to cover the hole. An army surgeon, William Beaumont took the opportunity to study the working gut. And that is why we know how a Big Mac gets digested.
It is fun to stay at the YMCA. And people could do so from this day in London in 1844, after it was founded. Andrew Jackson was not a good President of the US, but he was the first to ride on a train on this day in 1833. They say but for venetian blinds, it would be curtains for all of us. But it was the Venetians who did for Holy Roman Emperor Maximillien I on this day in 1508.
However, this day should forever be remembered for the invasion of Normandy in 1944. In terrible weather, over 150,000 men of many nations faced a dug in and determined Nazi defence, and won. The invasion would balloon to over a million in following days, and liberate Western Europe from oppression. Technically, the UK remained at war with Finland, being the only example of democracies who declared war on each other. UK relented in '47.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Jason Hall and Ariel Ojeda. Born on the same day, across the years. In 1944, it was the Normandy invasion. The largest invasion in modern history. Aspects seen in movies like Saving Private Ryan or The Longest Day. They were said to be "The greatest generation." But you can do better. Try not to fight ..
- 1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar (d. 1283)
- 1436 – Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (d. 1476)
- 1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1735 – Anton Schweitzer, German composer (d. 1787)
- 1755 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776)
- 1807 – Thiệu Trị, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1847)
- 1862 – Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet (d. 1938)
- 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English navy officer and explorer (d. 1912)
- 1892 – Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American toy maker and businessman, founder of the Duncan Toys Company (d. 1971)
- 1916 – Irene von Meyendorff, German film actress (d. 2001)
- 1930 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer
- 1936 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
- 1944 – Edgar Froese, German pianist and songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
- 1950 – John Wardley, English roller coaster designer
- 1952 – Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese drummer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, and Sketch Show)
- 1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
- 1961 – George Mountbatten, English businessman and peer
- 1963 – Eric Cantor, American lawyer and politician
- 1988 – Gideon Glick, American actor and singer
- 1992 – Hyuna, South Korean singer, dancer, and model (4minute, Wonder Girls, Trouble Maker)
- 1992 – Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer and actress (Cute and ZYX)
- 1995 – Julian Green, German-American footballer
Matches
- 1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
- 1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected king of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
- 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
- 1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav. She abdicated because she wanted to become a Catholic (which is forbidden in the strictly Protestant Sweden) and did not want to marry to produce an heir to the throne.
- 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
- 1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
- 1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
- 1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
- 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
- 1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches ofNormandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
- 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven teams.
- 1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
- 1982 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
- 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
- 1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the remains exumed are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- 1997 – Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
Despatches
- 1134 – Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
- 1393 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (b. 1359)
- 1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint, founded the Marist Brothers (b. 1789)
- 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1860)
- 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founder of Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878)
- 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
- 1968 – Randolph Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1911)
- 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
- 1976 – J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)
- 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor and singer (b. 1898)
- 2011 – Shrek, a New Zealand Merino sheep famous for its immense fleece after six years in hiding. (b. c. 1994)
- 2013 – Tom Sharpe, English-Spanish author (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
JUST PAY IT
Tim Blair – Friday, June 06, 2014 (4:06pm)
According to this Greens-endorsed payment calculator, it will take two decades for someone to pay off an arts degree HECS debt:
That’s just $23 per week. Is there no provision under HECS for debts to be paid more quickly? Here’s a young complainer whose $133,292 debt will apparently be closed in 2054:
That’s just $23 per week. Is there no provision under HECS for debts to be paid more quickly? Here’s a young complainer whose $133,292 debt will apparently be closed in 2054:
40 years to pay off my HECS debt… May as well move overseas. Thanks Libs.
There are always other options, by the way. On the whole issue of subsidised education, this chap seems to get it:
There is no such thing, of course, as “free” education. Somebody has to pay. In systems with no charges those somebodies are all taxpayers. This is a pretty important point: a “free” higher education system is one paid for by the taxes of all, the majority of whom haven’t had the privilege of a university education. Ask yourself if you think that is a fair thing.
The speaker? Paul Keating, in 1995.
BIG BUDGET CUTS
Tim Blair – Friday, June 06, 2014 (10:43am)
Huge cuts on the way for the BBC:
Director of news and current affairs, James Harding, said in an email to staff that the division had to make savings of “tens of millions of pounds” as part of the so-called Delivering Quality First programme …“I am afraid that there is no escaping the fact that there are likely to be a significant number of redundancies – most of our costs are tied up in people so there is limited scope for other big savings elsewhere,” he said.
The potential scale of the cuts is enormous:
A BBC spokesman said they are working to deliver savings of $A1.46 billion a year by 2016/17 …
So the annual savings the BBC is aiming for are worth more than the ABC’s entire annual budget. That’s one goliath of a broadcaster there.
The Bolt Report on Sunday
Andrew Bolt June 06 2014 (5:22pm)
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
Clive Palmer: the most dangerous man in Parliament.
My guest: the man who could help Tony Abbott break the Palmer grip.
The panel: former Labor advisor Cassandra Wilkinson and former Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger. Plus a message to Malcolm Turnbull.
On NewsWatch: Hedley Thomas on how Palmer was spun - and could be unspun.
Plus Barack Obama’s amazing surrender.
The videos of the shows appear here.
===Clive Palmer: the most dangerous man in Parliament.
My guest: the man who could help Tony Abbott break the Palmer grip.
The panel: former Labor advisor Cassandra Wilkinson and former Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger. Plus a message to Malcolm Turnbull.
On NewsWatch: Hedley Thomas on how Palmer was spun - and could be unspun.
Plus Barack Obama’s amazing surrender.
The videos of the shows appear here.
No conservatives may judge history
Andrew Bolt June 06 2014 (7:33am)
Gerard Henderson has a
long history of identifying errors in books claiming to be factual, many
of them of the Left. This, according to Leftist publisher Chris Feik,
makes him unacceptable as a judge for a prize for non-fiction:
Feik did not complain about the 2008 judging panel being dominated by Leftists:
===Tony Abbott and George Brandis announced that Gerard Henderson was the new chairman of the judging panel for the 2014 prize for non-fiction…So it’s not a political objection, but it is.
Henderson has a long history of incessant and obsessive criticism of leading Australian writers, journalists and thinkers with whom he disagrees politically…
If any of these writers were to submit a book for the 2014 Prime Minister’s non-fiction literary prize, Henderson’s history of campaigning against them means they could have no confidence of receiving an unprejudiced reading.
His appointment politicises what has until now been an apolitical award based on merit.
To be clear: it is not that Henderson is a conservative that is the issue here....
The point is everything is politics for Henderson.
Feik did not complain about the 2008 judging panel being dominated by Leftists:
Hilary Charlesworth, academic (chair)He did not complain when the 2009 panel was chaired by Leftist Phillip Adam, an obsessive critic of conservative writers:
Sally Morgan, indigenous artist and author
John Doyle, comedian and script writer
Phillip Adams AO (chair)He did not complain when the 2010 panel was chaired by a Leftist, Brian Johns, whose mates included the inner Labor coterie:
Peter Rose
Professor Joan Beaumont FASSA
Brian Johns AO (chair)He did not complain when the 2012 panel was chaired by former ABC star Chris Masters, Leftist author of a book trashing conservative Alan Jones:
Colin Steele
Dr Faye Sutherland
Christopher (Chris) Masters PSM (chair)
Dr Faye Sutherland
Colin Steele
Dr Michelle Arrow
Fairfax peddles lie that Labor fed me anti-Turnbull material
Andrew Bolt June 06 2014 (7:21am)
I can reveal that Fairfax just makes stuff up:
Complete crap. I have asked no one from any party for any such material. Nor have I used any such material. I don’t even believe Turnbull has done anything but a good job in his portfolio.
Fairfax is lying or being spun by Labor or being fed untruths by a paranoiac.
But to make this crazier, Fairfax claims that I am actually egged on by Liberals, while being fed material by Labor. What a grand conspiracy this is!:
Also false:
This cartoonish no-but-yes performance makes my analysis now seem acutely penetrating;
Bottom line: it seems to me that my perfectly reasonable column is being used by Turnbull forces to argue that nasty Abbott forces are geeing up demented me to undermine a great and loyal Turnbull with lies and outrageous smears, and isn’t it time the party had a leader who wasn’t so influenced by unhinged conservative commentators? This is a narrative too many journalists seem only too eager to repeat. It is what they, too, would wish, and therefore they do not ask if it is actually true.
UPDATE
After all those denials, Turnbull leaves more people unconvinced:
What I wrote on Monday in the column that drove Turnbull ballistic:
===Fairfax Media can also reveal that Bolt and Jones have asked Labor for ammunition to use against Mr Turnbull, particularly in relation to his stewardship of the national broadband network.
Complete crap. I have asked no one from any party for any such material. Nor have I used any such material. I don’t even believe Turnbull has done anything but a good job in his portfolio.
Fairfax is lying or being spun by Labor or being fed untruths by a paranoiac.
But to make this crazier, Fairfax claims that I am actually egged on by Liberals, while being fed material by Labor. What a grand conspiracy this is!:
The stoush prompted government discussion about what had fuelled the attack on Mr Turnbull, with suspicion that Jones and fellow right-wing commentator Bolt were being egged on by the hard right of the party.Which loon is promoting these conspiracy theories? Such rubbish. My interview with Abbott and my column were completely my own work, people. No one egged me, no one briefed me. I just used my own eyes and my own brain to conclude Turnbull seemed more eager to sell himself than the Budget to Abbott’s enemies. The objective facts bear me out.
Also false:
Mr Turnbull was forced for a fourth straight day on Thursday to affirm his loyalty to the Prime Minister and support for the budget during a combative interview with Sydney radio host Alan Jones.No one forced Turnbull to do anything such thing. I have never seen a man so eager to volunteer interviews to declare he is completely loyal, but of course if anything should one day happen to the leader…
This cartoonish no-but-yes performance makes my analysis now seem acutely penetrating;
In an interview on the ABC’s 7.30 on Thursday night, Mr Turnbull said he didn’t have “any plans, any desires, any expectations to be the leader” of his party again.Another Turnbull falsehood:
“Politics is an unpredictable business so people say to me often, ‘Do you think you’ll be leader again?’ and I say my prospects are somewhere between nil and very negligible and I think that is probably about right,’’ he said.
However when asked directly about his leadership ambitions, Mr Turnbull said he “didn’t think there is any member of the House of Representatives who, if in the right circumstances, would not take on that responsibility”.
He also said Bolt and Jones had undermined the prime minister by suggesting the government was divided which was an enormous falsehood.I said no such thing. I merely said Turnbull was not pulling his weight with the Budget, and was advertising his friendship with Abbott’s natural predators. I also noted that his affinity with Palmer and the ABC could one day allow him to argue only he could deal with a hostile Senate. Bloody obvious, I would have thought. Turnbull is just advertising, not undermining. Or not until this week, at least.
Bottom line: it seems to me that my perfectly reasonable column is being used by Turnbull forces to argue that nasty Abbott forces are geeing up demented me to undermine a great and loyal Turnbull with lies and outrageous smears, and isn’t it time the party had a leader who wasn’t so influenced by unhinged conservative commentators? This is a narrative too many journalists seem only too eager to repeat. It is what they, too, would wish, and therefore they do not ask if it is actually true.
UPDATE
After all those denials, Turnbull leaves more people unconvinced:
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull has infuriated colleagues after stirring up leadership speculation while Prime Minister Tony Abbott was overseas…UPDATE
His comments exploded across the Liberal party with colleagues baffled as to why he would make the remarks, particularly while the PM was overseas.
What I wrote on Monday in the column that drove Turnbull ballistic:
That said, a disclaimer: I’m sure Turnbull isn’t contemplating any imminent challenge or is fostering destabilisation.What Turnbull last night said I said:
Nor do I think the Liberals are considering any such switch at the moment...
... that the Government is divided and that a senior cabinet minister, in this case me, is without any evidence at all is seeking to undermine the Prime Minister...Why is Turnbull misrepresenting and exaggerating my argument?
Just another HSU allegation. Poor members
Andrew Bolt June 06 2014 (7:07am)
More claims about the much-rorted HSU, this time involving the alleged whistleblower:
===Self-professed union whistleblower Kathy Jackson used $1 million in members’ funds to pay off two personal credit cards she claims to have used on work expenses between 2000 and 2011.Jackson did not respond to these latest claims but I am sure she would deny any illegality or impropriety. And Fairfax adds:
Documents prepared for the royal commission into unions also reveal that between 2007 and 2010, Ms Jackson withdrew a further $220,000 in cash using union bank cheques.
A Fairfax Media investigation has also obtained a leaked NSW police statement that alleges Ms Jackson knew of serious corruption claims involving Health Services Union boss Michael Williamson and Craig Thomson more than a decade before she reported the pair to police in 2011.
The witness, Sydney businesswoman Carron Gilleland, told detectives she asked for Ms Jackson’s help in 1999 after discovering the possible ‘’illicit’’ use of union members’ funds by the pair.
The leaked police statement and other documents also suggest that a private company directed by Ms Jackson and her then husband Jeff Jackson was used both as a slush fund and a vehicle for charging the union for ‘’industrial consulting’’ fees in the late 1990s.
This newspaper is not suggesting she engaged in criminal conduct.
Occupied no longer
Andrew Bolt June 06 2014 (6:34am)
Quite proper, and it exposes Labor:
===AUSTRALIA has made a historic shift in its policy on Israel’s control over the Palestinian territories, dumping its 47-year-old position that Arab land captured in 1967 is “occupied”.
Attorney-General George Brandis yesterday read a statement to the Senate foreign affairs committee indicating the language of occupation was “judgmental”, “freighted with pejorative implications” and “neither appropriate nor useful” for the peace process.
The reversal of the bipartisan position was castigated by Labor as a “foreign policy embarrassment”, as the Palestinians’ top diplomat in Australia warned the move undermined Australia’s credibility as an advocate for a two-state solution.
Palmer quits company board as China hunts for missing money
Andrew Bolt June 06 2014 (6:23am)
Hedley Thomas on a brawl over missing money that could one day break up Clive Palmer’s party:
===Clive Palmer has quietly quit as a director of his flagship company Mineralogy and two other major entities amid a forensic financial investigation by China’s international investment company into where more than $12 million of its funds went in the weeks before the federal election.
Legal experts told The Australian yesterday that Mr Palmer’s resignation from the most important company in his corporate network may not distance him from any fallout from his escalating dispute with his Chinese business partner, Citic Pacific, which has accused the resources tycoon in court documents of wrongfully spending the money…
Mr Palmer ... stepped down from the board Mineralogy on May 20 and from the companies behind his trouble-plagued Queensland Nickel refinery on April 5....
The battle between the Chinese and Mr Palmer worsened last month when Mineralogy was accused in court documents of wrongfully spending more than $12m and of having no legitimate reason to siphon the cash, $10m of which was taken from an account in August last year and a further $2.17m in September, just days before the election.
Mr Palmer’s costly election campaign saw candidates stand in every seat at a time his companies were under severe financial stress, but he has strenuously denied the allegations that Chinese money was wrongfully spent to bankroll his political career… Mineralogy told Citic Pacific that the funds were for “port management” expenses, but documentation to support the expenditure was not produced…
The matters including hundreds of documents and bank statements are likely to be referred to police…
Mineralogy and the companies behind his refinery — QNI Resources and QNI Metals — have accrued significant financial losses in recent years… Mineralogy’s most recent financial accounts disclosed a net loss of about $104m in the 12 months to June last year.
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LOOK INTO THE FUTURE: Researchers in Western Australia say screening for Alzheimer's disease could soon become as easy as having your eyes checked.
The CSIRO says because the disease develops slowly, it's currently only possible to detect once significant damage to the brain has already been done. This new eye test could reveal the presence of Alzheimer's up to 17 years before symptoms appear.
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- 1674 – Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Marathafrom the Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
- 1859 – Queen Victoria signed letters patent separating the colony ofQueensland from New South Wales.
- 1892 – The 'L' train (1922 train pictured) of Chicago, the second longestrapid transit system in total track mileage in the United States, began operations.
- 1912 – The largest eruption of the 20th century created the Novaruptavolcano in the Alaska Peninsula, US.
- 1985 – The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious forhuman experiments done on Auschwitz inmates, were discovered inEmbu das Artes, Brazil.
Events[edit]
- 1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
- 1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. DukeMassimiliano Sforza is restored.
- 1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected king of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
- 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
- 1644 – The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
- 1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav. She abdicated because she wanted to become a Catholic (which is forbidden in the strictly Protestant Sweden) and did not want to marry to produce an heir to the throne.
- 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
- 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
- 1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
- 1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
- 1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
- 1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time,Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
- 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- 1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
- 1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
- 1833 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
- 1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- 1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden–Norway.
- 1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
- 1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
- 1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
- 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
- 1892 – Chicago 'L' (commuter rail system) begins operation
- 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
- 1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
- 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
- 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
- 1921 – Southwark Bridge in London is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
- 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4¢/L) sold.
- 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
- 1934 – New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
- 1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches ofNormandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
- 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven teams.
- 1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
- 1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
- 1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
- 1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
- 1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
- 1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual death toll is closer to 1,000.
- 1982 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
- 1982 – A British Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives.
- 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
- 1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the remains exumed are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- 1992 – The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene
- 1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
- 1997 – Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
- 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
- 2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
- 2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.
Births[edit]
- 1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar (d. 1283)
- 1296 – Władysław of Legnica, Polish duke (d. 1352)
- 1436 – Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (d. 1476)
- 1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian clergyman (d. 1649)
- 1580 – Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
- 1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
- 1606 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (d. 1684)
- 1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French-American missionary and explorer (d. 1689)
- 1661 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
- 1699 – Johann Georg Estor, German historian and theorist (d. 1773)
- 1714 – Joseph I of Portugal, King of Portugal and the Algarves (d. 1777)
- 1735 – Anton Schweitzer, German composer (d. 1787)
- 1755 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776)
- 1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
- 1772 – Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1807)
- 1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (d. 1837)
- 1807 – Thiệu Trị, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1847)
- 1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German scholar (d. 1856)
- 1829 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
- 1841 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author (d. 1910)
- 1844 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
- 1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
- 1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1918)
- 1862 – Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet (d. 1938)
- 1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (d. 1931)
- 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English navy officer and explorer (d. 1912)
- 1872 – Alexandra Feodorovna, German wife of Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1875 – Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1878 – Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (d. 1956)
- 1886 – Tyler Brooke, American film actor (d. 1943)
- 1890 – Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet, and bandleader (d. 1971)
- 1891 – Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author (d. 1986)
- 1892 – Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American toy maker and businessman, founder of the Duncan Toys Company (d. 1971)
- 1896 – Henry Allingham, English soldier and super-centenarian (d. 2009)
- 1896 – Italo Balbo, Italian marshal and politician (d. 1940)
- 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish-English dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 2001)
- 1898 – Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1900 – Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist (d. 1957)
- 1900 – Lester Matthews, English actor (d. 1975)
- 1901 – Jan Struther, English author (d. 1953)
- 1901 – Sukarno, Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
- 1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1947)
- 1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Georgian-Armenian composer (d. 1978)
- 1906 – Max August Zorn, German mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)
- 1909 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher (d. 1997)
- 1913 – Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American educator (d. 1991)
- 1914 – H. Adams Carter, American mountaineer, journalist, and educator (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer (d. 1987)
- 1916 – Hamani Diori, Nigerien politician, 1st President of Niger (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Irene von Meyendorff, German film actress (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founder of the Tracinda Corporation
- 1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Peter Carrington, English politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO
- 1919 – Austin M. Lee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer
- 1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
- 1923 – Jean Pouliot, Canadian broadcaster (d. 2004)
- 1924 – John Ambler, English businessman (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author
- 1925 – Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Frank Chee Willeto, American politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
- 1928 – Nicolas Rea, British politician
- 1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Don Hassler, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer
- 1932 – Sara Banerji, English writer
- 1932 – Anne Claire Poirier, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1932 – David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
- 1932 – Billie Whitelaw, English actress
- 1933 – Eli Broad, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded KB Home
- 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Albert II of Belgium, King of the Belgians
- 1934 – Roy Innis, American activist
- 1936 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
- 1936 – A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician
- 1936 – D. Ramanaidu, Indian producer
- 1938 – Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza
- 1938 – Ryuchi Matsuda, Japanese author (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer
- 1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter
- 1939 – Eddie Giacomin, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1939 – Marian Wright Edelman, American activist, founder of the Children's Defense Fund
- 1940 – Kumar Bhattacharyya, Indo-British engineer and academic
- 1940 – Larry Lujack, American radio host
- 1940 – Willie John McBride, Irish rugby player, coach, and manager
- 1941 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist (d. 2012)
- 1943 – José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, Mexican jurist (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Ken Hatfield, American football player and coach
- 1943 – Asif Iqbal, Pakistani cricketer
- 1943 – Jean-Claude Lord, Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1943 – Jonathan Mance, British judge
- 1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 1944 – Monty Alexander, Jamaican pianist (Clue J & His Blues Blasters)
- 1944 – Edgar Froese, German pianist and songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
- 1944 – David Penhaligon, English politician (d. 1986)
- 1944 – Phillip Allen Sharp, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944 – Tommie Smith, American runner and football player
- 1945 – David E. Bonior, American politician
- 1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1945 – Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (d. 2008)
- 1945 – Nikolai Velikov, Russian figure skater and coach
- 1946 – Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter (King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Bruford Levin Upper Extremities)
- 1947 – David Blunkett, English politician
- 1947 – Robert Englund, American actor and director
- 1947 – Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
- 1948 – Richard Sinclair, English bass player (Caravan, The Wilde Flowers, Camel, and Hatfield and the North)
- 1949 – Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1949 – Holly Near, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1949 – Lindsay Posner, British theatre director
- 1950 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian actress, director, and producer
- 1950 – John Wardley, English roller coaster designer
- 1951 – Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician
- 1951 – Noritake Takahara, Japanese race car driver
- 1951 – Dwight Twilley, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1952 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright
- 1952 – Jean Hamel, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952 – Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese drummer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, and Sketch Show)
- 1953 – Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician, Minister for National Defence of Greece
- 1953 – June Yamagishi, Japanese-American guitarist (Papa Grows Funk and The Wild Magnolias)
- 1954 – Françoise Blanchard, French actress (d. 2013)
- 1954 – Cynthia Rylant, American author
- 1954 – Urve Tiidus, Estonian politician and television journalist
- 1954 – Władysław Żmuda, Polish footballer
- 1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress and singer
- 1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
- 1956 – Hans-Peter Ferner, German middle-distance runner
- 1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer-songwriter and guitarist (Utangarðsmenn and Egó)
- 1957 – Fred Arbinger, German footballer and manager
- 1957 – Mike Gatting, English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
- 1957 – Balanadarajah Iyer, Sri Lankan poet and activist (d. 2004)
- 1957 – Oliver Mack, American basketball player
- 1957 – Christian Rach, German chef and author
- 1958 – Danny Webb, English actor
- 1959 – Jimmy Jam, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Time)
- 1959 – Josie Lawrence, English comedian and actress
- 1959 – Amanda Pays, English actress
- 1959 – Andrey Prokofyev, Russian hurdler (d. 1989)
- 1959 – Colin Quinn, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1959 – David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
- 1960 – Lola Forner, Spanish actress
- 1960 – Samantha Heath, British voluntary organization executive.
- 1960 – Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak race walker
- 1960 – Steve Vai, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Alcatrazz)
- 1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean-American singer-songwriter and bass player (Slayer)
- 1961 – Bill Bates, American football player
- 1961 – Nir Brand, Israeli conductor and composer
- 1961 – George Mountbatten, English businessman and peer
- 1963 – Eric Cantor, American lawyer and politician
- 1963 – Bernard Drainville, Canadian journalist, television host and politician
- 1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German scholar
- 1963 – Jason Isaacs, English actor and producer
- 1963 – James Palumbo, British entrepreneur, politician and author
- 1964 – Jay Bentley, American singer and bass player (Bad Religion)
- 1964 – Allison Fonte, American actress and pianist
- 1964 – Jay Lake, American author (d. 2014)
- 1965 – Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player and actor
- 1966 – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
- 1966 – Sean Yseult, American bass player (White Zombie and The Cramps)
- 1967 – Max Casella, American actor
- 1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
- 1968 – François Avard, Canadian screenwriter
- 1968 – Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer, and journalist
- 1969 – Erik Prince, American soldier and businessman, co-founded Academi
- 1969 – Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
- 1970 – Evgeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
- 1970 – Sarah Dessen, American author
- 1970 – Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer and coach
- 1970 – Ahmed Johnson, American wrestler
- 1970 – James Shaffer, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Korn, Fear and the Nervous System, and L.A.P.D.)
- 1972 – Natalie Morales, American journalist
- 1972 – Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer-songwriter (Lacuna Coil)
- 1973 – Patrick Rothfuss, American author
- 1974 – Uncle Kracker, American singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Danny Strong, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Sonya Walger, English-American actress
- 1975 – Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 – Nina Kaczorowski, American actress and stuntwoman
- 1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
- 1975 – Niklas Sundström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1976 – Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian singer and actress
- 1976 – Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
- 1976 – Vlado Georgiev, Serbian singer-songwriter
- 1977 – David Connolly, English-Irish footballer
- 1977 – Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
- 1978 – Carl Barât, English singer, guitarist, and actor (The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, and The Chavs)
- 1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1978 – Joy Enriquez, American singer and actress
- 1978 – Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
- 1978 – Andrew Reynolds, American skateboarder
- 1980 – Matt Belisle, American baseball player
- 1980 – Peter Mosely, American bass player (Yellowcard and Inspection 12)
- 1981 – Philip McGinley, English actor
- 1981 – Johnny Pacar, American actor
- 1982 – Marian Oprea, Romanian triple jumper
- 1983 – Gemma Bissix, English actress
- 1983 – Dale Cregan, English murderer
- 1983 – Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
- 1983 – Gianna Michaels, American porn actress
- 1983 – Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player
- 1984 – ByeAlex, Hungarian singer
- 1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
- 1984 – Shannon Stewart, American model
- 1984 – Jason Trusnik, American football player
- 1985 – Chris Henry, American football player
- 1985 – Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
- 1985 – Drew McIntyre, Scottish wrestler
- 1985 – Heiki Nabi, Estonian wrestler
- 1985 – Nikolay Varbanov, Bulgarian basketball player
- 1985 – Martyn Irvine, Irish professional track cyclist
- 1986 – Bhavana, Indian actress
- 1986 – Justin Allgaier, American race car driver
- 1986 – Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (SS501)
- 1986 – Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American professional baseball player
- 1987 – Kyle Falconer, Scottish singer and guitarist (The View)
- 1987 – Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor
- 1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
- 1988 – Maria Alyokhina, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
- 1988 – Ryan Brathwaite, Barbadian hurdler
- 1988 – Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player
- 1988 – Gideon Glick, American actor and singer
- 1988 – Stanislav Pedõk, Estonian footballer
- 1989 – Monice, Bosnian-Austrian singer and author
- 1989 – Paula Brancati, Canadian actress
- 1989 – Daniel Novikov, Estonian cyclist
- 1989 – Jelena Petrova, Estonian swimmer
- 1989 – Karl-Martin Rammo, Estonian sailor
- 1989 – Paweł Wojciechowski, Polish pole vaulter
- 1990 – Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
- 1990 – Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer
- 1990 – Mike G, American rapper (Odd Future)
- 1990 – Ryan Higa, American comedian and actor
- 1990 – Gavin Hoyte, English footballer
- 1990 – Ieva Lagūna, Latvian model
- 1990 – Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
- 1991 – Son Dong-woon, South Korean singer and dancer (Beast)
- 1992 – Hyuna, South Korean singer, dancer, and model (4minute, Wonder Girls, Trouble Maker)
- 1992 – Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer and actress (Cute and ZYX)
- 1993 – Vic Mensa Chicago rapper
- 1995 – Julian Green, German-American footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 1134 – Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
- 1393 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (b. 1359)
- 1480 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1412)
- 1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese navy officer and politician, (b. 1500)
- 1563 – Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese commander (b. 1519)
- 1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)
- 1730 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, French marshal (b. 1646)
- 1740 – Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
- 1784 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
- 1799 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
- 1813 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect, designed the Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Condé (b. 1739)
- 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (b. 1748)
- 1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint, founded the Marist Brothers (b. 1789)
- 1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet (b. 1770)
- 1861 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
- 1862 – Turner Ashby, American colonel (b. 1828)
- 1865 – William Quantrill, American captain (b. 1837)
- 1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790)
- 1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1820)
- 1891 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
- 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1859)
- 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1860)
- 1924 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (b. 1847)
- 1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian (b. 1864)
- 1935 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
- 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founder of Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878)
- 1942 – Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist, weightlifter and athlete (b. 1899)
- 1943 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1900)
- 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1947 – James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
- 1948 – Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
- 1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
- 1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
- 1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (b. 1875)
- 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
- 1962 – Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
- 1962 – Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle road racer (b. 1934)
- 1968 – Randolph Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1911)
- 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
- 1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor and game show host (b. 1925)
- 1976 – J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)
- 1976 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1891)
- 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor and singer (b. 1898)
- 1980 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and talent manager (b. 1918)
- 1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
- 1983 – Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
- 1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian author (b. 1912)
- 1987 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (b. 1922)
- 1991 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
- 1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1953)
- 1994 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
- 1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor and director (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Savely Kramarov, Russian-American actor (b. 1934)
- 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1915)
- 1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
- 2000 – Frédéric Dard, French author (b. 1921)
- 2002 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (b. 1959)
- 2003 – Ken Grimwood, American author (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Animals) (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress and singer (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor and director (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band) (b. 1946)
- 2006 – Hilton Ruiz, American pianist (b. 1952)
- 2006 – Camille Sandorfy, Hungarian-Canadian chemist (b. 1920)
- 2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Jim Owens, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Marvin Isley, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley) (b. 1953)
- 2011 – Shrek, a New Zealand Merino sheep famous for its immense fleece after six years in hiding. (b. c. 1994)
- 2012 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Nolan Miller, American fashion designer (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Nemanja Nešić, Serbian rower (b. 1988)
- 2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Agostinho José Sartori, Brazilian bishop (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Mykola Volosyanko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
- 2012 – Li Wangyang, Chinese activist (b. 1950)
- 2013 – Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, Danish-American cellist (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Elaine Laron, American songwriter (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Eugen Merzbacher, American physicist (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Tom Sharpe, English-Spanish author (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Maxine Stuart, American actress (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Malcolm Todd, English archaeologist (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Memorial Day (South Korea)
- National Day of Sweden (Sweden)
- Normandy landings of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (D-Day), aka Operation Neptune, part of Operation Overlord (1944)
- Queensland Day (Queensland)
- Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
- Engineer's Day (Argentina)
- UN Russian Language Day (United Nations)
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The Lord shut him in."
Genesis 7:16
Genesis 7:16
Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair with the children of darkness, for our heavenly Father has shut us in. Noah was shut in with his God. "Come thou into the ark," was the Lord's invitation, by which he clearly showed that he himself intended to dwell in the ark with his servant and his family. Thus all the chosen dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be enclosed in the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of his persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. Let us never be inattentive to that gracious call, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee, and hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast." Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him on his way. Outside of the ark all was ruin, but inside all was rest and peace. Without Christ we perish, but in Christ Jesus there is perfect safety. Noah was so shut in that he could not even desire to come out, and those who are in Christ Jesus are in him forever. They shall go no more out forever, for eternal faithfulness has shut them in, and infernal malice cannot drag them out. The Prince of the house of David shutteth and no man openeth; and when once in the last days as Master of the house he shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for mere professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto us, for that same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the foolish forever. Lord, shut me in by thy grace.
Evening
"He that loveth not knoweth not God."
1 John 4:8
1 John 4:8
The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle, "Christ loved me and gave himself for me." Then love gives the countersign, and stamps upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in return. "We love him because he first loved us." In those grand old ages, which are the heroic period of the Christian religion, this double mark was clearly to be seen in all believers in Jesus; they were men who knew the love of Christ, and rested upon it as a man leaneth upon a staff whose trustiness he has tried. The love which they felt towards the Lord was not a quiet emotion which they hid within themselves in the secret chamber of their souls, and which they only spake of in their private assemblies when they met on the first day of the week, and sang hymns in honour of Christ Jesus the crucified, but it was a passion with them of such a vehement and all-consuming energy, that it was visible in all their actions, spoke in their common talk, and looked out of their eyes even in their commonest glances. Love to Jesus was a flame which fed upon the core and heart of their being; and, therefore, from its own force burned its way into the outer man, and shone there. Zeal for the glory of King Jesus was the seal and mark of all genuine Christians. Because of their dependence upon Christ's love they dared much, and because of their love to Christ they did much, and it is the same now. The children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love--the love of Christ constraineth them; they rejoice that divine love is set upon them, they feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them, and then by force of gratitude they love the Saviour with a pure heart, fervently. My reader, do you love him? Ere you sleep give an honest answer to a weighty question!
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Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 23-24, John 15 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: 2 Chronicles 23-24
1 In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri. 2 They went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites and the heads of Israelite families from all the towns. When they came to Jerusalem, 3 the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God....Today's New Testament reading: John 15
The Vine and the Branches
1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me...."
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