Today is also the reputed death date of Saul of Tarsus, who later became Paul. He was a dreadfully boring speaker who bored one person to death, for a time. He is also thought to have been stoned to death on mission. This last time was final, allegedly at Nero's order. It is thought the bone fragments found in the basilica in Rome belong to him.
But who cares for death when there is life? It is Squizzy Taylor's birthday in 1888. The idiot gangster died in 1927, having lived too long. However, today is not all gloom and doom. The burning down of the Globe Theatre in 1613 lightens the path. Father Francisco founded a mission in what is now San Francisco in 1776. Muhammad Ahmad called himself the Mahdi on this day in 1881, suggesting modern idiots are mere copycats. He might have been the Mahdi, but he died four years later. His great achievement was killing an excellent English General Gordon when the stars aligned with a socialist English government that ignored Gordon to death. The US Supreme court decided that the death penalty should not be arbitrary on this day in 1972. Meaning that court cases decided on coin tosses were retried. Not as expensive as it sounds .. none had been decided that way. In a Gillard like symbol of achievement, Isabel Peron became the first female President of Argentina two days before her husband died in 1974. A year later Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of the Apple 1. Thirty two years later, 2007, Apple released the first iPhone. But the crowning achievement on this day was the US supreme court in 2006 declaring that criminal prosecutions of Gitmo detainees was wrong, paving the way for terrorists to strike again and again.
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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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Matches
- 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
- 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
- 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
- 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
- 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
- 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
- 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
- 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
- 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and FourteenthAmendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
- 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
- 1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
- 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
- 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. andinternational law.
- 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
Hatches
- 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
- 1398 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1497)
- 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, educator, and author (d. 1818)
- 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
- 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
- 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
- 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American musicologist (d. 1959)
- 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
- 1892 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
- 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1925 – Hale Smith, American pianist and composer (d. 2009)
- 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian and author
- 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work)
- 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
- 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
- 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese illustrator
- 1972 – Samantha Smith, American actress, author, and activist (d. 1985)
- 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
- 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress
- 1990 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
- 1994 – Shin Dongho, South Korean singer and actor (U-KISS)
Despatches
- 67 (c.) – Paul the Apostle, preacher, teacher and writer (b. [c.] 5)
- 226 – Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)
- 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)
- 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
- 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
- 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
- 2013 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (b. 1922)
Journalist jailed to silence critics
Piers Akerman – Sunday, June 29, 2014 (6:51am)
AWARD-winning Australian journalist Peter Greste intended to cover the cauldron of Middle Eastern politics not become the story.
Yet with his sentencing to a seven-year term on a charge of reporting false news he has focused attention on the rotten Egyptian regime and the web of international alliances that are helping to prop up the goverment of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Greste has not committed any crime other than cover the news. But he was working for the Qatar-owned al-Jazeera which the Egyptians see as aligned to the repressive Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Sisi’s military supporters toppled Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in a coup that was backed by the Saudis, who see the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to their hold on their kingdom.
Greste and his colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed are proxies in Egypt’s jihad against the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the first message relayed by his brothers Mike and Andrew since he was sentenced, Peter Greste said he would do everything possible to have the conviction overturned.
“Throughout this trial the prosecutor has consistently failed to present a single piece of concrete evidence to support the outrageous allegations against us,” he said.
“The verdict confirms that our trial was never simply about the charges against us. It has been an attempt to use the court to intimidate and silence critical voices in the media.”
Anyone who followed the farcical process would have to agree. The prosecution presented video material from networks about events that had nothing to with Egyptian politics or al-Jazeera.
Three prosecution witnesses recanted during the trial, admitting they didn’t know whether the three journalists had undermined national security.
Ten-year sentences were also handed to British journalists Sue Turton and Dominic Kane and the Dutch reporter Rena Netjes, who were tried in absentia. Court papers show Netjes’ name was spelled incorrectly and a wrong passport number cited, but that made no difference.
I’m not a great fan of al-Jazeera, which has been the terrorists’ channel of choice since Osama bin Laden favoured it with his videoed cave-mouth monologues, and have always thought its commentators took a view to the Left of that held by the biased BBC.
But Greste is a news reporter not a commentator and did his best to present the facts.
The question facing fair-minded people around the world is how to ensure that Greste and his colleagues are released as soon as possible.
Hysterical screeching from politicians like Greens leader Christine Milne is totally counterproductive and having anyone from the Greens or the Labor Party stand up and gibber about the free speech is disgustingly hypocritical given both parties’ attacks on courageous sections of the Australian press in recent years.
It’s probably best the ABC stays well out of the picture, too, given its role in damaging Australia’s relations with Indonesia and subsequent curtailment of beef exports and its work in assisting renegade US defector Edward Snowden publicise his theft of intelligence secrets.
The European Union gives Egypt more than $8.5 billion in assistance annually, and Saudi, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates give $12 billion. That’s not going to stop and any action taken unilaterally by Australia wouldn’t be noticed.
The best chance for Greste and his colleagues is for Australia to ask its international friends, the US, particularly, whether they will assist its diplomatic efforts. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has already spoken with the US Ambassador, the EU representative, ambassadors from the Gulf States, and the Latvian foreign minister — Greste’s parents Lois and Juris, are from Latvia.
The US, which supplies more than $1.5 billion in military and other aid annually, is unlikely to agree to any cutbacks as it sees Egypt as a valuable ally against the terrorists who constantly attempt to invade Israel, the only liberal democracy in the region.
But US Secretary of State John Kerry may be inclined to assist in working for the release of the journalists as Egypt made him look like a fool last week when it hosted him at an event at which he promised to release previously withheld funds and praised Egypt’s leadership transition and called for an improvement in its human rights record the day before the harsh sentences were announced. Kerry condemned them immediately as “chilling and draconian”.
From his cell, Greste sent the message: “We must all remain committed to fight this gross injustice for as long as necessary.”
This is not just about a journalist: every freedom-loving person should be as committed to righting this massive wrong.
HOUSE, SHED, TREE, GRAVITY
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 29, 2014 (5:41pm)
Let’s see how this works out:
YOU’RE IN TROUBLE, TODD CARNEY
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 29, 2014 (4:13pm)
Andrew Johns defends Cronulla Sharks player Todd Carney following the latest NRL outrage:
Surely they couldn’t sack him for that … he is only doing it to himself.
It turns out that they can sack him. Nate Myles and Julian O’Neill are now joined by Carney on the list of NRL players who have mistaken other objects for toilets – respectively a hotel hallway, a shoe, and his own mouth.
UNCHANGED POLL CHANGES
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 29, 2014 (10:57am)
Melbourne street artist Sayraphim Lothian alleges electoral tampering at the frightbat poll:
The original post has now been changed, a number of paragraphs have been removed entirely and some of the remaining language has been softened, it still remains as the latest in a long line of attacks on women who speak out about injustice and hate speech.
She’s wrong. Nothing at all has been changed, removed or softened. It is as it ever was. You know, it’s possible that Sayraphim’s initial impression of the post was gained through hysterical Twitter overreaction, which could not be reconciled with the mild and inoffensive words she eventually read; so something must have been changed!
Incidentally, Margo is now winning. The tyrannical reign of Queenbat Clementine is over!
LEFTY TOONISTS LOVE APES
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 29, 2014 (2:27am)
Fairfax’s David Pope may owe some primate credit to the Guardian‘s Steve Bell:
Always with the apes. Fairfax’s John Shakespeare is also a monkey man.
Always with the apes. Fairfax’s John Shakespeare is also a monkey man.
The Bolt Report today, June 29
Andrew Bolt June 29 2014 (4:23pm)
On Sunday on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm…
Editorial: Clive Palmer and Al Gore do each other a nice little favor. Journalists fooled.
My guest: Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews on new plans to reform welfare and handouts.
The panel: former Gillard media advisor Sean Kelly and former Howard chief of staff Grahame Morris.
NewsWatch: Gerard Henderson.
Plus spin of the week, the dark side of al Jazeera and more.
UPDATE
Transcript of the interview with Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews:
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today, June 29'
===Editorial: Clive Palmer and Al Gore do each other a nice little favor. Journalists fooled.
My guest: Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews on new plans to reform welfare and handouts.
The panel: former Gillard media advisor Sean Kelly and former Howard chief of staff Grahame Morris.
NewsWatch: Gerard Henderson.
Plus spin of the week, the dark side of al Jazeera and more.
UPDATE
Transcript of the interview with Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews:
THE BOLT REPORTThe videos of the shows appear here.
29 JUNE 2014
INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN ANDREWS
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: The Government, last year, set up a review into reforming welfare payments, a review headed by Patrick McClure, former head of Mission Australia. Its interim report is released today and says taxpayers are now handing other Australians income support worth $100 billion a year. And what a tangle of handouts, around 20 different payments for pensioners, students, widows, the jobless, the sick, the disabled, partners, carers, students, whatever. Plus, 55 different supplement payments. Joining me is social security minister, Kevin Andrews. What a mess! What are you going to do about all of that?
KEVIN ANDREWS, SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTER: Well, as you described it, you can see how complex it has become, Andrew, and that’s because it’s been ad hoc decision on ad hoc decision over years and decades, and it’s time to try and simplify it, and what Mr McClure has done is provided a proposed new simple architecture for welfare in Australia.
ANDREW BOLT: How much could that save us, of that $100 billion?
KEVIN ANDREWS: Well, people just have trouble finding their way through the system, that’s a huge cost. It’s difficult to administer. There’s 4,000 pages of legislation, so -
ANDREW BOLT: So, your idea is to make it easier for them to claim welfare? I thought we were handing out too much!
KEVIN ANDREWS: No, not easier to claim it in the sense that, you know, people should just be able to rort the system, but people should
be able to understand the system, and what we’re proposing is four, four basic streams of payments. The aged pension, people who have got a genuine disability and an incapacity to work, working age payment, which also encourages people to get into work where they can, and then a payment around having children.
ANDREW BOLT: Right, OK, and you reckon that’ll save us a bit of money?
KEVIN ANDREWS: It will certainly save money if you can, if you can simplify the system. It’ll save government money, but if the administration of it is so complex, we just have to do something about it.
ANDREW BOLT: Now, this report to you from McClure says, “Income management could be considered for disadvantaged young people who don’t have a job and need more skills”. Are you going to start controlling how young unemployed spend their dole?
KEVIN ANDREWS: What we’re doing now, we’ve got trials in parts of Australia, which started in the Northern Territory, to income manage for people in situations where they need that.
ANDREW BOLT: That‘s traditionally been, almost exclusively, Aboriginal recipients –
KEVIN ANDREWS: Well, the trials, the trials in other parts of Australia, for example, in Shepparton, in Victoria, and other parts of Australia, it’s not exclusively for indigenous people. It’s broader than that, and our view is, that, where it’s appropriate, it shouldn’t be related to race, or whether a person’s indigenous or not, it should be related to their circumstances. Now, this is something which we are committed to, we are rolling out a new program this year, or starting one in Ceduna, in South Australia and through this process, we hope that we’ll be able to roll it out more nationally.
ANDREW BOLT: So, at the moment, around 24,000 people are on it,
again, many Aboriginal. You expect that number to rise?
KEVIN ANDREWS: I do, because we‘ve got to get the architecture of this right, as well. Part of it is costly to do, because of the counselling and the case management aspects of it. But, one of the things we are looking at, and which the Forest Report is looking at, is a more widespread use of, essentially, a basics card.
ANDREW BOLT: So, if you’re young and unemployed, how would that look?
KEVIN ANDREWS: Well, it’d look in terms of, there are certain things which you can spend your money on, and certain things which you can’t.
ANDREW BOLT: So, they want to go to the bottle shop, and you say, what?
KEVIN ANDREWS: We would say, you can have a card, a bit like a debit card now, that precludes certain expenditure on that card. So, you could, for example, preclude expenditure on alcohol.
ANDREW BOLT: Oh, so, you get a card, you go to the bottle shop, and they say, “oh sorry, transaction declined”.
KEVIN ANDREWS: Yes, and you would know that. So, just like, you know, when you go, some cards that you use to fill up your car with petrol, it will enable you to put petrol in the car, but won’t enable you to go and buy something else from the shop, associated with the service station. So, that technology is there, it’s a question of how you can roll it out in relation to welfare.
ANDREW BOLT: All young unemployed, or young unemployed who are having trouble?
KEVIN ANDREWS: Well this is what, this is what we are having the consultations about. We’re waiting – Mr Forest has given his draft report in relation to this, so –
ANDREW BOLT: So, possibly, all young unemployed?
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Leyonhjelm promises a great fight
Andrew Bolt June 29 2014 (11:34am)
David Leyonhjelm takes up his seat in the Senate next week and promises plenty that’s good:
===The first of July 2014 will be my first day as a Senator, representing NSW and the Liberal Democratic Party. I hope history will say it was the day we got to work putting Godzilla back in its cage....(Thanks to reader Streetcred.)
Godzilla is that blundering monster that our governments have become, with their hands in our pocket and noses in every room of our house....
In my term in Parliament, I want to convince Australians to reconsider whether handing their money over to the government is better than keeping it themselves. I want them to understand that disapproving of something does not justify it being prohibited or heavily regulated. I want them to understand the connection between the liberties they care about and the liberty of others, and to understand that individual freedom is universal, precious and must be fiercely protected…
We need more people in the Senate intent on putting Godzilla back in its cage, but in the meantime I will bring argument, reason, pleading and occasionally, blackmail, to the fight.
Tax axe safe: John Madigan denies he’d vote against the carbon tax repeal.
Andrew Bolt June 29 2014 (6:34am)
The carbon tax is gone, despite claims that Ricky Muir might break free from Clive Palmer’s grip:
===Prime Minister Tony Abbott has the numbers to abolish the carbon tax. Democratic Labour Party senator John Madigan said on Friday he would back the carbon tax repeal bills, scotching reports that an alliance of three could frustrate the Abbott government’s number one priority vote in the new Senate.Readere Peter of Bellevue Hill adds:
Senator Madigan told Fairfax Media it was an ‘’absolute crock’’ that he would join Victorian senator-elect Ricky Muir and South Australian independent Nick Xenophon in making their support contingent on the government retaining Labor’s $1.6 billion automotive transformation scheme…
‘’I have never spoken to Ricky Muir or anyone associated with Ricky Muir and I resent people putting words in my mouth,’’ Senator Madigan said.
He said the DLP had gone to the election promising to stand against the carbon tax and that position had not changed, even though he was concerned about what funding cuts to the auto scheme would do to jobs as local car manufacturers cease production by 2017. Senator Xenophon said he had not come to a decision on the carbon tax…
Mr Muir, who is due to meet with the government’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, next week, said through a spokesman he was concerned at the potential for thousands of job losses in the auto sector but had not made any decision on how he would vote.
AB, it appears most of the elements of Peter van Onselen’s story on Friday were simply wrong.Still, it got a good run.
It’s the duty of extremists to fit in, not ours to give in
Andrew Bolt June 29 2014 (5:48am)
To think our diplomats helped him get out of trouble with Saudi Arabia, where his brother remains jailed:
Dr Yassir Morsi, researcher at the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, last week on 3AW rationalised a hatred and a threat that he should have deplored:
About Morsi, note we pay him to peddle victimisation policies that put the responsibility for change on Australia, and not jihadists:
===Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says a West Australian man is being investigated after appearing online in a video railing against the West, entitled ‘The Status of Women in Islam’…Would we have had a deal had a politician warned beforehand that taking in Muslim immigrants came with an obligation to dump Israel and turn against the West - or risk danger?
In the video, Junaid Thorne appears in front of a version of the black flag of Jihad popular across the Middle East, including with the Sunni insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is also known as ISIL.
“ISIL is a prescribed terrorist organisation and it is an offence to support or promote or engage with terrorist organisations and can be punishiable by severe penalties,” Bishop said.
Mr Thorne is not known to have vocalised his support for ISIL…
West Australian Noongar man Thorne is known to authorities after Saudi Arabian authorities jailed then freed his brother on terrorism-related offences…
In a video speech, delivered mostly in English but partly in Arabic, he rails against injustices being perpetrated against Muslims, calling for Muslim men to “defend our sisters”.
“Look at other parts of the world. Our sisters being raped by filthy Jews and Christians,” Thorne says in the video.
Dr Yassir Morsi, researcher at the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, last week on 3AW rationalised a hatred and a threat that he should have deplored:
A lot of young Muslims… feel, without taking that leap, without taking that jump to go and fight [with jihadists overseas] that their own sense of worth has to be won through themselves and not through showing faith to a state [Australia] which they feel hasn’t shown any faith to them and continually, globally, politically, has not given the time to express their concerns about issues such as Israel, Syria, so forth. It is just a complete lack of faith in the system and when that happens they’ll go beyond it… Come on, you don’t feel that people of minority status just feel a little bit alienated? That news to you, really? … A lot of Muslims feel it…Morsi confirms what is usually denounced by his sort as xenophobia - that immigrants, particularly of Muslim countries, cannot be assumed to be loyal to their new country, and can switch their allegiance to what we’d agree are terrorist groups. Morsi suggests the answer is Australia should change. Many Australians would have a neater and safer solution.
[Many Muslims] have their own coorrdinates and world view about the way the world should be run but when that’s matched by an inability by our existing political institutions and politicians to represent great concerns that a lot of people have then I don’t think we should be surprised that there are some Muslims out there who have no loyalty to Australia. I’m not quite sure what the shock is… There is plenty of anger out there…
Loyalty here should be seen two ways…
I agree people should show a level of concern for their neighbours and their country… If you want young Muslims to feel that they ought to have loyalty to Australia then there are a series of issues that need to be addressed one of which is of course dealing with the fact that many of them don’t feel represented.... from historical grounds, to inequalities to xenophobia and racism…
I think this discussion about loyalty favors one side. It comes out of this idea that Australia is a host, we’ve given you hope, we’ve given you opportunity, why have you turned on us?
About Morsi, note we pay him to peddle victimisation policies that put the responsibility for change on Australia, and not jihadists:
His main area of research is the critical analysis of contemporary racism and Islamophobia. He looks at the struggles facing Muslim minorities living in a secular, postcolonial and liberal west.
Yassir was president of the University of Melbourne Islamic society as well as the peak student body in Victoria. He has been an active member of the Muslim community engaging with young Muslims in numerous community projects.
That pleading woman in Gillard’s office
Andrew Bolt June 29 2014 (5:04am)
I’m not surprised poor Shorten thought it crass:
===Author Mary Delahunty was “embedded’’ in the Prime Minister’s office for six months to write the book ["Gravity — Inside the Prime Minister’s office during her final year and last days"] at the request of Ms Gillard and chief of staff Ben Hubbard. But her presence infuriated staff who were worried she was recording private conversations.Et tu, Brute?
Her book suggests they shouldn’t have worried, an unabashed Labor supporter, Ms Delahunty is an unabashed supporter. At one stage in the book she grasps the hand of Bill Shorten begging him to stick the course with Australia’s first female Prime Minister. Ms Delahunty writes the approach makes him grimace.
Ms Gillard also reveals that the decision of Senator Penny Wong to defect to the Rudd camp was a body blow that sealed her fate and has a jab at Labor frontbencher Jason Clare.
“Yesterday when Minister Jason Clare came in to tell her he could not vote for her, she asked why,’’ Delahunty writes.
“It’s about my seat,’’ Clare replies. “No,’’ she countered. “It’s about principle.”
“Senior Minister Penny Wong came to her in tears. She, too, was abandoning Gillard. Why? “It’s the South Australian seats,’’ Wong replies.
“I knew then that I’d lost it,’’ Gillard said.
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June 29: Ramadan begins (Islam, 2014); Feast of Saints Peter and Paul(Christianity, Gregorian calendar)
- 1864 – Canada's worst railway accident took place when a passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city in area in the United States and second largest in population.
- 1914 – During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo(pictured), numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted.
- 1950 – In one of the greatest upsets in sporting history, the United Statesdefeated England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
- 1974 – Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto.
Events[edit]
- 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
- 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
- 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
- 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
- 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
- 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
- 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
- 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
- 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
- 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
- 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
- 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and FourteenthAmendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
- 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
- 1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
- 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
- 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
- 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
- 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. andinternational law.
- 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
- 2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
Births[edit]
- 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
- 1398 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1497)
- 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
- 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
- 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, educator, and author (d. 1818)
- 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
- 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German author (d. 1871)
- 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
- 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
- 1849 – Pedro Montt, Chilean politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
- 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
- 1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
- 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
- 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
- 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
- 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American activist (d. 1932)
- 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
- 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
- 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
- 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
- 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
- 1877 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (d. 1933)
- 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
- 1879 – Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian author (d. 1942)
- 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
- 1881 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
- 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American musicologist (d. 1959)
- 1882 – Henry Hawtrey, British long-distance runner (d. 1961)
- 1882 – Franz Seldte, German politician (d. 1947)
- 1886 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
- 1886 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (d. 1983)
- 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
- 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2005)
- 1892 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
- 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
- 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
- 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
- 1898 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator (d. 1986)
- 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
- 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
- 1903 – Paul Newlan, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
- 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German general (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
- 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1911 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
- 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
- 1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
- 1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
- 1916 – Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1919 – Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 2006)
- 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Nicole Russell, French television producer and businesswoman (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French author (d. 2000)
- 1921 – Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
- 1921 – Harry Schell, American race car driver (d. 1960)
- 1922 – Vasko Popa, Serbian poet (d. 1991)
- 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general
- 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
- 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
- 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of Italy
- 1925 – Chan Parker, American dancer (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Hale Smith, American pianist and composer (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Jackie Lynn Taylor, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress and singer
- 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator
- 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
- 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Robert Evans, American actor and producer
- 1930 – Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress and politician
- 1930 – Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Brian Hutton, Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- 1933 – Bob Shaw, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian and author
- 1934 – Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Chuck Schaden, American historian and radio host
- 1935 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos, Greek captain and ship-owner (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Sally Greengross, British politician
- 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
- 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
- 1936 – David Rudkin, English playwright
- 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
- 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, and director (d. 2002)
- 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach
- 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
- 1940 – John Dawes, Welsh rugby football player
- 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
- 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
- 1941 – Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
- 1941 – Giannis Poulopoulos, Greek singer
- 1942 – Charlotte Bingham, English novelist
- 1942 – Paul Lorieau, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist
- 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
- 1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
- 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka
- 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician, 33rd President of Panama
- 1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
- 1947 – Michael Carter, Scottish actor
- 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor
- 1948 – Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
- 1948 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
- 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Deep Purple and Paice Ashton Lord)
- 1948 – Usha Prashar, Kenyan-born British politician
- 1949 – Greg Burson, American voice actor (d. 2008)
- 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
- 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster
- 1949 – George Howarth, English politician
- 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
- 1950 – Don Moen, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1951 – Don Rosa, American author and illustrator
- 1953 – Don Dokken, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dokken)
- 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work)
- 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach
- 1954 – Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
- 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1956 – Nick Fry, English economist and businessman
- 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1956 – Michael McIntyre, British sailor
- 1956 – A. K. Shiva Kumar, Indian economist
- 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
- 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
- 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Tuff Monks)
- 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
- 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
- 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor and singer
- 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
- 1958 – Mark Radcliffe, English singer and radio host (Shirehorses and The Family Mahone)
- 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German footballer and manager
- 1959 – Buren Fowler, American guitarist (Drivin N Cryin) (d. 2014)
- 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
- 1961 – Greg Hetson, American singer and guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Black President, and Redd Kross)
- 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
- 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, English actress
- 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
- 1962 – George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German kidnapped victim
- 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
- 1964 – Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Five Star)
- 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X, Dope, and Murderdolls)
- 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
- 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese illustrator
- 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
- 1967 – Jeff Burton, American race car driver
- 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bass player (Moxy Früvous and Great Big Sea)
- 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
- 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
- 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
- 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician (d. 2010)
- 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1969 – Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician
- 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
- 1970 – Melanie Paschke, German sprinter
- 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
- 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder and actor
- 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American porn actress
- 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matthew Good Band)
- 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1972 – DJ Shadow, American DJ and producer (Unkle)
- 1972 – Samantha Smith, American actress, author, and activist (d. 1985)
- 1972 – Külli Tomingas, Estonian opera singer
- 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
- 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
- 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver
- 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor, guitarist, and producer (Flight of the Conchords, The Black Seeds, So You're a Man, and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra)
- 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress and singer
- 1978 – Sam Farrar, American singer and bass player (Phantom Planet)
- 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls and Eden's Crush)
- 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Abz Love, English singer and DJ (Five)
- 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
- 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
- 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
- 1980 – Melissa Peachey, English television host
- 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
- 1981 – Nino, Greek singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
- 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1982 – Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
- 1982 – Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
- 1982 – Matthew Mercer, American voice actor
- 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Danity Kane)
- 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
- 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
- 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress
- 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée and Suburban Legends)
- 1984 – Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper
- 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
- 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-Italian rugby player
- 1987 – Yasuka Saitō, Japanese actor
- 1987 – Ilya Shesterkov, Russian footballer
- 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer
- 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani martial artist
- 1988 – Becky Taylor, English singer
- 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
- 1990 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
- 1991 – Soren Fulton, American actor
- 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
- 1991 – Addison Timlin, American actress
- 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
- 1993 – George Sampson, English actor and dancer
- 1993 – James Sanderson, Gibraltarian swimmer
- 1994 – Shin Dongho, South Korean singer and actor (U-KISS)
Deaths[edit]
- 67 (c.) – Paul the Apostle, preacher, teacher and writer (b. [c.] 5)
- 226 – Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)
- 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
- 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
- 1252 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
- 1509 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)
- 1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
- 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
- 1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish politician (b. 1535)
- 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese educator and politician (b. 1657)
- 1744 – André Campra, French composer and conductor (b. 1660)
- 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)
- 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
- 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian politician (b. 1757)
- 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (b. 1775)
- 1852 – Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (b. 1777)
- 1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
- 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
- 1860 – Thomas Addison, English physician (b. 1793)
- 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
- 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet (b. 1824)
- 1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
- 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
- 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian marshal and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839)
- 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
- 1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter (b. 1837)
- 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
- 1921 – Otto Seeck German historian (b. 1850)
- 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)
- 1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
- 1935 – Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
- 1936 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest (b. 1872)
- 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
- 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
- 1942 – Paul Troje, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1864)
- 1949 – Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician (b. 1860)
- 1951 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (b. 1884)
- 1952 – Alfred Braunschweiger, German diver (b. 1885)
- 1953 – Anton Koolmann, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
- 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
- 1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
- 1959 – Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower (b. 1878)
- 1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
- 1964 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
- 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
- 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
- 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
- 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1915)
- 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
- 1977 – Magda Lupescu, Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
- 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor and radio host (b. 1928)
- 1979 – Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1945)
- 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
- 1982 – Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
- 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician (b. 1919)
- 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)
- 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
- 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
- 1999 – Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950)
- 1999 – Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
- 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
- 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Alvin Hamilton, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
- 2006 – Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Randy Walker, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
- 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, American author (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Diane Hébert, Canadian medical patient (b. 1957)
- 2009 – Joe Bowman, American target shooter and boot-maker (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Takeo Chii, Japanese actor (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Verna Harrah, American film producer (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Graham Horn, English footballer (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, South African bishop (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Vincent Ostrom, American political scientist (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (b. 1911)
- 2012 – Floyd Temple, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1926)
- 2012 – José Sótero Valero Ruz, Venezuelan bishop (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Harisinh Pratapsinh Chavda, Indian politician (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Jack Gotta, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Sarah Guyard-Guillot, French-American acrobat (b. 1981)
- 2013 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Victor Lundin, American actor and singer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Ryūtarō Nakamura, Japanese animator and director (b. 1955)
- 2013 – Paul Smith, American pianist (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Larry Townsend, American politician (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Cassius of Narni
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
- June 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
- Veterans Day (Netherlands, 2013)
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Looking unto Jesus."
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
It is ever the Holy Spirit's work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan's work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, "Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of his children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus." All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: he tells us that we are nothing, but that "Christ is all in all." Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument--it is Christ's blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by "looking unto Jesus." Keep thine eye simply on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to him; when thou liest down at night look to him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after him, and he will never fail thee.
"My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness:
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name."
Evening
"But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods."
Exodus 7:12
Exodus 7:12
This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as sure as ever God is in the work, it will swallow up all its foes. If God's grace takes possession of a man, the world's magicians may throw down all their rods; and every rod may be as cunning and poisonous as a serpent, but Aaron's rod will swallow up their rods. The sweet attractions of the cross will woo and win the man's heart, and he who lived only for this deceitful earth will now have an eye for the upper spheres, and a wing to mount into celestial heights. When grace has won the day the worldling seeks the world to come. The same fact is to be observed in the life of the believer. What multitudes of foes has our faith had to meet! Our old sins--the devil threw them down before us, and they turned to serpents. What hosts of them! Ah, but the cross of Jesus destroys them all. Faith in Christ makes short work of all our sins. Then the devil has launched forth another host of serpents in the form of worldly trials, temptations, unbelief; but faith in Jesus is more than a match for them, and overcomes them all. The same absorbing principle shines in the faithful service of God! With an enthusiastic love for Jesus difficulties are surmounted, sacrifices become pleasures, sufferings are honours. But if religion is thus a consuming passion in the heart, then it follows that there are many persons who profess religion but have it not; for what they have will not bear this test. Examine yourself, my reader, on this point. Aaron's rod proved its heaven-given power. Is your religion doing so? If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!
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Joab
[Jō'ăb] - jehovah is a good father.
[Jō'ăb] - jehovah is a good father.
- A descendant of Caleb the son of Hur, a Judahite (1 Chron. 2:54).
- Son of Seraiah, grandson of Kenaz, associated with valley craftsmen (1 Chron. 4:13, 14).
- An Israelite whose posterity went up from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:6; Neh. 7:11).
- One whose descendants went up from Babylon with Ezra ( Ezra 8:9.)
- The son of David's half-sister, Zeruiah. This nephew of David became the most overbearing captain in his uncle's army (1 Sam. 26:6; 2 Sam. 2; 13).
The Man Who Was Overambitious
Joab was the first person to be thought of in Joab's mind. His apparent devotion to David had one objective, namely that he himself should have first place. He loved self. He murdered those who stood in the way of pre-eminence as the leader of Israel's hosts (2 Sam. 3:27 ). Alexander Whyte says, "Had it not been for David, Joab would have climbed up into the throne of Israel. . . Even the king himself was afraid of his commander-in-chief. The sovereign took his orders meekly from his subject." In his own well-read and picturesque way, Dean Stanley describes Joab aptly as the Marlborough of the empire of Israel.
W. O. E. Osterley gives us the following summary of Joab's life and labors:
I. He was a skilled general, proven by the number of victories he gained (2 Sam. 2:12-32; 10; 11:1; 12:26-29; 20:4-22; 1 Chron. 11:6-9).
II. He was loyal to the house of David as his whole life of devoted service illustrates (2 Sam. 12:26; 14:1; 18:20; 19:5-7).
III. He was guilty of vindictiveness and ruthless cruelty. The treacherous and bloodthirsty acts of which Joab was guilty constitute a dark blot upon his character (2 Sam. 3:22-27; 18:14; 20:9, 10; 1 Kings 11:16).
The tragedy is that in spite of all his abundant energy, boldness, ability, shrewdness and common sense, he never manifested any real faith in God. The nearest he came to such a faith is to be found in 2 Samuel 10:12, where his trust was more in "Providence" than a personal resting in the God of Israel. Full of self-confidence, ambition and selfishness, Joab never got far away from his own interests.
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Today's reading: Job 11-13, Acts 9:1-21 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Job 11-13
Zophar
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2 "Are all these words to go unanswered?
Is this talker to be vindicated?
3 Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?
Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
4 You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawless
and I am pure in your sight.'
5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak,
that he would open his lips against you
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
Is this talker to be vindicated?
3 Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?
Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
4 You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawless
and I am pure in your sight.'
5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak,
that he would open his lips against you
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 9:1-21
Saul's Conversion
1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3 As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5 "Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.
"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied. 6 "Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
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