Reading on the history of the day, I find a fascinating reference to Eratosthenes who created a sieve for finding prime numbers by exhaustion. He also calculated the exact day Troy was sacked and burned .. today, 1184 BC. Alexander the Great died today, 323 BC. A stoic leader fought in a rainstorm and achieved a remarkable victory today, 173 AD. Marcus Aurelius had been leader when a failed peace treaty meant he was surrounded, isolated and inferior in number. Besieged and without water, Aurelius considered surrender .. and then the storm came and the soldiers had all the water they needed. A bit like when we were promised Global Warming would end rain .. but it didn't. As comparisons go, it fails, but is to me, irresistible.
In 631, the great Chinese Emperor Taizong of Tang sent an envoy with silk to an enemy and freed 80,000 Chinese peoples held prisoner. It wasn't charity. If the slavers had resisted he would have killed them all. In 1837, Boston remained at type, with rioting between Irish and Yankees. On this day in 1920, GOP discussed their leadership in a smoke filled room. The resulting presidencies would juggernaut a great period of prosperity. In '36, surrealists had an exhibition in London. In '37, on this day, Stalin executed eight of his generals. On this day in 1963, Democrat Governor Wallace stood in the door to prevent Black students from going to school. National guard would escort those students to school later that day. A buddhist monk burned himself to death in protest in Vietnam. JFK had a thought bubble about equal rights which Nixon implemented. I guess JFK was thinking of the future.
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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 Frank Zumbo. On your day, in 1594, Spain's King recognised the rights of local Philippine leaders to rule, so long as they converted to his religion. in 1776, a committee of five was made, including Adams, Jefferson and Franklyn, tasked to draft a declaration of independence. In 1955, 80 motor car enthusiasts were killed after a collision on the 23rd running of the 24 hour Le Mans. In 2008, Stephen Harper apologised to native american peoples who were forced to assimilate. You have the authority to lead, if you are the right religion, and if you are not, we are sorry. Enjoy your sport, safely.
- 1403 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
- 1456 – Anne Neville, English wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
- 1588 – George Wither, English poet (d. 1667)
- 1672 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
- 1741 – Joseph Warren, American doctor and general (d. 1775)
- 1776 – John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
- 1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
- 1908 – Francisco Marto, Portuguese child visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (d. 1919)
- 1910 – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Richard Todd, Irish-English actor and soldier (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1936 – Jud Strunk, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1950 – Graham Russell, English-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Air Supply)
- 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created C++
- 1956 – Joe Montana. American football player
- 1956 – Simon Plouffe, Canadian mathematician
- 1965 – Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, world's heaviest man (d. 2014)
- 1975 – Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
- 1984 – Andy Lee, Irish boxer
- 1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
- 1987 – TiA, Japanese singer
- 1988 – Jesús, Spanish footballer
- 1994 – Jessica Fox, French-born Australian canoeist
Matches
- 1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
- 323 BC – Alexander the Great dies in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon
- 173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstormemperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
- 631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslavedChinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
- 786 – A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. Idris ibn Abdallah flees to the Maghreb, where he later founds the Idrisid dynasty.
- 1345 – The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
- 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- 1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
- 1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft adeclaration of independence.
- 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
- 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
- 1903 – Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
- 1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- 1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
- 1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
- 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
- 1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
- 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
- 1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
- 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
- 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
- 1998 – Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
- 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- 2004 – Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
Despatches
- 1183 – Henry the Young King of England (b. 1155)
- 1727 – George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
- 1796 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (b. 1720)
- 1936 – Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
- 1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, conducted the Oklahoma City bombing (b. 1968)
THINK OF YOUR FUTURE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (4:42pm)
This is big:
Labor leader Bill Shorten told a senior union official not to blow the whistle on dodgy dealings by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s union boss ex-boyfriend Bruce Wilson, a Royal Commission has heard.Former AWU Victorian branch official Robert Kernohan told the Royal Commission into trade union governance that he was “bloody horrified” by what he had discovered.The Commission heard Mr Kernohan was served with papers about a slush fund called the AWU Members Welfare Association that Mr Wilson is alleged to have used to pay for repairs to Ms Gillard’s house in Fitzroy.“It laid bare the whole sorry saga of the fraud perpetrated by Wilson. I was just horrified and couldn’t believe it. When I realised the extent of what was going on I felt sick in the stomach,” he said.
According to Kernohan, then-AWU boss Shorten told the former unionist to “move on”:
“Shorten cut me off, not in a nasty way, and he said words like, “Bob think of your future. There’s been a pay out, we are just all moving on.”
Bill’s call might turn out to be accurate, but not in the way he imagined.
UPDATE. As of 5pm, no mention of this at the ABC’s site. No mention at the top of ABC 24’s 5pm bulletin, either.
GREENS RIDE IN STYLE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (1:10pm)
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon and Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi arrive at a climate-saving anti-coal protest. In an SUV.
DADDY THINKS YOU’RE DOOMED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (12:42pm)
Fairfax’s Sam De Brito, father of a terrified child, reports:
A couple of Sundays ago, I was watching TV with my four-year-old daughter and we caught a news story about climate change. I zoned out and got us some chocolate from the kitchen but when we started to snuggle again she asked me “Will we die if the world gets too hot, daddy?”I said “of course not”, stuffed some chocolate in her mouth and changed the subject but her guileless concern stayed with me. Later I tweeted the conversation, asking my followers words to the effect “What do you say to a kid? ‘I won’t die. You might’?” …When I picked up my daughter from her mum’s house later in the week, my ex told me Noush had beencrying, saying the world was going to get too hot and we’d all die. We both went to work on her, explaining it wasn’t a certainty this would happen, and that we all had to do our part to help the planet.As I spoke the comforting white lies to her …
This is an intriguing glimpse into the doom-minded. Apparently De Brito believes he was lying when he told his little girl that death by warming wasn’t a certainty. If he’s so convinced about the planet’s looming fate, why did he have a kid in the first place? Besides consigning her to a cauldron, was De Brito unaware that children are only making things worse?
FAREWELL CLAUDIE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (12:06pm)
Dreadfully sad news from our New Jersey friend Mr Bingley. Claude was one wonderful dog.
DOT MANIA
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (12:00pm)
7.30 picks an alarmist know-nothing to hector us on global warming
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (7:42pm)
The ABC is skewing its
entire reporting of Tony Abbott’s trip to the US to conform to its
global warming agenda. Its reports are all underpinned with unexamined
(and false) assumptions: that global warming is critically important,
that what Australia does is decisive, that global warming should be the
focus of what essentially a business and trade trip, and that Barack
Obama’s position in far superior to Abbott’s.
Tonight 7.30 interviews Democrat Henry Waxman who makes all the predictable and familiar alarmist points, even making the tired link between global warming “denialism” and denial of the link between smoking and cancer. That crassness alone should disqualify him as profoundly unserious.
But just to put Waxman’s credentials - or lack of them - in context, judge his grasp of science by this comment from an earlier interview:
===Tonight 7.30 interviews Democrat Henry Waxman who makes all the predictable and familiar alarmist points, even making the tired link between global warming “denialism” and denial of the link between smoking and cancer. That crassness alone should disqualify him as profoundly unserious.
But just to put Waxman’s credentials - or lack of them - in context, judge his grasp of science by this comment from an earlier interview:
“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap..”This is the US politician whose views the ABC thought we just had to have. We could have had any number of US politicians who are sceptics, but we had to have Waxman.
Claims in commission: union boss paid for Gillard’s renovations
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (6:56pm)
Michael Smith has the royal commission covered with reports on the evidence given by Bob Kernohan, Wayne Hem and builder Athol James, who says AWU official Bruce Wilson paid for the renovations he did to Julia Gillard’s house.
The Australian reports:
Then there was this:
===The Australian reports:
A BUILDER who renovated Julia Gillard’s Melbourne home says she told him that her then boyfriend, former union official Bruce Wilson, was paying for the work.UPDATE
Athol James also said during sworn evidence to a royal commission today that he saw Mr Wilson hand to Ms Gillard “wads of notes” that amounted to a “large amount of cash” on at least two occasions, and she said she would pay him by cheque as Mr Wilson brought the cash.
The evidence to the royal commission into union corruption from Mr James directly contradicts the former Labor prime minister’s claims over the years that she paid for the renovations in the early 1990s herself.
The commission is investigating corruption allegations including the claim that money to pay for Ms Gillard’s home renovations was given to her by her then boyfriend, Australian Workers Union official Bruce Wilson, and that he took it from a union slush fund he had set up with the assistance of legal advice from Ms Gillard…
Both Ms Gillard and Mr Wilson have denied that money for the renovations came from Mr Wilson or Mr Wilson’s slush fund, called the AWU Workplace Reform Association…
Mr James told the commission ... early in his contact with Ms Gillard that she said Mr Wilson was paying for the work…
Wayne Hem, a former AWU official, told the commission today that he paid $5000 into Ms Gillard’s bank account on the orders of Mr Wilson in late 1995… Ms Gillard has said she had no recollection of this deposit.
Mr Hem said he was also accompanied an AWU official Bill “the Greek” Telikostoglou, a close associate of Mr Wilson, when they went to Ms Gillard’s house in mid-1995.
According to Mr Hem, he saw Mr Telikostoglou hand one of the painters an envelope that he assumed contained some money. He did not see the painter count the alleged money.
In early 1995, Mr Hem said he performed an errand for Mr Wilson by taking papers to Ms Gillard at Slater & Gordon that were allegedly related to the “AWU Welfare Fund”.
The welfare fund was another alleged slush fund, in addition to the AWU Workplace Reform Association, and Ms Gillard has had no alleged connection with it until now.
Ms Gillard has denied any wrong doing over her legal advice on the Workplace Reform Association, or any other matter related to Mr Wilson.
Then there was this:
Labor leader Bill Shorten told a senior union official not to blow the whistle on dodgy dealings by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s union boss ex-boyfriend Bruce Wilson, a Royal Commission has heard.
Former AWU Victorian branch official Robert Kernohan told the Royal Commission into trade union governance that he was “bloody horrified” by what he had discovered.
The Commission heard Mr Kernohan was served with papers about a slush fund called the AWU Members Welfare Association that Mr Wilson is alleged to have used to pay for repairs to Ms Gillard’s house in Fitzroy.
“It laid bare the whole sorry saga of the fraud perpetrated by Wilson. I was just horrified and couldn’t believe it. When I realised the extent of what was going on I felt sick in the stomach,” he said…
“Shorten cut me off, not in a nasty way, and he said words like, “Bob think of your future. There’s been a pay out, we are just all moving on.”
Islamists seize Iraq’s second-biggest city
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (6:47pm)
Ultimately it is for
Iraq to defend itself against this religious brand of fascism, but
Barack Obama’s weakness in both Syria and Iraq has not helped:
===Islamist insurgents seized control of Iraq’s second-largest city on Tuesday in a brazen military operation that underscored the weakness of the central government across vast swaths of the country…But even now:
Mosul was captured by rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS—a group that evolved from al Qaeda’s Iraq affiliate. The takeover of a major industrial and oil center and the main city in northern Iraq marked a major coup for a group that only months ago was operating in the country’s vast desert hinterlands.
It was the latest evidence of the disorganization that has beset Iraqi security forces since the U.S. military withdrew from the country in December 2011. It also underlined the determination of ISIS to establish an Islamic emirate encompassing the Iraqi-Syrian frontier, to weaken the already fragile Iraqi state and to expand the theater of the three-year-old civil war in neighboring Syria…
Following nine years of U.S.-led war, at a cost of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, the attacks touched off Republican criticism of the Obama administration’s failure to negotiate a security agreement that would have allowed the U.S. to keep troops in the country beyond 2011…
U.S. counterterrorism officials said the attacks show the degree to which Islamist militants have established a revolving door between Iraq and Syria, with fighters flowing easily between the two countries and fueling conflict in both.
Pentagon officials said they don’t view the attack as a dangerous turning point that requires urgent action.
“It is important, we are watching it,” said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Defense Department press secretary. “But our efforts to help them with counterterrorism is not something that we turn off-and-on like a light switch.”
What corruption inquiry? What allegations against Gillard?
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (6:35pm)
Complete uninterest from the ABC’s The World Today
in the royal commission into union corruption and the allegations
against Julia Gillard. News from Germany, Iraq, Manus and Britain is of
far more importance, to judge from today’s menu:
===Analysts warn Mosul takeover could lead to widespread regional destabilisation…
Iraq army was not prepared for ISIS, says former White House advisor…
International summit to end war rape…
Global growth forecast falls, but Australian dollar set to rise
Whistleblower warns of more violence if refugees settled on Manus Island
Pathologist gives autopsy testimony at Baden-Clay case
Suspending rogue MP will put intense pressure on speaker
Inequality report: Australians, including the PM, can no longer afford to ignore the problem
Rebel Nationals MPs argue PPL discriminates against rural women
German cave rescue plumbs new depths
ABC protects Gillard yet again
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (9:30am)
What a joke. The only
reference to the AWU slush fund scandal on the ABC News home page is a
report on whether there’s a conspiracy to get Julia Gillard:
It is out of control.
(Thanks to reader old44.)
===As Hedley Thomas put it to me last night. the ABC seems to be running a protection racket for Gillard.
It is out of control.
(Thanks to reader old44.)
Who do we trust on Abbott: Plibersek or Beazley?
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (9:04am)
Tony Abbott is “Nigel
no-friends” overseas, claims Labor’s foreign affairs spokesman Tanya
Plibersek, appealing to the Twitter creche.
Former Labor leader Kim Beazley begs to differ:
UPDATE
More praise from abroad, rather more significant than the utterly meaningless “gaffes” that have been so wildly beaten up by the media, like an instantly corrected reference to “Canadia”:
===Former Labor leader Kim Beazley begs to differ:
AUSTRALIA’S Ambassador to the US Kim Beazley has revealed that the Obama administration was “intrigued” by Tony Abbott’s accomplishments in Asia and would now be looking to him to become their man in the region…The authentic voice of an adult.
“He has them somewhat intrigued,” Mr Beazley said in a rare interview on his assessment of the US/Australia relationship…
“And they are very interested in the Prime Minister’s visits to Asia…and what he has arranged in the region.
“They are intrigued by his relationship with the Japanese Prime Minister and the fact Australia is looking to do more and more with Japan and how he managed to balance that out with quite a reasonable dialogue with China.
“They think that was a little risk taking by the Australian Prime Minister….and he seemed to pull it off, so in their minds that is a plus… They see a bloke who has done pretty well in Asia in the last little while."…
Mr Beazley dismissed suggestions that President Obama, who Mr Abbott once described as leading one of the most left wing US administrations in 50 years, would offer a cool reception for the Australian PM… Mr Beazley also played down speculation that the two leaders would clash over climate change and President Obama’s recent announcement of a global action plan to cut greenhouse emissions.
“I would be surprised if climate change weren’t discussed….but I wouldn’t expect it to be a clash,” he said.
UPDATE
More praise from abroad, rather more significant than the utterly meaningless “gaffes” that have been so wildly beaten up by the media, like an instantly corrected reference to “Canadia”:
The head of the world’s leading economic agency, Angel Gurria, has praised the Federal Government’s recent budget, calling it a ‘sustainable, durable solution’ to deficits.(Thanks to readers Ken, Jeff of FNQ, Mark S, Nathan, Josh, CA, Peter of Bellevue Hill, Ancient Marriner and others.)
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s secretary-general says that the budget highlights a serious commitment to maintain Australia’s stable government finances.
“We have seen with very great interest, and I think really with great expectations, that they are dealing very directly and decisively with the budget deficit,” he told ABC television’s The Business program.
Obama dodges blame for Bergdahl
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (8:59am)
If the Bergdahl release was a triumph, Obama wouldn’t be ducking the responsibility:
===Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel – not President Obama – executed the administration’s final call to proceed with the prisoner exchange of five ranking Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, administration officials told Congress today in a classified briefing today.(Thanks to reader The Realist.)
“They indicated [it was] Secretary Hagel [who made the final call],” House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, R-California, told reporters following the briefing Monday evening. “It was the president of the United States that came out [in the Rose Garden] with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there’s been a little pushback he’s moving away from it and it’s Secretary Hagel?”
AWU scandal a crime, says commission’s counsel
Andrew Bolt June 11 2014 (7:42am)
The AWU slush fund scandal is formally exposed:
===JULIA Gillard’s ex-boyfriend, former union official Bruce Wilson, should face criminal charges over the creation of sham invoices that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars being paid into a secret slush fund, a royal commission has heard.Witnesses are expected to differ on who paid for Gillard’s renovations:
Counsel assisting Jeremy Stoljar SC told the royal commission into union corruption yesterday that Mr Wilson, along with his then Australian Workers’ Union sidekick, the confessed bagman Ralph Blewitt, committed fraud and conspiracy offences that could bring up to 10 years in jail.
Mr Stoljar said it was Mr Wilson’s idea to create a slush fund called the Workplace Reform Association in 1992 for the purpose of issuing false invoices to the Thiess construction company.
Ms Gillard, the former Labor prime minister, was at the time Mr Wilson’s girlfriend and a salaried partner of legal firm Slater & Gordon. She had a role in helping Mr Wilson set up the Workplace Reform Association by providing legal advice, although she insists she did nothing wrong.
The association was meant to provide safety services to Thiess for its Dawesville Channel project near Perth, but Mr Stoljar said it did not engage in any genuine work…
In a 1995 formal interview with Slater & Gordon’s head partner, Peter Gordon, Ms Gillard admitted that she thought the association was a union “slush fund” for election purposes, but said she had no knowledge of its operations and did not play any role in the fund after providing legal advice to help set it up…
Ms Gillard did not tell fellow legal partners in 1992 about her role in providing legal advice for Mr Wilson. Nor did she create a file note — the usual practice — when she worked for the AWU as a Slater & Gordon solicitor at the same time. Ms Gillard left Slater & Gordon after her formal interview with Mr Gordon on the matter…
Evidence had been established that “does not seem controversial”, Mr Stoljar said, that money from the slush fund was used to partly fund the purchase of a house in the Melbourne suburb Fitzroy in Mr Blewitt’s name. Mr Wilson lived in the house…
Ms Gillard ... attended the auction with Mr Wilson and was involved in the drafting of a power of attorney document at Slater & Gordon giving him the authority to bid for it. She also arranged the conveyancing work by Slater & Gordon.
Mr Stoljar said evidence further established that money from the Wilson slush fund was also used to pay for renovations on another Melbourne house in Abbotsford owned by Ms Gillard — but he added “there is factual controversy about this”.
As prime minister in 2012, Ms Gillard insisted that she paid for the renovations herself…
At one point the slush fund "association" held $156,849 in one bank account and $383,332.60 in a cheque account.
Melbourne builder Konstantinos Spyridis will provide evidence about building work he did at the offices of the Australian Workers Union in Carlton and at Ms Gillard’s property in the Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford. He says Ms Gillard paid for all the work he did at her home in 1994, according to Jeremy Stoljar, counsel assisting the royal commission ...Hedley Thomas is astonished by ABC presenter Jon Faine’s attempt to discredit the royal commission:
Another builder, Athol James, who helped with renovations at the house, will allege that he saw Ms Gillard’s then boyfriend, Bruce Wilson, hand cash to Ms Gillard to pay him for his work. Wayne Hem, a former employee of the AWU, will claim he deposited $5000 in cash into Ms Gillard’s bank account at the request of Mr Wilson.
...former AWU official and self-confessed bagman Ralph Blewitt ... told the royal commission last month he used $7000 from a union “slush fund” to pay for renovations to Ms Gillard’s house.
Mr Blewitt, who has confessed to fraud, alleged he attended Ms Gillard’s home in 1994 and handed $7000 to a builder. He said Ms Gillard was home on the day but was not in the room when he handed over the cash.
While the ABC and many in the Canberra press gallery chose to run a protection racket of the former PM when these matters were in plain view, Stoljar takes evidence from credible witnesses — former union officials like Ian Cambridge, a serving Fair Work Commissioner; Bob Kernohan, a former AWU president in Victoria; and the tradesmen who received cash while renovating Gillard’s house in the 1990s…Former union lawyer Harry Nowicki on why he’s worked so hard on investigating the case:
Faine thinks it is professional journalism to ignore reams of corroborated evidence since 2012, then latch on to one self-serving witness statement — Wilson’s — and expend taxpayers’ resources in an on-air bid to imbue it with credibility.
Faine’s previous bias on the AWU scandal, which he calls a “house of cards”, was such that even the ABC found him guilty, following a separate and earlier admonishment from the ABC’s Media Watch. He now seems to believe Wilson’s statement to the royal commission, leaked to him and read on his radio show yesterday, is the real story.
Faine told listeners that in this statement, Wilson claims he was offered $200,000 to tell his story in 2012 to Harry Nowicki, a former union lawyer, and to make stuff up to the detriment of the serving PM. A vast right-wing conspiracy, anyone?
Nowicki, who was introduced to me in 2012 by a senior Labor figure, has been a seeker of truth. The idea that he would corruptly pay a corrupt union official to lie about corruption is ludicrous… Nobody would need to lie that there was a fraud; the evidence of the fraud is everywhere.
But Nowicki turned over rocks, talked to witnesses, tracked down documents, lodged Freedom of Information applications and told the likes of Wilson they would be better off coming clean and telling the truth. In other words, a retired lawyer who once worked for the BLF has done what Jon Faine and the ABC have conspicuously failed to do.
HARRY NOWICKI: I think it’s important for the facts of this story to come out, because it is a link in the chain of Ms Gillard becoming Prime Minister.But this is not true, and I expect it is a memory slip:
How is it possible that someone involved in… in, in questionable behaviour becomes Prime Minister? Now that’s a political story, that’s not my story.
SARAH FERGUSON: Have you at any time discussed this case with members of the parliamentary Labor Party?Nowicki has in fact discussed this with a former Minister of the Gillard Government who was deeply concerned by the scandal.
HARRY NOWICKI: No.
SARAH FERGUSON: No-one?
HARRY NOWICKI: No-one, no.
SARAH FERGUSON: Past or present?
HARRY NOWICKI: No, no.
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I took a quick moment while students were trading places for different vantage points at this weekend's Aperture Academy workshop, and got a nice little pic of my own looking up the famous street instead of down. The students are in this image but because of the effects of a long exposure, they were all rendered invisible. — atLombard Street.
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SHORTEN A CHAMELEON FOR ALL SEASONS
A confidential US cable, discloses a secret meeting Bill Shorten had with the US Consul General in Melbourne on the 11th June 2009. The meeting, solely to present his Prime Ministerial credentials, was within the time-frame of the unions' decision to replace Rudd with either him or Gillard.
A desperate attempt to gain the nod over Gillard failed as his profile was not equal to her's of Deputy PM.
In the end, Bill Ludwig and the NSW Right opted for Gillard, at the same time giving Shorten an assurance he could consider himself heir apparent.
Seeking to pad a somewhat dull union CV, Shorten had discussed his political leanings and ambitions with the Consulate. His description of himself varied wildly from reality.
A US diplomat in attendance wrote, “Shorten was highly critical of current Australian union leadership. He was at pains to show he was business friendly. He said he had an MBA from Melbourne University and he kept talking about how close he was to the late cardboard king billionaire, Richard Pratt.
“He continually criticised union leaders saying he, unlike them, was willing to listen to business concerns.”
Shorten also told the diplomat that the Federal Government “already has plenty of duties” and that he, “did not want to see additional powers delegated to Canberra.”
In his written report back to Washington the Consul General wrote: “Shorten makes no bones about his ambitions. Despite his lukewarm relationship with Prime Minister Rudd, he struck us as highly ambitious but willing to wait (at least for a while) for his moment in the sun.”
Mmmm, it appears when appearing to be rational to the Yanks, Shorten’s Marxist views are nowhere to be seen.
This cable was buried in thousands of a Wikileaks bulk release.
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Retaliation?
Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers, who was told not to read books by conservative authors while in uniform, now faces charges -- which cropped up shortly after he went public with his complaints.
Sommers' attorney and retired Navy Commander John Bennett Wells said, "It's suspicious. No matter what's happening, it looks like a graduated attempt to build a case against him on some really ridiculous charges."
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Quote of the day from Barry Shaw, The View from Israel.
"Israel is the one country in the Middle East that is not going up in flames , going down the drain, or going back to the Middle Ages, so leave us alone and stop telling us how terrible we are."
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Due to popular demand - we've brought this classic recipe idea back. Spinach Cob Dip:http://bit.ly/11DGEST
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"Everything changes. Only God's love is permanent." -- Pastor Rick Warren
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Have you read Ps Brian Houston's blog on worship? It's a great resource for church worship teams. Read it & share with your teams:http://hil.so/8b6o
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Afterwards, Lassie also makes a good meal and a warm coat - ed
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Allyson Christy via Barry Shaw
"What a strange perverted world we live in. At a time when Bahrain calls Hezbollah a terrorist organization, and a Jordanian leader calls for jihad against them, it is cultured Europe that refuses to define Hezbollah as synonymous with terror." - Barry Shaw
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“Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die”
Love fulfills the law - ed
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What the Hail??? — in Newcastle, OK.
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The ETU demonstrates how low the Left will go
Andrew Bolt June 11 2013 (1:59pm)
The Electrical Trades Union digs deep into the sewer to run this full-page ad in the Courier Mail. If they really believe this stuff, they are mad. If they don’t, they are bad.
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- 1594 – In the Philippines, Philip II of Spain recognized the right to govern of the Principalía, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
- 1776 – The Second Continental Congress appointedThomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for Britain's Thirteen Colonies.
- 1917 – Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine, who had abdicated.
- 1955 – More than 80 people were killed after Pierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Manssports car endurance race.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
Events[edit]
- 1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
- 323 BC – Alexander the Great dies in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon
- 173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstormemperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
- 631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslavedChinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
- 786 – A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. Idris ibn Abdallah flees to the Maghreb, where he later founds the Idrisid dynasty.
- 1345 – The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
- 1429 – Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
- 1488 – Battle of Sauchieburn: fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the King.
- 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- 1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
- 1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft adeclaration of independence.
- 1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
- 1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- 1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
- 1865 – The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. TheBrazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
- 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
- 1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
- 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- 1903 – Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
- 1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
- 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
- 1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
- 1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
- 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
- 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
- 1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
- 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
- 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
- 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
- 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
- 1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
- 1971 – The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
- 1972 – The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
- 1978 – Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
- 1981 – A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
- 1982 – The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore.
- 1987 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
- 1998 – Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- 2004 – Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
- 2007 – Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide, which buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off.
Births[edit]
- 1403 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
- 1456 – Anne Neville, English wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
- 1540 – Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
- 1588 – George Wither, English poet (d. 1667)
- 1672 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
- 1690 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer (d. 1764)
- 1696 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
- 1697 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1780)
- 1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
- 1713 – Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
- 1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
- 1726 – Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (d. 1746)
- 1741 – Joseph Warren, American doctor and general (d. 1775)
- 1776 – John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
- 1797 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran philosopher and theorist (d. 1855)
- 1815 – Julia Margaret Cameron, Indian photographer (d. 1879)
- 1832 – Lucy Pickens, American wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (d. 1899)
- 1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer (d. 1934)
- 1846 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
- 1847 – Millicent Fawcett, English activist (d. 1929)
- 1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
- 1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
- 1871 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
- 1876 – Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
- 1877 – Renée Vivien, English-French poet (d. 1909)
- 1879 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (d. 1944)
- 1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician (d. 1973)
- 1881 – Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish artist (d. 1963)
- 1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American criminal (d. 1927)
- 1889 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (d. 1976)
- 1894 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (d. 1952)
- 1894 – Dai Vernon, Canadian-American magician (d. 1992)
- 1897 – Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founder of Hindustan Republican Association (d. 1927)
- 1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
- 1908 – Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Francisco Marto, Portuguese child visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (d. 1919)
- 1910 – Carmine Coppola, American flute player and composer (d. 1991)
- 1910 – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997)
- 1912 – James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
- 1912 – Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 1970)
- 1913 – Risë Stevens, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
- 1913 – Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Gerald Mohr, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1914 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1997)
- 1915 – Nicholas Metropolis, American mathematician and physicist (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (d. 1980)
- 1919 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-American composer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Richard Todd, Irish-English actor and soldier (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Irving Howe, American critic (d. 1993)
- 1920 – Robert Hutton, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1920 – Shelly Manne, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)
- 1920 – Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American singer, actress, and pianist (d. 1981)
- 1920 – Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Jean Sutherland Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant
- 1922 – John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Johnny Esaw, Canadian sportscaster (d. 2013)
- 1925 – William Styron, American author (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Carlisle Floyd, American composer
- 1927 – Beryl Grey, British ballet dancer
- 1928 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium
- 1930 – Charles B. Rangel, American lawyer and politician
- 1931 – Kenneth Cameron, Scottish judge
- 1931 – Audrey Schuh, American soprano
- 1932 – Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, playwright, and director
- 1932 – Tim Sainsbury, British politician and businessman
- 1933 – Martti Soosaar, Estonian journalist and writer
- 1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1934 – Anthony Evans (judge), British judge
- 1934 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
- 1936 – Jud Strunk, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1937 – Johnny Brown, American actor and singer
- 1937 – Chad Everett, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1937 – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939 – Christina Crawford, American actress and author
- 1939 – Rachael Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer
- 1939 – Diana Moran, English model, fitness expert and journalist
- 1939 – Bernard Purdie, American drummer (Hummingbird)
- 1939 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
- 1940 – Michael Wilkes, British army officer
- 1943 – Henry Hill, American mobster (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Alan Howarth, British politician
- 1944 – Roscoe Orman, American actor
- 1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress and author
- 1945 – Patrick Joseph McGrath, Irish-American bishop
- 1945 – Robert Munsch, American-Canadian author
- 1946 – Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer
- 1947 – Henry Cisneros, American politician, Mayor of San Antonio
- 1947 – Bob Evans, English race car driver
- 1947 – Richard Palmer-James, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp)
- 1947 – Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
- 1948 – Dave Cash, American baseball player and coach
- 1948 – Stephen Schnetzer, American actor
- 1948 – Michael Swan, American actor
- 1949 – Frank Beard, American drummer and songwriter (ZZ Top and American Blues)
- 1949 – Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (d. 1977)
- 1950 – Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
- 1950 – Graham Russell, English-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Air Supply)
- 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created C++
- 1951 – Matthew Engel, English writer and editor
- 1951 – Jaan Mark, Estonian politician
- 1951 – Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese painter
- 1951 – Mark D. Siljander, American politician
- 1952 – Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Russian middle-distance runner
- 1952 – Donnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (38 Special and Van Zant)
- 1953 – Steve Bassam, British politician
- 1953 – Peter Bergman, American actor
- 1953 – José Bové, French farmer and politician
- 1953 – Vera Komisova, Russian hurdler
- 1953 – Georgios Orfanos, Greek politician
- 1954 – Johnny Neel, American vocalist, songwriter, and musician (The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule)
- 1955 – Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower
- 1955 – Duncan Steel, English-Australian astronomer and author
- 1956 – Steven A. Cohen, American businessman, founded SAC Capital Advisors
- 1956 – Joe Montana. American football player
- 1956 – Simon Plouffe, Canadian mathematician
- 1957 – Geoffrey Adams, British diplomat
- 1957 – Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American bass player and bandleader
- 1959 – Hugh Laurie, English actor, singer, and screenwriter
- 1959 – Magnum T.A., American wrestler
- 1960 – Mehmet Oz, American surgeon, author, and television host
- 1961 – María Barranco, Spanish actress
- 1962 – Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach
- 1962 – Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist
- 1963 – Gioia Bruno, American singer (Exposé)
- 1963 – Bruce Kimball, American diver and coach
- 1963 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
- 1964 – Jean Alesi, French race car driver
- 1964 – Kim Gallagher, American middle-distance runner (d. 2002)
- 1964 – Gunnar Sauer, German footballer
- 1965 – Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, world's heaviest man (d. 2014)
- 1967 – Clare Carey, Zimbabwean-American actress
- 1967 – João Garcia, Portuguese mountaineer
- 1968 – Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1968 – Bryan Perro, Canadian author
- 1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
- 1969 – Steven Drozd, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Flaming Lips)
- 1969 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
- 1969 – Olaf Kapagiannidis, German footballer
- 1969 – Matt McGrath, American actor
- 1969 – Kip Miller, American ice hockey player
- 1969 – Sergei Yuran, Ukrainian football player and coach
- 1970 – Alex Barron, American race car driver
- 1970 – Kang Ho-dong, South Korean comedian and actor
- 1971 – Vladimir Gaidamaşchuc, Moldovan footballer
- 1971 – Liz Kendall, English politician
- 1973 – José Manuel Abundis, Mexican footballer and coach
- 1973 – Dana Brunetti, American film producer
- 1974 – Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player
- 1974 – Tatiana Ignatieva, Belarusian tennis player
- 1974 – David Starie, English boxer
- 1975 – Fjordman, Norwegian blogger
- 1975 – Thomas Bimis, Greek diver
- 1975 – Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
- 1976 – Gran Naniwa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1976 – Reiko Tosa, Japanese long-distance runner
- 1977 – Ryan Dunn, American actor and stuntman (d. 2011)
- 1977 – Shane Meier, Canadian-American actor
- 1977 – Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
- 1978 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
- 1978 – Ujjwala Raut, Indian model
- 1979 – Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Amy Duggan, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Tõnu Endrekson, Estonian rower
- 1979 – Rino Nakasone Razalan, Japanese-American dancer and choreographer
- 1980 – Yhency Brazobán, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
- 1981 – Kristo Tohver, Estonian football referee
- 1982 – Marco Arment, American businessman, co-created Tumblr
- 1982 – Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter
- 1982 – Johnny Candido, American wrestler
- 1982 – Jacques Freitag, South African high jumper
- 1982 – Joey Graham, American basketball player
- 1982 – Stephen Graham, American basketball player
- 1982 – Eldar Rønning, Norwegian skier
- 1982 – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
- 1983 – Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
- 1983 – Josh Ramsay, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Marianas Trench)
- 1983 – José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Andy Lee, Irish boxer
- 1984 – Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Violeta Isfel, Mexican actress and singer
- 1985 – Mason Kayne, English actor
- 1985 – Dmitry Koldun, Russian singer
- 1985 – Chris Trousdale, American singer, dancer, and actor (Dream Street)
- 1986 – Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper
- 1986 – Chase Clement, American football player
- 1986 – Robert Krabbendam, Dutch basketball player
- 1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
- 1986 – Magaly Solier, Peruvian actress and singer
- 1987 – TiA, Japanese singer
- 1987 – Cherry Dee, Welsh model
- 1987 – Dappy, Singer-songwriter and rapper
- 1987 – Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
- 1987 – Robert Welbourn, British paralympian swimmer
- 1988 – Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and singer
- 1988 – Jesús, Spanish footballer
- 1988 – Claire Holt, Australian actress
- 1988 – Rome Ramirez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sublime with Rome)
- 1989 – Keith Aulie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Ana Clara Duarte, Brazilian tennis player
- 1989 – Maya Moore, American basketball player
- 1990 – Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
- 1990 – Sherina Munaf, Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1991 – Dan Howell, English radio host and blogger
- 1992 – Eugene Simon, English actor and model
- 1992 – Jordanne Whiley, British wheelchair tennis player
- 1994 – Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
- 1994 – Jessica Fox, French-born Australian canoeist
Deaths[edit]
- 1183 – Henry the Young King of England (b. 1155)
- 1488 – James III of Scotland (b. 1451)
- 1557 – John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
- 1695 – André Félibien, French historian (b. 1619)
- 1712 – Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (b. 1654)
- 1727 – George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
- 1796 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (b. 1720)
- 1847 – John Franklin, English admiral and politician (b. 1786)
- 1852 – Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
- 1859 – Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (b. 1773)
- 1879 – William, Prince of Orange (b. 1840)
- 1882 – Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (b. 1804)
- 1885 – Matías Ramos Mejía, Argentinian colonel (b. 1810)
- 1903 – Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
- 1903 – Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1876)
- 1903 – Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1864)
- 1911 – James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (b. 1815)
- 1914 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
- 1920 – William F. Halsey, Sr., American captain (b. 1853)
- 1924 – Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (b. 1837)
- 1927 – William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
- 1934 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
- 1936 – Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
- 1937 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895)
- 1941 – Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
- 1962 – Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor (b. 1900)
- 1963 – Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese monk (b. 1897)
- 1965 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
- 1970 – Frank Laubach, American missionary (b. 1884)
- 1974 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
- 1974 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
- 1976 – Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
- 1979 – Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author (b. 1893)
- 1979 – John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
- 1982 – Al Rinker, American singer-songwriter (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman (b. 1894)
- 1984 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
- 1985 – Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
- 1985 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American medical patient in right to die case (b. 1954)
- 1986 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
- 1991 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
- 1993 – Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
- 1994 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (b. 1934)
- 1995 – Rodel Naval, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1953)
- 1996 – Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
- 1998 – Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
- 1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, conducted the Oklahoma City bombing (b. 1968)
- 2001 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1923)
- 2003 – David Brinkley, American journalist (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general and politician, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Michael Bartosh, American businessman (b. 1977)
- 2006 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Bruce Shand, English army officer (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Imre Friedmann, American biologist (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Mala Powers, American actress (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Sumire, Japanese model (b. 1987)
- 2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist (b. 1947)
- 2011 – Seth Putnam, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anal Cunt Upsidedown Cross, Siege, and Post Mortem) (b. 1968)
- 2012 – Lee Allen, American wrestler and coach (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Hector Bianciotti, Argentinian-French author (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Dave Boswell, American baseball player (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Stay High 149, American painter (b. 1950)
- 2012 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Miller Barber, American golfer (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Carl W. Bauer, American lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Henry Cecil, Scottish-English horse trainer (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
- 2013 – James Grimsley, Jr., American general (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Evelyn Kozak, American super-centenarian (b. 1899)
- 2013 – Rory Morrison, English journalist (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1992)
- 2013 – Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Johnny Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Birthday of Prince Henrik (Denmark)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada)
- Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawaii, United States
- Matralia, in honor of Mater Matuta. (Roman Empire)
“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”Colossians 3:13 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"We live unto the Lord."
Romans 14:8
Romans 14:8
If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should tarry here. It is possible for a man to be taken to heaven, and to be found meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light, though he has but just believed in Jesus. It is true that our sanctification is a long and continued process, and we shall not be perfected till we lay aside our bodies and enter within the veil; but nevertheless, had the Lord so willed it, he might have changed us from imperfection to perfection, and have taken us to heaven at once. Why then are we here? Would God keep his children out of paradise a single moment longer than was necessary? Why is the army of the living God still on the battle-field when one charge might give them the victory? Why are his children still wandering hither and thither through a maze, when a solitary word from his lips would bring them into the centre of their hopes in heaven? The answer is--they are here that they may "live unto the Lord," and may bring others to know his love. We remain on earth as sowers to scatter good seed; as ploughmen to break up the fallow ground; as heralds publishing salvation. We are here as the "salt of the earth," to be a blessing to the world. We are here to glorify Christ in our daily life. We are here as workers for him, and as "workers together with him." Let us see that our life answereth its end. Let us live earnest, useful, holy lives, to "the praise of the glory of his grace." Meanwhile we long to be with him, and daily sing--
"My heart is with him on his throne,
And ill can brook delay;
Each moment listening for the voice,
Rise up, and come away.'"
Evening
"They are they which testify of me."
John 5:39
John 5:39
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman's seed; we see him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham, as he sees Messiah's day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding upon the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking of Shiloh; and in the numerous types of the law, we find the Redeemer abundantly foreshadowed. Prophets and kings, priests and preachers, all look one way--they all stand as the cherubs did over the ark, desiring to look within, and to read the mystery of God's great propitiation. Still more manifestly in the New Testament we find our Lord the one pervading subject. It is not an ingot here and there, or dust of gold thinly scattered, but here you stand upon a solid floor of gold; for the whole substance of the New Testament is Jesus crucified, and even its closing sentence is bejewelled with the Redeemer's name. We should always read Scripture in this light; we should consider the word to be as a mirror into which Christ looks down from heaven; and then we, looking into it, see his face reflected as in a glass--darkly, it is true, but still in such a way as to be a blessed preparation for seeing him as we shall see him face to face. This volume contains Jesus Christ's letters to us, perfumed by his love. These pages are the garments of our King, and they all smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia. Scripture is the royal chariot in which Jesus rides, and it is paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The quintessence of the word of God is Christ.
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Joram
[Jō'ram] - jehovah is high.
[Jō'ram] - jehovah is high.
- A son of Toi, king of Zobah (2 Sam. 8:10). Called Hadoram, meaning "Hadah is exalted" (1 Chron. 18:10).
- A son of Jehoshaphat, who reigned for eight years (2 Kings 8:16-19; 11:2; 1 Chron. 3:11; Matt. 1:8). Called also Jehoram.
- A son of Ahab, king of Israel, who reigned for eleven years. With him the dynasty of Omri ceased ( 2 Kings 8:16-29). Called also Jehoram.
- A Levite, descendant of Eliezer the son of Moses (1 Chron. 26:25).
- One of the priests sent by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people (2 Chron. 17:8).
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Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 34-36, John 19:1-22 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: 2 Chronicles 34-36
Josiah's Reforms
1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols....
Today's New Testament reading: John 19:1-22
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they slapped him in the face.
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." 5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!"
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