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The Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (1:59pm)
On The Bolt Report on Network 10 at 10 and 4pm.
New Kevin’s good first week ends in a mess with two brutal reminders of Old Kevin.
With Ed Husic, the Muslim made Kevin Rudd’s Parliamenetary Secretary, plus Professor Judith Sloan and former NSW Labor Minister John Della Bosca.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
New Kevin’s good first week ends in a mess with two brutal reminders of Old Kevin.
With Ed Husic, the Muslim made Kevin Rudd’s Parliamenetary Secretary, plus Professor Judith Sloan and former NSW Labor Minister John Della Bosca.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Even the employed have less work
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (10:53am)
Official ABS figures show a rise in unemployment. But reader Noah says even the employed are getting less work:
I’ve just used the ABS data on employment and created a figure known as “Hours worked per week per Employable Person”. An Employable Person is the sum of those employed and unemployed. The total “hours worked” figure has only been released since September 09, so I included a month with the least amount of interruptions and seasonal adjustments – May.
May 2010 - 32.16 hours per week
May 2011 - 30.24 hours per week
May 2012 - 29.16 hours per week
May 2013 - 28.77 hours per week
This seems to be a disturbing trend and I believe it highlights the true nature of the workforce at any point in time.
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Penguins thrive in the warming meant to kill them
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (10:48am)
Wasn’t global warming
meant to be killing the penguins? But once again a scare falls to pieces
without the media pinning the false prophets:
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MARK COLVIN: Scientists monitoring Australia’s most famous population of Little Penguins have had a scare, after some chicks died of starvation because their parents had to go farther afield than usual to find food.2013
Phillip Island’s nightly parade of the penguins is a major tourist attraction.
A biologist who works with the colony says it’s a problem which could become more common as climate change takes hold.
The little penguins of Phillip Island are experiencing a baby boom.(Thanks to reader Alan RM Jones.)
Last summer’s breeding season was the best in a generation, a dramatic turnaround from the 1990s when either foxes were snatching the flightless birds or they were starving to death.
Research manager of the Phillip Island Nature Parks Dr Peter Dann says the rise in population is “about food”.
“These chicks are fatter, they’ve grown faster, the parents have brought back more food. The parents have been heavier than normal right through the breading seasons,” he said.
Dr Dann says it is a far cry from the 1990s, when food was scarce.
“It was even worse in 1995, when the main food they were eating during that breeding time was pilchard, and the pilchard had a huge die-off right across southern Australia to New Zealand,” he said.
“A lot of birds were actually dying of starvation and they bred very late.
“One of the curious things about all this is that when Australia’s warmer, particularly in Autumn, penguins start breeding earlier in the following Spring and they breed much better than when Bass Strait’s cooler in Autumn.”
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By how much will Obama lower the world’s temperature?
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (10:40am)
Charles Krauthammer is - typically - brilliant in dissecting Barack Obama’s messianic warmism, and includes a US version of the Bolt Question (TM):
The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.(Thanks to reader Richard.)
Climate change? It lies at the very bottom of a list of Americans’ concerns (last of 21 — Pew poll). Which means that Obama’s declaration of unilateral American war on global warming, whatever the cost — and it will be heavy — is either highly visionary or hopelessly solipsistic. You decide:
Global temperatures have been flat for 16 years — a curious time to unveil a grand, hugely costly, socially disruptive anti-warming program.
Now, this inconvenient finding is not dispositive. It doesn’t mean there is no global warming. But it is something that the very complex global-warming models that Obama naïvely claims represent settled science have trouble explaining. It therefore highlights the president’s presumption in dismissing skeptics as flat-earth know-nothings.
On the contrary. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who refuse to acknowledge the problematic nature of contradictory data. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite a recent Alaskan heat wave — a freak event in one place at one time — as presumptive evidence of planetary climate change. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite perennial phenomena such as droughts as cosmic retribution for environmental sinfulness.
For the sake of argument, nonetheless, let’s concede that global warming is precisely what Obama thinks it is. Then answer this: What in God’s name is his massive new regulatory and spending program — which begins with a war on coal and ends with billions in more subsidies for new Solyndras — going to do about it?
The U.S. has already radically cut CO2 emissions — more than any country on earth since 2006, according to the International Energy Agency. Emissions today are back down to 1992 levels.
And yet, at the same time, global emissions have gone up. That’s because — surprise! — we don’t control the energy use of the other 96 percent of humankind.
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It is obscene that we cannot freely discuss this
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (9:35am)
Our laws against free
speech are so absurdly oppressive that lawyers tell me I cannot take the
risk of discussing important issues raised (very briefly) in this Guardian article:
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Rudd wants to spend money Labor doesn’t have
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (8:32am)
A week and a half later, we still have no idea what new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd actually stands for.
Take the economy. The only promise made so far has been by not Rudd but the new Treasurer, apparently promising to stand by the government forecast of an $18 billion deficit:
Paul Kelly:
That sets up a clash between Rudd’s hope of winning the election, and Labor’s hope of losing by as little as possible. Between Rudd wanting time to govern and Labor wanting a dash to the polls.
Then there’s Rudd’s vanity. How desperate he’d be to represent Australia at the G20 meeting in September…
But this is now Rudd’s party. Who can tell him what to do?
Or as Zanetti puts it:
Take the economy. The only promise made so far has been by not Rudd but the new Treasurer, apparently promising to stand by the government forecast of an $18 billion deficit:
The new Rudd government will stand by the budget handed down by former treasurer Wayne Swan in May, his successor Chris Bowen says.But how does that commitment fit with the big-spending instincts of Rudd, desperate to buy himself out of trouble?
”That remains the government’s budget; those forecasts remain the government’s forecasts,” he told the Nine Network.
Paul Kelly:
The Prime Minister wants to regain Labor’s economic credentials after its failed budget surplus pledges, but there is still no clear sign how he will prosecute this case or what policy changes he will push.Note: Rudd isn’t calling a quick election. He wants time to win this thing. But the Queensland coroner’s report on Rudd’s insulation debacle and the boats, boats, boats suggest the honeymoon may already be over, and this is as good as it gets.
Consider the ideas already floated or the expectations raised around the revived Rudd PM. They include cutting tax on small business to 25 per cent; the bringing forward of the floating price on carbon; new infrastructure initiatives; restoration of support payments for sole parents; and new measures to stem boat arrivals.
Each item on this wish list aims to solve a political problem troubling Labor.
Collectively, they constitute a huge risk for Rudd because they amount to a significant fiscal policy easing at exactly the wrong time…
The terrible truth is unfolding. Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan have left Rudd with a budget that allows no room to move… Rudd inherits a long-term fiscal situation with huge commitments on the disability scheme and school funding, a three-year “return to surplus” deadline and no scope for new spending pledges.
That sets up a clash between Rudd’s hope of winning the election, and Labor’s hope of losing by as little as possible. Between Rudd wanting time to govern and Labor wanting a dash to the polls.
Then there’s Rudd’s vanity. How desperate he’d be to represent Australia at the G20 meeting in September…
But this is now Rudd’s party. Who can tell him what to do?
Or as Zanetti puts it:
(Thanks to reader Marg.)
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From Labor, the party of compassion
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (8:28am)
The smell of hatred:
Kevin Rudd in parliament, June 27:
LET us try, just try, to be a little kinder and gentler with each other.Chris Uhlmann on the ABC news website yesterday:
THE level of hatred that has been the hallmark of the Rudd-Gillard years is astonishing and it has not faded. One departing Gillard government staffer asked if I had read the book Perfume, the story of a perfume apprentice in 18th-century France who murders young women to extract their aroma. “That’s Kevin Rudd,” he said. “He’d kill you for your scent.”
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HMAS Taxi picks up 101 fares
Andrew Bolt July 06 2013 (7:30am)
Reader Jeff of FNQ has a question after reading this press release:
I am surprised that more of the same is being sold as a “lifeline” to Rudd:
UPDATE
The new conference announced yesterday by Rudd and Yudhoyono:
Australian Maritime Safety Authority - AMSAJeff’s question:
AMSA coordinated the response to a vessel requesting assistance approximately 42 nautical miles south of Java with support from Defence, Customs and merchant vessels. AMSA received a request for assistance at approximately 5.15am today. A broadcast to shipping was issued by AMSA this morning and two merchant vessels responded. Aircraft tasked by AMSA located the vessel at approximately 3pm. The merchant vessels arrived on scene at approximately 5pm. HMAS Larrakia was also tasked to respond and arrived on scene at around 5pm. A total of 101 people were safely transferred onto HMAS Larrakia and are now en route to Christmas Island.
As HMAS Larrakia was within 42 nm of Indonesia why aren’t the people on board taken to Indonesia?UPDATE
I am surprised that more of the same is being sold as a “lifeline” to Rudd:
INDONESIA has offered Kevin Rudd a political circuit-breaker on asylum-seekers, proposing an “action-oriented” regional summit that would include countries such as Iran and Afghanistan and seek immediate solutions…Rudd is pushing as a success an Indonesian hint that Australia should not do precisely what it’s entitled to do - and send Indonesian boats back to Indonesian waters:
The conference will involve major countries of origin, transit and destination, though it was not made clear how it would differ from the Bali Process, which involves the same countries seeking the same regional solutions.
Yesterday’s summit also offered Mr Rudd another opportunity to slap down Tony Abbott on asylum-seekers, with the joint communique reflecting Indonesia’s disdain for the Opposition Leader’s turn-back-the-boats policy.Why did Rudd not stand up for Australia’s right to turn back boats? Is political advantage more important than national interest?
“(The leaders) stressed the importance of avoiding unilateral actions which might jeopardise such a comprehensive regional approach and which might cause operational or other difficulties to any party,” it said.
Although there was no public mention of Mr Abbott at yesterday’s meeting by either Mr Rudd or Dr Yudhoyono, Indonesian officials made clear that communique point was intended to be read as rejection of his approach, which would involve escorting asylum-seekers back to Indonesian waters.
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The new conference announced yesterday by Rudd and Yudhoyono:
As co-chairs of the Bali Process, the two Leaders reaffirmed their commitment to continue to develop a regional solution, involving countries of origin, transit and destination which covers elements of prevention, early detection and protection, to combating trafficking in persons and people smuggling and other related transnational crimes. They stressed the importance of avoiding unilateral actions which might jeopardise such a comprehensive regional approach and which might cause operational or other difficulties to any party. The Prime Minister of Australia welcomed Indonesia’s initiative to invite key origin, transit, and destination countries to a conference to explore concrete operational and policy responses, including regional approaches and efforts to enhance border security, in addressing irregular movement of persons.What already exists:
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Tribe in India that has passed down for generations the art of manipulating tree roots to create a system of "living" bridges.
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Kevin Rudd's Pink Batt Policy:
4 Deaths
1,000 Electrified roofs
93 House fires
160,000 Dodgy installations
Source:
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Final day of #harrisoncraig #thevoice #tour
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Addressing the British House of Lords, Dragon Slayer McKitrick proposes a carbon dioxide tax based on temperature. If temps go up, so does the tax.
If temperatures drop, will we see tax refunds?
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"One day, I shall come back…"
Revealed for the first time at Comic Con' France - here is the reconstruction of the First Doctor's console which was used for filming the upcoming docudrama 'An Adventure in Space and Time'.
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Having an amazing time at #manonthemoon / MercuryOne events in Salt Lake City to celebrate Independence Day. Here's a pic with one of my favorite stalwart conservatives on Capitol Hill, TX Rep. Louie Gohmert and his lovely wife!
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#ShabbatShalom and a restful #weekend from the#IDF. Share with your friends to wish them one too.
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Without Reservations – Claudette Colbert & John Wayne
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I find joy in every day, not because life is always good, but because God is
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Should we be upset that one of the new ministers in the Federal Cabinet swore his oath on a Qur'an?
This week as the Governor General swore in the new cabinet, Mr Ed Husic, chose to swear on the Qur'an rather than the Bible or make an affirmation. A ‘non-practising’ Muslim from Bosnia, Mr Husic was sworn in as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband.
Swearing is a strange symbolism, by which we persuade and reassure people of our integrity in making promises. Christians should not need to swear for we should be people of our word. As Jesus said in response to Pharisaic hypocrisy, “Let what you say be simply “Yes” or “No”; anything more than this comes from evil. (Matthew 5:37 cf James 5:12)
The Christian’s truthfulness will not be increased by swearing, but swearing reassures our hearers that we are telling the truth and gives them something to refer back to when our truthfulness comes under question. There is nothing wrong in swearing an oath when required. The 39th of our 39 Articles is “Of a Christian man’s Oath” handling the question of doing that which Jesus seems to be forbidding. We do not swear because we need to but because our hearers need reassurance.
Within the scriptures we see the apostle swearing “God is my witness” (Romans 1:9, Phil 1:8) and God himself swore that the people of Israel would not enter his rest (Hebrews 3:18). Swearing is a way of giving solemn assurance to the hearer that you mean what you are saying and will back it up before a higher court to whom the hearer may appeal. And that is why we swear in God’s name or on his book.
There is no point swearing by something less than yourself. For an oath to be believable you have to point to something, like God, greater than yourself. However, to which god can somebody be held accountable? At first glance you can only swear by the true and living God. For swearing by Molech is of not much consequence, as Molech is a powerless imagination of the ancient Ammonites - hardly reassuring to the modern listener. Yet you must swear by the god that you believe in. If you were an ancient Ammonite there is no point swearing by Yahweh, while to swear by Molech would indicate your sincerity.
Mr Husic is the first Federal cabinet minister to swear on the Qur'an. For Mr Husic swearing on the Bible was not an option and he didn’t want to make a simple affirmation. As a Muslim, it is the god of the Qur'an whom he acknowledges as greater than himself and to whom he would be accountable for his promises. For some people it is insulting to swear on a book that is seen as fomenting so much war and terror around the world today. For others it is no real promise as the book is one of lies and its god is not the true and living one. For many others still it further marginalises Christianity from our nation and its historic establishment. Even if these are true, they give absolutely no excuse for the abuse Mr Husic has had to endure.
Australia is a Christian nation, not in the sense of it being run by and for Christians with an established religion that all must follow, but in the sense that Christianity informs the people, heritage and culture. As a Christian nation we have freedom of religion, which involves limiting government to matters secular, while allowing free expression of religious beliefs. It is part of our wonderful Christian heritage that a Muslim migrant can become a Cabinet minister and express his religion without fear or favour.
When Christianity has ruled in government, both Christianity and the government have been distorted. We win people to Christ not by government fiat but by prayerful persuasion to the truth.
The fact that Mr Husic is a non-practising Muslim is no more a problem than the non-practiscing Christian swearing on the Bible. Even the non-practising recognize that they are not God and are answerable to some higher power than themselves. The Muslim who swears by the Qur'an can at least be held to its teaching, and does not put himself in the place of God. The practice of swearing an oath is therefore better than a simple affirmation.
Affirmations have been in use for some centuries because of the conscience of people not wanting to invoke God in their promises. Some of these are tender Christian consciences, who misunderstand Jesus’ prohibition on swearing. However, others will only make an affirmation because, as atheists, they refuse to refer to a higher being than themselves. They are like Napoleon placing the crown on his own head for there was nobody greater to crown him. So they are not answerable to anybody or anything other than themselves.
With an affirmation we have to take the word of a politician seeking more power on the basis of their ‘say so’. Often this doesn’t matter in practice as most of the oath-taking politicians are practical atheists and most of the affirming politicians unconsciously practise Christian values. However, theoretically those who affirm are swearing by themselves for they have no greater source of moral reference to which they can point or to which we can call them to account but themselves. Of such arrogance comes tyranny.
The New Testament understands the problem of the atheist. In Hebrews we read of God swearing by himself. “For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, … For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath.”(Hebrews 6:13f) But then again he is God.
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Anything we do out of love will be remembered in eternity. Anything we do out of ego is forgotten quickly.
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Remember that bad company corrupts good character. Let go of friends or influences that you know are dragging you down. Trust God to bring the right people and connections across your path. Let go of wrong relationships and move forward in the blessing He has prepared for you!
A PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY
Father,I thank You for directing my steps. I ask that You help me choose right relationships. Give me courage to let go of the wrong relationships so I can make room for the right people You have ordained for my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
A PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY
Father,I thank You for directing my steps. I ask that You help me choose right relationships. Give me courage to let go of the wrong relationships so I can make room for the right people You have ordained for my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964); Statehood Day in Lithuania (1253); the festival of San Fermín begins in Pamplona, Spain
- 1253 – Mindaugas, the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned as King of Lithuania, the only person to ever hold that title.
- 1411 – Ming Dynasty Admiral Zheng He returned to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presented the Sinhalese king, captured during theMing–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
- 1809 – Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles'Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
- 1885 – French chemists Louis Pasteur (pictured) and Emile Rouxsuccessfully tested their vaccine against rabies on nine-year-oldJoseph Meister after he was bitten by an infected dog.
- 1978 – A sleeping car train at Taunton, England, caught fire, killing 12 people and causing British Rail to install state-of-the artfire prevention measures.
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Events[edit]
- 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas defeated Cleombrotus I, took place.
- 1044 – The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel took place.
- 1189 – Richard I "the Lionheart" acceded to the English throne.
- 1253 – Mindaugas was crowned King of Lithuania.
- 1348 – Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
- 1411 – Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returned to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presented the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
- 1415 – Jan Hus was burned at the stake.
- 1483 – Richard III was crowned King of England.
- 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão found the mouth of the Congo River.
- 1495 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo – Charles VIII defeated the Holy League, but ultimately ended his attempted conquest ofItaly.
- 1535 – Sir Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
- 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, set out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
- 1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh was signed by Scotland and England.
- 1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, was founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
- 1609 – Bohemia was granted freedom of religion.
- 1630 – Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus landed in Pomerania, Germany.
- 1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppressed the Patriarchate of Aquileia and established from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forcesretreated from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1779 – Battle of Grenada: The French defeated British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1785 – The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
- 1801 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeated the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
- 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeated the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party was held.
- 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
- 1887 – David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
- 1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
- 1892 – 3,800 striking steelworkers engaged in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
- 1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, was nearly destroyed by a tornado that killed 71 people and injured 200.
- 1905 – Alfred Deakin became Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- 1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi captured Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
- 1919 – The British dirigible R34 landed in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
- 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
- 1936 – A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sent millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell.
- 1939 – Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany were closed.
- 1941 – Nazi Germany launched its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
- 1942 – Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- 1944 – Jackie Robinson refused to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
- 1944 – The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, killed approximately 168 people and injured over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
- 1947 – The AK-47 went into production in the Soviet Union.
- 1957 – Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles were introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performed at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.
- 1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test took place.
- 1962 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, aired on RTÉ One for the first time.
- 1964 – Malawi declared its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1966 – Malawi became a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
- 1967 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invaded Biafra, beginning the war.
- 1975 – The Comoros declared independence from France.
- 1978 – The Taunton sleeping car fire occured in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
- 1986 – Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
- 1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea was destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers were killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
- 1989 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: 14 bus passengers were killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
- 1994 – 14 firefighters died in the South Canyon Fire at Storm King Mountain, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
- 1995 – In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia began its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and killed more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called "the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War".
- 1997 – The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles began in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
- 1998 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok became operational.
- 1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell died from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
- 2003 – The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sent a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
- 2006 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opened for trade after 44 years.
Births[edit]
- 1580 – Johann Stobäus, German composer (d. 1646)
- 1623 – Jacopo Melani, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1676)
- 1678 – Nicola Francesco Haym, Italian composer and musician (d. 1729)
- 1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
- 1736 – Daniel Morgan, American soldier and politician (d. 1802)
- 1747 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander (d. 1792)
- 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (d. 1813)
- 1781 – Stamford Raffles, British statesman (d. 1826)
- 1782 – Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca (d. 1824)
- 1785 – William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
- 1789 – María Isabella of Spain (d. 1846)
- 1796 – Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
- 1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905)
- 1818 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
- 1832 – Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)
- 1837 – Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar and orientalist (d. 1925)
- 1838 – Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
- 1840 – José María Velasco Gómez, Mexican painter (d. 1912)
- 1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1865 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (d. 1950)
- 1868 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
- 1875 – Charles Perrin, French rower (d. 1954)
- 1878 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
- 1884 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman, yachtsman, and bridge player (d. 1970)
- 1885 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
- 1886 – Marc Bloch, French historian (d.1944)
- 1887 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
- 1890 – Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian man of letters (d. 1936)
- 1892 – Will James, American artist and writer (d. 1942)
- 1897 – Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian (d. 1994)
- 1898 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
- 1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and super-centenarian (d. 2012)
- 1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
- 1904 – Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th general of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
- 1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- 1907 – George Stanley, Canadian politician, designer of the flag of Canada (d. 2002)
- 1911 – LaVerne Andrews, American singer, member of the Andrews Sisters (d. 1967)
- 1912 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
- 1914 – Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter, founded WWE (d. 1984)
- 1916 – Harold Norse, American writer (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
- 1919 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician
- 1921 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, 40th First Lady of the United States
- 1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish military officer and politician, 1st President of Poland
- 1924 – Louie Bellson, Italian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and businessman, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981)
- 1925 – Gazi Yasargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player (d. 1988)
- 1927 – Alan Freeman, Australian-English radio host (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and actor (d. 1997)
- 1927 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1930 – George Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1930 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian singer, musician, poet, and composer
- 1930 – Gloria Skurzynski, American children's author
- 1931 – Jean Campeau, French-Canadian businessman and politician
- 1931 – Antonella Lualdi, Italian film actress
- 1931 – Della Reese, American actress and singer
- 1932 – Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and educator
- 1933 – Frank Austin, English footballer
- 1935 – Candy Barr, American stripper, model, and porn actress (d. 2005)
- 1935 – 14th Dalai Lama
- 1935 – Robert Hunt, British police officer (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-Icelandic pianist and conductor
- 1937 – Ned Beatty, American actor
- 1937 – Gene Chandler, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1938 – Luana Patten, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1939 – Jet Harris, English bassist (The Shadows, The Jeff Beck Group, and The Vipers Skiffle Group) (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Mary Peters, British athlete
- 1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan
- 1940 – Jeannie Seely, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1941 – Reinhard Roder, German footballer and manager
- 1944 – Byron Berline, American fiddler (The Flying Burrito Brothers)
- 1944 – Pierre Creamer, Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1945 – Rodney Matthews, British artist
- 1945 – Burt Ward, American actor
- 1946 – George W. Bush, American politician, 43rd President of the United States
- 1946 – Fred Dryer, American football player and actor
- 1946 – Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
- 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1947 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
- 1947 – Lance Clemons, American baseball player (d. 2008)
- 1948 – Nathalie Baye, French actress
- 1948 – Jean-Pierre Blackburn, French-Canadian politician
- 1948 – Tom Curley, American journalist and businessman
- 1948 – Brad Park, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949 – Noli de Castro, Filipino journalist and politician, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
- 1949 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1995)
- 1950 – John Byrne, British-Canadian-American writer and illustrator (X-Men)
- 1950 – Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
- 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer
- 1952 – George Athans, Canadian water skier
- 1952 – Grant Goodeve, American actor
- 1952 – Hilary Mantel, English author
- 1953 – Mike Riley, American football coach
- 1953 – Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1954 – Allyce Beasley, American actress
- 1954 – Willie Randolph, American baseball player
- 1955 – Frank Sontag, American radio host
- 1955 – William Wall, Irish writer
- 1956 – Casey Sander, American actor
- 1957 – Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958 – Mark Benson, English cricket player
- 1958 – Jennifer Saunders, English actress and screenwriter
- 1959 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
- 1960 – Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 63rd Yokozuna
- 1960 – Maria Wasiak, Polish businessman
- 1961 – Robin Antin, American dancer, choreographer, and businesswoman
- 1961 – Rick Price, Australian singer-songwriter and musician
- 1962 – Peter Hedges, American novelist, screenwriter, and director
- 1963 – Todd Burns, American baseball player
- 1963 – Lance Johnson, American baseball player
- 1964 – Cristina D'Avena, Italian singer and actress
- 1966 – Brian Posehn, American actor
- 1967 – James Hannon, American author, director, and producer
- 1967 – Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet
- 1967 – Omar Olivares, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1968 – Gaspare Manos, Italian artist
- 1969 – Brian Van Holt, American actor
- 1969 – Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
- 1970 – Inspectah Deck, American rapper, producer, and actor (Wu-Tang Clan)
- 1971 – Josh Elliott, American journalist
- 1971 – Kenya D. Williamson, American actress, author, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
- 1972 – Fabrice Colin, French author
- 1972 – Laurent Gaudé, French writer
- 1972 – Greg Norton, American baseball player
- 1972 – Mark Gasser, English pianist
- 1972 – Christian Meoli, American actor
- 1973 – Bradley Dredge Welsh professional golfer
- 1974 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
- 1974 – Babi Xavier, Brazilian actress and singer
- 1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper, producer, and actor (G-Unit)
- 1975 – Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist
- 1975 – Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
- 1977 – Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player
- 1977 – Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
- 1977 – Craig Handley, Welsh director
- 1977 – Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
- 1978 – Adam Busch, American actor
- 1978 – Tamera Mowry, American actress
- 1978 – Tia Mowry, American actress
- 1978 – Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
- 1979 – Matthew Barnson, American composer
- 1979 – Nic Cester, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jet and The Wrights)
- 1979 – C. J. Hobgood, American surfer
- 1979 – Damien Hobgood, American surfer
- 1979 – Abdul Salis, British actor
- 1980 – Kenny Deuchar, Scottish footballer
- 1980 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
- 1980 – Joell Ortiz, American rapper (Slaughterhouse)
- 1980 – Demorrio Williams, American football player
- 1981 – Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
- 1981 – Mike Karney, American football player
- 1981 – Emily West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1982 – Brandon Jacobs, American football player
- 1982 – Bree Robertson, Australian gymnast and actress
- 1982 – Misty Upham, American actress
- 1982 – Tay Zonday, American actor and singer
- 1983 – Brady Bluhm, American-English actor
- 1983 – Christine Firkins, Canadian actress
- 1983 – Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
- 1983 – D. Woods, American singer, dancer, and actress (Danity Kane)
- 1984 – Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater
- 1984 – Lauren Harris, British singer
- 1984 – Natasha Zlobina, French actress and model
- 1985 – Maria Arredondo, Norwegian singer
- 1985 – Diamond Rings, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Matters)
- 1985 – Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
- 1985 – Melisa Sözen, Turkish actress
- 1986 – Leon Frierson, American actor
- 1986 – Sarah Gronert, German tennis player
- 1986 – David Karp, American businessman, founded Tumblr
- 1986 – Derrick Williams, American football player
- 1987 – Sophie Auster, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Manteo Mitchell, American runner
- 1987 – Kate Nash, English singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Matt O'Leary, American actor
- 1987 – Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
- 1988 – Kevin Fickentscher, Swiss footballer
- 1988 – Brittany Underwood, American actress
- 1990 – Ajoo, South Korean singer and dancer
- 1990 – Magaye Gueye, French footballer
- 1990 – Jamal Idris, Australian rugby player
- 1990 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor
- 1991 – Ashley Lloyd, British actor and dancer
- 1991 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
- 1992 – Manny Machado, American baseball player
- 1993 – Jeremiah Godby, American runner
- 1994 – Camilla Rosso, British actress
- 1994 – Rebecca Rosso, British actress
- 1996 – Robert Naylor, Canadian actor
- 1996 – Sigrid Schjetne, Norwegian homicide victim (d. 2012)
Deaths[edit]
- 918 – William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
- 966 – Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
- 1017 – Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942)
- 1189 – Henry II of England (b. 1133)
- 1218 – Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
- 1249 – Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
- 1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian priest, philosopher, and reformer (b. 1369)
- 1476 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
- 1480 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
- 1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
- 1535 – Thomas More, English lawyer, author, and philosopher (b. 1478)
- 1553 – Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
- 1583 – Edmund Grindal, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
- 1585 – Thomas Aufield, English priest and martyr (b. 1552)
- 1684 – Peter Gunning, English bishop (b. 1614)
- 1758 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, English general (b. 1725)
- 1762 – Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
- 1768 – Conrad Beissel, German-American religious leader (b. 1690)
- 1802 – Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (b. 1736)
- 1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French general (b. 1775)
- 1813 – Granville Sharp, British slavery abolitionist (b. 1735)
- 1835 – John Marshall, American politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
- 1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
- 1863 – Ernst Merck, German businessman and politician (d. 1811)
- 1868 – Harada Sanosuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1840)
- 1883 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (b. 1853)
- 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
- 1901 – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
- 1902 – Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
- 1904 – Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
- 1907 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (b. 1826)
- 1916 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
- 1922 – Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (b. 1863)
- 1930 – Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (b. 1869)
- 1932 – Kenneth Grahame, British author (b. 1859)
- 1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian guerrilla leader and army commander (b. 1888)
- 1950 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player (b. 1923)
- 1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian politician (b. 1867)
- 1952 – Gertrud Wolle, German actress (b. 1891)
- 1959 – George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
- 1960 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician and architect of the NHS (b. 1897)
- 1961 – Scott LaFaro, American bassist (b. 1936)
- 1961 – Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
- 1962 – Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
- 1962 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1962 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
- 1963 – George, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
- 1964 – Claude V. Ricketts, American navy admiral (b. 1906)
- 1966 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
- 1968 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
- 1972 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (b. 1942)
- 1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor and composer (b. 1885)
- 1974 – Francis Blanche, French actor and humorist (b. 1921)
- 1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS commandor (b. 1908)
- 1976 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
- 1977 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (b. 1907)
- 1979 – Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 1982 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 1989 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
- 1991 – Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
- 1992 – Mary Q. Steele, American author and naturalist (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Geoff McQueen, British screenwriter (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
- 1997 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
- 1999 – Gary M. Heidnik, American convicted rapist and murderer (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
- 1999 – Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
- 2000 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer, and author (b. 1911)
- 2002 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (b. 1932)
- 2002 – John Frankenheimer, American director (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
- 2004 – Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Bruno Augenstein, German mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2005 – L. Patrick Gray, American FBI director (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist (b. 1939)
- 2008 – Bobby Durham, American drummer (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Johnny Collins, British singer (b. 1938)
- 2009 – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-Canadian artist (b. 1915)
- 2010 – Tilly Armstrong, British author (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Moonglows and New Birth) (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Hani al-Hassan, Palestinian engineer and politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Ibrahim Balandiya, Sudanese politician
- 2012 – Charles Drake American football player (b. 1981)
- 2012 – Bruce Biers Kendall, American businessman and politician (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Bill Norrie, Manitoban politician, 39th Mayor of Winnipeg (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Angelo Paternoster, American football player (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Sebastijan Pecjak, Slovenian darts player
- 2012 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef (b. 1983)
- 2012 – Al Ulbrickson, American rower (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan diaspora)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)
- Day of the Capital, established in 2008. (Kazakhstan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Comoros from France in 1975.
- Independence Day/Republic Day, celebrates the independence of Malawi from United Kingdom in 1964.
- Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
- Statehood Day (Lithuania)
- Teacher's Day (Peru)
- The earliest date for summer solstice in Julian calendar system, which corresponds to June 23:
- The first night of Ivan Kupala Day (Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)
- The first day of Ludi Apollinares (Roman Empire)
- The first day of San Fermín, which lasts until July 14. (Pamplona)
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