From LiveScience.com:
Lions to the Rescue! Big Cats Save Kidnapped Girl
“…‘They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest,’ Wondimu said, adding he did not know whether the lions were male or female.”
25 June 2005
Did They Really Do That??
22 June 2005
Pluribus or Unum?
From snopes.com recently:
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Richard Lamm on Multiculturalism):
“A Frightening Analysis
We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, ‘Mexifornia,’ explaining how immigration — both legal and illegal — was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.…”
Read the whole piece. It’s not politically correct in the least, which is to say it’s firmly based in reality, and it’s pretty scary.
19 June 2005
Pondering Around
We went on the San Francisco Bay Area Koi Club’s annual pond tour yesterday. What fun!!
The first ponds we saw were at a place in Los Altos Hills. The first “pond” was more like a lake: 250,000 gallons! It had about 15? good-sized koi lazing around, and tons and tons of tiny ones, too. The next pond on the path, near the house, was the hospital/quarantine pond; not a tank, mind you, but a permanent installation. (I want one!) The “house pond” was on the back porch/deck. Lots of big koi, and lots of big rocks and ledges for them to swim over and around and under.
Our next stop was just up 280 in San Mateo. This house had a relatively small back yard with a in-ground swimming pool. They had a very nice waterfall/stream arrangement, down the side fence, into a gravity-feed arrangement to the koi pond next to the side of the house.
We had planned to visit the pond in Hillsborough, just up 280 from our 2nd stop; the ticket-taker in Los Altos Hills mentioned that that pond was not available, due to an emergency.
Instead, we headed over 92 and arrived at “the moat”. In this backyard, the waterfall was in the back corner, and the water split around an “island” where there was just enough room for a standing umbrella and a few chairs. The two waterflows met across from the waterfall, where the goldfish and koi live.
This was our favorite pond of the bunch! Such a clever idea, the noise level of the waterfall was just right; if we didn’t already have a pond, I’d be lobbying heavily for something along these lines. OTOH, maybe we can sneak one in somewhere…
17 June 2005
Our Across-the-Pond Cousins’ Take On It
From the Sun Online this morning:
News: Quake hits California:
“RESIDENTS of northern California were this morning lucky to escape injury when the region was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 6.4.…”
This One, We Felt
On SFGate.com this morning:
Two aftershocks rattle California:
“…Seismologists said the latest quake, which hit at about 10:21 p.m. Thursday some 127 miles west of Eureka and about 6 miles beneath the sea, most likely was an aftershock to the magnitude 7.2 shaker that rumbled to life Tuesday on the ocean floor west of Crescent City. …”
The Santa Cruz City Council Did Something Right?
From MercuryNews.com yesterday:
Santa Cruz council backs arts project:
“A $43 million project aimed at injecting new life into Santa Cruz’s struggling arts community won unanimous support from the city council early Wednesday after dancers, sculptors and glass-blowers begged the council to give them a cool place to live and work.
The Tannery Arts Center may soon become the heart and soul of the city’s arts community, as artists and performance venues move closer to Santa Cruz’s quirky but vibrant downtown. It’s also expected to draw “cultural tourists,” adding to the tens of thousands who come to Surf City each weekend to lounge on the beach.…”
Oh, Dear, the “Ethicists” Aren’t Going to Be Happy with BusinessWeek…
From BusinessWeek Online today:
Commentary: Color-Blind Drug Research Is Myopic:
“…‘It’s imperative that we look at racially specific differences,’ says Dr. Esteban González Burchard, assistant professor at the University of California at San Francisco. ‘The one-size-fits-all approach to developing drugs is no longer valid.’ Certainly there is growing evidence that a number of drugs seem to offer different benefits — or pose different risks — depending on race. Studies have shown that hypertension drugs called ACE inhibitors are less effective in black patients than in other groups. The lung cancer drug Iressa has shown higher rates of effectiveness in Asians. And when GlaxoSmithKline PLC warned of a possible link between its asthma drug Serevent and life-threatening asthmatic episodes, the problem appeared to be more common in blacks.…”
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof
1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal
1839 - In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of Toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic
1944 - Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic
Births
1818 - Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1898 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
1917 - Lena Horne, singer
Deaths
1696 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland (b. 1629)
1940 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1986 - Kate Smith, American singer
Holidays & observances
1944 - Icelandic Independence Day, from Denmark
On This Day
From the BBC:
2001: Catholic leader Cardinal Winning dies
1961: Russian dancer in freedom dash
16 June 2005
Why, Do You Think?
From Gear Live, today:
OSX on a Dell? Over Steve’s Dead Body!:
“Michael Dell, of Dell Computers, has noted that should Apple “decide to open the MacOS to others,” they’d be glad to offer it up over at Dell.
Over Steve Jobs’ dead body,…”
You don't suppose it’s because Steve has nightmares about the Dull, er, Dell Dude hawking OS X?? OTOH, “Offer it up” doesn’t have quite the ring I’d be looking for in a business arrangement…
Southern California Gets Back Into the Act
From Reuters.com today:
Moderate earthquake shakes Los Angeles area:
“…The temblor was the third significant seismic event in California this week and came two days after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of northern California that briefly triggered tsunami warnings and four days after a 5.2 quake shook the Anza-area of Riverside County.…”
From the Daily Press in Victorville:
Moderate earthquake shakes Los Angeles area
15 June 2005
And The Mercury Chimes In
On MercuryNews.com today:
Major quake hits off Calif. coast prompting brief tsunami warning
Holy Upheavals, Batman!!
On geotimes.com today:
Earthquake offshore California spawns tsunami worry:
“Yesterday, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck off northern California, triggering an hour-long tsunami warning along the coast and prompting the evacuation of Crescent City, a community that has had previous experience with devastating tsunami waves. In the end, however, no major tsunami ensued.
The epicenter (shown here on this ShakeMap with a star) of a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that occurred Tuesday evening local time set off a tsunami warning for the entire West Coast, leading to an evacuation from Crescent City, Calif. The aqua-colored areas indicate reports of light shaking on the Mercalli intensity scale, and blue indicates weak-intensity shaking. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.…”
The Chronicle’s take:
7.0 quake shakes up North Coast / Crescent City residents flee after tsunami warning
And the LA Times’:
Tsunami Warning Rattles West Coast
13 June 2005
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded
1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River
1871 - In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people
1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack
1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia
1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital
1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City
1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets
1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system
1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch
Births
1773 - Thomas Young, scientist, polymath, child prodigy
1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (d. 1866)
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (d. 1879)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (d. 1939)
1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (d. 1961)
1876 - William Sealey Gosset - chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (d. 1967)
1903 - Harold ‘Red’ Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (d. 1982)
1951 - Richard Thomas, actor
Deaths
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (Grand Duke Michael), Tsar Mikhail II of Russia (b. 1878)
1986 - Benny Goodman, musician (b. 1909)
1998 - Reg Smythe, Andy Capp cartoonist
Holidays & observances
Feast of St Anthony of Padua
12 June 2005
11 June 2005
But… But… Al Gore Invented the Internet, Didn’t He??
From MercuryNews.com today:
‘Father’ of Internet, partner in Bay Area for more honors:
“…On Saturday, Cerf and his former research partner, Robert E. Kahn, will receive the prestigious Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery at a banquet in San Francisco. It’s the latest in a long string of honors that includes a presidential technology medal in 1997.…”
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1184 BC - According to the calculations of Eratosthenes, the date that Troy was sacked and burned
1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon
1534 - Jacques Cartier and crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America
1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef
1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska
1838 - Iowa Territory is organized
1899 - Pope Leo XIII dedicates the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
1955 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healy and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the Le Mans Grand Prix
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin apparently escape from Alcatraz
1970 - After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays officially receives her rank as a U.S. Army General, becoming the first female to do so
1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
1985 - A Fabergé Egg Was sold for £1,375,00 in New York
2002 - Antonio Meucci was recognised as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe
Births
1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1574)
1572 - Ben Jonson, English dramatist (d. 1637)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
1776 - John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1847 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
1867 - Charles Fabry, physicist (d. 1945)
1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, anthropologist
1910 - Jacques Cousteau, explorer, inventor (d. 1997)
1918 - Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace prize winner
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen-Dowager of the Belgians
1933 - Gene Wilder, actor
1939 - Jackie Stewart, race car driver
1956 - Joe Montana, American football player
Deaths
1216 - Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. c. 1174)
1882 - Louis Maigret, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1924 - Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher (b. 1837)
1979 - John Wayne, actor (b. 1907)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, actor (b. 1920)
2003 - David Brinkley, television reporter (b. 1920)
Holidays and Observances
Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawai'i, United States, in honor of its first monarch, celebrated with floral parades, hula competition and festivals
Feast of St Barnabas
On This Day
From the BBC:
1959: Hovercraft marks new era in transport
1955: Le Mans disaster claims 77 lives
10 June 2005
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem
1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”
1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo)
1829 - First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge
1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico
1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate
1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith
1947 - Saab produces its first automobile
1956 - 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden
1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire
1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer
1991 - In what was dubbed “The Mother of All Parades”, New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm
Births
1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart, “The Old Pretender” (d. 1766)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, actress, and the first African American to win an Academy Award (d. 1952)
1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born American composer (d. 1988)
1922 - Judy Garland, American actress, singer (d. 1969)
1928 - Maurice Sendak, writer, producer, illustrator
1949 - Ronald James Padavona, (a.k.a. Ronnie James Dio) Heavy metal singer
1951 - Dan Fouts, American football star
Deaths
323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)
1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (drowned) (b. 1122)
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1692 - Bridget Bishop, accused witch
1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, author
1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (b. 1882)
09 June 2005
Rain Numbers - 9 June 2005
.08", for the day
.15", for the storm
.15", for the month
5.74", for the (rain) year, since the battery got back in the weather station
Who?
From MercuryNews.com today:
Ex-SRI scientist tells institute’s story:
“SRI is known in Silicon Valley mostly as the birthplace of the mouse — as far as it’s known at all.
Most people don’t know that SRI International also developed the first system to electronically sort checks. It created the first fax machine. And it has been responsible for major innovations in everything from less invasive surgery to robotics.…”
Sometimes, Low Tech *Is* Best
From Mercury News.com today:
Man escapes from cell by digging hole in wall:
“LOS ANGELES - A robbery suspect escaped from a holding cell Thursday by boring a hole through the wall and slithering out, then slipping through an emergency exit, authorities said.…”
Huh! San Jose’s Not the Only Place with Tons of Rain…
From the MercuryNews.com today:
Pitter-patter: Rainfall returns
Life and Its Twists and Turns
Roy scheduled this week’s rehearsal for last night, because the gang at work was going to the Giants’ game tonight, and had a ticket for him. While we were waiting in the vestibule for the after-Mass Rosary to be said, Fr Mike asked if one of us could be at the church today to offer assistance with the sound system and setup to the out-of-parish musicians for the scheduled funeral. I raised my hand.
The funeral was scheduled for 2:00p; figuring the musicians could be arriving about 1:00p, I bugged out from home about 12:40p. There was already plenty of bustle about the church when I got there, including a San Jose Fire truck and a paramedic bus; a white Ben Lomond Fire vehicle appeared some time later. When I walked into the church, the front was stuffed with flowers, and more kept coming, both from the funeral directors and a florist.
There was also a portrait of the beloved deceased, who didn’t look that much older (in the portrait, anyway) than Marisa…
He was a local boy, Benjamin Richard Gutierrez, who graduated from SLV High School in 2002; a paramedic, working his way to being a fireman.
The church was jammed with mourners: the pews, SRO, the vestibule, the steps outside the front door, the passage from the church to the parish hall, the two front parking lots…
May he rest in peace, Lord; comfort his family and friends in their hours of need.
Benjamin Richard Gutierrez
Tributes
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River
1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia
1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States
1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts
1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen
1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94
1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army
1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain)
1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown
1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
Births
1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
1900 - Fred Waring, bandleader, inventor (d. 1984)
1916 - Les Paul, guitarist
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, author
Deayhs
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland (b. 521)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances
Catholicism - Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the island’s three patron saints)
On This Day
From the BBC:
1995: First man jailed for male rape
1975: First live broadcast of Parliament
1970: King Hussein escapes gunman’s bullet
08 June 2005
This Will Be One Heck of a Switch
From MercuryNews.com today:
Rosetta is a key to Apple’s Intel shift
Foster Parents Like That Should Be Shot
From MercuryNews.com today:
Against all odds, student triumphs:
“…Madrid’s salvation was schoolwork, although even that caused him trouble. Several foster parents resented his extracurricular activities and scholarly ways, even when he earned a coveted spot at the private Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. Most of the foster homes functioned more like a Motel 6 than a home, Madrid wrote in a recent scholarship application.…”
On further consideration, shooting’s too good…
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date)
793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known
1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec
1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine
1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published
1949 - Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members
1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint, Michigan and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives
1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons
1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia
1998 - Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the National Rifle Association
2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium
Births
1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, scientist (d. 1712)
1724 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (d. 1794)
1810 - Robert Schumann, composer (d. 1856)
1847 - Ida McKinley, former First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (d. 1959)
1910 - John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971)
1916 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004)
1925 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (to 41st President, George Bush, mother to 43rd President George W. Bush)
1927 - LeRoy Neiman, painter
1929 - Jerry Stiller, comedian, actor
1933 - Joan Rivers, comedienne, author
1944 - Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter
1955 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
1957 - Scott Adams, cartoonist (“Dilbert”)
Deaths
1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer: Common Sense (b. 1737)
1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader (b. c. 1812)
1982 - Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906)
07 June 2005
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France
1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica is hit by a catastrophic earthquake at 11:43am; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured
1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois-Rivières, Quebec
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba
1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade
1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops
1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved
1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France
1938 - The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor
1989 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time
Births
1761 - John Rennie, engineer (d. 1821)
1811 - James Simpson, obstetrician (d. 1870)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (d. 1933)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
1909 - Virginia Apgar, childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1952 - Liam Neeson, Irish actor
Deaths
1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1954 - Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist (b. 1912)
On This Day
From the BBC:
1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
1977: Queen celebrates Silver Jubilee
1942: Japanese beaten in Battle of Midway
01 June 2005
Fatherhood
On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:
To become a father is not hard,
To be a father is, however.
-Wilhelm Busch
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