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Almanac - Friday 6/29/18

Actor Slim Pickens (1919-83) born this day.

Today is Friday, June 29, 2018, the 180th day of the year with 185 days remaining.

  • Sunrise:  5:51am
  • Sunset: 8:36pm

...giving us 14 hours and 45 minutes of daylight.  99% of the now waning moon will be visible, rising at 9:50pm.
Tides at the Golden Gate  

  • High: 12:15am/2:32pm
  • Low: 7:07am/7:00pm

Special international celebrations today…

  • Independence Day - Seychelles
  • Special Holiday - Central Province, Solomon Islands
  • World Scleroderma Day

It’s also…

  • Drive Your Corvette to Work Day
  • National Food Truck Day
  • National Almond Butter Crunch Day
  • Waffle Iron Day
  • Feast day of St. Peter, patron saint of fishermen, bakers, harvesters.

On this day in…

1236 - Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba in Spain.

1652 - Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.

1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.

1776 - The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.

1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.

1860 - The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot’s Ledge, MA.

1880 - France annexed Tahiti.

1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.

1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game.

1901 - The first edition of "Editor & Publisher" was issued.

1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

1905 - Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.

1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.

1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.

1926 - Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.

1932 - Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the absolute monarchy.

1932 - "Vic and Sade" debuted on NBC radio.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 42nd consecutive game. He broke George Sisler's record from 1922.

1946 - British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.

1950 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.

1951 - The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.

1953 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.

1954 - The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information.

1955 - The Soviet Union sent tanks to Poznan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.

1956 - Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married. They were divorced on January 20, 1961.

1966 - The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.

1967 - Israel removed barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.

1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws.

1982 - Israel invaded Lebanon.

1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" was bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.

1995 - The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

1998 - With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.

2000 - In Santa Rosa, CA, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place for the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

2007 - The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale.

2011 - The state of Nevada passed the first law that permitted the operation of autonomous cars on public roads. The law went into effect on March 1, 2012 and did not permit the use of the cars to the general public. Google received the first self-driving vehicle license in the U.S. on May 4, 2012 in Nevada.

Today’s birthday celebrants include (or included)...

  • George W. Goethals 1858
  • William Mayo 1861
  • James Van Der Zee 1886
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900
  • Nelson Eddy 1901
  • Frank Loesser 1910
  • John Toland 1912
  • Rafael Kubelik 1914
  • Ruth Warrick 1915
  • Slim Pickens 1919
  • Ralph Burns 1922
  • Mousey Alexander 1922
  • Cara Williams 1925
  • Ian Bannen 1928
  • Robert Evans 1930
  • Stokeley Carmichael 1941
  • Roger Ruskin Spear 1943
  • Gary Busey 1944
  • Little Eva Boyd 1945
  • Richard Lewis 1947
  • Fred Grandy 1948
  • Ian Paice 1948 - Musician (Whitesnake)
  • Dan Dierdorf 1949
  • Colin Hay 1953 - Musician (Men at Work)
  • Maria Conchita Alonso 1957
  • Sharon Lawrence 1961
  • Amanda Donohoe 1962
  • Steadman Pearson 1964 - Musician (Five Star)
  • DJ Shadow (Josh Paul Davis) 1972 - Music producer, DJ, songwriter
  • Zuleikha Robinson 1977 - Actress ("Lost")

 

David Latulippe is host of On the Arts, KALW's weekly radio magazine of the performing arts, as well as for Explorations in Music, and the Berkeley Symphony broadcasts. He has also hosted and produced the radio series From the Conservatory, Music from Mills, and Music at Menlo, and is principal guest host for Revolutions Per Minute.