June First
The official start of the hurricane season.
Events:
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered by some to be the last religious martyr in what would become the United States.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
Births:
1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1780 – Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
For some reason I didn’t make the list.
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“For some reason I didn’t make the list.”
That’s definitely the list-makers’ loss. Happy Birthday, Bryan!
Personally, given the times in which we live… NOT being on any list is a good thing! 😉 😀
And the very best wishes for the coming year Bryan. I truly hope you get a chance to relax and to enjoy life for awhile. 🙂
Cheers m8! 😀
Thank you, Steve & Kryten, although I assume I am on a number of ‘lists’ for my ‘subversive activities’, as apparently supporting the US Constitution as written is considered subversive these days.
this would be the same day that one of my precision-landing cats made her usual precision jump onto her usual (tiny!) landing spot on the computer table from somewhere waaaay across the room… and some foolish human had set a paper plate of cheese grits and broccoli right there.
a shiny black cat, covered in green specks and yellow splotches, (very festive!) made a mad dash from the room and was not to be seen again for several hours. fortunately the hapless and hungry human had at least eaten the chicken before having to spend the next several minutes removing green specks and yellow splotches from everything else in the room.
Sox used slide on landing and dump everything on the table.
I don’t need the help of cats. I have to dig out the upholstery machine tomorrow to clean a chair that I managed to dump half a plate of pasta and marinara on tonight.
that would be why I eat my pasta with garlic and butter and maybe some parsley. 🙂
You wouldn’t believe the effort needed to get butter our of upholstery 😉
I sometimes get carried away with the popcorn…
upholstery? you have upholstery?
This was at my Mother’s house. Of course I have no upholstery, I have former scratch pads like most people with cats 😉