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June First

by Bryan

June 1st:

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.

13 comments

1 Mustang Bobby { 06.01.16 at 11:06 am }

Happy birthday, my friend.

2 Fallenmonk { 06.01.16 at 12:29 pm }

Happy Birthday!

3 Anya { 06.01.16 at 2:57 pm }

Happy happy, cousin!

4 ellroon { 06.01.16 at 6:43 pm }

Happy Birthday!

5 Bryan { 06.01.16 at 8:00 pm }

Thank you, MB. I noticed that your Great Uncle Cary had to have been part of the Third Army with my Uncle Maynard in World War II [Maynard was in a scout tank], and was stationed at Kadena AB on Okinawa at the same same time as my Dad for the Korean War.

I appreciate it, Fallenmonk.

Спасибо, Аня. Hopefully you get the e-mail about the family.

Thank you, Ellroon. I’m of an age when you are always thankful to have another birthday.

6 hipparchia { 06.01.16 at 8:59 pm }

happy first day of hurricane season, neighbor! 🙂

7 Bryan { 06.01.16 at 9:30 pm }

The first day was actually January 15 with Alex, but it is the first official day of the season. We will have to see what the La Niña brings.

8 Kryten42 { 06.01.16 at 10:22 pm }

And once again m8, Happy Birthday! 😉 😀 Another year older…. hopefully not deeper in debt! 😉 😀

I hope you get to enjoy some *self* time, or at least time with people who’s company you enjoy. 🙂

Be well.

9 Bryan { 06.02.16 at 11:16 am }

Thanks, Kryten. Alas, even though it was totally unAmerican, I gave up debt for retirement. 😉

When you manage apartments there is really not a lot of ‘self’ time.

10 Jim Bales { 06.02.16 at 3:30 pm }

Happy Birthday, anyway!

Best
Jim

11 Bryan { 06.02.16 at 10:20 pm }

I thank you, Jim. I’ve entered into the class of people who require permission from a fire marshal for a birthday cake. actually if you put the candles in the cake batter you don’t have to use an oven. OK, I’ll stop before I repeat all of the bad birthday humor I’ve encountered.

12 JuanitaM { 06.03.16 at 10:59 am }

Hey! Just checked in and saw it was your birthday the other day. Happy late birthday! Hope it was a good one for you.

13 Bryan { 06.03.16 at 4:28 pm }

At my age, Juanite, every day you wake up on the right side of the grass is a good day 😉