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 – Karl von Klausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
I wasn’t important enough to make the list…
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Happy Birthday, cousin!
How are you doing, eh?
Thanks, Anya. I have had a rocky couple of months health wise, but things have been rebalanced. Certain levels of electrolytes is not a suggestion, it’s a requirement.
How are you doing?
I’ve been better. Hot weather is not kind to me. (And, by hot, I mean over 80 degrees. I’d never survive Florida.)
I have been kinda worried about you: where has your outrage gone? I’d have thought you’d be lambasting the Big Orange Grouper.
I’m venting my outrage on Mastodon, a replacement for Twitter under an alias because of the madness that surrounds me on the Florida Panhandle.
The Former Guy got personally involved in the defense and screwed himself into 34 class E felony counts by refusing to plead.
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