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June First — Why Now?
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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.

6 comments

1 hipparchia { 06.01.13 at 2:10 am }

happy first day of hurricane season to you!
happy first day of hurricane season to you!
happy first day of hurricane season, dear bryan!
happy first day of hurricane season to you! 😉

2 Bryan { 06.01.13 at 12:05 pm }

Thanks, I think 😉

3 Steve Bates { 06.01.13 at 2:59 pm }

Happy birthday, Bryan! I do believe this year the weather got there before the formal first day…

4 Bryan { 06.01.13 at 4:08 pm }

The Eastern Pacific often starts before the Atlantic season, but it doesn’t usually generate hurricanes that make landfall. It should have gone west, just like the first storm, but it was captured by a trough.

5 hipparchia { 06.01.13 at 10:35 pm }

i never could carry a tune, my apologies for hurting the kitties’ ears! 😀

6 Bryan { 06.01.13 at 11:10 pm }

I can’t carry a tune in a bucket, wood or metal, so the cats are quite to used to songs that are Auto-DeTuned. Thanks to an early cassette recorder I know better than to sing in public, and a full beard reduces the amount of lip syncing I’m required to do to be ignored.