June 16th is Fresh Veggies Day. Spring is in full swing and veggie gardens are beginning to pay out. Visit a farmer’s market or your local grocery store. Try to by local!!! Fresh Veggies Rule.
Happy Birthday to:
Roberto Duran, boxer born in 1951. Joan Van Ark, actress (Val on Knots Landing) who was born in 1943. Joyce Carol Oates, novelist known for We were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, was born in 1938. Erich Segal author of Love Story was born in 1937. Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher born in 1917. Jack Albertson, actor seen in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Chico and the Man. Stan Laurel (Laurel and Hardy fame) born in 1890. Geronimo, Apache leader, 1829
Historically speaking:
In 2003, The Hatfields and McCoys signa formal truce, although the fighting actually ended in 1891, the truce signing was symbolic to show that Americans can bury their differences and unite in times of crisis.
New York saw the opening of Alfred Hitchcock’s (now classic) Psycho in 1960. In 1955, Juan Peron was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII. 1948, Miss Macao, a passenger seaplane travelling from Macau to Hong Kong, was the first commercial plane to be hijacked. The ‘skyjackers’ stormed the cockpit moments after take-off, the pilots refused to be commendeered, shots were fired, and the captian fell dead upon the controls. Only one of the 25 aboard survived, he was one of the hijackers. Coney Island opened the first roller coaster in the United States on this day in 1884. In 1846, the longest reigning pope is elected by the Papal conclave, he adopted the name Pius IX.
Noted Deaths:
1977- Wernher von Braun, physicist. 1970-Brian Piccolo, football player; 1959-George Reeves, actor known as Superman;
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