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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - June 23rd
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:45:22 -0400


Today is Friday, June 23rd, the 175th day of 2000.
There are 191 days left in the year.

TODAY IS GRANNIE ANNIE's BIRTHDAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNIE ANNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today's Highlight in History:
On June 23rd, 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from
New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

On this date:
In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention
he called a "Type-Writer."

In 1888, abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the
Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago,
effectively making him the first black candidate nominated for US
president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)

In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.

In 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's
veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

In 1967, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the
first of two meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey.

In 1969, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief US justice by the man
he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

In 1972, President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate
investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation
sparked Nixon's resignation in 1974.)

In 1985, all 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed
when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland,
apparently because of a bomb.

In 1989, the Supreme Court refused to shut down the "dial-a-porn"
industry, ruling Congress had gone too far in passing a law banning
all sexually-oriented phone message services.

Ten years ago: African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela
received a tumultuous welcome in Boston as he continued his US tour.

Five years ago: Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the
first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La
Jolla, California, at age 80.

One year ago: A divided Supreme Court dramatically enhanced states'
rights in a trio of decisions that eroded Congress' power. US Marines
in Kosovo killed one person and wounded two others after coming under
fire; no Marines were injured.

Today's Birthdays:
Jazz musician Milt Hinton is 90.
Former Secretary of State William P. Rogers is 87.
Actress Irene Worth is 84.
Singer June Carter Cash is 71.
Singer Diana Trask is 60.
Musical conductor James Levine is 57.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosetta Hightower (The Orlons) is 56.
Actor Ted Shackelford is 54.
Actor Bryan Brown is 53.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 52.
Actor Jim Metzler is 45.
Actress Frances McDormand is 43.
Actress Karin Gustafson is 41.
Rock musician Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) is 38.
Actor Paul La Greca is 38.
Singer Chico DeBarge is 30.
Actress Selma Blair is 28.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs) is 25.

Thought for Today:

"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."
-- Franz Kafka, Austrian author and poet (1883-1924).


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