ADL is from a chromosome, involving DNA. What it does is what the body naturally does. There is no known treatment that cures it, yet. It kills people by attacking the brain and central nervous system, reducing them to a vegetative state. Victims rarely live to their teens. Diet can help manage it for a time, as can stem cell therapy. Typically, sufferers have ADD type behaviours. Jacky was superior than a garden variety .. he was smart and capable of resisting temptation which others would succumb. I became aware of him when he was in year 8 and in a high level Mathematic class. He played chess at lunchtime in a room I had set aside for that purpose. He was a little shorter than average stature, but perfectly formed, and I recall him talking about getting a sick note to avoid a test and I suggested that that was not good behaviour. He told me he was sick, and suffered from ADL but hadn't shown symptoms yet .. but that he would die soon after he did show symptoms. He said that doctors had told him that he did not look sick, but that symmetric features sometimes showed good health, but sometimes, as with elfinism, meant someone was very sick. I clocked it mentally, as his year advisor told me it was true and the school knew about it, I didn't need to do anything administrative.
After I left teaching I reengaged with Jacky on Facebook. He had become a university student studying computer science. He had led a normal life, but began to feel the onset of symptoms his specialists had warned him about towards the end of his first year. He had become a keen Magic the Gathering card player. He got special stem cell treatment, but the disease progressed quickly. Soon he struggled to even work on a computer. He wrote about what was happening to him. And then, surrounded by family and loved ones, he passed away. And while Jacky's early death is a tragedy, his life isn't. He is an inspiration. I am thankful I got to know Jacky when I was a teacher. Todays is his birthday.
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What happened in the past transformed things, making the present possible. The observation of a 763 BC Solar Eclipse in the Mesopotamian allows historians today to date the ancient events recorded that surrounded it. The 1667 blood transfusion allowed modern medicine. Ben Franklin flying a kite with a key which might have been on this day, effectively showed that lightning was electricity. AGW scientists don't seem to realise that lightning might be an effective, natural renewable energy source. But another event, much more recent, has substantially more enormity than any of those examples. Sometime in late summer 2009, a terrorist was released from camp Bucca in Iraq. al-Baghdadi had become ISIS leader since. One must thank Obama for his enlightened policy of releasing from prison killers who hate America. I don't see this brokering peace in the Middle East.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Bacon Luu, Jacky Dang and Davey Nguyen. Born on the same day, across the years. On this day in 1215, King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study became the basis of motion pictures. In 1919, After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Suggesting that there is adventure sealed with a big check. Jacky, thank you for sharing yourself in part of my life as a teacher.
- 1330 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)
- 1519 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English son of Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
- 1640 – Bernard Lamy, French mathematician and theologian (d. 1715)
- 1755 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
- 1763 – Kobayashi Issa, Japanese poet (d. 1827)
- 1835 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (d. 1868)
- 1843 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- 1894 – Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. 1947)
- 1900 – Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Wilbert Awdry, English author, co-created Thomas the Tank Engine (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Ninian Stephen, Australian judge
- 1924 – Ezer Weizman, Israeli commander and politician, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
- 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Highwaymen) (d. 2002)
- 1941 – Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1943 – Muff Winwood, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Spencer Davis Group)
- 1946 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer (Aphrodite's Child)
- 1949 – Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer-songwriter (Air Supply)
- 1954 – Jim Belushi, American actor and singer
- 1962 – Chris Morris; English satirist, writer, director, actor, voice actor, and producer
- 1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper, producer, and actor (C.I.A., N.W.A, and Westside Connection)
- 1972 – Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
- 1973 – Pia Miranda, Australian actress
- 1981 – Billy Martin, American guitarist, songwriter, author, and illustrator (Good Charlotte)
- 1990 – Miwa, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
- 1993 – Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer and model (Cute)
Matches
- 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.
- 1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
- 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
- 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
- 1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- 1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- 1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
- 1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
- 1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- 1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
- 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
- 2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
Despatches
- 923 – Robert I of France (b. 866)
- 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
- 1381 – John Cavendish, English judge (b. 1346)
- 1381 – Wat Tyler, English leader of the Peasants' Revolt (b. 1341)
- 1560 – William Sommers, English jester (b.1525)
- 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
Increasing youth unemployment a threat to the ongoing stability of the nation
Piers Akerman – Saturday, June 14, 2014 (11:10pm)
FORGET Generation X, Y and Z; the real threat to the ongoing stability of the nation is Generation M — M for Missing.
While the official employment figures for May look reasonable they mask an underlying and growing crisis.
The number of young people in employment is continuing to shrink at a steady rate.
Youth employment peaked in mid-2008.
Since then it has shrunk by more than more 7 per cent. That is, 140,000 young people have dropped out of the official record.
In some areas, youth unemployment is now more than twice the national average.
Under-employment of young Australians also exceeds that of the broader labour market, with around 30 per cent of young workers without work or sufficient hours of work.
The chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Kate Carnell, says a lost generation is being created.
“The youth participation rate measures the number of young people in the work force in any form,” she said.
“If they’re getting the dole, they’re in the participation rate. But these young people have just disappeared. They’re not there. They’re not working or looking for work, they’re not earning or learning.”
Carnell thinks some may be working in the cash economy, others may be simply sitting on the family couch.
“There’s a clear disengagement and if they’re disengaged at 25, they’ll be disengaged at 45 and they’ll become long-term unemployed,’ she said.
The prospect of hundreds of thousands, if not future millions, floating in society constitutes a very real problem.
ACCI’s director employment, education and training, Jenny Lambert, said policy decisions by the previous federal government to reduce apprenticeship incentives and of state governments which have seen support funding for training in key entry level occupations fall dramatically have also failed young Australians.
And unions continue to hinder the chances of young people competing in the job market by seeking wage rises for apprentices and juniors.
Lefties living in a parallel world
Miranda Devine – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (6:35pm)
IN an episode of the classic science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone, astronaut Major Robert Gaines returns to Earth and discovers he has slipped into a surreal parallel universe in which everything looks the same but nothing makes sense.
Continue reading 'Lefties living in a parallel world'THEY ARE CHANGING
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (6:19am)
“Where will I live?” wonders a mutant dog/koala hybrid at yet another coal protest:
A better question: how will you live? An abomination like that surely isn’t viable, neither in kennel nor tree. Where did it come from? What does it eat? Why is it alive?
A better question: how will you live? An abomination like that surely isn’t viable, neither in kennel nor tree. Where did it come from? What does it eat? Why is it alive?
This could indicate a previously unnoticed species-morphing ability. It is possible that protesters are now beginning to … transform. Examine further evidence in the upper left corner of the same photograph:
This seems to be a bearded blonde woman wearing a miniskirt. She/he carries an appropriately astonished bear image, probably as a guide to his/her eventual appearance, once the shape-shifting is complete. Remain vigilant.
This seems to be a bearded blonde woman wearing a miniskirt. She/he carries an appropriately astonished bear image, probably as a guide to his/her eventual appearance, once the shape-shifting is complete. Remain vigilant.
BUDDY BEATS BANDANA
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (6:01am)
Al Qaeda sorry man Peter FitzSimons can’t pick winners in radio or the AFL. Back in March, FitzSimons declared Lance Franklin a Buddy disaster for the Sydney Swans:
The deal between the Swans and Franklin last year – whereby a club famous for its team-first, team-always culture put $10 million over nine years towards a 27-year-old party fiend with chronic knee problems who didn’t finish in the top 10 of the best and fairest in his last season with Hawthorn – might have been a tad close to the worst decision made by a sporting organisation since Balmain decided to get Alan Jones to coach them in 1989.
Great call, raghead:
Lance Franklin deserves another truckload of cash after single-handedly dragging the Swans over the line against top team Port Adelaide at the SCG.In a spectacular performance before a near capacity crowd of 41,317, Franklin kicked the Swans’ last five goals as they fought gallantly to win a finals-like clash by just four points.
You were saying, Peter?
DAM DROUGHT OVER
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (5:42am)
We were promised dams, and dams we shall receive:
NSW is close to getting its first new dam in almost 30 years, with $300 million set aside in next week’s budget for a dam in the Central West of the state …It will be the first built in the state since Split Rock at Tamworth in 1987, and is funded from the long-term lease of Port Waratah and Port Botany.
Our tax-funded protest community will find some reason to oppose this.
JULIA AHEAD 4-2
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (5:26am)
Abbott: Mike, Canadia.
Gillard: dungeon, hyperbole, Taliband and tenant.
WHO SAVES ME FROM DYING? MY PA!
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (5:01am)
Useful parenting instructions for Fairfax’s Sam De Brito, whose child is needlessly terrified of global warming:
TOTALLY RACIST
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (4:49am)
Crikey‘s Bernard Keane identifies global warming’s racial component:
There’s a certain inevitability about Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper standing shoulder-to-shoulder in an effort to stymie international action on climate change. That’s not just because they’re middle-aged white conservatives, which is defining demography of climate denialism?--?if CO2 caused baldness and erectile dysfunction climate change would have been addressed decades ago ...
Mark Steyn responds:
It’s good to know opposing climate change is, like everything else, totally racist. Like most people who drone on about middle-aged white men, Bernard Keane is a middle-aged white man. He doesn’t appear to be bald, but the erectile dysfunction of hockey-stick climate alarmism seems to be getting to him.
Unlike YouTube viewers, who resolutely stay away from Keane and his fellow bores. Further from Steyn: Is Michael Mann a blood-drinking shape-shifting space lizard?
RIDE BICYCLES, COMRADES
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (3:32am)
The 425-horsepower CFMEU ute was prominent at recent anti-Abbott demonstrations in Melbourne. Apparently our unionist bruvvers have abandoned their previous save the planet campaign.
CRAZY ATTRACTS CRAZY
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (2:43am)
One of Bob Ellis’s valued readers exposes the great O. J. Simpson/World Cup conspiracy:
OJ Simpsons wife and lover were killed the saturday immediately proceeding the opening of the (soccer) World Cup in the USA because gridion players and baseball players had been on strike for a year and there was a real chance these homegrown games would suffer permanent value impairment if soccer had been given clean airtime so despite the fact the victims had 50 plus defensive wound apiece in what was given the injuries sustained obviously a desperate struggle and Simpson had a simple working man nick on one finger the black guy was chased on TV and dramatically charged and the entire process managed to maximise the blackout of what was supposed to be soccers coming of age in the US of A
So now you know.
MISS METH
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 15, 2014 (2:40am)
There are Adelaide names and then there are Florida names.
The Bolt Report today, June 15
Andrew Bolt June 15 2014 (6:00am)
My guest: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Iraq. The panel: former
Treasurer Peter Costello and former NSW Treasurer Michael Costa on the
AWU scandal and more.
NewsWatch: Rowan Dean. Fact-checking the media narrative of a stumble-bum PM.
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
The videos of the shows appear here.
===NewsWatch: Rowan Dean. Fact-checking the media narrative of a stumble-bum PM.
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
The videos of the shows appear here.
Truss: voting for Palmer betrays democracy
Andrew Bolt June 15 2014 (5:55am)
I very much hope Truss is right:
===NATIONALS leader Warren Truss reckons Clive Palmer could go the way of other political “saviours” such as Pauline Hanson…
“Those who throw away their vote in some kind of protest are in fact ignoring their obligations to their democracy but also putting their country at risk.”
Kind media outlet helps struggling Clinton daughter. Mum should be grateful
Andrew Bolt June 15 2014 (5:38am)
Chelsea Clinton’s mum, tipped to be the Democratic nominee for President, should be grateful for this astonishing largesse:
===On Friday morning, Politico published on the previously unknown and “closely held” details of former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton’s contract with NBC News. According to the story, Clinton was given an annual salary of $US600,000 when she joined NBC News as a “special correspondent” in November 2011. Based on these figures, Clinton has earned about $US26,724 for each minute she subsequently appeared on air.
ISIS leader was a US detainee
Andrew Bolt June 15 2014 (5:28am)
Just a little something to think about for all the libertarians who demanded detainees go free:
Obama pulled US forces out of Iraq in 2011.
David French was a soldier in Iraq at the height of trouble:
Our immigration program remains of great concern:
===When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a U.S. detention camp [in Iraq] in 2009, the future leader of ISIS issued some chilling final words to reservists from Long Island.UPDATE
“He said, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’” recalls Army Col. Kenneth King, then the commanding officer of Camp Bucca…
King had not imagined that in less that five years he would be seeing news reports that al-Baghdadi was the leader of ISIS, the ultra-extremist army that was sweeping through Iraq toward Baghdad.
Obama pulled US forces out of Iraq in 2011.
David French was a soldier in Iraq at the height of trouble:
I remember what Iraq was like in late 2008, when I left. My unit. . .had largely cleared out one of the last areas of al-Qaeda dominion in Iraq. At high cost we had taken thousands of square kilometers back from enemy control, broken the back of enemy resistance, and given the local population the chance to live something approaching a normal life. Want a measure of our success?UPDATE
When we arrived in November 2007, in Diyala Province (labeled the Islamic Caliphate of Iraq by the al-Qaeda forces in control) every time any convoy rolled out of the gate, it had a greater than 25 percent chance of enemy contact — IEDs, ambushes, or sniper fire. When we left in late September 2008, that chance was down to approximately 1 percent.
Good men died making that progress. Friends and brothers, all of them.
But that’s not to say that al-Qaeda was completely defeated. Even as we prepared to hand over the battle space to an incoming unit, al Qaeda struck one last blow – killing a very dear friend of mine when our troopers cornered a senior leader.
The bottom line was that Iraq was under control, but still in a state of low-intensity war. Iraqi forces, with the help of small groups of American advisers and — in extreme circumstances — American air power, were more than capable of handling large-scale threats from jihadists but weren’t yet capable of stopping all violence (and, indeed, may never have been). The situation was stable, and — here’s the key — sustainable.
Yes, to sustain it would have required the continued presence of American troops, and those troops may have sustained occasional additional casualties, but that’s the price we pay to secure hard-won victories.
Our immigration program remains of great concern:
The head of the al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Sydney, where both Sulayman and Cerantonio have lectured, Wissam Haddad, said Muslims were rejoicing at ISIS’s stunning gains. “There’s a feeling of joy,’’ Mr Haddad told The Weekend Australian.(Thanks to reader David.)
Solar promise fried
Andrew Bolt June 15 2014 (5:02am)
I don’t wish embarrassment on the Environment Minister, the very nice Greg Hunt, but I am very grateful that the tap is finally being turned off the great global warming waste
Plain sense said plainly:
===Mr Hunt took his colleagues by surprise when he announced to an industry gathering last November that the Coalition was committed to its $500 million ‘’1 Million Solar Roofs’’ program....UPDATE
But Mr Hunt’s ‘’shining beacon’’, a leftover from the 2010 election campaign, had not been approved by Prime Minister Tony Abbott or his top economic ministers ...
In his presentation to the Clean Energy Council on November 29 last year, the Environment Minister declared: ‘’The government will provide $500 million for the 1 Million Solar Roofs program. And a further $50 million each,’’ he added, would be given to ‘’the Solar Towns and Solar Schools programs’’…
Mr Hunt was ultimately forced to abandon all but $2 million of his $600 million in promised policies.
The 2014-15 budget allocated no money for solar roofs and nothing for solar schools. Just $2.1 million was given to the solar towns policy despite Mr Hunt promising $50 million in November.
Plain sense said plainly:
TONY Abbott has visited the energy capital of the USA to insist he does not want the battle against climate change to limit the use of any type of fuel.
Promoting his plan to scrap the carbon tax in front of an audience of energy executives in Houston, Texas, Mr Abbott said he wanted Australia to become a centre of cheap energy…
“Affordable, reliable energy fuels enterprise and drives employment,” Mr Abbott said…
“For many decades at least coal will continue to fuel human progress as an affordable, dependable energy source for wealthy and developing countries alike.”
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" One of the IEI's minor investors is Australian news mogul Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is interested in IEI because there are also massive deposits of oil shale in Australia. If IEI's pilot is successful, Australia will doubtlessly follow Israel's lead in developing its own energy independence through oil shale development."
Rupert at his age is way ahead of the rest of us as always.
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Can’t afford a pricey trip to Africa? Consider these#ObamaMiddleClassVacationId
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Noe Vela and I are working on a new project called A Mythological History of Mexico. Here's one of his illustrations, which shows the dual god Ometeotl as s/he begins to dream and plan creation.
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And too, a means at diversion under the shadows of scandals....
"United States military support for Syrian rebels will include small arms, ammunition and possibly anti-tank weapons, according to two officials familiar with the matter. The weapons will be provided by the CIA, the officials said.
On Thursday, the White House said Syria had crossed a "red line" with the use of chemical weapons against rebels and added -- without specifics -- that the United States would increase the "scale and scope" of support for the opposition.
"What we need, really, is weapons and ammunition, and especially anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles," Salim Idriss, the head of the rebel Free Syrian Army, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Friday." -CNN Breaking News
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Once again, a reminder that the World Council of Churches, sanctimoniously mounted atop a familiar high horse, spews a vitriolic agenda; one aimed at utilising and stirring tired pots of scapegoating, habitual lies drenched in centuries of foul hatred and a sustained lifeline connected to ignorance and stupidity.
To wit, herein.....
"Any honest and unbiased reader of the Bible knows otherwise, and should reject this anti-Jewish theology. Anybody, the WCC included, who singles Israel out as the sole villain that threatens world peace, who points fingers at Israel, the least troublesome element in the Middle East, is, by definition, anti-Semitic. Masquerading such sentiment as Christian love only adds insult to injury." - Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today
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- 1667 – French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys (pictured)administered the first fully documented human blood transfusion, giving the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy.
- 1896 – A 7.2 Ms earthquake and a subsequent tsunamistruck Japan, destroying about 9,000 homes and causing at least 22,000 deaths.
- 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Tommy Douglas won enough seats in the Legislative Assembly to form the first socialist government in North America.
- 1954 – The Union of European Football Associations, the administrative and controlling body for European football, was founded inBasel, Switzerland.
- 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring over 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
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- 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
- 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.
- 1246 – With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
- 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
- 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
- 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
- 1580 – Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
- 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
- 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- 1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
- 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1867 – Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
- 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
- 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
- 1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- 1913 – The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
- 1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- 1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1920 – A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
- 1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
- 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- 1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
- 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- 1945 – The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
- 1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
- 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
- 1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- 1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
- 2001 – Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
- 2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
Births[edit]
- 1330 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)
- 1519 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English son of Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
- 1542 – Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (d. 1591)
- 1594 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- 1623 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- 1624 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
- 1640 – Bernard Lamy, French mathematician and theologian (d. 1715)
- 1749 – Georg Joseph Vogler, German organist, composer, and theorist (d. 1814)
- 1755 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
- 1763 – Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1826)
- 1763 – Kobayashi Issa, Japanese poet (d. 1827)
- 1765 – Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (d. 1831)
- 1765 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer (d. 1831)
- 1767 – Rachel Jackson, American wife of Andrew Jackson (d. 1828)
- 1777 – David Daniel Davis, Welsh physician (d. 1841)
- 1789 – Josiah Henson, American minister, author, and activist (d. 1883)
- 1792 – Thomas Mitchell, Scottish-Australian explorer (d. 1855)
- 1801 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
- 1805 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
- 1809 – François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
- 1835 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (d. 1868)
- 1843 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- 1848 – Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian bishop (d. 1902)
- 1872 – Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer (d. 1950)
- 1875 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (d. 1987)
- 1876 – Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (d. 1955)
- 1882 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician (d. 1946)
- 1884 – Harry Langdon, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1944)
- 1888 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
- 1894 – Robert Russell Bennett, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. 1947)
- 1900 – Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
- 1900 – Otto Luening, German-American composer and conductor (d. 1996)
- 1901 – Elmar Lohk, Estonian architect (d. 1963)
- 1902 – Erik Erikson, German-American psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
- 1906 – Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and author (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
- 1907 – James Robertson Justice, English actor (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Sam Giancana, American mobster (d. 1975)
- 1909 – Elena Nikolaidi, Greek-American opera singer (d. 2002)
- 1910 – David Rose, English-American pianist, composer, and orchestra leader (d. 1990)
- 1911 – Wilbert Awdry, English author, co-created Thomas the Tank Engine (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (d. 1984)
- 1914 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
- 1915 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Olga Erteszek, Polish-American fashion designer (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Horacio Salgán, Argentinian pianist, composer, and orchestra leader
- 1916 – Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- 1917 – John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Lash LaRue, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1918 – Zhang Ruifang, Chinese actress (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Alla Kazanskaya, Russian actress (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (d. 1977)
- 1922 – Jaki Byard, American pianist and composer (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Ronald Murray, Scottish judge
- 1922 – John Veale, English composer (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Ninian Stephen, Australian judge
- 1924 – Ezer Weizman, Israeli commander and politician, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Ross Andru, American illustrator (d. 1993)
- 1925 – Richard Baker, British BBC broadcaster
- 1926 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Mac McGarry, American game show host
- 1927 – Ibn-e-Insha, Indian-Pakistani poet (d. 1978)
- 1927 – Ottó Foky, Hungarian animator (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (d. 1995)
- 1930 – John Fretwell, British diplomat
- 1930 – Victor Lundin, American actor and singer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Miguel Méndez, American author (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1931 – Joseph Gilbert, British Royal Air Force officer
- 1932 – David Alliance, British businessman and politician
- 1932 – Mario Cuomo, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York
- 1932 – Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Indian singer (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1933 – Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1933 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (d. 1981)
- 1934 – Mikel Laboa, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1935 – John Perry, British bishop
- 1936 – Claude Brasseur, French actor
- 1936 – William Levada, American cardinal
- 1937 – Adrian Berry, British science journalist and peer
- 1937 – Pierre Billon, Canadian author
- 1937 – Anna Hazare, Indian social activist
- 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Highwaymen) (d. 2002)
- 1938 – Tony Oxley, English jazz drummer
- 1938 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and 1987 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum inductee
- 1939 – Ward Connerly, American activist and businessman, founded the American Civil Rights Institute
- 1939 – Brian Jacques, English author (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Neal Adams, American illustrator
- 1941 – Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1942 – Ian Greenberg, Canadian broadcaster, founded Astral Media
- 1942 – John E. McLaughlin, American diplomat
- 1943 – Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
- 1943 – Xaviera Hollander, Dutch madam and author
- 1943 – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician, 38th Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1943 – Lee Shallat-Chemel, American director and producer
- 1943 – Larry Whitty, British politician
- 1943 – Muff Winwood, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Spencer Davis Group)
- 1944 – Robert D. Keppel, American police officer and detective
- 1945 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino judge
- 1945 – Nicola Pagett, Egyptian-English actress
- 1945 – Robert Sarah, Guinean cardinal
- 1945 – Lawrence Wilkerson, American colonel
- 1946 – Brigitte Fossey, French actress
- 1946 – Noddy Holder, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Slade)
- 1946 – John Horner, American paleontologist
- 1946 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer (Aphrodite's Child)
- 1947 – John Hoagland, American photographer
- 1947 – Paul Patterson, British composer
- 1947 – Lee Purcell, American actress
- 1948 – Mike Holmgren, American football player and coach
- 1948 – Alan Huckle, British colonial administrator
- 1948 – Henry McLeish, Scottish footballer and politician, 2nd First Minister of Scotland
- 1949 – Dusty Baker, American baseball player and manager
- 1949 – Simon Callow, English actor and director
- 1949 – Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer-songwriter (Air Supply)
- 1949 – Jim Varney, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1950 – Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Ghanaian nurse and politician
- 1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian steel magnate
- 1951 – Vance A. Larson, American painter (d. 2000)
- 1951 – John Redwood, British politician
- 1951 – Steve Walsh, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Kansas and Streets)
- 1952 – Satya Pal Jain, Indian Politician; Senior Leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party; Ex-Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Chandigarh; Senior Advocate
- 1952 – Dirceu, Brazilian footballer (d. 1995)
- 1953 – Eje Elgh, Swedish race car driver
- 1953 – Xi Jinping, Chinese politician, Current General Secretary of the Communist Party and 7th Chinese President
- 1953 – Rita Lee, American model
- 1953 – Raphael Wallfisch, English cellist
- 1954 – Jim Belushi, American actor and singer
- 1954 – Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan humanitarian
- 1954 – Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
- 1955 – Julie Hagerty, American model and actress
- 1955 – David Kennedy, American son of Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1984)
- 1956 – Ava Cadell, Hungarian-American actress and therapist
- 1956 – Robin Curtis, American actress
- 1956 – Polly Draper, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1956 – Yevgeny Kiselyov, Russian journalist
- 1956 – Lance Parrish, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1957 – Brad Gillis, American guitarist (Night Ranger)
- 1957 – Stephen Lloyd, British politician
- 1957 – Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- 1957 – Peeter Pere, Estonian architect
- 1958 – Wade Boggs, American baseball player
- 1958 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (d. 1982)
- 1959 – Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
- 1959 – Eileen Davidson, American actress
- 1959 – Vicki Genfan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1960 – Michèle Laroque, French actress
- 1960 – Marieke van Doorn, Dutch field hockey player
- 1961 – Brad Armstrong, American wrestler (d. 2012)
- 1961 – Laurent Cantet, French director and screenwriter
- 1961 – Kai Eckhardt, German-American bass player and songwriter (Garaj Mahal and Vital Information)
- 1961 – Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese singer and actress
- 1961 – Dave McAuley, Irish boxer
- 1961 – Scott Norton, American wrestler
- 1962 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor
- 1962 – Chris Morris; English satirist, writer, director, actor, voice actor, and producer
- 1962 – Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
- 1963 – John Carr, English cricket administrator
- 1963 – Mario Gosselin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress, director, and producer
- 1963 – Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
- 1963 – Tom Taaffe, Irish racehorse trainer
- 1963 – Nigel Walker, Welsh rugby player
- 1964 – Valeri Bukrejev, Estonian pole vaulter
- 1964 – Courteney Cox, American actress, director, and producer
- 1964 – Gavin Greenaway, English composer and conductor
- 1964 – Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer and manager
- 1964 – John Varvatos, American fashion designer
- 1965 – Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
- 1965 – Mark Farrington, English footballer
- 1965 – Karim Massimov, Kazakhstani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- 1965 – Adam Smith, American lawyer and politician
- 1966 – Idalis DeLeón, American singer and actress (Seduction)
- 1967 – Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor and singer
- 1968 – Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor
- 1968 – Károly Güttler, Hungarian swimmer
- 1969 – Jesse Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper, producer, and actor (C.I.A., N.W.A, and Westside Connection)
- 1969 – Nasos Galakteros, Greek basketball player
- 1969 – Oliver Kahn, German footballer and sportscaster
- 1969 – Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan cricketer
- 1969 – Cédric Pioline, French tennis player
- 1969 – Jeff Neal, American drummer (Boston)
- 1970 – Christian Bauman, American author
- 1970 – Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
- 1970 – Leah Remini, American actress
- 1970 – Žan Tabak, Croatian basketball player and coach
- 1971 – Edwin Brienen, Dutch-German actor, director, and producer
- 1971 – Jake Busey, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1971 – Isménia do Frederico, Cape Verdean sprinter
- 1971 – Christos Myriounis, Greek basketball player
- 1971 – Bif Naked, Indian-Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and poet
- 1972 – Chloe Dao, American fashion designer
- 1972 – Marcus Hahnemann, American soccer player
- 1972 – Justin Leonard, American golfer
- 1972 – Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
- 1972 – Hank von Helvete, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Turbonegro and Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult)
- 1973 – Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer and coach
- 1973 – Neil Patrick Harris, American actor, singer, and director
- 1973 – Pia Miranda, Australian actress
- 1973 – Greg Vaughan, American actor
- 1975 – Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
- 1975 – Rachel Wacholder, American volleyball player
- 1976 – Gary Lightbody, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Snow Patrol, Listen... Tanks!, Tired Pony, and The Reindeer Section)
- 1976 – Jiří Ryba, Czech decathlete
- 1977 – Michael Doleac, American basketball player
- 1977 – Nina Liu, Australian actress
- 1977 – Mario Vazquez, Puerto Rican-American singer
- 1978 – Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
- 1978 – Zach Day, American baseball player
- 1979 – Danielle Lineker, Welsh model and actress
- 1979 – Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian sprinter
- 1979 – Christian Rahn, German footballer
- 1979 – Julia Schultz, American model and actress
- 1979 – Charles Zwolsman, Jr., Dutch race car driver
- 1980 – Mary Carey, American porn actress and director
- 1980 – Christopher Castile, American actor
- 1980 – Almudena Cid Tostado, Spanish gymnast
- 1980 – Cara Zavaleta, American model and actress
- 1981 – Billy Martin, American guitarist, songwriter, author, and illustrator (Good Charlotte)
- 1981 – John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
- 1981 – Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
- 1981 – Jordi Vilasuso, American actor
- 1981 – Daniel Vosovic, American fashion designer
- 1982 – Katie Chapman, English footballer
- 1982 – Mike Delany, New Zealand rugby player
- 1982 – Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1982 – Haley Scarnato, American singer
- 1983 – Derek Anderson, American football player
- 1983 – Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist
- 1983 – Laura Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1983 – Josh McGuire, Canadian fencer
- 1984 – Luke Hodge, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Eva Hrdinová, Czech tennis player
- 1984 – Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
- 1984 – Mauro Rizzo, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Edison Toloza, Colombian footballer
- 1985 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer-songwriter and actress (Girls Aloud and Six)
- 1986 – Stjepan Hauser, Croatian cellist (2Cellos)
- 1986 – Stoya, American pornographic actress and model
- 1987 – Ani Mijačika, Croatian tennis player
- 1987 – Rohullah Nikpai, Afghan martial artist
- 1988 – Barakat Al-Harthi, Omani sprinter
- 1988 – Miku Ishida, Japanese singer and actress
- 1989 – Víctor Cabedo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2012)
- 1990 – Miwa, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
- 1990 – Denzel Whitaker, American actor
- 1991 – Emily Harman, American tennis player
- 1993 – Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer and model (Cute)
- 1993 – Jacopo Galimberti, Italian footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 923 – Robert I of France (b. 866)
- 991 – Theophanu, Byzantine wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
- 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
- 1189 – Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
- 1246 – Frederick II, Duke of Austria (b. 1219)
- 1341 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1297)
- 1381 – John Cavendish, English judge (b. 1346)
- 1381 – Wat Tyler, English leader of the Peasants' Revolt (b. 1341)
- 1383 – John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1292)
- 1389 – Murad I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1326)
- 1389 – Lazar of Serbia (b. 1329)
- 1416 – John, Duke of Berry (b. 1340)
- 1467 – Philip the Good, French son of Margaret of Bavaria (b. 1396)
- 1521 – Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1442)
- 1560 – William Sommers, English jester (b.1525)
- 1614 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
- 1679 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
- 1724 – Henry Sacheverell, English clergyman and politician (b. 1674)
- 1768 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
- 1772 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
- 1844 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (b. 1777)
- 1849 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
- 1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
- 1888 – Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
- 1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
- 1890 – Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
- 1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
- 1934 – Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
- 1938 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (b. 1880)
- 1941 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
- 1941 – Evelyn Underhill, English author (b. 1875)
- 1961 – Giulio Cabianca, Italian race car driver (b. 1923)
- 1962 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
- 1965 – Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1965 – Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, Polish-American scholar (b. 1902)
- 1967 – Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1885)
- 1968 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist (Montgomery Brothers) (b. 1925)
- 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 1976 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
- 1983 – Sri Sri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1910)
- 1984 – Meredith Willson, American composer, conductor and playwright (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
- 1985 – Robert Stethem, American diver (b. 1961)
- 1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Victor French, American actor and director (b. 1934)
- 1991 – Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1992 – Chuck Menville, American television animator and writer (b. 1940)
- 1993 – John Connally, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1917)
- 1993 – James Hunt, English race car driver (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer and theorist (b. 1925)
- 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and inventor, invented the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
- 1996 – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish general and politician (b. 1911)
- 1996 – Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1999 – Omer Côté, Canadian politician (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Jules Roy, French author (b. 1907)
- 2000 – James Montgomery Boice, American theologian, Bible teacher, and pastor (b. 1938)
- 2001 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
- 2001 – Maria Foka, Greek actress (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Jay Moriarity, American surfer (b. 1978)
- 2002 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
- 2007 – Claudia Cohen, American journalist (b. 1950)
- 2007 – Sherri Martel, American wrestler and manager (b. 1958)
- 2008 – Ray Getliffe, Canadian-English ice hockey player (b. 1914)
- 2008 – Stan Winston, American makeup artist and director (b. 1946)
- 2011 – Bill Haast, American herpetologist (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Phillip D. Cagan, American economist and author (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Capitola Dickerson, American pianist and educator (b. 1913)
- 2012 – Günther Domenig, Austrian architect, designed the T-Center (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Rune Gustafsson, Swedish guitarist and composer (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Barry MacKay, American tennis player (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Israel Nogueda Otero, Mexican economist and politician, 10th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Alan Saunders, English-Australian philosopher and radio host (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Jerry Tubbs, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Manivannan, Indian actor and director (b. 1954)
- 2013 – Peride Celal, Turkish author (b. 1916)
- 2013 – Heinz Flohe, German footballer and manager (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Edgar Gilbert, American mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2013 – José Froilán González, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Helen Hughes, Czech-Australian economist (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Elena Ivashchenko, Russian martial artist (b. 1984)
- 2013 – Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Stan Lopata, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Evaristo Márquez, Colombian actor (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Dennis O'Rourke, Australian director and producer (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Paul Soros, Hungarian-American engineer and businessman (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Arbor Day (Costa Rica)
- Cagayan de Oro Charter Day (Cagayan de Oro City)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of Valdemar and Reunion day (Flag Day) (Denmark)
- Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while June 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Sunday in June. (United States, Canada)
- Global Wind Day (international)
- Mangaia Gospel Day (Mangaia)
- National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
- Statehood Day (Arkansas)
- The first day of the month of Harh. (Sikhism)
“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,”Philippians 3:20 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Delight thyself also in the Lord."
Psalm 37:4
Psalm 37:4
The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness, but to the sincere believer it is only the inculcation of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is here described as a delight in God, and we are thus certified of the great fact that true religion overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. If they attend to religion at all, it is either that they may gain thereby, or else because they dare not do otherwise. The thought of delight in religion is so strange to most men, that no two words in their language stand further apart than "holiness" and "delight." But believers who know Christ, understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united, that the gates of hell cannot prevail to separate them. They who love God with all their hearts, find that his ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace. Such joys, such brimful delights, such overflowing blessednesses, do the saints discover in their Lord, that so far from serving him from custom, they would follow him though all the world cast out his name as evil. We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as indivisible as truth and certainty; they are, in fact, two precious jewels glittering side by side in a setting of gold.
"'Tis when we taste thy love,
Our joys divinely grow,
Unspeakable like those above,
And heaven begins below."
Evening
"O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face ... because we have sinned against thee."
Daniel 9:8
Daniel 9:8
A deep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should be so. Favoured as we have been, we have yet been ungrateful: privileged beyond most, we have not brought forth fruit in proportion. Who is there, although he may long have been engaged in the Christian warfare, that will not blush when he looks back upon the past? As for our days before we were regenerated, may they be forgiven and forgotten; but since then, though we have not sinned as before, yet we have sinned against light and against love--light which has really penetrated our minds, and love in which we have rejoiced. Oh, the atrocity of the sin of a pardoned soul! An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God's own elect ones, who has had communion with Christ and leaned his head upon Jesus' bosom. Look at David! Many will talk of his sin, but I pray you look at his repentance, and hear his broken bones, as each one of them moans out its dolorous confession! Mark his tears, as they fall upon the ground, and the deep sighs with which he accompanies the softened music of his harp! We have erred: let us, therefore, seek the spirit of penitence. Look, again, at Peter! We speak much of Peter's denying his Master. Remember, it is written, "He wept bitterly." Have we no denials of our Lord to be lamented with tears? Alas! these sins of ours, before and after conversion, would consign us to the place of inextinguishable fire if it were not for the sovereign mercy which has made us to differ, snatching us like brands from the burning. My soul, bow down under a sense of thy natural sinfulness, and worship thy God. Admire the grace which saves thee--the mercy which spares thee--the love which pardons thee!
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Timotheus, Timothy
[Tīmō'theŭs, Tĭm'o thy̆] - honored of god, worshiping god or valued of god.A young man of Lystra, son of Eunice, a Jewess, by a Greek father who was probably dead when Paul first visited the home (Acts 16:1).
[Tīmō'theŭs, Tĭm'o thy̆] - honored of god, worshiping god or valued of god.A young man of Lystra, son of Eunice, a Jewess, by a Greek father who was probably dead when Paul first visited the home (Acts 16:1).
The Man Who Confessed a Good Confession
As Paul contributes a full portrait of his spiritual son, many years his junior, let us string together the salient features of Timothy.
I. He was the child of godly heritage ( 2 Tim. 1:5). His mother was a Christian Jewess and the daughter of another devout Jewess, Lois. His Greek father's name is unknown. It may be that Eunice became a Christian when Paul visited Lystra, a town not far from Paul's birthplace, Tarsus.
II. He was a youthful reader of Scripture (2 Tim. 3:15). From a "babe" he had had knowledge of the Truth. How blessed children are if cradled in the things of God!
III. He was Paul's child in the faith (1 Cor. 4:17; 1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2 ). Probably Paul, a visitor of Timothy's house, led the young lad to Christ during his ministry in Iconium and Lystra since he refers to his persecutions there, which Timothy himself knew about (2 Tim. 3:10, 11). One writer suggests that when Paul recovered from his stoning at Lystra it was in Timothy's home he found shelter and succor.
IV. He was ordained as a minister of the Gospel (1 Tim. 4:14; 2 Tim. 1:6, 7). Conscious of Timothy's unique gifts, especially of evangelism (Rom. 16:21; 2 Tim. 4:5 ), it was fitting that Paul should choose him as a companion and fellow-worker. Faithfully he served Paul "as a son with his father," in the furtherance of the Gospel (Phil. 2:22). How indispensable he became to the apostle (Acts 17:14, 15; 18:5; 20:4)! Paul had no other companion so "like-minded" as Timothy, who enjoyed Paul's constant instruction (2 Tim. 2:3; 3:14).
V. He was an ambassador charged with difficult tasks. The responsible and delicate mission of restoring a backsliding church required both gift and grace (1 Cor. 14:17), as did the comfort of believers in the midst of tribulation (1 Thess. 3:2).
VI. He was co-sufferer with Paul in the afflictions of the Gospel (2 Tim. 1:8 ). Tradition says that Timothy died as a martyr for his faithfulness as a bishop in the reign of Domitian or Nerva. While attempting to stop an indecent heathen procession during the Festival of Diana, this God-honoring minister sealed his testimony with his blood. The two epistles Paul addressed to Timothy are rich in their pastoral counsel.
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HONEST TO GOD
The prophet Isaiah put it this way: “For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on God, fomenting oppression and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived” (Isaiah 59:12-13).
Notice the key to the lock here: acknowledge.
In one breath, the prophet lays out a glossary of sin (offense, iniquity, rebellion, treachery, oppression, revolt, lies), and he establishes that we sin in thought (what the heart conceives), word (lies), and deed (all the rest). “Thought, word, and deed” is a way of talking about the whole of our lives. It is a way of saying, “God, I need my whole life to be exposed to your healing touch. I need to be honest about my transgressions that are overt acts, those that are careless words, and those that are imaginings which spring from secret motives.”
We can be thankful that sin, in its essence, is the negation of what is good. It is the “-less” or the “un-” of the created order: lovelessness, lawlessness, godlessness, unbelief, thanklessness, disobedience, faithlessness–in other words, darkness. Why be thankful about that? Because sin has no existence in and of itself. Go into a dark room, turn on a light, and the darkness disappears. “The darkness is passing and the true light is already shining” (1 John 2:8).
I’ve met many people who feel utterly hopeless about their faults and transgressions. They feel terrible that they keep disappointing God, and they wonder whether anything will ever be different. And this is key: they view their mistakes as an essential part of who they are rather than a good gone wrong.
Sin must be taken seriously. This disconnect from God is the universal condition of the human race, as Scripture makes abundantly clear: “There is no one who does not sin” (1 Kings 8:46); “No one living is righteous before you” (Psalm 143:2); “Who can say, ‘I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin’?” (Proverbs 20:9); “the whole world is a prisoner of sin” (Galatians 3:22 ); “We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check” (James 3:2); “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8).
But, on the other hand, we must keep remembering that mankind was made “in the image of God.” Good. More than that, very good.
We must be honest about our failings and our sins–otherwise we will never find forgiveness and healing. But no one should ever think his or her essential identity is darkness. Christ is the light, and he wants to shine in our lives. [More on that, next time.]
Excerpt from Putting the Pieces Back Together: How Real Life and Real Faith Connect. Free DVD available now.
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Today's reading: Ezra 9-10, Acts 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezra 9-10
Ezra's Prayer About Intermarriage
1 After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, "The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites. 2 They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness...."
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 1
Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven
1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
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