This Day In History (June 7th)
Bill Schenley
First Crusade reaches the walls of Jerusalem (1099)
http://www.mwscomp.com/python.html
Robert I, The Bruce, king of the Scotland, died of leprosy
(1329).
http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/Scenes6.html
http://www.britannia.com/bios/robertbruce.html
The Battle of Bannockburn (The Bruce ... and Scotland's
greatest victory):
http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/bannockburn2.html
The United Colonies change their name (1775).
R. D. Blackmore, English author (Lorna Doone), is born
(1825).
French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born
(1848).
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/gauguin_ptg.html
First U.S. "dime novel" published: Malaseka, The Indian
Wife (1860).
William Mumford became the first U.S. citizen hanged for
treason. His treason: He tore down the American flag flying
over the U.S. Mint (1862).
"As the noose slowly tightened
around his neck, the hangman
whispered in his ear,
'That flag was in mint condition!'"
http://www.nola.com/haunted/rue/morgue_butler.html
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as
president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore
(1864).
A man of mixed race was arrested when he refused to move
from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans
(1892). The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark
''separate but equal'' decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html
Jack ("Dirty Jack") Doyle of Cleveland Spiders, claimed this
day as the date of the first pinch-hit in MLB (1892). This has
since been disproved.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/doyleja01.shtml
Bio:
http://bioproj.sabr.org/DoyleJack.htm
State militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colorado to suppress a
Western Federation of Miners (WFM) strike. John D.
Rockefeller owns the police and the state. He will make various
promises of peace, then break them (1904).
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5654/
http://www.progress.org/archive/hgjr14a.htm
Gwendolyn Brooks, author, is born (1917).
Dean Martin, actor/singer, was born (1917).
Rocky Graziano, boxer, was born (1922).
Moe Howard of the Three Stooges, married Helen
Schonberger (1925).
The New York Times agrees to capitalize the "n" in Negro
(1930).
Nikki Giovanni, poet, is born (1943).
Clarence White guitarist (The Byrds) is born (1944).
Jean Arp, artist/sculptor and Dadaist, died (1966).
Author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, died in
New York (1967).
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that wearing a jacket that reads "Fuck
the Draft" is protected by the First amendment (1971).
Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who pleaded
guilty to charges that he lied before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, was called a man of "highest integrity" by Judge
George L. Hart, and was sentenced to a $100 fine & one month
of unsupervised probation (1974).
Novelist Henry Miller died (1980).
http://www.harryredl.com/gallery.htm
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) announces its
willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist (1988).
James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup
truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas (1998).
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup
of Microsoft Corp (2000).
George W. Bush signs a $1.35-trillion tax cut, mostly for the rich;
supposed to stimulate the economy, which quickly goes further
into the tank; "Balanced Budget" and other "Free Market"
righties have federal and state deficits soaring to new heights.
Not to worry, they do it again in 2003, with 85% of the
cut going to the richest in America.
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn.,
of beating a Greenwich neighbor, Martha Moxley, to death when
they were 15 in 1975 (2002).
Robert Feigel (aka Bob)
wrote:
>Birth of Muhammed (570).
>
>First Crusade reaches the walls of Jerusalem (1099)
>
>http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/
>
>http://www.mwscomp.com/python.html
>
Nice going with the links, Bill. Thanks, ÿbob
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Caroline Eves
Grace, Modesto Police Department blowhard, KTVU-TV's, Ted Rowlands,
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, SAN FRANCISCO, JIM HAMMER, and JEANINE
FERRIS PIRRO, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, know
about the recording of the man with the southern drawl?
Is that the kidnapper who shot Laci in the head or was Laci shot by
the secret witness who allegedly saw Scott Peterson transporting
Laci's lifeless body, on December 23rd, the day before she was
witnessed, walking her dog.
Who is feeding all the rumors about the stripper?