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Hello everyone, it's the Round Table for the week beginning June 27. Welcome to the party!



Stuff that happened, June 27 - July 3





June 27, 1846 Charles Stewart Parnell Ireland, nationalist, land reform movement leader, and quite possibly one of the world's greatest statesmen of the 19th century.








1869 Emma Goldman anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.





"I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate - that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased. I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment. Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone." [italics mine. I think if you look up "compassion" in the dictionary you should find this quote.]






1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"

1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
This one can go right under Miss Keller's entry for compassion

491 Henry VIII of England (1509-47), Don't lose your head over him
1577 Peter Paul Rubens Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau France, social contractor (Confessions)
1902 Richard Rodgers Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)


Wonder how our own EmmaG is doing?


1946 Gilda Radner Detroit, comedienne (SNL-Baba Wawa)



1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1914 Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist,Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1
1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence

1919 Slim Pickens Kingsburg Calif, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1944 Gary Busey Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)




1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down














1902 Billy Wyler director (Mrs Miniver)

1917 Lena Horne Bkln NY, singer (Stormy Weather)



1916 Olivia de Havilland Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood, Gone With the Wind) (and our own Olyve's namesake - or, rather, the other way around)


1941 Twyla Tharp Indiana, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)




1961 Lady Diane Spencer (Princess Di) consort of England


1925 Patrice Lumumba Zaire, revolutionary


1883 Franz Kafka Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)

1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"


1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz] Bronx NY, actor (Some Like it Hot)
1945 Mike Corby guitarist (Babys)

1947 Betty Buckley Big Springs Tx, actress (Abby-8 is Enough, 1776, Cats)
1948 Paul Berrere rocker (Little Feat-Truck Stop Girl)



1949 Jan Smithers N Hollywood Calif, actress (Bailey-WKRP) (Apparently the sequel to "Ginger or MaryAnn" was "Bailey or Jennifer.")

1951 Jean-Claude Duvalier deposed Haitian president-for-life
1962 Tom Cruise Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Color of Money, Rainman)

1969 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowns to death at 25 ]








1971 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris...click the pic










One more birthday to celebrate: Mine.
I'll be 50 on Monday.

WOW, Happy Almost Birthday, Mellow!! May it be a great one.

Mighty fine opener there, Mellowicious, and the happiest of happy birthdays as you enter this fifth decade of your life. For me it's been the best one I can remember. That being partly due to the fact that I can't remember much about the previous decades.

LOL, Greger.

My 50s were the best too.
Happy Birthday, Mellow!
I love LOVE that photo.
It captures you.

Pit stop here.
The best Fest ever.
Man, they couldn't get it more right.
Hot as hell but that's ok. They had misters strung all over to keep us cool. Big fans in the beer gardens.
Music could not be beat.
One more afternoon.

I'm back out the door.

Have a great day all.

Olyve

A comparison to highlight another side of Helen Keller.

A friend of mine still wonders if the powers that be in Alabama have realized they commemorated a communist on their state quarter.

Wishes to the Birthday Girl!

I have slept in so many beds in the last week, I didn't quite know where I was when I woke this morning. I left last Friday for Atlanta, from there to Richmond, College Park, Silver Spring, Lexington, S.C., Atlanta and finally back to Huntsville.

For the most part it was a great trip but very, very hot in DC.

I'm here for two weeks and then the adventure starts again.

Happy week my friends.

Kathy

Happy Birthday Mellow Julia!

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Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes. I will admit that I had to work up to this one a bit!