June 30th is:
Meteor Watch Day
Social Media Day
National Hand Shake Day
National Organization for Women Day
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
National Holidays Around the World
Congo Democratic Republic – Independence Day
Central African Republic – National Payer Day
Egypt – June 30 Uprising
Guatemala – Army Day
Sudan – Revolution Day
On This Day in HISTORY
- 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan
- 1860 – Oxford Evolution Debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- 1917 – Lena Horne, singer, actress and civil rights activist, is born
- 1937 – World’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
- 1966 – National Organization for Women founded, largest U.S. feminist organization
- 1972 – First leap second added to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) system
- 1986 – U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5–4, (Bowers v. Hardwick) that the right to privacy did not apply to homosexual acts between consenting adults (overturned in 2003)
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Lena Thorne was so beautiful, and what a wonderful voice!! Thank you, Nona.
Beautiful inside and out –
“You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.”
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
“I’m not alone, I’m free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody.”
“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”
“It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”
“I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.”
Indeed. TY, N.