June 26^th is

Beautician’s Day

Chocolate Pudding Day

Same Sex Marriage Day *

National Canoe Day

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture *

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking *

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MORE! W.K. Clarkson, “Babe” Zaharias and Charlie Chaplin, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Azerbaijan – Armed Forces Day

Italy – Rome: Rock in Roma

Madagascar – Independence Day

Poland – Kraków: Impact Fest

Romania – Flag Day

Somalia – Independence Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

4 AD – Tiberius is adopted by Augustus, founder of the Roman Principate, as his heir

699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished from the Imperial Court to Izu Ōshima, a volcanic island 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Honshu. He had been accused of manipulating demonic spirits by sorcery, but his medicinal herbal knowledge was still highly valued

1284 – The Pied Piper lures 130 children away from Hamelin

1295 – The Duke of Poznań is crowned as Przemysł II, King of Poland, after a long period of Polish High Dukes; he is the first hereditary king since Boleslaw II in 1079. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms

1483 – Richard III takes the English throne

1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in a coup d’état by a group of 20 heavily armed men led by Diego de Almagro II, “El Mozo”

1699 – Madame Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin born, prominent Parisian salonnière, host to influential Philosophes and Encyclopédistes of the French Enlightenment

Madame Geoffrinn by Jean-Marc Nattier

1721 – Dr. Zabdiel Boyston gives first smallpox inoculations in America

1819 – W.K. Clarkson Jr. gets a patent for a velocipede, the first U.S. bicycle

1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect; Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British “in perpetuity”

1870 – Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States

1878 – Albert Siklos born, Hungarian cellist, composer and musicologist

1892 – Pearl S. Buck born, American author, 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature

1893 – Dorothy Fuldheim born, American print and television journalist and news anchor; began career as a reporter for The Cleveland Press newspaper; in 1947, she became a pioneer in television news at age 54, joining the staff of Cleveland’s WEWS-TV, then the only TV station between New York and Chicago; first American woman anchor on a TV news broadcast; first U.S. woman to host her own show, as well as first U.S. woman to have a TV news analysis program, Highlights of the News

1894 – The American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers

1896 – Vitascope Hall, the first U.S. movie theater, opens in New Orleans

1898 – Willy Messerschmitt born, German aircraft engineer and designer

1902 – Antonia Brico born, Dutch-American conductor, first woman to conduct Berlin Philharmonic (1930) and N.Y. Philharmonic (1938). Founder-conductor of the Women’s Symphony Orchestra (1934-39). When male musicians were admitted, it became the Brico Symphony Orchestra. Conductor of Boulder Philharmonic (1958-63)

1902 – William Lear born, American industrialist/electrical engineer; Lear Jet Corp.; granted over 100 patents for aircraft communications and navigation equipment

1911 – “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias born, multi-talented athlete, outstanding in basketball, track and field, swimming, golf, and billiards, winner of 10 major women’s golf championships

1915 – Charlotte Zolotow born, American children’s author, poet, editor and children’s book publisher; her best-known children’s book is When the Wind Stops

1916 – Virginia Satir born, pioneering American family therapist and author; Conjoint Family Therapy, Peoplemaking, and The New Peoplemaking; co-founder of the Mental Health Research Institute (MRI), which offered the first formal family therapy training program – Satir was the Training Director; she believed that the “presenting issue” was seldom the real problem, but how people coped with the issue created the problem; organized two  groups to help individuals finf mental health workers, and connect with others suffering from similar issues; noted for developing the Virginia Satir Change Process Model, using clinical studies, often used by management and organizational consultants to define how change impacts organizations

1917 – WWI: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France

1921 – Violette Szabo born, WWII French-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent; on her second mission into occupied France, she was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed. Posthumous recipient of the George Cross, the UK’s second highest award “for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger” while not under direct fire by the enemy

1919 – The New York Daily News is first published

1922 – Carolyn Sherif born, social psychologist, pioneer researcher in group psychology, self-system, and gender identity

1925 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush premieres in Hollywood

1932 – Dame Margarite Pindling born, Lady Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas since 2014; named Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007

1934 – U.S.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions

1936 – Edith Pearlman born, American short story and non-fiction writer; awarded 2-12 National Book Critics Circle Award for “Binocular Vision,” and the 2008 Pushcart Prize for “Door Psalm”

1936 – Nancy Willard born, American novelist, poet and children’s book author/and sometimes illustrator; won 1982 Newberry Medal for A Visit to William Blake’s Inn

1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

1946 – Candace Beebe Pert born, American neuroscientist, internationally recognized pharmacologist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain, and author; worked for the National Institute of Mental Health (1975-1987); Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch (1983-1987), the first woman section chief at the NIMH; founded and directed a private biotech lab in 1987; Molecules Of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel

1948 – Shirley Jackson’s now-classic short story “The Lottery” is published in The New Yorker magazine, causing cancelled subscriptions and prompting hate mail

1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins in earnest as the U.S., Britain and France begin dropping supplies to Berlin’s isolated western sector after the USSR cuts off land and water routes

1949 – Mary Styles Harris born, American biologist and geneticist; founder, president and genetics consultant of Harris & Associates, Ltd.

1950 – President Truman authorizes U.S. Air Force and Navy entry in the Korean conflict

1955 – Mick Jones born, British singer-songwriter, lead guitar for The Clash (1974-1983); co-founder of The Justice Tonight Band in 2011

1956 – Catherine Samba-Panza born, lawyer and non-partisan politician; interim President of the Central African Republic (2014-2016), first woman to serve as president of Central African Republic; Mayor of Bangui (2013-2014), C.A.R.’s capital

1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall

1964 – The Beatles album A Hard Day’s Night is released in the U.S.

1973 – John W. Dean testifies before the Senate Watergate Committee about the Nixon White House “enemies list”

1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time in the U.S. to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy OH

1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial

1988 – The first International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking * – designated by the UN General Assembly

1990 – George H.W. Bush, after campaigning for office on a pledge of “no new taxes,” concedes that tax increases will have to be included in any deficit-reduction package

1996 – U.S. Supreme Court orders the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state funding support

1997 – J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone published in U.K.

1998 – The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture * proclaimed by the UN General Assembly

2000 – The Human Genome Project announces completion of a “rough draft” sequence

2003 – U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, strikes down state bans on gay sex

2008 – U.S. Supreme Court overturns a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed 5-4 an individual’s right to gun ownership

2013 –  U.S Supreme Court rules that married same-sex couples are entitled to federal benefits and that same-sex marriages are valid in California, two major victories for the LGBTQ rights movement

2015 – In Obergefell et al v Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health,and other similar cases, U.S. Supreme Court makes 5-4 ruling that states cannot ban same-sex marriage – now celebrated as Same Sex Marriage Day *

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