Happy Birthday RIP Gilda Radner(1946–1989) Noriyuki “Pat” Morita(1932–2005) ; Melvin Kaminsky(“Mel Brooks”)–92 John Biener–80 Bruce Davison–72 Kathleen “Kathy” Bates–70 Alice Krige–64 John Cusack–52 Mary Stuart Masterson–52 Danielle Brisebois–49 Michael “Mike” White–48 Jack “Steve” Burton–48 ; 1969 – Stonewall Riots begin in New York City marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement at the Greenwich village bar “Stonewall Inn”. 1970 – marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with an assembly on Christopher Street; with simultaneous Gay Pride marches in Los Angeles and Chicago, these were the first Gay Pride marches in U.S. history
June 26
Happy Birthday RIP Eleanor Parker(1922–2013) ; Michael “Mick” Jones–63 Christopher Isaak–62 Mark McKinney–59 Terri Nunn–57 Christopher O’Donnell–48 Sean Hayes–48 Jason Schwartzman–38 ; 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions ; 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
June 25
Happy Birthday RIP “George Orwell”(Eric Blair 1903–1950) Sidney Lumet(1924–2011) Georgios Panayiotou(“George Michael” 1963–2016) ; June Lockhart–93 Carly Simon–73 James “Jimmie” Walker–71 Ricky Gervais–57 Jason Lewis–47 Linda Cardellini–43 ; 1951 – The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities ; 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, designed by artist Gilbert Baker
June 24
Happy Birthday RIP William “Jack” Dempsey(1895–1983) Albert Molinaro(1919–2015) Jack Carter(Chakrin 1922–2015) ; Michele Lee Dusick–75 Michael “Mick” Fleetwood–70 Peter Weller–70 Nancy Allen–67 Joseph Penny Jr–61 Curtis Smith–56 Iain Glen–56 Danielle Spencer–52 Minka Kelly(Dufay)–37 ; 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract ; 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd
June 23
Happy Birthday RIP Alan Mathison Turing(1912–1954) Robert “Bob” Fosse(1927–1987) ; Vinton Cerf–75 Theodore Shackelford III–72 Frances McDormand–61 Selma Blair Beitner–46 Jason Mraz–41 Melissa Rauch–38 Corey Sorenson–38 James “Miles” Fisher–35 Aimee Duffy–34 ; 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer” ; 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam. Scholastic Aptitude Test is what it stands for.
June 22
Happy Birthday RIP Freddie Prinze(Frederick Pruetzel 1954–1977) ; Dianne Feinstein–85 Kristoffer “Kris” Kristofferson–82 Alexander David L. Landau–81 Britton Hume–75 Elizabeth Warren–69 Mary Louise “Meryl” Streep–69 Lindsay Wagner–69 Graham Greene–66 Cynthia “Cyndi” Lauper–65 Timothy Russ–62 Erin Brockovich(Pattee)–58 Carson Daly–45 Donald Faison–44 Jeffrey Hephner–43 David Jai Rodriguez–38 ; 1870 – Congress created the Department of Justice.
June 21
Happy Birthday RIP Ernestine Jane Russell(1921–2011) Lois Maureen Stapleton(1925–2006) ; Bernard Kopell–85 Monty Markham–83 Ronald Ely–80 Mary Loretta “Mariette” Hartley–78 Raymond Davies–74 Meredith Baxter–71 Michael Gross–71 Douglas Savant–54 Lana Wachowski–53 James Breuer–51 Juliette Lewis–45 Christopher Pratt–39 Prince William Windsor–36 ; 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law (The test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited)
Executive Order by 45 is total crock of shit.
“In a nutshell:
>”Every other president did it”
(No they did not. This is a new policy)
>”They broke the law so they deserve incarceration.”
(Improper border crossing is misdemeanor with a fine attached)
>”Bill Clinton passed the law.”
(No he did not. He passed no law. But the courts in the 1997 Flores Consent Decree ended a lawsuit from the Reagan administration and directed ICE to reunite minors with parents within 24 hours or as fast as humanly possible)
>”But Hillary…”
(Hillary has nothing to do with this.)
>”But her emails…”
(Her emails have nothing to do with this. )
>”But Obama…”
(Obama is not president.)
>”The Democrats are responsible.”
(Trump is responsible. He directed Jeff sessions to implement a new zero tolerance policy.)
>”We are just doing what the law says.”
(There is no law that says we have to do this.)
>”We are overrun by immigrants.”
(This is not true and it is an irrelevant logical fallacy unrelated to this situation.)
>”Trump is horrified and cannot do anything about it because of the Democrats in Congress.”
(No. He is absolutely the ONLY one who can do anything about it.)
>”The media is lying about it.”
(Do some firsthand research and you will discover that the only lies about this are coming from partisan sources like Breitbart, Daily Caller, Fox, and the like.)
>”Everyone is just trying to take down Trump.”
(No. Everyone is trying to push that malignant narcissist to stop causing irreparable emotional and physical trauma on children in furtherance of political gain and feeding an uncompassionate vitriolic fearful voting base.)”
June 20
Happy Birthday RIP Errol Flynn(1909–1959) Martin Landau(1928–2017) ; Olympia Dukakis–87 Brett Halsey(Charles Hand)–85 Morna Anne Murray–73 Robert “Bob” Vila–72 Christina “Tina” Sinatra–70 Lionel Richie Jr–69 John Goodman–66 Nicole Kidman–51 Peter Paige–49 Joshua Lucas Maurer–47 Thomas Wlaschiha–45 ; 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph ; 1948 – “Toast of the Town”, later “The Ed Sullivan Show”, makes its television debut