{"id":906,"date":"2014-06-11T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T06:19:37","slug":"stuff-happened-birthday-tomorrow-case-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/stuff-happened-birthday-tomorrow-case-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"Some stuff that happened on my birthday. Which is tomorrow. In case you forgot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/birthday-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-910\" src=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/birthday-pic.jpg\" alt=\"birthday pic\" width=\"417\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/birthday-pic.jpg 417w, http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/birthday-pic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/birthday-pic-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/birthday-pic-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1381, 1418, 1429, 1550, 1653: a bunch of various battles in Europe. Probably some Black Death. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1665: England installs a municipal government in New York City.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1775: The first naval battle of Revolution &#8212; What is it with battles and June 12?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1776: Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1792: In local Pacific Northwest news, Capt. George Vancouver discovers the eventual site of Vancouver, BC.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1812: Napoleon Bonapart invades Russia. I think this counts as another in the battle column.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1845: More local news: George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1864: In yet another example of violence on June 12, the Battle of Cold Harbor takes place, during which Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1880: Pay attention &#8212; this is important! The first perfect game in baseball is pitched by John Lee Richmond. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1897: Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe, but the death toll is reported as &#8220;negligible.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1898: The Philippines declare their independence from Spain.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1902: Universal suffrage comes to Australia. <br style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1922: More vital baseball news! St.Louis Browns pitcher Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth three consecutive times.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1923: Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet above the ground in New York City. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1929: Anne Lise Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1931: Al Capone is indicted for violating Prohibition laws.<br style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1935: In the antithesis of previous war news, the three-year Chaco War ends and a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1942: Anne Frank gets a diary for her 13th birthday. She names it Kitty. <br style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1944: First V-1 rocket reaches London.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, MI by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1964: Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa. Also, I was born.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1965: In strange music coincidences, The Beatles are awarded the MBE and Sonny and Cher make their first television singing appearance on American Bandstand.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1967: Israel wins 6 day war. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1967: Loving v Virginia strikes down anti-miscegenation laws, allowing interracial marriages in every state in the union.True marriage equality will take a few dozen more years to achieve.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1967: During a race riot in Cincinnati, OH, 300 are arrested.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">June 12, 1971: It&#8217;s a nice day for a White House Wedding Day: Tricia Nixon &amp; Edward F Cox marry at the White House.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1981: In sad baseball news, a 50-day players&#8217; strike begins.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1986: P W Botha declares South African national emergency. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1987: Reagan says to Gorbechev, &#8220;Tear down this wall!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1991: In news that provided comics with loads of material for years afterward, Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">1997: The jury is still out whether its good that inter-league play started in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wish there was more on the interweb about good stuff that happened on my birthday. I can remember a few birthday parties that are worth mentioning, like the one when I was 9, a pizza party (I had a lot of those) and we left my friend Paula at the pizza parlor. Or my 21st at UC Davis when we were loud enough to get a visit from the cops. Ten years ago I got in contact again with my childhood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\">friend<\/a>, Pam, whose art was hanging in the bakery where I was getting a birthday cupcake. I recognized the name and looked her up on the net and we reconnected. Her band the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlecastaways.com\">Castaways <\/a> is playing at my party on Saturday. I think that&#8217;s worthy of making a list of good stuff that happened on June 12. But I think it&#8217;s the bad things that hold our focus. I&#8217;ll have to start keeping my own list over the second half of my life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any great June 12 memories?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1381, 1418, 1429, 1550, 1653: a bunch of various battles in Europe. 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