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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

It's good to be the Queen...crowned this day in 1953!

153rd day of 2015, 212 remaining

Sunrise: 5:49 AM
Sunset: 8:26 PM

Full Moon today at 9:21am, called the "Strawberry Moon" by the native Algonquins, the "Rose Moon" by Europeans.

Tides at the Golden Gate
Low: 6:24am/6:10pm
High: 1:31pm

Special celebrations today include...

Republic Day - Italy
Botev Day (commemorating heroes who died for freedom) - Bulgaria

National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day

On this day in...

1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.

1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.

1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.

1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.

1835 - P.T. Barnum launched his first traveling show. The main attraction was Joice Heth. Heth was reputed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington.

1851 - Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.

1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1886 - Grover Cleveland became the second U.S. president to get married while in office. He was the first to have a wedding in the White House.

1896 - Guglieimo Marconi's radio telegraphy device was patented in Great Britain.

1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.

1910 - Charles Stewart Roll became the first person to fly non-stop and double cross the English Channel.

1924 - All American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship by the U.S. Congress.

1928 - Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking, China.

1930 - Mrs. M. Niezes of Panama gave birth to the first baby to be born on a ship while passing through the Panama Canal.

1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.

1935 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.

1937 - "The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy" was broadcast on NBC radio for the first time.

1946 - Italians voted by referendum to form a republic instead of a monarchy.

1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.

1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.

1957 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV.

1966 - Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.

1969 - The National Arts Center in Canada opened its doors to the public.

1969 - Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half off the shore of South Vietnam.

1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate.

1985 - Tommy Sandt was ejected from a major-league baseball game before the national anthem was played. He had complained to the umpire about a call against his team the night before.

1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.

1998 - Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.

1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.

1999 - In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.

2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.

2003 - In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus were exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.

2003 - William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.

Birthday celebrants today include (or included)...

Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer
Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement
Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies
Ben Grauer 1908 - Radio and television personality
Max Showalter 1917 - Film, television, stage actor, composer, pianist, singer
Milo O'Shea 1926 - Actor
Carl Butler 1927 - Country music singer
Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon
Barry Levinson 1933 - Screenwriter, film director, actor
Sally Kellerman 1937 - Actress
Charles Miller (Charles "Charlie" Miller) 1939 - Scottish football player
William Guest 1941 - Singer (Gladys Knight and The Pips)
Charlie Watts 1941 - Musician (Rolling Stones)
Charles Haid 1943 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer
Jon Peters (John H. Peters) 1945 - Movie producer
Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
Joanna Gleason 1950 - Actress
Diana Canova 1953 - Actress
Dennis Haysbert 1954 - Actor ("24")
Dana Carvey 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Saturday Night Live," "Moving")
Gary Grimes 1955 - Actor
Lydia Lynch 1959 - Singer, poet, writer, actress
Michael Steel 1959 - Musician (Bangles)
Tony Hadley 1959 - Musician (Spandau Ballet)
Kyle Petty 1960 - Auto racer
Merril Bainbridge 1968 - Singer, songwriter
B-Real 1970 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
Wayne Brady 1972 - Actor, comedian ("Whose Line is it Anyway")
Wentworth Miller 1972 - Actor ("Prison Break")
Zachary Quinto 1977 - Actor ("Heroes")
Nikki Cox 1978 - Actress
Justin Long 1978 - Actor ("Dodge Ball," "Live Free or Die Hard")
Dominic Cooper 1978 - Actor

David Latulippe is host of On the Arts, KALW's weekly radio magazine of the performing arts, as well as for Explorations in Music, and the Berkeley Symphony broadcasts. He has also hosted and produced the radio series From the Conservatory, Music from Mills, and Music at Menlo, and is principal guest host for Revolutions Per Minute.