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Today is June 12 2015

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Today's Holidays and Historical Events (updated daily)
Today's Food Holiday

National Jerky Day: More
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day More

Other celebrations/observances today:
  • National Red Rose Day: More
  • 21st Annual Festival: More
    Wilmington, Ohio, claims to be birthplace of the Banana Split. From their web site: 'The Banana Split Festival is organized by the Wilmington Rotary Club and the Wilmington A.M. Rotary Club. All net proceeds go to Clinton County Charities.'
  • Versailles Poultry Days : More
    Jun 12-14 in Versailles, Ohio.
Awareness / Observance Days on: June 12
  • Health
    • Alexis Lemonade Days: More
      Second weekend in June (12-14 in 2015). Childhood cancer fund raiser. Sell lemonade
  • Other
    • Crowded Nest Awareness Day: More
    • World Day Against Child Labour: More
      From the International Labour Organization (ILO) web site: 'The most recent global estimates suggest some 120 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour, with boys and girls in this age group almost equally affected.
      This persistence of child labour is rooted in poverty and lack of decent work for adults, lack of social protection, and a failure to ensure that all children are attending school through to the legal minimum age for admission to employment'.
    • Loving Day: More
      From Wikipedia: 'Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states citing 'There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause.
      In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were U.S. state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly forbidding marriage between non-whites and whites. Loving Day is not yet an official recognized holiday by the U.S. government, but there is a movement to persuade U.S. President Barack Obama to make it so. Loving Day is the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States.'
    • Russia Day: More
      In Russia, it celebrates the Russian Federation established in 1992.
    • Independence Day in the Philippines: More
      Commemorates the establishment of the First Philippine Republic in 1889.
Events in the past on: June 12
  • In 1898, The Philippines gains independence from Spain.
    - From Wikipedia: 'The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila.'

    Bonifacio and the Katipunan started the Philippine Revolution in 1896. A faction of the Katipunan, the Magdalo of Cavite province, eventually came to challenge Bonifacio's position as the leader of the revolution and Emilio Aguinaldo took over. In 1898, the Spanish–American War began in Cuba and reached the Philippines. Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from Spain in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898, and the First Philippine Republic was established in the Barasoain Church in the following year'.
    - At FamousDaily: More
    - On YouTube: More
    - On YouTube: More
  • In 1909, 'Shine On, Harvest Moon' by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1.
    - From Wikipedia: '"Shine on, Harvest Moon" is a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. It was one of a series of Moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was debuted by Bayes and Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 to great acclaim. It became a pop standard, and continues to be performed and recorded even in the 21st century.

    During the vaudeville era, songs were often sold outright, and the purchaser would be credited as the songwriter. John Kenrick's Who's Who In Musicals credits the song's actual writers as Edward Madden and Gus Edwards. However, David Ewen's All the Years of American Popular Music credits Dave Stamper, who contributed songs to 21 editions of the Ziegfeld Follies and was Bayes' pianist from 1903 to 1908. Vaudeville comic Eddie Cantor also credited Stamper in his 1934 book Ziegfeld - The Great Glorifier.

    The earliest commercially successful recordings were made in 1909 by Harry Macdonough and Elise Stevenson (Victor 16259), Ada Jones and Billy Murray (Edison 10134), Frank Stanley and Henry Burr (Indestructable 1075), and Bob Roberts (Columbia 668)'.
    - At Wikipedia: More
    - On YouTube: More
  • In 1939, Baseball Hall of Fame opens in NY.
    - From Wikipedia: 'The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, and operated by private interests. It serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, and honors those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport. The Hall's motto is "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations."

    The word Cooperstown is often used as shorthand (or a metonym) for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum'.
    - At FamousDaily: More
    - At Wikipedia: More
    - On YouTube: More
  • In 1955, The comedy TV show 'Mr Peepers', starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC.
    - From Wikipedia: 'Mister Peepers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from July 3, 1952, to June 12, 1955.

    Wally Cox starred as Robinson J. Peepers, Jefferson City's junior high school science teacher. Others in the cast included Tony Randall as history teacher Harvey Weskit; Georgann Johnson as Harvey's wife, Marge; Patricia Benoit as county nurse Nancy Remington, later married to Peepers; Marion Lorne as often confused English teacher Mrs. Gurney; Jack Warden as athletic coach Frank Whip and Ernest Truex and Sylvia Field as Nancy's parents.

    Mister Peepers was aired live, on stage before an audience at the New Century Theatre, 932 7th Avenue, New York City—preserved in the form of 16 mm kinescopes.

    Wally Cox was somewhat typecast by the role of the mild-mannered Peepers, but continued on to a long career in movies and television. He later starred in a comedy/adventure series, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, and is remembered as the voice of the cartoon superhero Underdog. He is best remembered by game show fans as a regular panelist on The Hollywood Squares from 1966 until his death in 1973. He also wrote and published a novel, Mr. Peepers (1955), based on scripts from the televised adventures of the character.
    - At Wikipedia: More
    - On YouTube: More
  • In 1965, Singing duo Sonny and Cher perform on 'American Bandstand' for their first TV appearance.
    - From Wikipedia: 'Sonny and Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R and B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector.

    The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965, "Baby Don't Go" and "I Got You Babe". Signing with Atco/Atlantic Records, they released three studio albums in the late 1960s, as well as the soundtrack recording for an unsuccessful movie, Good Times. In 1972, after four years of silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp Records label.

    The couple soon appeared on many of the top television shows of the era including The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, Where The Action Is, Hollywood A Go-Go, Hollywood Palace, Hullabaloo, Beat Club, Shindig!, Ready Steady Go! and Top of the Pops. They also appeared as themselves in the film Wild on the Beach, singing "It's Gonna Rain". On their first album Bono also displayed his political interest long before running for Congress in the lyrics of the song, "The Revolution Kind".
    - At FamousDaily: More
    - At Wikipedia: More
    - On YouTube: More
  • In 1967, During the Venera program, Venera 4 is launched. It will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data.
    - From Wikipedia: 'Venera 4, also designated 1V (V-67) s/n 310 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. It was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. It may also have been the first probe to land on another planet, with the fate of its predecessor Venera 3 being unclear. Venera 4 provided the first chemical analysis of the Venusian atmosphere, showing it to be primarily carbon dioxide with a few percent of nitrogen and below one percent of oxygen and water vapors. The station detected a weak magnetic field and no radiation field. The outer atmospheric layer contained very little hydrogen and no atomic oxygen. The probe sent the first direct measurements proving that Venus was extremely hot, that its atmosphere was far denser than expected, and that it had lost most of its water long ago'.
    - At Wikipedia: More
    - On YouTube (Russian): More
  • In 1996, Federal judges block law against internet indecency, in Philadelphia.
    - From Wikipedia: 'The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), also known by some legislators as the "Great Internet Sex Panic of 1995", was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of Reno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court struck the anti-indecency provisions of the Act.

    The Act was Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It was introduced to the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation by Senators James Exon (D-NE) and Slade Gorton (R-WA) in 1995. The amendment that became the CDA was added to the Telecommunications Act in the Senate by an 84–16 vote on June 14, 1995.

    As eventually passed by Congress, Title V affected the Internet (and online communications) in two significant ways. First, it attempted to regulate both indecency (when available to children) and obscenity in cyberspace. Second, Section 230 of the Act has been interpreted to say that operators of Internet services are not to be construed as publishers (and thus not legally liable for the words of third parties who use their services).
    - At FamousDaily: More
    - At Wikipedia: More
    - On YouTube: More
  II.
Henry's Heads Up! - previous days social media post (updated daily)

We have two food holidays tomorrow:
- 'National Jerky Day'.
[The Hankster says] Meat on a stick, without the stick.

- 'National Peanut Butter Cookie Day'.
[The Hankster says] Not one of my favorites. Strangely enough, I've never found a recipe for peanut butter cookies that I like.

Tomorrow is 'National Red Rose Day'.
[The Hankster says] Go ahead guys, surprise her.

Looks like Ohio is the place to be tomorrow:
- '21st Annual Festival'. Wilmington, Ohio, claims to be birthplace of the Banana Split. From their web site: 'The Banana Split Festival is organized by the Wilmington Rotary Club and the Wilmington A.M. Rotary Club. All net proceeds go to Clinton County Charities.'
- 'Versailles Poultry Days '. Jun 12-14 in Versailles, Ohio. Fun and events.


Awareness / Observance Days on: June 12
o Health
- 'Alexis Lemonade Days'. Second weekend in June (12-14 in 2015). Childhood cancer fund raiser. Sell lemonade..

o Other k- 'Crowded Nest Awareness Day'. World Day Against Child Labour'. From the

- 'International Labour Organization (ILO) web site: 'The most recent global estimates suggest some 120 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour, with boys and girls in this age group almost equally affected. This persistence of child labour is rooted in poverty and lack of decent work for adults, lack of social protection, and a failure to ensure that all children are attending school through to the legal minimum age for admission to employment'.

- 'Loving Day'. From Wikipedia: 'Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states citing 'There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause. In. the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were U.S. state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly forbidding marriage between non-whites and whites. '


Historical events in the past on: June 12

In. 1898, The Philippines' gains independence from Spain.

In. 1909, 'Shine On, Harvest Moon' by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1.

In. 1939, The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in NY.

In. 1955, The comedy TV show 'Mr Peepers', starring Wally Cox airs for the last time on NBC.

In. 1965, Singing duo Sonny and Cher perform on 'American Bandstand' for their first TV appearance.

In. 1967, During the Russian Venera program, Venera 4 is launched. It will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data. The planet was Venus.

In. 1996, Federal judges block law against internet indecency, in Philadelphia. It did support a later Child Internet Protection Act.

 III.
Top Song & Movie 50 years ago today (last updated June 12 next Jun 19 2015

No. 1 song

  • Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys: More
    'Back in My Arms Again' has been displaced by 'Help Me, Rhonda', which will hold the no. 1 spot until June 19 1965, when 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops', takes over.

Top movie

  • Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines More
    Having displaced 'The Sound of Music (reclaims the top again and)', it will be there until the weekend box office of June 27 1965 when, 'Von Ryan's Express', takes over.
  IV.
Today in the Past (reference sites): June 12
   V.
This month June 2015 (updated once a month - last updated - June 1 2015)

Monthly holiday / awareness days in June

Food
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Georgia Blueberry Month
Dairy Month
June is Turkey Lovers Month
National Candy Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
Sorghum Month

Health and Well-Being
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS)
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
Mens Health Education and Awareness Month
Migraine Awareness Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
Scleroderma Awareness Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
World Infertility Month

Animal and Pets
Adopt-A-Cat Month
National Pet Preparedness Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month

Other
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Black Music Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Children's Awareness Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs 'Do It Yourself' Marketing Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Great Outdoors Month
International Surf Music Month
June is Perennial Gardening Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month
Women's Golf Month


June is:

June origin (from Wikipedia): Perhaps to honor goddess Juno, or from the Latin word iuniores (younger ones).
"is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June."

June at Wikipedia: More

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TV fifty years ago 1965 (updated yearly - last updated Jan. 1 2015)

If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago, or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
From this Wikipedia article: More

 VII.
Best selling books fifty years ago (updated yearly - last updated Jan. 1 2015)

Best selling books of 1965 More

VIII.
Fun (Last link added October 1 2014, but content on each site may change daily)
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day: More
  • NOAA: - National Hurricane Center - Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook: More
  • Listen to Old Radio Shows: (streaming mp3 with schedule) More
  • NASA TV: (video feed) More
    NASA TV schedule: More
  • Public Domain eBook Links

    Sites for downloading or reading free Public Domain eBooks. Available in various formats. More

  • Podcast: A Moment of Science. Approximately 1 minute general science facts.
    Home page: More
    RSS: More
  • Podcast: The Naked Scientists. Current science, medicine, space and other science
    Home page: More
    RSS: More
  • Podcast: Quirks & Quarks. Current science news.
    Home page: More
    RSS: More
  • Articles and videos: Universe Today. Current space and astronomy news.
    Home page: More
    RSS: More
  • Old Picture of the Day - "Each day we bring you one stunning little glimpse of history in the form of a historical photograph."
    Home page: More
    RSS: More
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Other Holiday Sites (Last link added October 1 2014. Link content changes yearly)

Below, are listed several holiday sites that I reference in addition to other holiday researches.


US Government Holidays

  • 2015 Postal Holidays More
  • 2015 Official Federal Holidays More

Holidays Worldwide

  • List of holidays by country More
  • Holidays and Observances around the World More
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