<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Jelly doughnut):
'A jam (or jelly) doughnut is a doughnut filled with jelly filling.
Varieties include the German Berliner, Australia, Britain and Nigeria's jam
doughnuts, sufganiyot from Israel, and the jelly-filled doughnuts sold in
the United States and Canada. Japanese anpan are similar to the Berliner,
except they contain red bean paste. Krafne from Eastern Europe also include
a jelly-filled variety. In Italy, bomboloni are popular. Austria also has a
jelly doughnut known as krapfen that is typically filled with a pricot jam
and topped with powder sugar. The Polish paczki is also similar to a jelly
doughnut'.
[The Hankster says] See, I told you on Doughnut Day that this was coming. We still have Cream Filled Doughnut and Have a Doughnut Day to go this year. Once you think of it, it is only fair that they fill in that hole they put in it, in the first place.
Yes, I am wondering if there is a Peanut and Jelly Filled doughnut out there somewhere.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Best Friends Day'.
[The Hankster says] One of your most valuable assets. Like most things of value, you don't want to loose it, due to neglect. Much like telling your spouse that you appreciate them, the same should be done with a good friend.
* 'National Upsy Daisy Day'.
A positive thinking/action day.
[The Hankster says] Yep, get up and Get 'er done.
* 'Betty Picnic Day'.
Celebrates ladies named Betty. Since 1987.
[The Hankster says] Salute.
* 'National Name Your Poison Day'.
Time to make that decision, even if your options aren't the best.
[The Hankster says] I believe this is a conspiracy with the Upsy Daisy crowd.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'World Brain Tumor Day'. Since 2000 by German Brain Tumor Association.
- From Wikipedia (Brain tumor):
'A brain tumor or intracranial neoplasm occurs when abnormal cells form
within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant or
cancerous tumors and benign tumors. Cancerous tumors can be divided into
primary tumors that start within the brain, and secondary tumors that have
spread from somewhere else, known as brain metastasis tumors. This article
deals mainly with tumors that start within the brain. All types of brain
tumors may produce symptoms that vary depending on the part of the brain
involved. These may include headaches, seizures, problem with vision,
vomiting, and mental changes. The headache is classically worse in the
morning and goes away with vomiting. More specific problems may include
difficulty in walking, speaking and with sensation. As the disease
progresses unconsciousness may occur.
The cause of most brain tumors is unknown. Risk factors that may
occasionally be involved include a number of inherited conditions known as
neurofibromatosis as well as exposure to the industrial chemical vinyl
chloride, the Epstein-Barr virus, and ionizing radiation. While concern has
been raised about mobile phone use, the evidence is not clear. The most
common types of primary tumors in adults are: meningiomas (usually benign),
and astrocytomas such as glioblastomas. In children, the most common type
is a malignant medulloblastoma. Diagnosis is usually by medical examination
along with computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. This is then
often confirmed by a biopsy. Based on the findings, the tumors are divided
into different grades of severity.
Treatment may include some combination of surgery, radiation therapy and
chemotherapy. Anticonvulsant medication may be needed if seizures occur.
Dexamethasone and furosemide may be used to decrease swelling around the
tumor. Some tumors grow gradually, requiring only monitoring and possibly
needing no further intervention. Treatments that use a person's immune
system are being studied. Outcome varies considerably depending on the type
of tumor and how far it has spread at diagnosis. Glioblastomas usually have
poor outcomes while meningiomas usually have good outcomes. The average
five-year survival rate for brain cancer in the United States is 33%.
Secondary or metastatic brain tumors are more common than primary brain
tumors, with about half of metastases coming from lung cancer. Primary
brain tumors occur in around 250,000 people a year globally, making up less
than 2% of cancers. In children younger than 15, brain tumors are second
only to acute lymphoblastic leukemia as a cause of cancer. In Australia the
average economic cost of a case of brain cancer is $1.9 million, the
greatest of any type of cancer'.
* 'National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day'. In the U.X., by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- From Wikipedia (HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean):
'The Caribbean is the second-most affected region in the world in terms of
HIV prevalence rates. Based on 2009 data, about 1.0 percent of the adult
population (240,000 people) is living with the disease, which is higher
than any other region except Sub-Saharan Africa. Several factors influence
this epidemic, including poverty, gender, sex tourism, and stigma. HIV
incidence in the Caribbean declined 49% between 2001 and 2012. Different
countries have employed a variety of responses to the disease, with a range
of challenges and successes'.
o Other:
* 'World Oceans Day'. U.N. observance.
- From Wikipedia:
'World Oceans Day has been unofficially celebrated every 8 June since its
original proposal in 1992 by Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. It was officially recognized by the United Nations in late 2008. It
has been coordinated since 2003 by The Ocean Project, with greater
participation each year.
World Oceans Day is an annual observation to honour the world's oceans,
celebrate the products the ocean provides such as seafood as well as marine
life itself for aquariums, pets, and a time to appreciate its own intrinsic
value. The ocean also provides sea-lanes for international trade. Global
pollution and over-consumption of fish have resulted in drastically
dwindling population of the majority of species. World Oceans Day also
provides a unique opportunity to take personal and community action to
conserve the ocean and its resources.
The Ocean Project, working in partnership with the World Ocean Network,
Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and many other partners in its network
of 2,000 organizations, has been promoting World Oceans Day since 2003.
World Oceans Day events include a variety of activities and actions, such
as special outdoor explorations, beach cleanups, educational and action
programs, art contests, film festivals, and sustainable seafood events.
<> Historical events on June 8
* 'In 1869, Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The vacuum cleaner evolved from the carpet sweeper via
manual vacuum cleaners. The first manual models, using bellows, were
developed in the 1860s, and the first motorized designs appeared at the
turn of the 20th century, with the first decade being the boom decade.
In 1860 a carpet sweeper was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa
that gathered dust with a rotating brush and a bellows for generating
suction.[1][2] Another early model (1869) was the Whirlwind, invented in
Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The bulky device worked with a belt
driven fan cranked by hand that made it awkward to operate, although it was
commercially marketed with mixed success. [3] A similar model was
constructed by Melville R. Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1887 the
company later added portable vacuum cleaners to its line of cleaning tools.
The next improvement came in 1898, when John S. Thurman of St. Louis,
Missouri, submitted a patent (US No. 634,042) for a pneumatic carpet
renovator This was a gasoline powered cleaner although the dust was blown
into a receptacle rather than being sucked in, as in the machine now
used.[5] In a newspaper advertisement from the St. Louis Dispatch, Thurman
offered his invention of the horse-drawn (which went door to door)
motorized cleaning system in St. Louis. He offered cleaning services at $4
per visit. By 1906 Thurman was offering built-in central cleaning systems
that used compressed air, yet featured no dust collection. In later patent
litigation, Judge Augustus Hand ruled that Thurman does not appear to have
attempted to design a vacuum cleaner, or to have understood the process of
vacuum cleaning[6]
The motorized vacuum cleaner was invented by Hubert Cecil Booth of England
in 1901.[5] As Booth recalled decades later, that year he attended a
demonstration of an American machine by its inventor at the Empire Music
Hall in London. The inventor is not named, but Booth's description of the
machine conforms fairly closely to Thurman's design, as modified in later
patents. Booth watched a demonstration of the device, which blew dust off
the chairs, and thought that ..if the system could be reversed, and a
filter inserted between the suction apparatus and the outside air, whereby
the dust would be retained in a receptacle, the real solution of the
hygienic removal of dust would be obtained.[7] He tested the idea by laying
a handkerchief on the seat of a restaurant chair, putting his mouth to the
handkerchief, and then trying to suck up as much dust as he could onto the
handkerchief. Upon seeing the dust and dirt collected on the underside of
the handkerchief, he realized the idea could work.
Booth created a large device,[8] driven by an internal combustion engine.
Nicknamed the Puffing Billy,[9] Booth's first petrol-powered, horse-drawn
vacuum cleaner relied upon air drawn by a piston pump through a cloth
filter. It did not contain any brushes all the cleaning was done by suction
through long tubes with nozzles on the ends. Although the machine was too
bulky to be brought into the building, its principles of operation were
essentially the same as the vacuum cleaners of today. He followed this up
with an electric-powered model, but both designs were extremely bulky, and
had to be transported by horse and carriage. The term vacuum cleaner was
first used by the company set up to market Booth's invention, in its first
issued prospectus of 1901.[7]
The first vacuum-cleaning device to be portable and marketed at the
domestic market was built in 1905 by Walter Griffiths, a manufacturer in
Birmingham, England.[14] His Griffith's Improved Vacuum Apparatus for
Removing Dust from Carpets resembled modern-day cleaners – it was portable,
easy to store, and powered by any one person (such as the ordinary domestic
servant), who would have the task of compressing a bellows-like contraption
to suck up dust through a removable, flexible pipe, to which a variety of
shaped nozzles could be attached.
In 1907 department store janitor James Murray Spangler (1848-1915) of
Canton, Ohio invented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner,[10]
obtaining a patent for the Electric Suction Sweeper on June 2, 1908.
Crucially, in addition to suction from an electric fan that blew the dirt
and dust into a soap box and one of his wife's pillow cases, Spangler's
design utilized a rotating brush to loosen debris. Unable to produce the
design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to local
leather goods manufacturer William Henry Hoover (1849-1932), who had
Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel casing, casters, and
attachments, founding the company that in 1922 was renamed the Hoover
Company.
* 'In 1887, Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of
Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator. .
- From Wikipedia: Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929)
was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card
tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. He
was the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company that was consolidated in
1911 with three other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company, later renamed IBM. Hollerith is regarded as one of the seminal
figures in the development of data processing.[3] His invention of the
punched card tabulating machine marks the beginning of the era of
semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that
landscape for nearly a century.[4][5
'At the urging of John Shaw Billings, Hollerith developed a mechanism using
electrical connections to trigger a counter, recording information.[9] A
key idea was that data could be encoded by the locations of holes in a
card. Hollerith determined that data punched in specified locations on a
card, in the now-familiar rows and columns, could be counted or sorted
mechanically. A description of this system, An Electric Tabulating System
(1889), was submitted by Hollerith to Columbia University as his doctoral
thesis, and is reprinted in Randell's book.[10] On January 8, 1889,
Hollerith was issued U.S. Patent 395,782,[11] claim 2...'.
* 'In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law,
authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public
land with historical or conservation value. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Antiquities Act of 1906, (Pub.L. 59–209, 34 Stat.
225, 16 U.S.C. § 431 –433), is an act passed by the United States Congress
and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This law gives
the President of the United States the authority to, by presidential
proclamation, create national monuments from public lands to protect
significant natural, cultural or scientific features. The Act has been used
over a hundred times since its passage. Its use occasionally creates
significant controversy.
The Antiquities Act resulted from concerns about protecting mostly
prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts – collectively termed antiquities –
on federal lands in the West, such as at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Removal
of artifacts from these lands by private collectors – pot hunters, in the
language of the time – had become a serious problem by the end of the 19th
century. In 1902, Iowa Congressman John F. Lacey, who chaired the House
Committee on the Public Lands, traveled to the Southwest with the rising
anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett, to see for himself the extent of the pot
hunters' impact. His findings, supported by an exhaustive report by Hewett
to Congress detailing the archaeological resources of the region, provided
the necessary impetus for the passage of the legislation'.
* 'In 1947, Lassie makes its broadcast debut on the ABC radio network. It
later came to TV and ran from 1954 to 1973. .
* 'In 1948, The first Porsche car is completed. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Porsche 356 is a luxury sports car which was first
produced by Austrian company Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948-1949), and
then by German company Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH (1950-1965). It was
Porsche's first production automobile. Earlier cars designed by the
Austrian company includes Cisitalia Grand Prix race car, and the Volkswagen
Beetle as well as Auto Union Grand Prix cars were designed by the German
company.
The 356 is a lightweight and nimble-handling rear-engine rear-wheel drive
two-door sports car available in hardtop coupé and open configurations.
Engineering innovations continued during the years of manufacture,
contributing to its motorsports success and popularity. Production started
in 1948 at Gmünd, Austria, where approximately 50 cars were built. In 1950
the factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of
the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911
made its autumn 1963 debut. Of the 76,000 originally produced,
approximately half survive'.
* 'In 1948, Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Texaco Star Theatre is an American comedy-variety show,
broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was
one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting,
remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname Mr. Television
The classic 1940–44 version of the program, hosted by radio's Fred Allen,
was followed by a radio series on ABC (the former NBC Blue) in the spring
of 1948. When Texaco (now Chevron Corporation) first took it to television
on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.
On television, continuing a practice long established in radio, Texaco
included its brand name in the show title. When the television version
launched on June 8, 1948, Texaco also made sure its employees were featured
prominently throughout the hour, usually appearing as smiling guardian
angels performing good deeds of one or another kind, and a quartet of
Texaco singers opened each week's show...'
They didn't settle on Berle—who hosted a freshly revived radio version in
spring 1948—as the permanent host right away he hosted the first television
Texaco Star Theater in June 1948 but was originally part of a rotation of
hosts (Berle himself had only a four-week contract). Comedian Jack Carter
was host for August. Berle was named the permanent host that fall.
He was a smash once the new full season began, Texaco Star Theater hitting
ratings as high as 80 and owning Tuesday night for NBC from 8–9 p.m. ET.
And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year (the show
itself, for Best Kinescope Show and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped
Personality), Uncle Miltie (he first called himself by that name ad-libbing
at the end of a 1949 broadcast) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed,
and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a
technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country
to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might
pull next.
With Berle at the helm, Texaco Star Theater was largely credited with
driving American television set sales heavily; the number of TV sets sold
during Berle's run on the show was said to have grown from 500,000, his
first year on the tube, to over 30 million when the show ended in 1956.
Texaco Star Theater was also the highest rated television show of the
1950–1951 television season, the first season in which the Nielsen ratings
were used'.
* 'In 1966, The Elvis Presley film 'Paradise Hawaiian Style' premiered. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 musical comedy film
starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that
Presley filmed in Hawaii. The film reached #40 on the Variety weekly box
office chart, earning $2.5 million in theaters.
Rick Richards (Presley) returns to his home in Hawaii after being fired
from his job as an airline pilot. He and his buddy Danny Kohana (James
Shigeta) go into the helicopter charter business together. But Rick's
reckless flying and his careless negotiations with local women may cost
Rick the business and Danny his home.
Disaster looms as Danny becomes overdue on a flight after Rick has been
grounded by government officials. Rick must decide if he should risk losing
his license forever by going to look for his friend'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in June
Food
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Georgia Blueberry Month
Dairy Month
National Candy Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
Health
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS)
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Fireworks Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
Mens Health Education and Awareness Month
Migraine Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
World Infertility Month
Animal / Pets
Adopt-A-Cat Month
Adopt A Shelter 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
Effective Communications Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
International Surf Music Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Oceans Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids 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."
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