<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Corn on the Cob Day'.
- From Wikipedia
(Corn on the Cob): 'Corn on the cob (known regionally as "pole corn", "cornstick", "sweet pole", "butter-pop" or "long maize") is a culinary term used for a cooked ear of freshly picked maize from a cultivar of sweet corn. Sweet corn is the most common variety of maize eaten directly off the cob. The ear is picked while the endosperm is in the "milk stage" so that the kernels are still tender. Ears of corn are steamed or boiled, usually without their green husks, or roasted with them. The h
usk leaves are in any case removed before serving.
Corn on the cob is normally eaten while still warm. It is boiled or grilled. It is then often seasoned with salt and buttered before serving. Some diners use specialized skewers, thrust into the ends of the cob, to hold the ear while eating without touching the hot and sticky kernels.'
Corn was eaten by Native American tribes before European settlers arrived in the Americas. The Maya ate corn as a staple food crop and ate it off the cob, either roasting or boiling it.'
- From Wikipedia (Maize): 'Maize (/'me?z/ MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taíno mahiz), commonly known in North America and elsewhere as corn, is a large grain plant first domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mexico about 10,000 years ago. The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn'..
'In a 100-gram serving, maize kernels provide 86 calories and are a good
source (10-19% of the Daily Value) of the B vitamins, thiamin, niacin,
pantothenic acid (B5) and folate,
USDA Nutrient Database). In moderate amounts, they also supply dietary
fiber and the essential minerals, magnesium and phosphorus whereas other
nutrients are in low amounts.'. The leafy stalk of
the plant produces separate pollen and ovuliferous inflorescences or ears,
whic
h are fruits, yielding kernels (often erroneously called seeds). Maize kernels are often used in cooking as a starch. More
[The Hankster says] I love it. And yes, that is Corn on the Cob, not Korn on the Cob, as I have sometimes been referred to.
* 'National German Chocolate Cake Day'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake from the United States filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. It owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the chocolate flavor in the actual cake, but few recipes call for it today.
The filling and/or topping is a caramel made with egg yolks and evaporated milk; once the caramel is cooked, coconut and pecans are stirred in. Occasionally, a chocolate frosting is spread on the sides of the cake and piped around the circumference of the layers to hold in the filling. Maraschino cherries are occasionally added as a garnish,'
[The Hankster says] My favorite kind of cake. And yes, it is best with a tall glass of cold milk.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Making Life Beautiful Day'.
Since 2015.
[The Hankster says] Sounds like a plan. What was done before 2015, I don't know.
* 'World Wide Knit in Public Day'.
On the second Saturday in June, since 2005.
[The Hankster says] Cool, in public, yew can have even more people ask you, 'What is it a sweater?'
* 'International Young Eagles Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Young Eagles):
'Young Eagles is a program created by the US Experimental Aircraft
Association designed to give children between the ages of 8 to 17 an
opportunity to experience flight in a general aviation airplane while
educating children about aviation. This program is offered free of charge
with donations and volunteers. The program was launched in 1992 and, by
2014, has flown more than 1.9 million children in 90 countries. The
program's presenting sponsor are Phillips 66 and Sporty's Pilot Shop.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Walk and Roll 4th Annual Scoliosis Walk'. In Canada by Curvy Girls -
Scoliosis Support Group of Ottawa and partners.
- From Wikipedia (Scoliosis):
'Scoliosis from Ancient Greek "bending" is a common medical condition
in which a person's spinal axis has a three-dimensional deviation. Although
it is a complex three-dimensional condition, on an X-ray, viewed from the
rear, the spine of an individual with scoliosis can resemble an "S"
or a "C", rather than a straight line.
Scoliosis is typically classified as either congenital (caused by vertebral
anomalies present at birth), idiopathic (cause unknown, sub-classified as
infantile, juvenile, adolescent, or adult, according to when onset
occurred), or secondary to a primary condition.
Secondary scoliosis can be the result of a neuromuscular condition (e.g.,
spina bifida, cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or physical trauma)
or syndromes such as Chiari malformation.
Recent longitudinal studies reveal that the most common form of the
condition, late-onset idiopathic scoliosis, causes little physical
impairment other than back pain and cosmetic concerns, even when untreated,
with mortality rates similar to the general population. Older beliefs that
untreated idiopathic scoliosis necessarily progresses into severe
(cardiopulmonary) disability by old age have been refuted by later studies.
The rarer forms of scoliosis pose risks of complications such as heart and
lung problems. Scoliosis is a lifelong condition management of the
condition includes treatments such as bracing, physical therapy and
surgery'.
o Other:
* 'King Kamehameha Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Kamehameha Day):
'Kamehameha Day on June 11 is a public holiday of the state of Hawaii in
the United States. It honors Kamehameha the Great, the monarch who first
established the unified Kingdom of Hawai?i—comprising the Hawaiian Islands
of Ni?ihau, Kaua?i, O?ahu, Moloka?i, Lana?i, Kaho?olawe, Maui, and Hawai?i.
In 1883 a statue of King Kamehameha I was dedicated in Honolulu by King
David Kalakaua (this was a duplicate, because the original statue was
temporarily lost at sea). There is another duplicate of this statue in
Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C.'
* 'William Davis Miners' Memorial Day'.
- From Wikipedia:
'Davis Day, also known as Miners' Memorial Day (and since November 25,
2008, officially William Davis Miners' Memorial Day), is an annual day of
remembrance observed on June 11 in coal mining communities in Nova Scotia,
Canada whereby citizens recognize all miners who were killed on the job in
the province'.
<> Historical events on June 11
* 'In 1742, Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named
after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1741. It had a hollow baffle
near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and
relied on aninverted siphon to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle.
It was intended to produce more heat and less smoke than an ordinary open
fireplace. It is also known as a circulating stove or the
"Pennsylvaniafireplace".
* 'In 1776, The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams,
Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee
of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress
were a team of five men who drafted and presented to the Congress what
would become America's Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This
Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776 until July 5, 1776, the
day on which the Declaration was published'.
* 'In 1935, Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration
of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. . '
- From Wikipedia: 'Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31,
1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for
developing FM (frequency modulation) radio. He held 42 patents and received
numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the
Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE), the French Legion of Honor, the
1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He was inducted into the
National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International
Telecommunication Union's roster of great inventors.'
'Armstrong had a standing agreement to give RCA the right of first refusal
to his patents. In 1934 made a presentation of his new system to RCA
president Sarnoff. Sarnoff was somewhat taken aback by its complexity, as
he had hoped it would be possible to eliminate static merely by adding a
simple device to existing receivers. From May 1934 until October 1935
Armstrong conducted field tests of his FM technology from an RCA laboratory
located on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City. An
antenna attached to the building's spire transmitted signals for distances
up to 80 miles (130 km). These tests helped demonstrate FM's
static-reduction and high-fidelity capabilities. However RCA, which was
heavily invested in perfecting television broadcasting, chose not to invest
in FM, and instructed Armstrong to remove his equipment.
Denied the marketing and financial clout that RCA would have brought,
Armstrong decided to finance his own development and form ties with smaller
members of the radio industry, including Zenith and General Electric, to
promote his invention. Armstrong thought that FM had the potential to
replace AM stations within 5 years, which he promoted as a boost for the
radio manufacturing industry, then suffering from the effects of the Great
Depression, since making existing AM radio transmitters and receivers
obsolete would necessitate that stations buy replacement transmitters and
listeners purchase FM-capable receivers. In 1936 he published a landmark
paper in the Proceedings of the IRE that documented the superior
capabilities of using wide-band FM. (This paper would be reprinted in the
August 1984 issue of Proceedings of the IEEE.) A year later, a paper by
Murray G. Crosby (inventor of Crosby system for FM Stereo) in the same
journal provided further analysis of the wide-band FM characteristics, and
introduced the concept of threshold, demonstrating that there is a superior
signal to noise ratio when the signal is stronger than a certain level.'
'In 1940, RCA offered Armstrong $1,000,000 for a non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use his FM patents, but he refused this offer,
primarily because he felt this would be unfair to the other licensed
companies, which had to pay 2% royalties on their sales. Over time this
impasse with RCA would come to dominate Armstrong's life. RCA countered by
conducting its own FM research, eventually developing what it claimed was a
non-infringing FM system. The corporation also encouraged other companies
to stop paying royalties to Armstrong. Outraged by this turn of events, in
1948 Armstrong filed suit against RCA and the National Broadcasting
Company, accusing them of patent infringement and that they had
deliberately set out to oppose and impair the value of his invention, for
which he requested treble damages. Although confident that this suit would
be successful and result in a major monetary award, the protracted legal
maneuvering that followed eventually began to severely affect his finances,
especially after his primary patents expired in late 1950.
* 'In 1937, The Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' is released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A Day at the Races (1937) is the seventh film starring
the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, and Maureen
O'Sullivan. Like their previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature A Night at the
Opera, this film was a major hit.'
'During production, Irving
Thalberg, who had brought the Marx Brothers to MGM, died suddenly of
pneumonia at age 37. After Thalberg's death the studio never gave the
proper care to the Marx Brothers, and their three later MGM films are
considered to be far inferior than the first two as a result'.
* 'In 1940, The Ink Spots recorded 'Maybe'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Maybe is a pop song written by The Ink Spots and
published in 1940.'
'The first version to chart was recorded on June 11, 1940 by the Ink Spots
featuring Bill Kenny and released by Decca Records as catalog number 3258B,
with the flip side Whispering Grass The recording reached #2 on the chart
that year. The Ink Spots' version of the song was also used as the opening
theme for the first game of the Fallout franchise. Another charting version
was recorded by Dinah Shore on June 25, 1940, and released by Bluebird
Records as catalog number 10793, with the flip side The Nearness of
You". This version reached #17 on the charts'.
* 'In 1944, The USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United
States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of
Surrender, is commissioned. .
- From Wikipedia: 'USS Missouri (BB-63) (Mighty Mo or Big Mo) is a United
States Navy Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship of the U.S. Navy
to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last
battleship commissioned by the United States and was best remembered as the
site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II.
Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific
Theater of World War II she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
and shelled the Japanese home islands, and she fought in the Korean War
from 1950 to 1953. She was decommissioned in 1955 into the United States
Navy reserve fleets (the Mothball Fleet), but reactivated and modernized in
1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, and provided fire support during
Operation Desert Storm in January/February 1991.
Missouri received a total of 11 battle stars for service in World War II,
Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned on 31 March
1992, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck
in January 1995. In 1998, she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial
Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor'.
* 'In 1966, The record, Paint It, Black, by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1.
- From Wikipedia: 'Paint It Black (originally released as Paint It, Black)
is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, written by the
songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first
released as a single on 6 May 1966. It was later included as the opening
track to the U.S. version of their 1966 album, Aftermath. Musically
inspired by the sitar playing of George Harrison and Harihar Rao, Paint It
Black, along with the Jagger and Richards-penned Mother's Little Helper,
was influential in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock and
raga rock.
Paint It Black reached number one in both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK
Singles Chart. The song became The Rolling Stones' third number one hit
single in the US and sixth in the UK. Since its initial release, the song
has remained influential as the first number one hit featuring a sitar,
particularly in the UK where it has charted in two other instances, and has
been the subject of multiple cover versions, compilation albums, and film
appearances'.
* 'In 1977, The record, I'm Your Boogie Man, by KC and Sunshine Band, peaks
at #1.
- From Wikipedia: 'I'm Your Boogie Man is a song originally performed by KC
and the Sunshine Band from their 1976 album Part 3.
Richard Finch said that the song was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida
radio station called Robert W. Walker, who was the first to give their hit
single Get Down Tonight airplay. In 1977 the song reached the No. 1
position on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 R and B Singles chart.
Billboard ranked it as the No. 11 song of 1977. The song was also an
international chart hit, reaching No. 1 in Canada and charting in Australia
(No. 38), Belgium (No. 16), the Netherlands (No. 6), New Zealand (No. 12)
and the UK (No. 41).'
The song was sampled in at least one preview for all five of the Scary
Movie films, as well as in the 2005 film Roll Bounce, the 2007 film
Superbad and comic-to-film-adaptation Watchmen. It was also the opening
song for the 1995 film The Last Supper'.
* 'In 1982, Steven Spielberg's movie 'E.T.' opened. .
- From Wikipedia: 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American epic
science fiction family film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg
and written by Melissa Mathison, featuring special effects by Carlo
Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert
MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Peter Coyote. It tells the story of Elliott
(Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed E.T., who
is stranded on Earth. He and his siblings help it return home while
attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
The concept for the film was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created
after his parents' divorce in 1960. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and
developed a new story from the stalled science fiction/horror film project
Night Skies. It was shot from September to December 1981 in California on a
budget of US$10.5 million. Unlike most motion pictures, it was shot in
rough chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances
from the young cast.
Released on June 11, 1982 by Universal Pictures, E.T was a blockbuster,
surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time—a
record it held for eleven years until Jurassic Park, another
Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it in 1993. It is the highest-grossing
film of the 1980s. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all
time, critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it ranks
as the greatest science fiction film ever made in a Rotten Tomatoes survey.
In 1994, it was selected for preservation in the United States National
Film Registry as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically
significant It was re-released in 1985, and then again in 2002 to celebrate
its 20th anniversary, with altered shots and additional scenes'.
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* 'In 1993, Steven Spielberg's movie 'Jurassic Park' opened. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction
adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The first installment of the
Jurassic Park franchise, it is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by
Michael Crichton, with a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp.
The film is set on the fictional Isla Nublar, an islet located off Central
America's Pacific Coast, near Costa Rica, where a billionaire
philanthropist and a small team of genetic scientists have created a
wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.
Before Crichton's novel was published, four studios put in bids for the
film rights. With the backing of Universal Studios, Spielberg acquired the
rights for $1.5 million before publication in 1990 Crichton was hired for
an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. Koepp wrote the
final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence and
made numerous changes to the characters'."
* In 2002, The television series 'American Idol' debuted.
- From Wikipedia: 'American Idol is an American singing competition
television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by 19 Entertainment,
and distributed by FremantleMedia North America. It began airing on Fox on
June 11, 2002, and ended on April 7, 2016. It started off as an addition to
the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol, and became one of
the most successful shows in the history of American television. The
concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned
singing talents, with the winner determined by the viewers in America
through telephones, Internet, and SMS text voting. Winners chosen by
viewers in its fifteen seasons were Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard,
Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David
Cook, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips, Candice
Glover, Caleb Johnson, Nick Fradiani, and Trent Harmon'.
No. 1 song
Top movie
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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