<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'International Sushi Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Sushi):
J 'Sushi is a food preparation originating in Japan, consisting of cooked
vinegared rice combined with other ingredients such as raw seafood,
vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits. Ingredients and forms of sushi
presentation vary widely, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common
is rice (also referred to as shari or sumeshi.
[The Hankster says] Don't like it.
* 'National Cherry Tart Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Tart):
'A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an
open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry
the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually
fruit-based, sometimes with custard. Tartlet refers to a miniature tart an
example would be egg tarts. Examples of tarts include jam tarts, which may
be different colours depending on the flavour of the jam used to fill them,
and the Bakewell tart.
The categories of 'tart', 'flan', 'quiche' and 'pie' overlap, with no sharp
distinctions. The French word tarte can be translated to mean either pie or
tart, as both are mainly the same with the exception of a pie usually
covering the filling in pastry, while flans and tarts leave it open. Tarts
are also typically free-standing with firm pastry, thick filling, and
perpendicular sides while pies may have softer pastry, looser filling, and
sloped sides, necessitating service from the pie plate. The Italian
crostata, dating to at least the mid-15th century, has been described as a
"rustic free-form version of an open fruit tart".
Early medieval tarts generally had meat fillings, but later ones were often
based on fruit and custard.
Tarte Tatin is an upside-down tart, of apples, other fruit, or onions.
Savoury tarts include quiche, a family of savoury tarts with a mostly
custard filling German Zwiebelkuchen 'onion tart', and Swiss cheese tart
made from Gruyere'.
[The Hankster says] 'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,All on a summer day:The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away'. Just call me Knave.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Splurge Day'.
Since 1994 by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith..
[The Hankster says] Go for it. One day a year is OK.
* 'National Go Fishing Day'.
[The Hankster says] Isn't that everyday?
* 'World Juggling Day'.
Saturday nearest June 17.
[The Hankster says] I am an accomplished juggler. You ought to see me at the end of the month when I balance my checkbook.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Autistic Pride Day'.
- From Wikipedia:
'Autistic Pride Day, an Aspies for Freedom initiative, is a celebration of
the neurodiversity of people on the autism spectrum on 18 June each year.
Autistic pride recognises the innate potential in all people, including
those on the autism spectrum.
On June 18 every year, organisations around the world celebrate Autistic
Pride Day, with events around the world, to persuade neurotypicals, people
not on the autism spectrum, that autistic people are unique individuals who
should not be seen as cases for treatment.
* 'Drowning Prevention Week'. June 18-26 in Great Britain.
<> Historical events on June 18
* 'In 1812, War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain,
Canada, and Ireland. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from
June 18, 1812, to February 18, 1815, fought between the United States of
America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its North
American Indian allies. Historians in the United States and Canada see it
as a war in its own right, but Europeans often see it as a minor theatre of
the Napoleonic Wars. By the war's end in early 1815 the key issues had been
resolved and peace came with no boundary changes.
* 'In 1815, At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was defeated by an
international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June
22. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June
1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom
of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte
was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led
Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian
army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of
Wahlstatt. The battle resulted in the end of Bonaparte's reign and of the
First French Empire, and set a chronological milestone between serial
European wars and decades of relative peace.
* 'In 1863 - J.J. Richardson received a patent for the ratchet wrench. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Wrenches in the form of sockets—that is, a female driver
to envelop the male head of a fastener—have existed for centuries. Early
examples include the keys used to wind clocks since the Middle Ages. The
heads and sockets were typically square hex heads eventually became more
common starting in the 20th century. The ratcheting socket wrench, with
interchangeable (indexable) sockets, was invented by an American, J.J.
Richardson, of Woodstock, Vermont, USA. The tool was patented (Pat. No.
38,914) through the Scientific American Patent Agency on June 16, 1863. The
first illustration of the tool appears on pg. 248 of the April 16, 1864
issue of Scientific American. In current English usage, the term socket
wrench connotes indexable sockets so strongly that most English speakers
would resist calling a large non-indexable, non-racheting, socket-head
wrench a "socket wrench."
* 'In 1940, Winston Churchill gives his famous 'Finest Hour' speech. .
- From Wikipedia:
'... But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States,
including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of
a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the
lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our
duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its
Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their
finest hour'.
* 'In 1948, Columbia announces first long-playing phonograph record, the 33
1/3. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The LP (long playing), or 33 1/3 rpm microgroove vinyl
record, is a format for phonograph (gramophone) records, an analog sound
storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted
as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from relatively
minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound
capability, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums.
* 'In 1961, The radio version of 'Gunsmoke' was broadcast for the last time
on CBS radio. The radio series ran from 1952-1961. The TV version ran from
1952-1975. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western
drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.
The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the
settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal
Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on
television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially
titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke.
The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. John Dunning wrote that among radio
drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any
kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to
1975, and stands as the United States' longest-running prime time,
live-action drama with 635 episodes. In 2010, Law and Order tied Gunsmoke
for most seasons for a live action drama series when it finished its 20th
and final season, but the show finished 179 episodes short of Gunsmoke's
final total in terms of prime-time scripted series with continuing
characters, The Simpsons is the only program to exceed 20 seasons. At the
end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote:
Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our
own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and
the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain. It was
ever the stuff of legend.
In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Philip
Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to
develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a Philip Marlowe of the
Old West Robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry
Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task.
Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created an
audition script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their
Michael Shayne radio scripts, The Crooked Wheel Two auditions were created
in 1949. The first was very much like a hardboiled detective series and
starred Michael Rye (credited as Rye Billsbury) as Dillon the second
starred Straight Arrow actor Howard Culver in a more Western, lighter
version of the same script. CBS liked the Culver version better, and
Ackerman was told to proceed.
A complication arose, though Culver's contract as the star of Straight
Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series. The project was
shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John
Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own.
Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in
contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger and The
Cisco Kid. Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving
cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for
unprecedented realism.
The radio series first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952 with the episode
Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18, 1961. The
show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc
Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Dillon's
assistant, Chester Wesley Proudfoot.
* 'In 1971, Southwest airlines launches in Texas, creating a new breed of
airlines called low-fare carriers. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV ) is a major U.S.
airline, the world's largest low-cost carrier, headquartered in Dallas,
Texas. The airline was established in 1967 by Herb Kelleher and adopted its
current name (Southwest Airlines) in 1971. The airline has nearly 46,000
employees as of December 2014 and operates more than 3,800 flights per day.
As of 2014, it carried the most domestic passengers of any U.S. airline. As
of June 2016, Southwest Airlines has scheduled services to 97 destinations
in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and abroad.
* 'In 1977, Fleetwood Mac's single 'Dreams' hits number one on the pop
music charts. .
- From Wikipedia:
"Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood
Mac's 1977 album, Rumours. It is the only U.S. No. 1 hit for the group where
it sold over a million copies, and remains one of their best known songs.
* 'In 1981, The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft
initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a single-seat,
twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed's
secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force
(USAF). The F-117 was based on the Have Blue technology demonstrator, and
was the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth
technology. The maiden flight of the Nighthawk took place in 1981 and the
aircraft achieved initial operating capability status in 1983. The
Nighthawk was shrouded in secrecy until it was revealed in 1988.
The F-117 was widely publicized for its role in the Gulf War of 1991.
Although it was commonly referred to as the Stealth Fighter, it was a
strictly ground-attack aircraft. F-117s took part in the conflict in
Yugoslavia where one was shot down by a surface-to-air missile (SAM) on 27
March 1999 it was the only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. The U.S. Air
Force retired the F-117 on 22 April 2008, primarily due to the fielding of
the F-22 Raptor. Sixty-four F-117s were built, 59 of which were production
versions with the other five being demonstrators/prototypes.
* 'In 1983, Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an
American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in
1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She remains the
youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at
the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA
in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for
International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of
California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching
nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that
investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only
person to participate on both. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23,
2012.
Prior to her first space flight, she was subject to media attention due to
her gender. During a press conference, she was asked questions like, Will
the flight affect your reproductive organs? and Do you weep when things go
wrong on the job? Despite this and the historical significance of the
mission, Ride insisted that she saw herself in only one way—as an
astronaut. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space
as a crew member on space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. She was preceded by
two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in
1982. The five-person crew of the STS-7 mission deployed two communications
satellites and conducted pharmaceutical experiments. Ride was the first
woman to use the robot arm in space and the first to use the arm to
retrieve a satellite.
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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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