On this Date . . .

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

What has happened in the past?

• 2005 - United States Supreme Court says no to medical marijuana.
• 2002 - The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, is destroyed in a thunderstorm.
• 2002 - A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
• 1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."
• 1984 - The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to flush out terrorists, following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualities are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire.
• 1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
• 1972 - David Bowie releases the classic album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
• 1971 - The Ed Sullivan Show goes off the air.
• 1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another
• 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy dies.
• 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
• 1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
• 1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
• 1882 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
• 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
• 1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
• 1654 - Christina, reigning queen of the Protestant nation Sweden, abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism. Charles X succeedes his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.

In addition

• June 6th is National Yo-yo Day - USA

And what does that lead us to? Armageddon.!

I am Malach and I advise you to duck and cover.