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June 29, 1940 –According to the Batman Canon: two gangsters working for Tony Zucco rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan on this date. Lucky for Dick, a rugged virile older man, Bruce Wayne was there to give him the care and attention aContinue reading “Holy origin story Batman!”

June 28, 1902 –Today is the birthday of nefarious American philosopher John Dillinger, born in 1902. (He is also believed to have been born on June 22, 1903.) At the age of twenty, a precocious young Dillinger attempted to illustrate the transient nature of material goods by depriving a stranger of his automobile. When aContinue reading “John Dillinger”

June 28, 1975 –David Bowie released the song, Fame, featuring John Lennon on backing vocals, on this date. It become Bowie’s first #1 hit in the US. John Lennon helped write this song – he came up with the title and also sang the background Fame parts in the high voice. They started working onContinue reading “Fame was released”

June 28 1914 –Archduck Franz Ferdinand was having an extremely bad day. He was touring Serbia with his wife, the Mallard Sophie. The purpose of his tour was to get Serbia to calm down, it having become extremely irritable for reasons known only to itself, possibly having to do with Austria’s occupation of the region.Continue reading “Franz Ferdinand is not just a band”

June 28, 1956 –The film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical, The King and I premiered in New York City, on this date. Yul Brynner is the only actor to have played a lead role in a Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II production both on the stage and on the screen, winning aContinue reading “The King and I premiered”

Although today is just a primary election in NYC today- Every vote is important and they absolutely count. Demand Euphoria!

June 27, 1894 –Leaving at about 11 o’clock in the morning, Annie Londonderry (actually Annie Cohen Kopchovsky) set off from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill to settle a bet between two Boston business men, as to whether or not a woman could circumnavigate the world with a bicycle. While she originally only packedContinue reading “Around the World in 487 days”

June 27, 1949 –Guardian of the Safety of the World, private citizen-scientist Captain Video and his Video Rangers, premiered on the Dumont Network on this date. During the Vietnam War, American soldiers who were taken as Prisoners of War by the North Vietnamese were often interrogated and asked whom the American military leaders were. Reportedly,Continue reading “Captain Video and his Video Rangers premiered”

Believe it or not. but for about 1.1 million students (and their exhausted families) the 2021/ 2022 school year is finally over. (Enjoy what you can of summer – the 2022/ 2023 fully ‘in class‘ school year is scheduled to begin 73 days from today, on September 8, 2022.Unless another public health crisis comes along)Continue reading “The last day of school”

Remember that today’s NYC Gay Pride parade, (the 52nd annual parade – the first in-person Pride Parade since 2019 due to COVID concerns,) making it’s way in some direction (they’ve changed the route yet again) this afternoon, actually commemorates the Stonewall riots, which launched the gay-rights movement. NYC Pride announced Planned Parenthood will be theContinue reading “Before the parade passes by”