The American Egg Board has declared that it is National Egg Day.
Who am I to argue with then, I understand that they are the 'real' people financing the Hugo Chavez government (but you didn't hear that from me.)
June 3, 1906 -
Josephine Baker, dancer, singer, bisexual Parisian nightclub owner, was born on this date.
During World War II, Baker became active in undercover work for the French Resistance movement. Josephine Baker died in France in 1975 and was buried in Paris. She was the first American born woman to be buried with full French Military Honors.
June 3, 1955 -
The Billy Wilder comedy, The Seven Year Itch, opened on this date.
Despite being one of the most iconic images in pop culture history, as well as one of the most recognizable photographs of Marilyn Monroe, the famous full-length image of Monroe standing with her dress being blown up never actually appears in the film. The shot used in the film is only of her legs, cut with reaction shots, and never shown full-length.
June 3, 1969 -
Last episode of the original Star Trek (Turnabout Intruder) aired on NBC, on this date.
If only they had done something with the series after it was canceled.
Today In History:
June 3, 1791 -
The French Assembly passes a resolution bringing decapitation to the common criminal: "Every person condemned to the death penalty shall have his head severed." So it wasn't just for the rich anymore.
(I'm still hoping that we bring this back for those miscreants on Wall St. and the Banking industry.)
June 3, 1888 -
Casey at the Bat, subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, by Ernest Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner on this date.
Perhaps someone can write a poem for Armando Galarraga soon.
June 3, 1943 -
Three days after a sailor had been badly injured in a brawl with a group of Hispanics, a mob of 60 servicemen leaves the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory and bludgeons anybody wearing a zoot suit.
The first two victims are a couple of boys, aged 12 and 13, who were just sitting in the Carmen Theater watching a movie. Thus begins the famous week-long Zoot Suit Riot.
June 3, 1965 -
The first American astronaut to make a spacewalk was Major Edward White II, when he spent 20 minutes outside the Gemini 4 capsule during Earth orbit at an altitude of 120 miles. A tether and 25 foot airline were wrapped in gold tape to form a single, thick cord. He used a hand-held 7.5 pound oxygen jet propulsion gun to maneuver. The launch had taken place a few hours earlier on the same day.
During the remainder of the flight, pilot White and his crewmate commander James McDivitt completed 12 scientific and medical experiments. The total time in orbit was almost 98 hours, making 62 orbits. Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, had made the first ever spacewalk for 10 minutes about three months earlier .
June 3, 1968 -
Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, arrives at the art studio of Andy Warhol and shoots him three times in the torso. Warhol barely survives the attempt on his life. Solanas is later jailed and institutionalized.
Doctors finish the job Solanas attempted several years later in a NY hospital when they botch a gall bladder operation in 1987.
June 3, 1955 -
Barbara Graham, a convicted murderer who was executed in the gas chamber along with two accomplices.
Susan Hayward won an Academy Award for playing Graham in the movie I Want to Live!
June 3, 1989 -
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies after 11 days in a hospital, recovering from surgery to stop internal hemorrhaging.
Khomeini became ill when he realized that through a very bad translation, 73 virgins were not waiting for him but 73 raisins.
And so it goes.
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