To celebrate Donut Day 2022, a few donut shops are offering a free donut deal. Celebrate at Krispy Kreme with a free donut of any variety (plus an additional one if you're vaccinated), or at Dunkin' Donuts which is offering a free donut with the purchase of any beverage.
The American Egg Board has declared that it is National Egg Day today.
If you've been to the supermarket lately, you undoubtedly have noticed that egg prices have gone up since last year. Please direct your comments to the Egg Board, I've done my best to keep prices down.
Today is also the Memorial to Broken Dolls Day (Ningyo Kuyo) in Japan. (I've also seen the date as being celebrated on the first Sunday in June.)
On this day each year, children bring their broken dolls to Buddhist shrines for funeral rituals. After the ceremony, the dolls are buried and enshrined.
This temple should be located on the Island of Misfit Toys.
June 3, 1955 -
The Billy Wilder comedy, The Seven Year Itch, opened on this date.
Billy Wilder preferred shooting in black and white, but Marilyn Monroe's contract with Fox called for all of her movies to be shot in color. Monroe always thought that she looked far more attractive and glamorous in color than in black and white.
June 3, 1964 -
The Rolling Stones taped their U.S. (national) television debut on the ABC series The Hollywood Palace, hosted by Dean Martin, on this date.
Dean Martin's rude introduction of the band still rankled Keith Richards many years later. At the time, Bob Dylan was so offended by Martin's contempt for the Stones, he noted in the liner notes for 1964's Another Side of Bob Dylan. "Dean Martin," he wrote, "should apologize to the Rolling Stones."
June 3, 1967 -
Aretha Franklin's cover of the Otis Reading song Respect hits #1 in America, one this date.
Franklin's cover is by far the best-known version, but this was an important song for Otis Redding. It was just his second Top 40 hit, following I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now), and it helped establish Redding on mainstream radio. Otis also performed the song at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967; this was a defining performance for the singer, who died in a plane crash six months later.
June 3, 1967 -
Billie Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge on this date (It was the Third of June, another sleepy, dusty delta day,) according to the Bobbie Gentry song Ode To Billie Joe.
When Record Mirror asked Bobbie Gentry in 1967 what was thrown from the bridge at the end of this song, she replied: "It's entirely a matter of interpretation as from each individual's viewpoint. But I've hoped to get across the basic indifference, the casualness, of people in moments of tragedy. Something terrible has happened, but it's 'pass the black-eyed peas', or 'y'all remember to wipe your feet.'""
June 3, 1969 -
The last episode of the original Star Trek series (Turnabout Intruder) aired on NBC-TV, on this date.
This episode was originally scheduled for broadcast on March 28, 1969. Special network coverage of the death of Dwight D.Eisenhower pre-empted it, and it didn't air until June 3.
June 3, 1972 -
The Staple Singers' song, I'll Take You There, hits #1 as the group makes a successful transition from gospel to secular music.
This was the first of two #1 hits for the Staple Singers, the other is Let's Do It Again. The Staple Singers were among the first groups to move from gospel to inspirational soul music. Said lead singer Mavis Staples: "When we heard Dr. Martin Luther King preach, we said, 'If he can preach this, we can sing it.'"
June 3, 1988 -
Penny Marshall's iconic film about growing up, Big, starring Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, and Robert Loggia, premiered on this date.
According to Robert Loggia, on the day they filmed the famous keyboard scene at FAO Schwarz, he and Tom Hanks noticed that doubles dressed like them were on hand just in case the two could not do the dance moves correctly. It became their goal to do the entire keyboard number without the aid of the doubles. They succeeded.
Another unimportant moment in history
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 go back to the old 1% rule. Beheading only for those who can well afford them. And if asked, I could quickly come up with a list.)
June 3, 1888 -
Casey at the Bat, subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner on this date.
The things you have to do to get kids to read poetry now-a-days.
June 3, 1906 -
Josephine Baker, dancer, singer, bisexual Parisian nightclub owner and Resistance fighter, 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, 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 bludgeoned anybody wearing a zoot suit.
The first two victims were a couple of boys, aged 12 and 13, who were just sitting in the Carmen Theater watching a movie. Thus began the famous week-long Zoot Suit Riot.
June 3, 1948 -
Edward Brown Jr., a former navy pilot, opened the first Fly-In Drive-In Theater, in Farmingdale, NJ, on this date. There was room for 500 cars and 25 airplanes.
June 3, 1955 -
Barbara Graham, a convicted murderer, was executed in the gas chamber along with two accomplices on this date.
Susan Hayward won an Academy Award for playing Graham in the movie I Want to Live!
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, arrived at the art studio of Andy Warhol on this date and shot him three times in the torso. Warhol barely survived the attempt on his life. Solanas was 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. Solanas died a year after that in a skid row hotel in San Francisco in 1988, purportedly still working on a sequel to her previous book.
June 3, 1989 -
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died after 11 days in a hospital, recovering from surgery to stop internal hemorrhaging, on this date.
Khomeini became ill when he realized that through a very bad translation, 73 virgins were not waiting for him but 73 raisins.
June 3, 1992 -
Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, campaigning for US president, makes an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, where he plays the Elvis Presley hit Heartbreak Hotel on the saxophone, on this date.
This performance ultimately solidified Clinton’s popularity with minority and young voters. It’s a moment in time that exemplifies the virtue of knowing your audience. Clinton knew his audience was young and urban, so he decided to give a performance he knew would resonate with them.
June 3, 2015 -
Godzilla, 61, nuclear accident survivor, Pacific Islander, Tokyo Bay illegal immigrant has officially been given Japanese citizenship and has been named ambassador at large of the busy Shinjuku ward of Tokyo.
It's always heartwarming to see how other countries deal with their immigrant situations.
And so it goes.
1 comment:
Indeed. Beheading only for those who can well afford them.
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