Each year on June 12, people in the United States observe National Red Rose Day. The day is honors the red rose, the flower that is a symbol of love and romance.
Apparent the other color roses don't have as strong a lobby.
Today is also Crowded Nest Awareness Day. While this holiday has been celebrated for years, once again this obscure holiday has never seemed more appropriate, since COVID, many family began multi-generational living together again.
Crowded Nest Syndrome (sometimes referred to as CNS by people not suffering from it) occurs when you have children who have moved out of the house and you've gone through Empty Nest Syndrome only to have your children (and possibly their children) come back home again and/or having your parents or in-laws move in with you so you can care for them.
June 12, 1913 -
Pathé Frères studios releases Dachshund (also known as The Artists Dream,) the first animated cartoon made in the U.S. with modern techniques.
John Randolph Bray invented and patented the process while producing the film. He patented many of his improvements on the animation process, realizing early on the business potential of these developments.
June 12, 1950 -
Elia Kazan's film-noir thriller, Panic In The Streets, opened on this date.
The ship Blackie attempts to board at the end of the film is the S.S. Quiriqua, owned by the United Fruit Co. (now Chiquita Brands). Built in 1932 to transport fruit, passengers and mail between the U.S. and Central and South America, she was requisitioned for use in the Pacific during WWII as the U.S.S. Mizar (AF-12) and earned four battle stars. She returned to civilian service with United Fruit in 1946 and was scrapped in 1964.
June 12, 1963 -
The four-hour film spectacle, Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, premiered in New York City, on this date.
When this movie finally broke even in 1973, Twentieth Century Fox "closed the books" on it, keeping all future profits secret to avoid paying those who might have been promised a percentage of the profits.
June 12, 1967 -
The fifth James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, starring Sean Connery, (screenplay by Roald Dahl,) premiered in London, on this date.
The henchman Bond fights in Osato's office was played by Samoan pro wrestler "The High Chief" Peter Fanene Maivia, grandfather of "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson.
June 12, 1968 -
Roman Polanksi's horror classic Rosemary's Baby, premiered on this date.
Ira Levin felt that this film is "the single most faithful adaptation of a novel ever to come out of Hollywood." William Castle speculated the reasons for this were because it was the first time Roman Polanski had ever adapted another writer's work, unaware he had the freedom to improvise on the book.
June 12, 1972 -
The Wings single, Silly Love Songs, (written by Paul and Linda McCartney,) went to No. 1 on the Billboard Charts, on this day. The song was McCartney's 27th American number one as a songwriter; the all-time record for the most number one hits achieved there by a songwriter.
Paul wrote this in response to a post-Beatles breakup comment by John Lennon, in which Lennon claimed that the only songs that Paul wrote for the Beatles were "Silly Love Songs." Like John Lennon, Paul McCartney made lots of music with his wife. Linda McCartney is credited as a co-writer on this track and was a member of Wings (the writing credit is sometimes listed as just Paul, but it's published with her name on it as well). This track is very lovey-dovey, with both of them singing "I love you" throughout the chorus. It would be very cloying if it wasn't so genuine: they had a very tight bond and were together until Linda's death in 1998.
June 12, 1981 -
MGM released the fantasy film Clash of the Titans, directed by Desmond Davis, special effect by Ray Harryhausen, and starring Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Maggie Smith, with a cameo by Ursula Andress, in the U.S. on this date.
Laurence Olivier was so ill during the making of the film, he would often go and lean on his tall, burly co-star Pat Roach, saying, "Let me draw some of your strength, dear boy."
June 12, 1981 -
A bizarre coincidence but Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1 and Lucas/ Spielberg's Raiders Of The Lost Ark both premiered on this date.
Beforehand, it was agreed that Orson Welles would receive $5,000 per day in exchange for his services. Figuring that he'd have to spend five eight-hour days recording and re-recording these lines with Welles, Mel Brooks paid him $25,000 up front. But by noon on the first day, Welles had recorded his lines to perfection. "Oh, my god, I could've paid you $5,000", Brooks lamented. After kicking himself for a few minutes, the funnyman asked Welles how he planned to spend the bounty. "Cuban cigars and Sevruga caviar", Welles replied.
The famous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the sword out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, Ford suggested "shooting the sucker". Steven Spielberg immediately took him up on the idea, and the scene was successfully filmed.
Aren't you glad that you know all of this.
June 12, 1987 -
20th Century Fox releases the science fiction action film Predator, directed John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, and Kevin Peter Hall, in the U.S. on this date.
Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were one inch bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger.
June 12, 1989 -
The short lived TV comedy series Doctor, Doctor starring Matt Frewer, premiered on CBS TV on this date
It series was picked up for a full season the following fall. A second season followed in fall 1990, but the show was cancelled at the end of the 1990-1991 season, due to low ratings.
June 12, 1997 -
Joel Schumacher's 'odd' take on the Batman story, Batman and Robin, starring the engorged nipple clad George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, and Chris O'Donnell premieres in Los Angeles, on this date.
Joel Schumacher said in an interview about this movie "if there's anyone that let's say loved Batman Forever and went into Batman & Robin with great anticipation if I disappointed them in anyway, then I really want to apologize because it wasn't my intention, my intention was just to entertain them".
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Today in History -
In early 1381 England imposed a new tax, which was called the "Pole Tax" because everyone got the shaft.
June 12, 1839 -
Alexander Cartwright, and not, Abner Doubleday, should be credited with the invention of Baseball.
On the one hundredth anniversary of the apocryphal story, the National Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York (in an effort to bring tourists to town.)
The first five inductees were Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth.
The Swiss Army Knife was patented on June 12, 1897. It was the fruit of centuries of Swiss research, development, and testing. Its release was heralded as the dawn of a golden age of Swiss technology.
Switzerland may not have won a war since, but they've never been caught without a corkscrew.
June 12, 1923 –
In New York City on this date, Harry Houdini performed one of his most famous stunts - escaping from a straitjacket, suspended 40 feet in the air, from a crane being used to build the New York subway.
Starting from when he was hoisted up in the air by the crane, to when the straitjacket was completely off, it took him two minutes and thirty-seven seconds.
June 12, 1942 -
A young Dutch girl received the crappy gift of a diary as a birthday present on this date.
So parents, chose wisely when giving your children birthday gifts.
June 12, 1963 -
Civil rights leader and NAACP official, Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by the KKK.
An informant in the KKK, Delmar Dennis, later served as a key prosecution witness in convicting Byron De La Beckwith for the slaying. Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001 at age 80.
June 12, 1967 -
58 years ago today, the US Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
Mildred Jeter and her white husband, Richard Loving, married in 1958, had been arrested in Virginia within weeks of arriving from Washington DC and convicted on charges of "cohabiting as man and wife."
June 12, 1978 -
David Berkowitz was sentenced to a maximum of 315 years in prison without the possibility of parole on this date.
June 12, 1982 -
The largest anti-nuclear protest, with some one million anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in Central Park, NYC on this date.
At the time, it was also the largest political demonstration, of any kind, in American history.
June 12, 1987 -
President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.
Although there is some disagreement over how much influence, if any, Reagan's words had on the destruction of the wall, the speech is remembered as an important moment in Cold War history.
And so it goes.
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