If you've been to the supermarket lately, you undoubtedly have noticed that egg prices have once again gone down since last year. Please direct your comments to the Egg Board, I've done my best to keep prices down.
It's National Bubbly Day. The first Saturday in June is the day to break out that special bottle of sparkling wine you've been saving. Please note - while many people think that “bubbly” is merely a synonym for Champagne, the nickname really can refer to any sort of sparkling wine. Champagne is a specific sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France. This differentiation should help you keep those french sommeliers at bay. In the privacy of your own home, you may refer to any type of sparkling wine, as Champagne - it's no skin off my teeth.
National Bubble Day was invented by Freixenet Cava in 2016. This company has been making sparking wine since the 1860s, and the first bottle was released in 1914. This holiday was created to bring attention to sparking wine and how it can be enjoyed not just on this holiday but any day of the year. Other types of “bubbly” may include Prosecco (from Italy), Cava (from Spain), Moscato (from Italy) and many additional options.
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, 1956 -
The town of Santa Cruz, California, just seventy miles from San Francisco, banned rock-and-roll at public gatherings, calling the music “detrimental to both the health and morals of our youth and community," on this date.
Santa Cruz authorities cited a concert the previous night by the local band Chuck Higgins and his Orchestra, that produced a crowd of several hundred teenagers “engaged in suggestive, stimulating and tantalizing motions induced by the provocative rhythms” by the all African-American band. It's been all downhill ever since.
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.
The Stones’ first television appearance stateside was a June 2nd interview on The Les Crane Show (shown locally in New York City.)
June 3, 1967 -
Aretha Franklin's cover of the Otis Reading song Respect hits #1 in America, one this date.
Otis Redding wrote this and originally recorded it in 1965, with his version hitting #35 in the US. Redding said of the song shortly before his death in 1967: "That's one of my favorite songs because it has a better groove than any of my records. It says something, too: 'What you want, baby, you got it; what you need, baby, you got it; all I'm asking for is a little respect when I come home.' The song lines are great. The band track is beautiful. It took me a whole day to write it and about twenty minutes to arrange it. We cut it once and that was it. Everybody wants respect, you know."
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.
Gentry was familiar with the Tallahatchie Bridge since she was born and raised in Mississippi, where she grew up in a home without electricity. She learned to sing in church and her family got her a piano to nurture her musical talents. At age 13, she moved with her mother to Palm Springs, California, and in the ensuing years performed locally, taking the stage name Bobbie Gentry (her birth name: Roberta Lee Streeter - she chose the name after seeing the 1952 film, Ruby Gentry, starring Jennifer Jones and Charlton Heston).
June 3, 1967 -
The Doors release a truncated version of Light My Fire as a single, trimming it from an album-awesome 6:50 to a radio-friendly 2:52.
This became The Doors' signature song. Included on their first album, it was a huge hit and launched them to stardom. Before it was released, The Doors were an underground band popular in the Los Angeles area, but Light My Fire got the attention of a mass audience.
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.
To give Tom Hanks an idea of how a 12-year-old would behave, director Penny Marshall filmed each "grown-up" scene with David Moscow (Young Josh) playing Hanks' part, who then copied Moscow's behavior. Hanks would go on to do something similar for Forrest Gump, when he would spend time with Michael Conner Humphreys (Young Forrest) and imitate his Southern accent to prepare for the part.
Don't forget to tune in to the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour today
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, 1937 -
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (who was the Duke of Windsor and had previously been King Edward VIII,) married 'the woman he loved', Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson (who became the Duchess of Windsor and was previously known as maîtresse-en-titre of King Edward VIII,) on this date, at the Château de Candé, in Monts, France, after her second divorce became final.
Later that year, the couple toured Nazi Germany, not the greatest optics for the former King of England. During the Second World War, Edward was at first stationed with the British Military Mission to France, but after private accusations that he was a Nazi sympathiser, he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas. After the war, Edward spent the rest of his louche life in traveling the world; their official residence was in France. He and Wallis remained married until his death in 1972.
Such is romance upon the royals
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.
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