If you've been to the supermarket lately, you undoubtedly have noticed that egg prices have once again gone up, because of 'bird flu'. Please direct your comments to the Egg Board, I've tried 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, 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.
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.
Aretha recorded this in New York City with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, a group of four studio musicians who also played sessions in Nashville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama before starting their own Muscle Shoals Sound Studios. This was one of their first, and most famous recordings. They went on to work with Wilson Pickett, Paul Simon, Bob Seger and The Staple Singers.
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.
In this song, a family finds out about the death of Billie Joe and shares gossip about him at the dinner table along with their other mundane concerns. Bobbie Gentry explained: "The message of the song revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. The song is a study in unconscious cruelty."
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 03, 1977 -
Bob Marley and the Wailers' ninth studio album, Exodus, was released on this date.
In 1999, Time magazine named Exodus the best album of the 20th century.
June 3, 1988 -
Penny Marshall's iconic film about growing up, Big, starring Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, and Robert Loggia, premiered on this date.
Penny Marshall became the first female director to ever direct a movie that grossed more than $100 million at the box office with this movie.
June 03, 1989 –
The Fine Young Cannibals second studio album, The Raw & The Cooked, started a seven-week run at No.1 on the Billboard charts on this date.
Fine Young Cannibals rose from the ashes of the UK band The Beat. Sometimes called The English Beat to distinguish them from the Paul Collins' band, The Beat, had a number of UK Singles hits including a cover of Smokey Robinson's Tears Of A Clown, Mirror in the Bathroom, and Too Nice To Talk To. When the band broke up in 1983, guitarists David Steele and Andy Cox went on to form FYC with a new vocalist, Roland Gift, whom they carefully chose after eight months of listening to cassettes.
Word of the Day
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.
And so it goes.
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