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 The United Nations Day
in Support of Victims of Torture
"This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world."
Kofi Annan,
former UN Secretary-General
"Torture is one of the most
profound human rights abuses, taking a terrible toll on millions of
individuals and their families. Rape, blows to the soles of the
feet, suffocation in water, burns, electric shocks, sleep
deprivation, shaking and beating are commonly used by torturers to
break down an individual's personality. As terrible as the physical
wounds are, the psychological and emotional scars are usually the
most devastating and the most difficult to repair. Many torture
survivors suffer recurring nightmares and flashbacks. They withdraw
from family, school and work and feel a loss of trust." Source
US admits using torture
'We wrote this cookbook to show how well these people are
treated'
US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan
- UN
Amnesty International to hold demonstration against torture
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Entrance
of Centre Earth, Icelandic legend
"According to ancient Icelandic
legend, every year at noon on the date, the tip of the shadow of
Mount Scartaris points to the secret entrance of 'Centre Earth', in
which dwell giant humanlike creatures and prehistoric monsters."
Source
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today's date in old Icelandic
Feast day of St Andrea Giacinto
Longhin
Feast day of St Anthelm,
Bishop of Bellay, confessor
Feast day of St Babolen, abbot in France
Feast day of St Corbican
Feast day of St David
Feast day of St Hermogius
Feast day of St Jane Gerard
Feast day of Ss John and
Paul, martyrs in Rome under Julian the Apostate
Feast day of St John of the Goths
Feast day of St Josemaria Escriva
Feast day of St Marie Magdalen Fontaine
Feast day of St Maxentius, abbot in Poitou
Feast day of St Pelagius
Feast day of St Perseveranda
Feast day of the Venerable Raingarda of
Auvergne, widow
(Blue sowthistle, Sonchus ceruleus,
is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Salvius
Feast day of St Terence
Feast day of St Teresa Fantou
Feast day of St Vigilius, Bishop of Trent
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Feast for the Shemsu of Heru
(Shemsu-Hor), ancient Egypt
Niman Kachina,
Hopi Pueblo (Jun
19 - 29)
The bonfires of
San Juan, Alicante,
Spain (Jun
20 - 28)
Festival of San Juan, Coria, Spain (Jun 23 - 27)
The San Juan or Mother of God Festivals,
Soria, Spain (Jun 23 - 27)
Inti
Raymi, Incan Winter
Solstice Festival of the Sun, Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco, Peru (Jun 24 - Jul 2)Alexandra Rose Day, UK
Inaugurated on June 26,
1912, by Queen Alexandra,
Danish-born wife of Britain's King Edward
VII. Rose emblems are
sold to raise funds for hospitals. The original date was the
fiftieth anniversary of the queen's arrival in England. Still
today roses are sold in Britain on a day in June.
International Day Against
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (UN)
Commemorates
Lin Zexu's efforts against the
opium trade in
Humen,Guangdong,
People's Republic of China just before the
Opium War. (June 3, the day on which Lin
confiscated crates of opium, is celebrated as Anti-Smoking Day in
the
Republic of China in
Taiwan.)
"In 1987, the UN
General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day
against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its
determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the
goal of an international society free of drug abuse."
Source
Feast
of the Shepherds, Aragon, Spain
The head sheep is clown for the day; music, dancing and clowning all
afternoon, and in the evening people do whatever they please.
Source: The
Daily Bleed
Pershore fair day, UK
Traditionally the last day that one will hear cuckoos. See
Fair-day of
Tenbury, Worcestershire, UK, April 20.
Flag Day, Romania
Sunthorn
Phu Day, ThailandIndependence Day, Madagascar
On which day of the week were you born? Find out here
1653 Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury,
Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV
1824 Lord
Kelvin (d. 1907), physicist, inventor of the Kelvin
temperature scale
1839
Emma Miller
(d. January
22, 1917),
pioneer Australian
trade union organiser,
suffragist, foundation president of the Woman's Equal Franchise Association between
1894 and 1905,
and a founder of the
Australian Labor Party in
Brisbane,
Queensland. On February 2,
1912 (qv) she famously stuck a hatpin in a horse ridden by the
Queensland Police Commissioner, Patrick Cahill, causing him to be
thrown and injured.
"On 2 February 1912, known as Black Friday, at the height of a general strike, Miller led a contingent of women to Parliament House, avoiding police with fixed bayonets. The women were charged by baton swinging police on their return from Parliament House. Miller reputedly stuck her hatpin into a horse ridden by the Police Commissioner, Patrick Cahill. Cahill fell from his horse and claimed to have been permanently injured. Direct political action was not Miller's only cause. She was anti-militarist and opposed conscription in World War I. She believed that
'those who make the quarrel should be the only ones to fight'. As vice-president of the Women's Peace Army, Miller attended the Peace Alliance Conference in Melbourne in 1916. She also fought hard for free speech and civil liberties. During the First World War, Miller preached equal pay to those fearing that women would take the jobs of men away at the war."
Source
Family
rediscovers grandma suffragette
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1854 Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada
1865 Bernard Berenson (d. 1959), art connoisseur
1892 Pearl S Buck (d. March 6, 1973),
American Nobel
Prize-winning novelist (1938),
the first woman to win
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,
with her novel
The Good Earth.
"Pearl
was forced to flee China in 1934 due to political tensions. She
returned to the United States, and obtained a divorce from her
husband. She would then marry Richard J Walsh, president of the John Day Publishing Company,
and adopt six other children. In 1938 she won the Nobel Prize for Literature,
after writing biographies of her parents, The Exile, and The Fighting Angel.
"In
her lifetime, Pearl S Buck would write over 100 works of
literature, her most known being The Good Earth. She wrote
novels, short stories, fiction,
and children's
stories. Many of her life experiences are
related to or in her books. She wanted to prove to her readers
that universality of mankind can exist if they accept it. She
dealt with many topics including women,
emotions
(in general), Asians, immigration, adoption,
and conflicts that many people go through in life." Source
1898 Willy Messerschmitt (d. 1978),
German aircraft designer, best known for his planes flown in World
War II
1899
Maria Nikolaevna Romanova (d. 1918),
daughter of Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia
 1904
Peter Lorre (d. March 23, 1964),
born Lazlo Lowenstein, Hungarian-born Hollywood actor (The Man
Who Knew Too Much; Crime and Punishment; Casablanca).
At age 21 he moved to Berlin
and caught the attention of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Lorre became famous when Fritz
Lang cast him as the child killer in M in 1931. Scenes from that film were re-used by
the Nazi propaganda agencies in the anti-Semitic movie
Der
ewige Jude.
According to IMDB, "During
the Hayes Commission investigation of 'reds' in Hollywood during the
late 40s, Lorre was interviewed by investigators and asked to name
anyone suspicious he had met since coming to the United States.
Lorre responded with a list of everyone he knew".
Lorre's caricature was frequently
used in Warner Brothers cartoons, and his
persona was used as the basis of the character Flat Top in the 1961 Dick
Tracy Show cartoons.
"In the last decade of his career, Lorre – whom Charlie Chaplin and others had once called the
'world's greatest actor' – was reduced to playing character parts or cameo roles, as in
'Around the World in Eighty Days' (1956, along with Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, and what seems to be hundreds of other film stars of the day!). He also played some comedy roles, as in
'Comedy of Terrors' (1964) with Boris Karloff, and he enjoyed doing radio mysteries, for which his distinct nasal voice was well suited."
Source
1909 Colonel
Tom Parker (d. 1997),
manager of Elvis
Presley.
Parker claimed to have been born in
Huntington, West Virginia, on June 26, 1909. But the rather
iconoclastic author, Albert Goldman, in his unauthorised biography Elvis, claims that the
Colonel was in fact born Andre van Kuijk in Breda, southern Holland,
and entered the USA illegally. It was claimed that Parker never
owned a credit card (possibly to avoid credit checks that might
expose his lack of genuine ID), and had no passport.
1912 Jay Silverheels (d. 1980), Canadian
Mohawk
Indian actor,
best known for his many appearances as the Lone
Ranger's friend Tonto
1919 Richard Neustadt, political historian
1925 Pavel Belyayev
(d. 1970), cosmonaut
1929 June
Bronhill (d. January
24, 2005),
Australian soprano
opera
singer
1933 Claudio Abbado, conductor
1936 Robert Maclennan, British politician
1943 Klaus von Klitzing, physicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1985
1956 Chris
Isaak, pop singer
1964 Zeng Jinlian (born Hunan, China;
d. February
13, 1982), who
became the tallest known woman at 241.3 cm (8'1")
1970 Chris O'Donnell, actor
1980 Jason Schwartzman, actor
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