"You must have a sixth sense; there is no evidence of the other
five."
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE "ST NEWS" RELEASE DATE
(JUNE 17TH)
by Richard Karsmakers
The second time this new column appears, and it's still hardly a
very useful one, but it's a nice trivial thing and it's not too
big anyway, so who'd give a toss anyway (it's also some promotion
for the kind of output that the forthcoming "Brain Management
Utility" database will be capable of doing).
So...on June 17th the following things have happened:
1742 William Hooper, the man who signed the Declaration
of Independence, born
1882 Igor Fyodorovich Strawinsky, Russian composer
("Firebird Suite", "Sacrificial Rite of Spring"),
born
1895 George Fielden Macleod of Fuinary, Scottish
cleric, born
1904 Ralph Rexford Bellamy, actor, born
1905 Steamboat service starts on the Thames
1914 John Richard Hersey, American journalist/writer,
born
1917 Dino Paul Crocetti (Dean Martin), actor/singer,
born
1920 Beryl Read, actor/comedienne, born
1928 James Brown, singer (godfather of soul), born
1937 Robert Clyve Maynard, American journalist and
newspaper publisher, born
1939 Rob van Houten, Dutch actor, born
1944 Iceland becomes independent republic
1945 Jaap de Groot, Dutch radio person (Meneer de
Groot), born
1945 Ken Livingstone, politician, born
1946 Barry Manilow, singer ("Copacabana"), born (or
1943?)
1953 Mark Linn-Baker, actor ("Perfect Strangers"), born
1961 Tracie Bennett, actress, born
1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in
space
1966 Jason Patric, actor, born
1967 China detonates its first H-bomb
1972 Police arrest three men in the Watergate building,
instigating the Watergate Affair
1974 Jakub Kruszona, Polish computer programmer (Acid
Maker), born
19?? Eddie Merckx, bicycle racer, born
1995 ST NEWS Volume 10 Issue 1 finished
And that is what happened on this day, June 17th, in earlier
years.
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