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Monday, June 19, 2017
![Mathematician Blaise Pascal](pix/pascal-blaise.jpg)
[1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, born in Clermont, France]
![Founding Father Jose Rizal](pix/rizal-jose.jpg)
[1861 - Jose Rizal, Filipino founding father, born in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines]
![USS Kearsage sinks CSS Alabama off French coast](pix/kearsage-alabama.jpg)
[1864 - USS Kearsarge sinks Confederate raider CSS Alabama off the coast of France]
![Juneteenth logo](pix/juneteenth_logo.jpg)
[1865 - Juneteenth is first celebrated in Texas]
![Moe Howard](pix/howard-moe3.jpg)
[1897 - Moe Howard (Harry Moses Horowitz), comedian, actor, born in Brooklyn]
![Baseball Great Lou Gehrig](pix/gehrig-lou3.jpg)
[1903 - Lou (Henry Louis) Gehrig, Baseball Hall of Fame Yankee first baseman, born in New York City]
![Actress Mildred Natwick](pix/natwick-mildred3.jpg)
[1905 - Mildred Natwick, actress, born in Baltimore, Maryland]
![Bust of Bascom by Morse](pix/bascom-earl_bust.jpg)
[1906 - Earl W. Bascom, cowboy artist, rodeo showman, born in Vernal, Utah]
![Justice Abe Fortas](pix/fortas-abe.jpg)
[1910 - Abe Fortas, Supreme Court Associate Justice, born in Memphis, Tennessee]
![Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs](pix/flatt_lester-scruggs4.jpg)
[1914 - Lester Flatt, bluegrass guitarist, born near Sparta, Tennessee]
![Actress Nancy Marchand](pix/marchand-nancy.jpg)
[1928 - Nancy Marchand, actress, born in Buffalo, New York]
![Actress Pier Angeli](pix/angeli-pier3.jpg)
[1932 - Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli), actress, born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy]
![Philippine Sea - USS Lexington](pix/philippine-sea-lexington.jpg)
[1944 - Battle of the Philippine Sea begins ("Marianas Turkey Shoot")]
![Early NASCAR Grand National race](pix/nascar-grand-national.jpg)
[1949 - NASCAR stages the first Grand National event at the Charlotte Fairgrounds]
![Carl Erskine a.k.a. 'Oyskin' in Brooklynese](pix/erskine-carl.jpg)
[1952 - Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0]
![Garfield and Odie](pix/garfield-odie.jpg)
[1978 - Garfield cartoon makes its debut]
What Goes Around . . .
![Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad](pix/iran-ayatollah-khamenei-ahmadinejad.jpg)
Hey, Mr. Supreme Leader, and Mr. Leader, Jr., remember these guys?
![Iranian armed militants](pix/iran_armed_militants.jpg)
Perhaps some day soon they will come for you, if you continue to deny your people true freedom.
![Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei](pix/iran-ayatollah-seyed-ali-khamenei.jpg)
One rigged election does not a free country make.
![Iranian terrorists seizing US Embassy in 1979](pix/iran-terrorists.jpg)
We sure remember these guys. Whose flag will they burn next?
William's Whimsical Words:
The people of Iran are too smart and too aware to put up with you for much longer.
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