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Updated June 1, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
On June 2, 1904, Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic gold medallist and actor famous for his portrayal of “Tarzan”was born Following his death on Jan. 20, 1984, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol. 1886 President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in a White House ceremony. 1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” 1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians. 1941 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 1946 The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic. 1966 The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. 1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country. 1981 The Japanese video arcade game “Donkey Kong” made its U.S. debut. 1987 President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. 1995 A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O’Grady, was rescued six days later. 1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. 1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English. 2010 Amid the Deepwater Horizon oil spill crisis, BP chief executive Tony Hayward apologized in a statement posted on Facebook for having told reporters, “I’d like my life back.” 2010 Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game against Cleveland with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he’d blown. 2011 Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination during an appearance in New Hampshire. Current Birthdays
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Actor Justin Long turns 34 years old today.
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Actor Dominic Cooper turns 34 years old today.
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1937 Sally Kellerman, Actress, turns 75 1941 Stacy Keach, Actor, turns 71 1941 Charlie Watts, Rock musician (Rolling Stones), turns 71 1943 Charles Haid, Actor (“Hill Street Blues”), turns 69 1944 Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, turns 68 1948 Jerry Mathers, Actor (“Leave it to Beaver”), turns 64 1950 Joanna Gleason, Actress, turns 62 1954 Dennis Haysbert, Actor (“24”), turns 58 1955 Dana Carvey, Comedian (“Saturday Night Live”), turns 57 1955 Michael Steele, Rock musician (The Bangles), turns 57 1960 Kyle Petty, Auto racer, turns 52 1972 Wayne Brady, Actor, comedian (“Whose Line is it Anyway”), turns 40 1972 Wentworth Miller, Actor (“Prison Break”), turns 40 1977 Zachary Quinto, Actor (“Heroes”), turns 35 1978 Nikki Cox, Actress, turns 34
Historic Birthdays
Johnny Weissmuller 6/2/1904 – 1/20/1984 American champion swimmer and actor.Go to obituary »
70 Martha Washington 6/2/1731 – 5/22/1802
American first lady (1789-1797)74 Marquis de Sade 6/2/1740 – 12/2/1814
French nobleman and writer87 Thomas Hardy 6/2/1840 – 1/11/1928
English novelist and poet76 Sir Edward Elgar 6/2/1857 – 2/23/1934
English composer78 Felix Weingartner 6/2/1863 – 5/7/1942
Austrian conductor and composer97 Charles Stewart Mott 6/2/1875 – 2/18/1973
American automotive industrialist79 John Lehmann 6/2/1907 – 4/7/1987
English poet, editor and publisher66 Barbara Pym 6/2/1913 – 1/11/1980
English novelist69 Charles Conrad, Jr. 6/2/1930 – 7/8/1999
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MORNING
“These were potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.”
1 Chronicles 4:23Potters were the very highest grade of workers, but “the king” needed potters, and therefore they were in royal service, although the material upon which they worked was nothing but clay. We, too, may be engaged in the most menial part of the Lord’s work, but it is a great privilege to do anything for “the king”; and therefore we will abide in our calling, hoping that, “although we have lien among the pots, yet shall we be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.” The text tells us of those who dwelt among plants and hedges, having rough, rustic, hedging and ditching work to do. They may have desired to live in the city, amid its life, society, and refinement, but they kept their appointed places, for they also were doing the king’s work. The place of our habitation is fixed, and we are not to remove from it out of whim and caprice, but seek to serve the Lord in it, by being a blessing to those among whom we reside. These potters and gardeners had royal company, for they dwelt “with the king” and although among hedges and plants, they dwelt with the king there. No lawful place, or gracious occupation, however mean, can debar us from communion with our divine Lord. In visiting hovels, swarming lodging-houses, workhouses, or jails, we may go with the king. In all works of faith we may count upon Jesus’ fellowship. It is when we are in his work that we may reckon upon his smile. Ye unknown workers who are occupied for your Lord amid the dirt and wretchedness of the lowest of the low, be of good cheer, for jewels have been found upon dunghills ere now, earthen pots have been filled with heavenly treasure, and ill weeds have been transformed into precious flowers. Dwell ye with the King for his work, and when he writes his chronicles your name shall be recorded.
EVENING
“He humbled himself.”
Philippians 2:8Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of him. See the Master taking a towel and washing his disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst not be proud! Is not this sentence the compendium of his biography, “He humbled himself”? Was he not on earth always stripping off first one robe of honour and then another, till, naked, he was fastened to the cross, and there did he not empty out his inmost self, pouring out his life-blood, giving up for all of us, till they laid him penniless in a borrowed grave? How low was our dear Redeemer brought! How then can we be proud? Stand at the foot of the cross, and count the purple drops by which you have been cleansed; see the thorn-crown; mark his scourged shoulders, still gushing with encrimsoned rills; see hands and feet given up to the rough iron, and his whole self to mockery and scorn; see the bitterness, and the pangs, and the throes of inward grief, showing themselves in his outward frame; hear the thrilling shriek, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” And if you do not lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it: if you are not humbled in the presence of Jesus, you do not know him. You were so lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God’s only begotten. Think of that, and as Jesus stooped for you, bow yourself in lowliness at his feet. A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a greater tendency to humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt. May the Lord bring us in contemplation to Calvary, then our position will no longer be that of the pompous man of pride, but we shall take the humble place of one who loves much because much has been forgiven him. Pride cannot live beneath the cross. Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and then rise and carry it into practice.
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Tomorrow would have been the 86th birthday of Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe. To celebrate her legacy, we’ve put together a filmography of every movie she’s ever starred in — 33 in all — from her work as an unnamed extra in the forties, to the movie she was in the middle of making when she died, the unfinished “Something’s Got To Give.” Click on the link below to see the slideshow.
Updated May 31, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 1, 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life, died in Westport, Conn.
Go to article »On June 1, 1926, Marilyn Monroe, the film actress and American icon, was born. Following her death on Aug. 5, 1962, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1792 Kentucky became the 15th state. 1796 Tennessee became the 16th state. 1868 James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pa., at age 77. 1925 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig’s streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he entered a game as a pinch hitter for the New York Yankees. 1926 Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles. 1958 Charles de Gaulle became premier of France. 1968 Deaf and blind author and educator Helen Keller died at age 87. 1980 CNN made its debut. 2009 Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board. 2009 General Motors filed for Chapter 11, becoming the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection. 2009 Conan O’Brien debuted as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show.” (He stepped down in January after a dispute with the network.) 2010 Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, announced their separation after 40 years of marriage. Current Birthdays
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Actor Morgan Freeman turns 75 years old today.
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Model and TV host Heidi Klum (“Project Runway”) turns 39 years old today.
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1926 Andy Griffith, Actor, turns 86 1934 Pat Boone, Singer, turns 78 1940 Rene Auberjonois, Actor, turns 72 1947 Jonathan Pryce, Actor, turns 65 1947 Ron Wood, Rock musician (Rolling Stones), turns 65 1948 Powers Boothe, Actor, turns 64 1953 Ronnie Dunn, Country singer (Brooks and Dunn), turns 59 1956 Lisa Hartman Black, Actress, turns 56 1961 Paul Coffey, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 51 1969 Teri Polo, Actress, turns 43 1974 Alanis Morissette, Rock singer, turns 38 1979 Morena Baccarin, Actress (“V”), turns 33 1979 Santana Moss, Football player, turns 33 1980 Damien Fahey, TV host (“Total Request Live”), turns 32 1982 Justine Henin, Tennis player, turns 30
Historic Birthdays
Marilyn Monroe 6/1/1926 – 8/5/1962 American film actress.Go to obituary »
48 Robert Cecil Salisbury 6/1/1563 – 5/24/1612
English statesman37 Jacques Marquette 6/1/1637 – 5/18/1675
French Jesuit missionary explorer80 Francesco Maffei 6/1/1675 – 2/11/1755
Italian dramatist, archaeologist and scholar76 Brigham Young 6/1/1801 – 8/29/1877
American Mormon leader52 Mikhail Glinka 6/1/1804 – 2/15/1857
Russian composer78 John Marshall Harlan 6/1/1833 – 10/14/1911
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1877-1911)88 John Masefield 6/1/1878 – 5/12/1967
English poet67 C. K. Ogden 6/1/1889 – 3/20/1957
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