June 21st
Saint Engelmund (Engelmond, Ingelmund) of Velsen (d. May 14, c. 739) was an English-born missionary to Frisia. He was educated in his native country and entered the Benedictine Order. He was then ordained and then became an abbot. He also represented Great Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.




St. Engelmund
769 English inventor Wallace Greenwood invented the rabbit. He took a stoat stretched its ears and crossed it with a bob cat that he had trussed the legs on. Unfortunately the animals loved having sex and inside of a month they had produced nearly a thousand offspring. Greenwood released them into the wild, where they remain to this day.




Process of Evolution a la Wallace Greenwood
1963  Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
 

Pope Paul Playing Yankee Stadium


1921  American actress, comedian and singer Judy Holliday in New York City. She began her career as part of a nightclub act before working in Broadway plays and musicals.




1922 Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell generally known as Jane Russell, was born in Bemidji, Minnesota, was one of Hollywood’s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.Russell moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film role in 1943 with Howard Hughes ” The Outlaw”, Hughes said, “There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Those are enough.” A publicity still for the movie showed her lying on a pile of straw, her blouse wide open showing ample cleavage and stretched tight across her voluptuous breasts. Her right hand was behind her head of black hair and her left hand held a revolver.




1930 Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1970, first for Manchester Ardwick, and then subsequently for Manchester Gorton.


1954 English singer-songwriter and guitarist Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks was born at Fortis Green, London.




1964 English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter David Mark Morrissey was born at Kensington, Liverpool. In December 2008 he appeared alongside David Tennant in “The Next Doctor”, the 2008 Christmas special of Doctor Who, playing Jackson Lake—a man who believes he is the Doctor after his mind is affected by alien technology. He was at one point rumoured to be the actual next Doctor after Tennant.




1981 American musician, singer, songwriter and lyricist Brandon Flowers was born in Henderson, Nevada. He is best known as the frontman of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers. In 2010, Flowers released a solo album, titled Flamingo.




1986 Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is born in  New York City. Better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Del Rey started songwriting at the age of 18.




2001 American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Lee Hooker fell ill just before a tour of Europe in 2001 and died in his sleep on June 21 at the age of 83, two months before his 84th birthday.





2010 Christopher Mark Sievey was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom from 1984 onwards. Sievey was diagnosed with cancer in May 2010, and died at Wythenshawe Hospital on 21 June 2010 at the age of 54 after collapsing at his home in Hale.




World Cup: F.A. Chief Greg Dyke alongside England manager Roy Hodgson gave their views on England’s  departure, “We weally did quite well”, said Dyke, No I don’t think Woy is wubbish!” Hodgson continued,
" We weally did vewy well we were weally unlucky, Wooney played  well, Gewward was good, Stuwwidge wan awound a lot and as Gweg said we did weally well!". The England team will fly home on Wednesday after they lose their third group game against a Costa Coffee XI.






Oh God!! They’ve Wumbled Me