June 22nd
Today is the Feast Day of St. Thomas More, an English lawyer, author, statesman and Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII, becoming Lord Chancellor from October, 1529 to 16th May, 1532. He later opposed the King’s divorce and separation from the Catholic Church and refused to accept Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England, tried for treason he was convicted upon perjured testimony and beheaded.
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr of the schism that separated the Church of England from Rome.
1276 Pope Innocent V died after a short bout with an unknown illness on 22 June 1276 after a papal reign of just 152 days.
1535 English theologian Saint John Fisher, an English Catholic Cardinal-Priest and Bishop. He was a man of learning, associated with the intellectuals and political leaders of his day, and eventually became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Fisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept the king as Supreme Head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church’s doctrine of papal primacy. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He shares his feast day with St. Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and on 6 July in that of the Church of England.
1783 A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. The fog was so thick that boats stayed in port, unable to navigate, and the sun was described as “blood coloured” In Great Britain, the summer of 1783 was known as the “sand-summer” because of the ash fallout.
1856 English author Sir Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk. the book for which he is most famous, King Solomon’s Mines. He accepted a 10% royalty rather than £100 for the copyright. A sequel, Allan Quatermain, soon followed, and She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (the action of Ayesha however happens in Tibet).
1906 Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter Billy Wilder is born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film, (The Apartment), and was the first person to accomplish this.
1932 English actress Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth is born at Sutton Abinger, Surrey. Better known by her stage name of Prunella Scales, she is best known for her role as Basil Fawlty’s wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution in 1991 by Alan Bennett. Prunella is married to Timothy West, in March 2014 her husband told The Guardian that Scales was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
1936 American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor Kristoffer “Kris" Kristofferson was born at Brownsville, Texas.
1940 English journalist Esther Louise Rantzen was born at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, best known for presenting the hit BBC television series That’s Life! for 21 years from 1973 until 1994.
1953 American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Cynthia Ann Stephanie “Cyndi” Lauper was born at Ozone Park, Queens, New York City. Over the course of her career, Lauper has released over 40 singles and has sold more than 80 million records worldwide.
1956 English poet and author Walter John de la Mare died at Twickenham aged 83yo from a coronary thrombosis.
De la Mare suffered from in 1947 and died of another in 1956. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners" :-
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
1957 English journalist, Radio D.J. and screenwriter Danny Baker was born at Deptford, South London. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC and Talk Radio. On 1 November 2010, Baker announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would start chemotherapy instantly and radiotherapy in January.On 14 June 2011 he announced that he had been given the all clear
1961 Scottish singer-songwriter James William “Jimmy” Somerville was born in Glasgow. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice and that he was openly gay during a period of increasing socio-political debate and conflict in the UK regarding lesbian and gay rights.
1964 American author Daniel “Dan” Brown was born at Exeter, New Hampshire. A writer of thriller fiction who is best known for the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code. Brown’s novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period,and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Two of them, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, have been adapted into films.
1969 American actress and singer Judy Garland died aged 47yo in Chelsea, London from a barbiturate overdose. Garland’s legacy as a performer and a personality has endured long after her death. The American Film Institute named her eighth among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.
1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1986 The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the World Cup.
1987 Fred Astaire died from pneumonia in Los Angeles aged 88yo. Astaire’s life has never been portrayed on film. He always refused permission for such portrayals, saying, “However much they offer me—and offers come in all the time—I shall not sell.” Astaire’s will included a clause requesting that no such portrayal ever take place; he commented, “It is there because I have no particular desire to have my life misinterpreted, which it would be.
1993 American economist and educator, 44th First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon, wife of disgraced President Richard Nixon, died at her New Jersey home at 5:45 am on June 22, 1993, the day after her 53rd wedding anniversary. She was 81. Her daughters and husband were by her side.
2008 George Carlin died in Santa Monica, California from heart failure. His death occurred one week after his last performance at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. In accordance with his wishes he was cremated, his ashes scattered, and no public memorial services were held.
2014 Theresa May announces intention to ban cats in the UK! Experts say that a cat is a cause of disease and is a great risk to the general population, vets have responded with horror to reports that police will use a shoot on sight policy on seeing cats!
Maureen Dorritt of the feline protection league said that she would organise a huge protest against Mrs May’s plans to outlaw the country’s pets, ” We’ll let the Tory Bitch know that she has to leave her dirty, right wing mitts off our little Tiddles!” The opposition said ” We have to….ah OK scratch all that …Mrs May wants to ban Khat from Britain! Well it’s a mistake anyone can make! Still I think they can still protest against the ‘Tory Bitch!’
New Police Specials Cause A Stir!
Ban on Cats or Khat? Theresa May Know
Not Too Bad A Chew After All!
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr of the schism that separated the Church of England from Rome.
1276 Pope Innocent V died after a short bout with an unknown illness on 22 June 1276 after a papal reign of just 152 days.
1535 English theologian Saint John Fisher, an English Catholic Cardinal-Priest and Bishop. He was a man of learning, associated with the intellectuals and political leaders of his day, and eventually became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Fisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept the king as Supreme Head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church’s doctrine of papal primacy. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He shares his feast day with St. Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and on 6 July in that of the Church of England.
1783 A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. The fog was so thick that boats stayed in port, unable to navigate, and the sun was described as “blood coloured” In Great Britain, the summer of 1783 was known as the “sand-summer” because of the ash fallout.
1856 English author Sir Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk. the book for which he is most famous, King Solomon’s Mines. He accepted a 10% royalty rather than £100 for the copyright. A sequel, Allan Quatermain, soon followed, and She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (the action of Ayesha however happens in Tibet).
1906 Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter Billy Wilder is born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film, (The Apartment), and was the first person to accomplish this.
1932 English actress Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth is born at Sutton Abinger, Surrey. Better known by her stage name of Prunella Scales, she is best known for her role as Basil Fawlty’s wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution in 1991 by Alan Bennett. Prunella is married to Timothy West, in March 2014 her husband told The Guardian that Scales was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
1936 American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor Kristoffer “Kris" Kristofferson was born at Brownsville, Texas.
1940 English journalist Esther Louise Rantzen was born at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, best known for presenting the hit BBC television series That’s Life! for 21 years from 1973 until 1994.
1953 American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Cynthia Ann Stephanie “Cyndi” Lauper was born at Ozone Park, Queens, New York City. Over the course of her career, Lauper has released over 40 singles and has sold more than 80 million records worldwide.
1956 English poet and author Walter John de la Mare died at Twickenham aged 83yo from a coronary thrombosis.
De la Mare suffered from in 1947 and died of another in 1956. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners" :-
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
1957 English journalist, Radio D.J. and screenwriter Danny Baker was born at Deptford, South London. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC and Talk Radio. On 1 November 2010, Baker announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would start chemotherapy instantly and radiotherapy in January.On 14 June 2011 he announced that he had been given the all clear
1961 Scottish singer-songwriter James William “Jimmy” Somerville was born in Glasgow. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice and that he was openly gay during a period of increasing socio-political debate and conflict in the UK regarding lesbian and gay rights.
1964 American author Daniel “Dan” Brown was born at Exeter, New Hampshire. A writer of thriller fiction who is best known for the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code. Brown’s novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period,and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Two of them, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, have been adapted into films.
1969 American actress and singer Judy Garland died aged 47yo in Chelsea, London from a barbiturate overdose. Garland’s legacy as a performer and a personality has endured long after her death. The American Film Institute named her eighth among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.
1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1986 The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the World Cup.
1987 Fred Astaire died from pneumonia in Los Angeles aged 88yo. Astaire’s life has never been portrayed on film. He always refused permission for such portrayals, saying, “However much they offer me—and offers come in all the time—I shall not sell.” Astaire’s will included a clause requesting that no such portrayal ever take place; he commented, “It is there because I have no particular desire to have my life misinterpreted, which it would be.
1993 American economist and educator, 44th First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon, wife of disgraced President Richard Nixon, died at her New Jersey home at 5:45 am on June 22, 1993, the day after her 53rd wedding anniversary. She was 81. Her daughters and husband were by her side.
2008 George Carlin died in Santa Monica, California from heart failure. His death occurred one week after his last performance at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. In accordance with his wishes he was cremated, his ashes scattered, and no public memorial services were held.
2014 Theresa May announces intention to ban cats in the UK! Experts say that a cat is a cause of disease and is a great risk to the general population, vets have responded with horror to reports that police will use a shoot on sight policy on seeing cats!
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| Paws Up! |
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| Police Suspect A Mole! |
Maureen Dorritt of the feline protection league said that she would organise a huge protest against Mrs May’s plans to outlaw the country’s pets, ” We’ll let the Tory Bitch know that she has to leave her dirty, right wing mitts off our little Tiddles!” The opposition said ” We have to….ah OK scratch all that …Mrs May wants to ban Khat from Britain! Well it’s a mistake anyone can make! Still I think they can still protest against the ‘Tory Bitch!’
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| Now You Know I Love Pussy...But Not Khat! |
New Police Specials Cause A Stir!
Ban on Cats or Khat? Theresa May Know
Not Too Bad A Chew After All!
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