This and That
Death of Rex Reed, Iran Deal 2, siege on White House, interviews with Jonathan Hoenig and Harry Binswanger, reviews of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” and “The Body Snatchers”
June’s marginalized, unknown and forgotten historic or important dates include:
June 1: Marilyn Monroe was born 100 years ago.
June 2: Today’s director Lasse (Chocolat, An Unfinished Life) Hallstrom’s 80th birthday and director Mike (The Upside of Anger, Black or White) Binder’s 68th birthday.
June 3: An anti-male terrorist (a feminist) attempted to assassinate artist Andy Warhol on this date in 1968.
June 4: On this date in 1989, Communist China slaughtered protesting, freethinking dissidents at Tiananmen Square in Peking (now called Beijing).
June 6: The Guardian published documents American hero Edward Snowden leaked on this date in 2013 proving the National Security Agency spies on Americans.
June 7: “Gentlemen, I make the motion that the United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent.” —Richard Henry Lee, June 7, 1776
June 8: Joan Rivers and Frank Lloyd Wright were born on this date (1933, 1867).
June 12: Anne Frank was born on this date in 1929.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
June 14: Donald Trump was born 80 years ago today.
June 16: Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West from Soviet Russia on this date in 1961. This historic act of defiance was depicted by Ralph Fiennes in The White Crow.
June 23: Richard David Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, was born June 23, 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois. The Bach family moved in 1941 to a ranch north of Tucson, Arizona where they spent three years before settling in Long Beach, California when Richard was eight years old, according to his author website.
