Today is Saturday, June 17, the 168th day of the year. There are 197
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Black Music Month, Gay Pride Month,
National Candy Month, National Dairy Month, E-mail week, Eat Your
Vegetables Day!
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Bobby Bell, 83, football player
Ray Seals, 58, football player
Popeye Jones, 53, basketball player
Krayzie Bone, 50, rapper/producer (Bone Thugs N Harmony)
Venus Williams, 43, tennis player
Alex, 41, soccer player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
James Weldon Johnson, 152, author/ journalist/activist (d. 1938)
DEATHS
Willie Davenport, 2002, hurdler (b. 1943)
Rodney King, 2012, victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
R.C. Owens, 2012, football player (b. 1934)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1775 – Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed’s Hill)
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1957 – Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War On Drugs.
1972 – Watergate Scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the
offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the
Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1992 – Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns.
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the
murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
HOROSCOPE
The Gemini sign is paired with the air element and you have actually have the most fluid connection with air out of all 12 zodiac signs. It is because of the influence of moving air that curiosity and a pursuit of knowledge seems to stir inside you constantly. Your interests are blown in a variety of directions and you have little choice but to follow them. In this way, the influence of air is one of the greatest contributors to your unique personality. You should be weary of the qualities of stagnant air, which can create an unemotional and aloof state.
