Review of chess in concert::Where Is the Name Oakes Orginally from
Review of chess in concert::Where Is the Name Oakes Orginally from
What do cabbage patch dolls, your own self and your favorite bottle of beer have in common? Hmm...if you said "They all have a born-on date!" then your own self would also be correct! If you were born on June 18th of any year then follow along as we look at who shares your birthday as well as historical events and other facts specific to your own personal born on date! General information about June 18th birthdays: If you were born on June 18th of any standard year then you were born on the 169th day of the calendar year. If you happen to have been born during a leap year then you were born on the 170th day of that calendar year. If you are a U.S. citizen and your June 18th birthday occurred in 1993 or any year earlier, then you are legally able to obtain a valid state drivers license once you have met all educational requirements to do so. Any person born on June 18th of 1991 or any year earlier is legally able to purchase cigarettes or smoke in public and any person born on June 18th of 1988 or any year earlier is legally able to purchase or consume alcoholic beverages while living or traveling in the U.S. If your birthday falls on June 18th of 1959 or any year earlier, then it means you have been conquering and exploring this world for a half a century or longer and are now allowed to start asking in the U.S. about senior discounts at a multitude of commercial businesses, events and services! Different companies set the eligibility age higher if their policy calls for it but age 50 is the lowest beginning age of eligibility in the U.S. A great site to check out senior discount deals at is listed below. http://www.seniordiscounts.com/ Astrological data for June 18th birthdays: In accordance with Western Astrology, those born on June 18th are born under Gemini, the sign of the Twins which is of Air Element, of Mutable Quality and ruled planetarily by Mercury. Gemini folks are often described as very clever, dual-minded and highly independent though they do enjoy social stimulation. Most Gemini souls love to talk and all the newest technology that goes along with doing so and can transport all the information from various explorations that their intense minds love to follow, discuss and research. Known for changing their minds at the drop in of a notion, Gemini personalities can be both exciting and frustrating to interact with, but never at all dull! If you wish to gain a greater understanding of Western Astrology (or Chinese Astrology dependent upon your birth year) visit this informative link courtesy of Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_sign Find your Gemini glyph at the bottom of the page when you are done to check out your Gemini specific traits. Famous fellow Geminis include Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Prince Rainier III, former First Lady Barbara Bush, President John F. Kennedy, former King of Greece Constantine II and Donald Trump. If you are interested in current daily/weekly forecasts for the Gemini sign stop by the link below for each day of your astrological year! http://www.bridgettwalther.com/daily.asp?sign=Gemini Birthstone/Birth Flower specifics for June 18th birthdays: The birthstone most commonly associated with your June 18th birthday is the pearl. Pearls are the only organic birthstone as they are formed in oysters and mollusks but are known to be quite numerous in varieties and types. Good health is often the associated meaning of the June 18th birthstone of the pearl. Alexandrite is a lesser common but associated birthstone as well for those born on June 18th of any year. The beautiful rose belongs to those born on this date as their birth flower. Each various color was often ascribed a hidden meaning/message from the Victorian Era on, meant to be communicated from the sender to the lucky receiver of a bouquet of these most popular flower. It is a universally accepted symbol of natural beauty especially in its red varieties signaling love between two people-if you would like to know more about either your June 18th birthstones or birth flower the following link shares quite a bit of usable information to search through. http://www.birthstones.org.uk/index.htm Important historical events which have occurred on June 18th: 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China. 860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople 1155 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor 1178 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno 1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation) 1529 - Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon 1538 - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I 1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland 1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Phila 1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain 1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa 1839 - Dutch prince Willem Alexander PFL weds niece Princess Sophia 1872 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall 1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President 1879 - W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage 1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ 1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later 1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship 1909 - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women 1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized 1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour" 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle. 1942 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason 1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights 1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time 1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US 1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane. 1960 - "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs 1960 - 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver 1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California 1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing 1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants 1975 - NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio 1976 - A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000 1977 - Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub 1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic 1979 - US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty 1980 - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premieres 1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court) 1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California. 1983 - 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman 1983 - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC 1984 - 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY 1987 - Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon 1988 - Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run 1989 - Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion 1989 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1990 - 1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0 1990 - 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin 1991 - Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US 1994 - Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec) 1994 - Gay Games open in NYC 1994 - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup 1995 - 95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY 1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament 1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts. 2000 - 100th US Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links Calif 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India. 2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched. Famous passings on June 18th: 741 - Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies 1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218) 1291 - Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies 1464 - Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65 1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet 1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674) 1821 - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52 1824 - Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55 1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763) 1850 - Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99 1853 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies 1884 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74 1902 - Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66 1922 - John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71 1928 - Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies 1936 - Maxim Gorki, 1937 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies 1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898) 1952 - Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63 1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) 1973 - Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71 1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55 1982 - John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining 1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host 1991 - Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69 1992 - Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48 1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896) 1994 - Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75 1995 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85 2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914) 2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906) 2007 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930) 2007 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951) 2008 - Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908) 2008 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915) 2008 - Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984) Famous Births on June 18th: 1269 - Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298) 1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539) 1511 - Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect 1740 - Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor 1799 - William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune) 1822 - Henry David Leslie, composer 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922) 1860 - Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell]) 1870 - Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam) 1886 - George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there") 1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978) 1887 - Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities) 1896 - Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story) 1901 - Jeanette MacDonald, Phila, actress/singer (When I'm Calling You) 1901 - Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orch leader (Sonny & Cher) 1901 - Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor (Invisible Creature) 1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, Paris France, composer (Bootleggers) 1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997) 1910 - Ray McKinley, Ft Worth Tx, orch leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time) 1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998) 1912 - Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan) 1913 - Sammy Cahn, lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain) 1913 - Sylvia Porter, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book) 1919 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist 1919 - Mel Brandt, Bkln NY, actor (Faraway Hill) 1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004) 1923 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master 1924 - George Mikan, NBA center (6-time all-pro) 1926 - Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay) 1926 - Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times) 1927 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress 1928 - Maggie McNamara, NYC, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal) 1928 - Michael Blakemore, British theater director (Country Life) 1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist 1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet 1937 - Gail Godwin, US, author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman) 1937 - John D [Jay] Rockefeller IV, (Sen-D-WV, 1985- ) 1937 - Varbara Ann Teer, US actress/director (Natl Black Theatre Company) 1937 - Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21) 1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005) 1941 - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter 1942 - Paul McCartney, Liverpool, rocker (Beatles), writes silly love songs 1942 - Roger Ebert, Urbana Ill, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies) 1949 - William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet) 1952 - Rickey Gazda, rocker 1954 - William Beard, rock drummer (Face To Face) 1956 - Brian Benben, Winchester Va, actor (Dream On, Gangster Chronicles) 1961 - Andres Galarraga, Caracas Venezuela, infielder (Colorado Rockies) 1963 - Bruce Smith, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills) 1963 - Omar Londono, jockey 1966 - Kurt Browning, Alberta, figure skater (Olympic-5-1994) 1966 - Sandy Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, catcher (Cleveland Indians) 1967 - Pasquale Bruno, Italian American entrepreneur 1968 - John Lumkes, Chicago Illinois, 3k steeplechase runner 1969 - Jay Leeuwenburg, NFL guard/center (Chic Bears, Indianapolis Colts) 1969 - Laura Brown, LPGA golfer 1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler 1971 - Mara Hobel, NYC, actress (Mommie Dearest) 1973 - Eddie Cibrian, American actor 1973 - Julie Depardieu, French actress 1974 - Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night Court) 1974 - Keith Poole, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints) 1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer 1976 - Alana de la Garza, American actress 1976 - Witte Wartena, Dutch artist 1976 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer 1982 - Sean Conant, Irish-American artist 1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer 2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg Holidays/Observances for June 18th: Catholics around the globe celebrate annually in June during the month long observance honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus. June 18th also is individually the Roman Catholic feast day of St. Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus, Roman soldiers martyred for their faith. Seychelles observes National Day on June 18th each year and the United Kingdom commemorates the Battle of Waterloo on Waterloo Day. It is Autistic Pride Day each year to foster awareness of the neurological difference and the myriad of accomplishments of those who carry its astounding challenge. Hope this look at what makes your birthday of June 18th special and historically unique has been informative-perhaps even that cabbage patch doll stored in a box in your attic from two decades(or three) ago would enjoy checking their "born on" date out too! Feel free to click on any of the resource links for additional specifics and extra info about any of the categories we looked into above that are relative to your June 18th celebration of birth. Oh...and by the way-have a happy birthday! Sources: http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.catholic.org/saints/f_day/jun.php http://www.history.com/ http://www.timeanddate.com/ http://www.historyorb.com/today/ |
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