
Celebrity Birthdays, On This Day and Trivia – June 6th
2018 – Xi’an, China, introduced a pedestrian lane for people who walk while looking at their phones.
View todays celebrity birthdays and find out what happened in history today.
1936 – Albert Finney, British actor (Murder on the Orient Express, Tom Jones) was born, in Pendleton, Salford.
1939 – British prime minister Winston Churchill urged military alliance with USSR.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 was captured by the Royal Navy. On board was the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later used to break coded German messages.
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands were liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1958 – The noir psychological thriller film “Vertigo,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was released.
1960 – Start of the sexual revolution of the 1960s when the birth control pill went on the market.
1995 – Wayne Mills became the first soldier to win Britain’s new gallantry award for courage (the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross) when he put his life in danger by protecting his comrades in Bosnia as they withdrew from a Serb attack.
1996 – The British House of Commons voted to maintain the Ministry of Defence ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces.
1998 – Dana International wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Israel singing “Diva” in Birmingham.
1999 – Father Ted wins best comedy at the BAFTA TV awards.
2013 – Everton Manager David Moyes is announced as Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor at Manchester United.
2014 – Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne was ordered to pay £77,750 for the costs of his prosecution for passing speeding points to his then wife, the economist Vicky Pryce. Both Huhne and Pryce were sentenced to eight months imprisonment in March 2013.
Did you know that on this day in 1926, the first flight over the North Pole was completed? It was flown by Richard E. Byrd with co-pilot Floyd Bennett.
The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.
TV Quotes… “Just one more thing …” (Columbo) on Columbo.
I know what rotten eggs smell like, but I’ve never actually smelled rotten eggs.
A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a Martinus. “You mean a martini?” the bartender asks. The Roman replied, “If I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!”
When I buy a pizza, it comes in a sturdy corrugated box. When I buy a cake, it comes in a flimsy box that tries to kill the cake.
The number 14233221 describes itself; it has one four, two threes, three twos, and two ones.
A group of Raccoons is called a Gaze.
What if the wires going to the two earbuds were different colors so it was easier to untangle?
When Bobby pins are used in a formal setting, they should be called Robert pins. #etiquette
About 25% of the film ‘Jaws’ was shot from water level so audiences could better relate to treading water.
“She had the face of an angel, smiling with sin, the body of Venus, with arms.” #songlyrics
2018 – Xi’an, China, introduced a pedestrian lane for people who walk while looking at their phones.
1993 – The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, fell into the sea following a landslide, making news around the world.
1805 – The first Trooping of the Colour took place on Horse Guards Parade. It was Edward VII who moved Trooping the Colour to its June date, because of the vagaries of British weather.