June 3 - Coloring

Coloring

Overheard

[E&W are reading a lift-the-flap book]
M: Elanor, let your brother do one. You have to share.
E: No! I want to share first! 

This Day In History

1140

French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

1620

Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

1885

In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

1888

The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

1889

The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

1932

Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.

1965

Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.

Famous Birthdays

1659

David Gregory, Scottish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1708)

1736

Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist, composer (d. 1811)

1864

Ransom E. Olds, American automotive pioneer (d. 1950)

1865

George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1877
 Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (d. 1953)

1897

Memphis Minnie, American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist (d. 1973)

1904

Charles R. Drew, American surgeon,(d. 1950)

1906

Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)

1910

Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)

1925

Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)

1930

Marion Zimmer Bradley, American fantasy author (d. 1999)

1936

Larry McMurtry, American author

1938

David L. Mills, American computer engineer

1943

Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach

1964

James Purefoy, British actor

1986

Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player