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We've been here before, in fact, exactly 100 years ago, as with the stamp pictured here, postmarked in Germany. Not such a media circus back then--no apocalyptic thrillers, horror movie remakes, or even political polemics of note were released that day in 1906. Since that year, the date of June 6th has become quite significant for something else: the successful invasion of Europe to liberate that continent from Nazi occupation, a process which began on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Actually Not a Bad Day
- what will happen
- Astrologer Robert Wilkinson was rather upbeat in his forecast for 06-06-06.
- Haunted Sonoma 4-Minute Film
- It was a good day for a vicarious ghost tour of Sonoma, as in this short film clip featured today on Turnhere website. Lots of interesting history as well as the paranormal angle.
- A Happy 66th Birthday
- A former Ward 6 alderman from his town in New Hampshire, he was (and still is) 6'6" tall as he celebrated his 06-06 birthday for the 66th time.
- Baby Boy Damien Born 06-06-06
- Will he have kept his given name through adulthood and still have it once he turns 60 on 06-06-66? The article mentions the birth weight of 6 lbs. 6 ozs. and gives the mother's age of 36, but missed the fact that 36 is six times six.
- Receipt for $6,666
- A Coast to Coast AM listener noticed the amount on this uncanny receipt on 06-06-06.
- UK's Oldest Living Male
- And, last but not least, this was the 110th birthday of Henry Allingham, the oldest living male in the United Kingdom and a founding member of the Royal Naval Air Service, forerunner to the Royal Air Force.
History and Almanac Links
More Depth than Stories of Postponed C-sections and Hollywood PR
- Carl Jung and the 6th of June
- Includes more visuals like the one at top of page you're now reading
- Should We Be Worried About the Next 6-6-06
- Los Angeles Times article includes a look back at June 6, 1906
- LA Times Old June 6th
- Actual scans of entire June 6, 1906 LA Times available free from this page, in PDF format. Also June 7, 1906 and several later June 6th and 7th front page pairs including 1966 Gemini 9 splashdown.
- Presidency and 666
- That number, that date and the US Presidency. First votes in the 2000 Presidential race were cast and counted in Dixville Notch, NH just as the last 666th portion of the official 20th Century began.
- Notable Children's Author Born
- On June 6, 1906 the pioneering children's author Irma Simonton Black was born. During the mid-century years between World War Two and the Civil Rights Movement, she wrote the Bank Street Readers, a set of urban-focused children's primers which we can now look back on as a forerunner of the multicultural and real-life emphasis that is so familiar to us today in the likes of PBS's Sesame Street.
by Mark_Foster
Born in 1953, I'm a boomer and newshound fascinated with history and coincidences. Please see other lenses for more bio snippets. (more)
