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Jun 4

On June 4, 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Passage in the House and Senate activated the ratification process, in which each state legislature would vote for or against.

The amendment was adopted in August 1920. Finally, after nearly a century of direct and indirect action by organized women, along with some men, the right to vote was protected regardless of sex.

Still, not all women had full voting rights and protection in 1920. Laws discriminating against race and class did — and some still do — exist to stop women from voting in spite of the new amendment. [Zinn]

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 A hand bill created by the Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans, Inc., founded 1954. It was circulated in New Orleans area about 1965.

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Jun 4, 2026

Happy 51st Birthday, Angelina Jolie

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Jun 4

"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Russell (1907-1976)

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Jun 4

June 4, 1939, the SS St. Louis, a German ship bearing 930 Jewish passengers seeking asylum from Nazi Germany, was denied permission to land in Florida. Having earlier been turned away from Cuba, it was also denied entry into Canada. It returned to Germany and the majority of the passengers were eventually killed in the Holocaust. [O'Blivion]

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Jun 3

Happy Birthday, Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)

The Port of Rotterdam, 1887

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Jun 2

"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

Happy Birthday, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Jun 2

On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman planned and guided a significant armed raid (becoming the first woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots, and plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina.

On the night of June 2, three federal gunboats set sail from Beaufort, South Carolina up the Combahee River.

Tubman had gained vital information about the location of Rebel torpedoes, planted along the river, from people who traded information for freedom.

Because of this information Tubman was able to steer the Union ships away from any danger. She led the ships to specific spots along the shore where fugitives from slavery were hiding and waiting to be rescued.

This is known as the Raid at Combahee Ferry.

Tubman and the 2nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (African-American regiment) destroyed millions of dollars worth of Confederate supplies and freed close to 800 people from slavery. [Zinn]

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Jun 2

"The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor."

Happy Birthday, Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984)

Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1932

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Jun 2

Born June 2, 1941, the man whom many consider the best rock & roll drummer in the world...and the classiest.

For examples of his sheer, understated perfection, listen to "Honky Tonk Women" or "Hip Shake" or "All Down the Line" or "Street Fighting Man" or, well, ANY Rolling Stones record. Even if the song sucks, the drums rule.

Best Charlie story ever involves Mick Jagger awakening him in a hotel in Amsterdam by phoning him up at 3 AM and drunkenly demanding "Where's my drummer boy?" Charlie reportedly got up, got dressed in a 3-piece suit, went to Mick's room, punched him in the face and said "YOU'RE my singer."

Happy Birthday, Charlie Watts (1941-2021) [O'Blivion]

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Jun 2

"I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan.

Here the water went down, the icebergs slid with gravel, the gaps and the valleys hissed, and the black loam came, and the yellow sandy loam.

Here between the sheds of the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians, here now a morning star fixes a fire sign over the timber claims and cow pastures, the corn belt, the cotton belt, the cattle ranches.

Here the gray geese go five hundred miles and back with a wind under their wings honking the cry for a new home.

Here I know I will hanker after nothing so much as one more sunrise or a sky moon of fire doubled to a river moon of water.

The prairie sings to me in the forenoon and I know in the night I rest easy in the prairie arms, on the prairie heart."

June 2, 1919, Carl Sandburg was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work, "Cornhuskers"

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May 31, 2026

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

Happy 96th Birthday, Clint Eastwood