1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.(from NYT): California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, via Associated Press Here’s a photo of him from January’s NYT after Governor Gavin Newsom denied him parole again. Sirhan Sirhan, now 78, remains iv prison, with his parole appeals regularly turned down. 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “ Hound Dog“, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.Īnd here’s that performance, followed by some banter between Uncle Miltie and the King:.1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.After the trial, she lived in the family home in Fall River, Massachusetts for the rest of her life, though she was ostracized: She was acquitted, though she almost certainly did the crime with an axe. 1893 – The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s anti- slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.Ī first edition and first printing of this book (two volumes) will run you about $15,000:.Welcome to Sunday, June 5, 2022: National Ketchup Day (remember, according to the Reagan administration, ketchup is a vegetable!) It’s also World Day Against Speciesism and World Environment Day.
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