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Monday June 8, 2009
This is the 159th day of the year, with 206 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Volcano
"A volcano is an opening in the earth from which molten rock and gas
erupts. The molten rock (magma) forms a hill or mountain around the opening and
the burning gas, ash, and hot lava may explode out or pour down the sides. The
explosion of a volcano is called an eruption and can do much damage, as seen in
Pompeii and Washington state's Mount St. Helens. There are about 800 places in
the world where volcanoes are active, including 80 below the sea. There are
belts were there are volcanoes, including one large one circling the Pacific
Odean and others running east-west in Indonesia and the Mediterranean Sea. The
materials deep underground move around and push up to the mouth of the volcano.
The theory of plate tectonics says that huge plates of material making up the
Earth's crust shift and volcanoes erupt where the plates meet and push
together. Some can be dormant for years and then suddenly erupt. Others become
extinct. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is the world's largest volcano. Th e study of
volcanoes is called volcanology."
Holidays
Feast day of St. Medard, St. William of York, St. Cloud of Metz, and St.
Maximinius of Aix.
Events
1783 - Iceland's Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for
eight more months; more than 9,000 people were killed.
1789 - The Bill of Rights was first proposed, by James Madison.
1861 - Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1869 - Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago, Illinois received a U.S. patent for
the suction vacuum cleaner.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of
Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1965 - U.S. forces were authorized to go into combat in South Vietnam.
1967 - During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats
attacked the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt's Gaza Strip.
1968 - Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the
suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected
president of Austria.
2001 - Tony Blair is elected to a second term as British Prime Minister.
2006 - Workers working on the regeneration of Broadmead, Bristol discover
an unexploded German bomb from World War II.
Births
1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer.
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer.
1869 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect.
1921 - Suharto, President of Indonesia.
1921 - LeRoy Neiman, artist, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1927 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor.
1944 - Boz Scaggs (born William Royce Scaggs), singer and songwriter born
in Canton, Ohio.
1951 - Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins), Welsh singer and guitarist.
1957 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist, and creator of the Dilbert comic
strip.
1962 - Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates), English keyboardist for
Duran Duran.
1977 - Kanye West, American rapper.
Deaths
632 - Mohammed, regarded by Muslims as the last messenger and prophet of
God.
1809 - Thomas Paine, English author of "The Rights of Man".
1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States of America.
1874 - Cochise, leader of the band of the Chiricahua Apache. Cochise
County, Arizona is named after him.
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber.
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist, and the creator of
the comic strip Shoe.
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