6th AUG 1945

The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 269,000 people were killed.

MONDAY 5th JULY

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 12, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for sometime a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," and his personal aims were "to put money in his own coffers." Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".

The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m) tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.

David Hannum was quoted as saying, "There's a sucker born every minute" in reference to spectators paying to see Barnum's giant.

Barnum would have been 200 years old today

MON 21st JUNE

< -- Jane Russell is 89 today










Prince William of Wales is 28 today -->



Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. Sartre was also noted for his long relationship with the author and social theorist, Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused the honour.

He would have been 105 today .

SUN 20th JUNE

<-- Frank Lampard is 32 today .










Australian actress Nicole Kidman is 42 today -->




Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American film actor , known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle . Flynn was born in Hobart , Tasmania . Flynn had a reputation for his womanizing, consumption of alcohol and brawling. His freewheeling, hedonistic lifestyle caught up with him in November 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape , A group was organized to support Flynn , named the American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn (ABCDEF); its members included William F. Buckley, Jr . The trial took place in January and February 1943, and Flynn was cleared of the charges . The incident served to increase his reputation as a ladies' man, which led to the popular phrase "in like Flynn" , the phrase being later parodied in the James Coburn comedy spy film In Like Flint .

He would have been 100 today

WED 16th JUNE

Arthur Stanley Jefferson (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965), better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until after World War II.

Laurel was a heavy smoker until suddenly giving up when he was about seventy years of age. He died on February 23, 1965, several days after suffering a heart attack .

He would have been 120 today.





He lived his final years in a small apartment in the Oceana Hotel in Santa Monica. Always gracious to fans, he spent much time answering fan mail. His phone number was listed in the telephone directory, and fans were amazed that they could dial the number and speak to Stan Laurel.

TUES 15th JUNE

<-- Courteney Cox-Arquette is 46 today.












Neville John "Noddy" Holder MBE [lead vocalist and guitarist with SLADE] is 60 today -->





Victor Edwin French (December 4, 1934 - June 15, 1989) was an American actor and director. French, a life-long heavy smoker, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in May 1989, from which he died on June 15, 1989 in Los Angeles, California . French is most widely known for costarring with Michael Landon on two television series. He appeared on Little House on the Prairie (1974-1977), (1981-1983, 1984) as Isaiah Edwards (French also directed some episodes of Little House). He appeared on Highway to Heaven (1984-1989) as Mark Gordon. He would have been 76 today .

[WILLIAM] RORY GALLAGHER - 2 March 1948 – 14 June 1995

Rory Gallagher was one of the best blues/rock guitarists in the world and also a past pupil of the Mon [The North Monastery Secondary School for boys],Born in Ballyshannon, Donegal, he grew up on MacCurtain St , Cork. He is best known for his solo albums, and for his tenure in the band Taste during the late 1960s. A multi-instrumentalist who gained a reputation as a gifted and charismatic live performer, Rory Gallagher's albums have sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide.




On 25 October 1997 a tribute sculpture to Gallagher was unveiled in the newly renamed Rory Gallagher Place (formerly St. Paul's St. Square) in Cork. The sculptor was a childhood friend of Rory, Geraldine Creedon. The two had grown up together in the McCurtain Street area of the city. The band who played at the unveiling of the statue was the Dave McHugh band, who formed Ireland's first tribute to Rory, 'Aftertaste' in 1995.







A life-size bronze statue in the shape of his Stratocaster has been installed at Rory Gallagher Corner in Dublin's Temple Bar. Some of those who attended the unveiling include The Edge of U2 and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.




A street in Ris-Orangis, a town in the Paris suburbs, was renamed Rue Rory Gallagher.

In 2004 the Rory Gallagher Music Library was opened in Cork.

A theatre in Ballyshannon has been renamed as the Rory Gallagher Theatre.

The French town of Bedoin in Vaucluse at the base of Mont Ventoux has a street named after Rory Gallagher in the old town, "Impasse Rory Gallagher"

Irish musician John Spillane released a tribute song "A Song For Rory Gallagher" on his album Hey Dreamer.

French musician Dan Ar Braz released a tribute song "Gwerz Rory" on his album La Mémoire des Volets Blancs.

English rock band The Wave Pictures recorded a song about Gallagher entitled "Live in Europe" on their 2004 album The Airplanes at Brescia.

Flynn Amps have manufactured a Rory Gallagher signature Hawk pedal cloned from Rory's actual 70's pedal.

Gallaghers Pub on MacCurtain Street is named after him.



Unfortunatly Rory was fond of the drink and in 1995 a liver transplant became necessary and was nearly successful, but just before being discharged from the hospital, an MRSA infection developed. His health quickly worsened and he died in London on 14 June 1995. He was unmarried and had no children.
Rory Gallagher's final resting place is in St Oliver's Cemetery, on Model Farm Road just outside Ballincollig. His headstone is a replica of an award he received in 1972 for International Guitarist of The Year.


There is an old story about Jimi Hendrix being asked by an interviewer after Woodstock what it was like to be the greatest guitar player in the world. Hendrix replied that he did not know. "Go ask Rory Gallagher".

<-- This is the Bronze Statue of Rory in Ballyshannon , Co Donegal.




The people of Ireland miss you Rory ......... RIP

SUN 13th JUNE

<-- Malcolm McDowell is 67 today.










Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson are 24 today -->





William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.
He died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28 January 1939 , he would have been 145 today .

FRI 11th JUNE

<-- James Hugh Calum Laurie OBE is 51 today


Adrienne Jo Barbeau is 65 today -->












Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer , explorer , ecologist , filmmaker , innovator , scientist , photographer , author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water . He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française . He was commonly known as " le Commandant Cousteau " or " Captain Cousteau " ........... he would have been 100 today .

THUR 10th JUNE

<--- Carlo Ancelotti is 51 yrs old today


Elizabeth Hurley is 45 yrs old today ----------------->








Judy Garland would have been 88 today [she was Liza Minnelli's mother in case you have never ever seen or heard a Liza Minnelli interview in your life]

WED 9th JUNE

< --- Johnny Depp is 47 today

Michael J Fox is 49 today --- >















Charles Dickens Died at Gad's Hill on 9 June 1870. Buried in Westminster Abbey, London.