LIFESTYLE

Daily almanac | Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Staff Writer
The Columbus Dispatch
Sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer: 91 today

Today is Tuesday, June 4, the 155th day of 2019. There are 210 days left in the year.

Highlights in history

• In 1812, the U.S. House of Representatives approved, 79-49, a declaration of war against Britain.

• In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification.

• In 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

• In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian carried out his first publicly assisted suicide, helping Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer's patient from Portland, Oregon, end her life in Oakland County, Michigan.

• In 1998, a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

• In 2003, Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud and lying to investigators.

Birthdays

83: Bruce Dern, actor

48: Noah Wyle, actor

44: Russell Brand, actor-comedian

44: Angelina Jolie, actress

43:  Kasey Chambers, alt-country singer

34: Bar Refaeli, model

Thought for today

“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning author (1904-1991)

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