DID YOU KNOW?… On today’s date in 1661, Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1805 1st recorded tornado in “Tornado Alley” (Southern Illinois). In 1944 after receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6, In 1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day. and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. In 2004 Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 93. (OnThisDay.com)
DID YOU KNOW?… U.S. stocks dropped Friday and suffered losses for the week after the latest employment report showed the U.S. labor market added jobs at a strong but slower clip in May. Meanwhile, Corporate executives in May bought shares in their companies at a rate not seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in what some Wall Street analysts said was an encouraging sign for the US stock market. We shall see. (FT)
DID YOU KNOW?… In Victorian times, treadmills were used as punishment and to prevent idleness, with English convicts condemned to trudge for hours a day. (New York Times)
DID YOU KNOW?… In 1949, 78.8% of all households contained married couples. In 2021, 72 years later, 47.3% of households had married couples. Both men and women are marrying later in life. The median ages of first marriage were at their youngest in 1956 (just over 22 for men and 20 for women). In 2019, those figures were at their oldest: over 30 for men and over 28 for women. About 35% of men and 30% of women have never been married as of 2019. Over 11% of US households are single people. (USA facts)
