Sunday 9 June is the 159th day of the Gregorian calendar, with 205 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saints Primo and Feliciano martyrs
June Proverb
Jugn al puarte cuantitât, Setembar cualitât
It happened today
1889 – The monument to Giordano Bruno, the work of Ettore Ferrari, is inaugurated in Rome, in Campo de’ Fiori
1934 – Donald Duck appears for the first time in Walt Disney’s cartoon The wise little hen
1951 – First (posthumous) performance of Orpheus and Eurydice by Joseph Haydn at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence
1958 – Fido (b. 1941), a mixed-breed dog from Luco del Mugello (in the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo in the province of Florence), dies after going to the bus stop every day for 14 years to wait in vain for the return of his owner, who died in 1943 during an air raid
1990 – A Fort Lauderdale, Florida record store owner is arrested for selling As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew
1999 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty
2005 – Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé becomes the new president of Bolivia
2007 – Visit to Italy by the President of the United States of America George W. Bush who meets the main Italian institutional officials and Pope Benedict XVI; for the event, the pacifist movements take to the streets of Rome with a procession of around 200,000 people.
Birthdays
John Christopher Depp – aka Johnny Depp is an American actor, director, musician, film producer (June 9, 1963)
Adam Angelo Ruggiero – Canadian actor (9 June 1986)
Mario Donatone – Italian actor. In the Classe Di Ferro series he played Il Salumiere Mario Rivelli (9 June 1933)
Natalie Portman – In 1994 he made his debut on the big screen in the film ‘Le’ on’ by Luc Besson, and subsequently carefully selected the film proposals. Other roles played: ‘My Adorable Enemy’, by Wayne Wang, alongside Susan Sarandon and the first episode of the ‘Star Wars’ saga directed by George Lucas. She won the 2005 Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in director Mike Nichols’ ‘Closer’ (June 9, 1981)
