The phases of our lives
A good friend shared a video on Facebook that I found amusing and yet telling. Be warned, there is some profanity in the video. It isn't gratuitous but drives the point home.
"This doesn't make any f*@)#!g sense to me." As I sit here today, it doesn't. But I think back to a time 20 years ago and I see myself in that video. In June of 1994, I was running every morning, five days a week, before work. I would be in the gym after work as well, or out on the bike path, doing at least 90 more minutes of cardiovascular exercise. I wasn't obsessed about my diet or weight, but I was definitely in training. No matter what.
June 12, 1994 is remembered most as the date that O. J. Simpson allegedly murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman. I remember it because I was on a training ride that afternoon, rushing to get home to shower and change for a blind date. I wiped out on the bike path in the stretch near the Venice Boardwalk. I got up, dusted myself off, and rode to the emergency room. I had cracked ribs, a fractured or severely sprained thumb, and some road rash. They cleaned me off and I rode the six miles home. Then I showered and went on my date.
I had already paid to race in a 5K on the Sunday two days hence. I asked the doctor if I could injure myself more severely by running. He said no, but that I'd be an idiot if I didn't just skip it and rest. I decided to be an idiot. I went out and ran. I had that mentality. That Ironman mentality. I was invincible and I was going to prove it. The only thing I proved was my capacity for enduring pain and a shortsighted view of what's important.
Our bodies have limits. We can push them beyond those limits on occasion, in a crisis. We see this capacity in how elite military units train, to go beyond the limits the body will try to impose. But this process involves a price and it's a price that shouldn't be paid just for the whim of wanting to run one specific race. Unless that race won't be back the following year, one's long-term health shouldn't be sacrificed for that short-term goal. I say that now, having been one who made those sacrifices in the past.
* * *
I want to give retired General Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Obama Administration the benefit of the doubt, but in the wake of this interim report from the VA's Inspector General, I can't. He needs to resign.
According to the IG's report, 1,700 veterans were waiting for appointments but weren't on either the official, or the secret waiting lists. These men and women might have never received the treatment they are entitled to, all because bureaucrats were afraid that the truth would win out; that they didn't have the resources to meet the mandated waiting time targets.
This is all part and parcel of a culture of target setting and adjusting that has ruled the military-industrial complex for decades. When the military is given a target standard in an area of responsibility, the first response is to try to meet and exceed the standard. When that isn't possible, then the next response is to find ways to make it appear they are meeting the standard. If that won't work, altering the standard is the court of last resort.
I worked in a unit where the metric was the status of our aircraft. We used a system with the following acronyms:
FMC - Fully Mission Capable
PMCM - Partly Mission Capable - Maintenance
PMCS - Partly Mission Capable - Supply
PMCB - Partly Mission Capable - Both
NMCM - Not Mission Capable - Maintenance
NMCS - Not Mission Capable - Supply
NMCB - Not Mission Capable - Both
As long as a sufficient percentage of the aircraft were FMC and another percentage was in one of the various PCM statuses, we were considered mission capable. When the numbers no longer had that many aircraft in the appropriate status, we were no longer mission capable. That was a bad thing.
When you're an aircraft maintenance unit on Guam, with a supply chain that reaches back to the now defunct Norton Air Force Base near San Bernardino, CA, at least 18 hours away from being able to fill a supply requisition, what you're allowed to keep on hand is very important. So when your allotment of brakes for C-141 aircraft is only two and you have four C-141s on the ramp that need brake changes, you've got at least two planes that are NMCB and will remain that way for at least 24 hours. Easier to lower the standard than it is to find funds to keep four or five sets of brakes in place on Guam for the next very rare occasion when more than two planes are down for brakes at the same time.
The VA has the same problem. Too many patients coming into the system in need of care, with too few providers to care for them. So the administrators, faced with being labeled as failures for meeting the requisite standard decide to game the system rather than identify the real problem. They get bonuses, veterans don't get care and the system collapses.
Time for a new broom to sweep clean. If possible. Can't meet standards for getting appointments if there aren't enough appointments to parcel out.
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Random Ponderings:
Now that Chelsea Handler has announced she will leave Chelsea Lately in August of this year, look for the E! Entertainment Network to fill the void with a new show modeled on Handler's eponymous program. Whitney Cummings and Ross Matthews are potential "replacements."
There's a new record for most expensive one cup order from Starbucks, $54.75 for a 60 shot of expresso milkshake that was served in a 128 ounce glass. The man who set the record is a smart cookie, as he is a member of the chain's loyalty program and this qualified as his "freebie."
The rumor mill has Quentin Tarantino finally taking his friendship with Uma Thurman to the "next level."
I don't mind someone like Levar Burton using Kickstarter, especially for a worthy cause. He isn't uber-rich and $1 million for a public interest program like "Reading Rainbow" is worthy of support.
I just read an article about the demise of the marriage of Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell, which indicated they began dating in 2004 and married in 2012. It made no mention of Marilyn Manson, whom the actress was involved with in an on and off relationship from 2006 through 2010. Revisionist gossiping?
Gwyneth Paltrow says, "You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing, It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it." Maybe she's just tired of the flak she brings on herself. But she shouldn't think it isn't about her, when she's the one claiming working women have it so much easier than she does.
Edward Snowden was not trained as a spy, or so some who are supposedly in the know are saying. I say he's full of shit, but that's just my opinion.
It's a good thing rapper 50 Cent makes a good living in music, because it's clear he has no ability on the baseball diamond.
An all-girl team won the championship at a USSSA baseball tournament, against a squad of all boys. Better still, they won the championship game via the mercy rule.
A veteran in Colorado is giving out free pot to his fellow veterans as his way of helping them replace tons of prescription medications for depression and other mental illnesses by using pot, which he considers safer. Response from the other vets has been positive.
In Lowell, MA, a 17 year old girl suffering from Lupus was able to enjoy a dream prom experience thanks to friends and family who teamed up to make it happen for her.
A Chicago area track and field coach is recovering after being hit in the head by a 12 pound shot put ball.
Reasonable restrictions on the ownership of guns is allowable under the 2nd Amendment, as determined by the Supreme Court in prior decisions. But I've yet to hear a proposed tightening of gun ownership restrictions that would have prevented the tragedy in Isla Vista. No change in gun regulations would have changed things for the three men who were stabbed to death.
* * *
May 29th in History:
363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1414 – Council of Constance.
1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
1903 – In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2008 – A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
Famous Folk Born on May 29th:
Charles II of England
Patrick Henry
G. K. Chesterton
Oswald Spengler
Bob Hope
Stacey Keach, Sr.
John F. Kennedy
Clifton James
Grandma Lee (she is really funny)
Fay Vincent
Al Unser
Danny Elfman
John Hinckley, Jr.
La Toya Jackson
Annette Benning
Rupert Everett
Melissa Etheridge
Lisa Welchel
Melanie Brown
Carmelo Anthony
Hornswoggle
Riley Keogh
"This doesn't make any f*@)#!g sense to me." As I sit here today, it doesn't. But I think back to a time 20 years ago and I see myself in that video. In June of 1994, I was running every morning, five days a week, before work. I would be in the gym after work as well, or out on the bike path, doing at least 90 more minutes of cardiovascular exercise. I wasn't obsessed about my diet or weight, but I was definitely in training. No matter what.
June 12, 1994 is remembered most as the date that O. J. Simpson allegedly murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman. I remember it because I was on a training ride that afternoon, rushing to get home to shower and change for a blind date. I wiped out on the bike path in the stretch near the Venice Boardwalk. I got up, dusted myself off, and rode to the emergency room. I had cracked ribs, a fractured or severely sprained thumb, and some road rash. They cleaned me off and I rode the six miles home. Then I showered and went on my date.
I had already paid to race in a 5K on the Sunday two days hence. I asked the doctor if I could injure myself more severely by running. He said no, but that I'd be an idiot if I didn't just skip it and rest. I decided to be an idiot. I went out and ran. I had that mentality. That Ironman mentality. I was invincible and I was going to prove it. The only thing I proved was my capacity for enduring pain and a shortsighted view of what's important.
Our bodies have limits. We can push them beyond those limits on occasion, in a crisis. We see this capacity in how elite military units train, to go beyond the limits the body will try to impose. But this process involves a price and it's a price that shouldn't be paid just for the whim of wanting to run one specific race. Unless that race won't be back the following year, one's long-term health shouldn't be sacrificed for that short-term goal. I say that now, having been one who made those sacrifices in the past.
* * *
I want to give retired General Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Obama Administration the benefit of the doubt, but in the wake of this interim report from the VA's Inspector General, I can't. He needs to resign.
According to the IG's report, 1,700 veterans were waiting for appointments but weren't on either the official, or the secret waiting lists. These men and women might have never received the treatment they are entitled to, all because bureaucrats were afraid that the truth would win out; that they didn't have the resources to meet the mandated waiting time targets.
This is all part and parcel of a culture of target setting and adjusting that has ruled the military-industrial complex for decades. When the military is given a target standard in an area of responsibility, the first response is to try to meet and exceed the standard. When that isn't possible, then the next response is to find ways to make it appear they are meeting the standard. If that won't work, altering the standard is the court of last resort.
I worked in a unit where the metric was the status of our aircraft. We used a system with the following acronyms:
FMC - Fully Mission Capable
PMCM - Partly Mission Capable - Maintenance
PMCS - Partly Mission Capable - Supply
PMCB - Partly Mission Capable - Both
NMCM - Not Mission Capable - Maintenance
NMCS - Not Mission Capable - Supply
NMCB - Not Mission Capable - Both
As long as a sufficient percentage of the aircraft were FMC and another percentage was in one of the various PCM statuses, we were considered mission capable. When the numbers no longer had that many aircraft in the appropriate status, we were no longer mission capable. That was a bad thing.
When you're an aircraft maintenance unit on Guam, with a supply chain that reaches back to the now defunct Norton Air Force Base near San Bernardino, CA, at least 18 hours away from being able to fill a supply requisition, what you're allowed to keep on hand is very important. So when your allotment of brakes for C-141 aircraft is only two and you have four C-141s on the ramp that need brake changes, you've got at least two planes that are NMCB and will remain that way for at least 24 hours. Easier to lower the standard than it is to find funds to keep four or five sets of brakes in place on Guam for the next very rare occasion when more than two planes are down for brakes at the same time.
The VA has the same problem. Too many patients coming into the system in need of care, with too few providers to care for them. So the administrators, faced with being labeled as failures for meeting the requisite standard decide to game the system rather than identify the real problem. They get bonuses, veterans don't get care and the system collapses.
Time for a new broom to sweep clean. If possible. Can't meet standards for getting appointments if there aren't enough appointments to parcel out.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Now that Chelsea Handler has announced she will leave Chelsea Lately in August of this year, look for the E! Entertainment Network to fill the void with a new show modeled on Handler's eponymous program. Whitney Cummings and Ross Matthews are potential "replacements."
There's a new record for most expensive one cup order from Starbucks, $54.75 for a 60 shot of expresso milkshake that was served in a 128 ounce glass. The man who set the record is a smart cookie, as he is a member of the chain's loyalty program and this qualified as his "freebie."
The rumor mill has Quentin Tarantino finally taking his friendship with Uma Thurman to the "next level."
I don't mind someone like Levar Burton using Kickstarter, especially for a worthy cause. He isn't uber-rich and $1 million for a public interest program like "Reading Rainbow" is worthy of support.
I just read an article about the demise of the marriage of Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell, which indicated they began dating in 2004 and married in 2012. It made no mention of Marilyn Manson, whom the actress was involved with in an on and off relationship from 2006 through 2010. Revisionist gossiping?
Gwyneth Paltrow says, "You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing, It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it." Maybe she's just tired of the flak she brings on herself. But she shouldn't think it isn't about her, when she's the one claiming working women have it so much easier than she does.
Edward Snowden was not trained as a spy, or so some who are supposedly in the know are saying. I say he's full of shit, but that's just my opinion.
It's a good thing rapper 50 Cent makes a good living in music, because it's clear he has no ability on the baseball diamond.
An all-girl team won the championship at a USSSA baseball tournament, against a squad of all boys. Better still, they won the championship game via the mercy rule.
A veteran in Colorado is giving out free pot to his fellow veterans as his way of helping them replace tons of prescription medications for depression and other mental illnesses by using pot, which he considers safer. Response from the other vets has been positive.
In Lowell, MA, a 17 year old girl suffering from Lupus was able to enjoy a dream prom experience thanks to friends and family who teamed up to make it happen for her.
A Chicago area track and field coach is recovering after being hit in the head by a 12 pound shot put ball.
Reasonable restrictions on the ownership of guns is allowable under the 2nd Amendment, as determined by the Supreme Court in prior decisions. But I've yet to hear a proposed tightening of gun ownership restrictions that would have prevented the tragedy in Isla Vista. No change in gun regulations would have changed things for the three men who were stabbed to death.
* * *
May 29th in History:
363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1414 – Council of Constance.
1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
1903 – In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2008 – A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
Famous Folk Born on May 29th:
Charles II of England
Patrick Henry
G. K. Chesterton
Oswald Spengler
Bob Hope
Stacey Keach, Sr.
John F. Kennedy
Clifton James
Grandma Lee (she is really funny)
Fay Vincent
Al Unser
Danny Elfman
John Hinckley, Jr.
La Toya Jackson
Annette Benning
Rupert Everett
Melissa Etheridge
Lisa Welchel
Melanie Brown
Carmelo Anthony
Hornswoggle
Riley Keogh
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