Travel Channel Pulls new Adam Richman show and other eyecatching headlines.

Adam Richman has hosted "Man versus Food", "Man versus Food Nation", "America's Best Sandwich" and other programs for the Travel Channel and his new show "Man Finds Food" was set to begin airing soon.  However, after he encouraged one of his "haters" to commit suicide, the network has postponed the show's premiere indefinitely."  Reporter's note:  I've been tweeting at Adam for ages to just ignore the haters.

A woman in England is going to spend 12 weeks in prison after she was convicted of stealing more than $2,000 from her mother in order to fund her addiction to the online game Candy Crush Saga.

Walgreen's is considering a move to merge with Alliance Boots, a European pharmacy chain, relocate its corporate HQ to Switzerland and incorporate there, a move that would cost the U. S. billions in tax revenue in coming years.  The move seems more insulting when reminded of the fact Walgreen's receives almost 25% of its annual revenues from the U. S. federal government.

Jared Leto and Ellen Page have been named the sexiest celebrity vegetarians.

Christ Bearer, the rapper who sliced off his penis but had it reattached surgically, wants to prove its functionality by starring in a porn movie.

A paparrazzo who is suing Justin Bieber, claiming the singer is responsible for rendering him unable to work may have shot himself in the foot.  Video of Bieber with Chris Brown at a roller rink was shot by that particular paparazzo.  Whoops.

Carrie Fisher's daughter will be playing a younger version of 'Princess Leia' in the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII."

Did reality TV star Kendra Wilkinson really throw her wedding ring in the toilet after she learned her husband had been cheating with a transsexual Youtube model?  Apparently so.  Reporter's note:  Is the fact his cheating was with a transsexual somehow make it worse?

In 2012, Doug Chase's wife Suzanne tried to get his VA medical care shifted from Boston to Bedford, because it was much closer to their home.  Sadly he died four months later, without having received a response.  But two weeks ago the VA sent her a letter to let the Chase family know that they could call to make an appointment for Doug at the Bedford primary care clinic.  The VA has now apologized for that unforgivable letter.

Monica Lewinsky is speaking out about the humiliation she suffered after the details of her affair with former President Bill Clinton were revealed.

If you ever wanted to personally own a small town, one is for sale.  Swett, SD can be had for only $399,000.  The current population of 2 (the owner and his wife) will throw in six acres, one home, three trailers and the bar.

That's the former student body president of the Lawrenceville School, in a photo that wound up creating calls for her resignation.  Ultimately Maya Thompson did resign, although she insists this wasn't a racist move on her part.

Megan Fox admits to having at least two "girl crushes," one on Ellen DeGeneres and the other on Olivia Wilde.

Turns out that the same month the IRS began targeting applications for not for profit status from Tea party groups, former IRS official Lois Lerner and a colleague gave a workshop on the new scrutiny.

WWE Diva Emma (her real name is Tenille Dashwood) was arrested in Hartford, CT, on suspicion of sixth-degree larceny.  She allegedly shoplifted an iPad case.  Reporter's note:  They have six separate degrees of larceny in a state??

The so-called "nightmare nanny" has spoken out, saying she was the one being exploited.  Diane Stretton claims she was forced to work 90 straight days without a day off, often going 24/7. 

And now, to make up for yesterday...

July 1st in History:

69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fightings king Totila is mortally wounded.

1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.

1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of Castilian during the Reconquista.

1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.

1569 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.

1653 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly of Divines

1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).

1766 – Jean-François Lefebvre de la Barre was a young French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.

1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.

1782 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782).

1837 – A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.

1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.

1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

1862 – The Russian State Library is founded.

1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.

1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.

1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.

1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.

1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.

1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.

1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.

1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.

1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable

1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.

1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.

1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

1911 – Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.

1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Fliegertruppe air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.

1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.

1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.

1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.

1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).

1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa Trek.

1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.

1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).

1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.

1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.

1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.

1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.

1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

1958 – Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.

1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.

1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.

1960 – Independence of Somalia.

1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state.

1962 – Independence of Rwanda.

1962 – Independence of Burundi.

1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.

1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.

1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.

1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.

1967 – Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.

1968 – The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.

1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.

1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO.

1970 – President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.

1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.

1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.

1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.

1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.

1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.

1981 – The Wonderland murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.

1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.

1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.

1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.

1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.

1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.

1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.

2003 – Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.

2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.

2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China.

2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.

2008 – Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.

2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.

2013 – The United Nations mission MINUSMA begins its operative mandate in Mali.

2013 – Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered.

Famous Folk Born on July 1st:

Christian II of Denmark
Louis II of Hungary
Frederick II of Denmark
Johann Heinrich Heidegger
George Sand
James M. Cain
Tommy Dorsey
Charles Laughton
William Wyler
Estee Lauder
Sally Kirkland
Willie Dixon
Olivia de Havilland
Harold Sakata

Farley Granger
Leslie Caron
Jamie Farr
Jean Marsh
Sydney Pollock

Karen Black
Genevieve Bujold
Twyla Tharp
Debbie Harry
Shirley Hemphill
John Farnham
David Duke
Terrence Mann
Fred Schneider
Victor Willis

Dan Aykroyd
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Blount
Carl Lewis
Diana, Princess of Wales
Andre Braugher

Pamela Anderson
Missy Elliott
Julianne Nicholson
Claire Forlani
Liv Tyler