June 26

It's June 26th


On this day in 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later
be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
...En no Kimi Ozunu had first lived in Mount Katsuragi and been acclaimed for his sorcery and was the
teacher of Outer Junior 5th Rank Lower Grade Karakuni no Muraji Hirotari. Later, [someone] envied his
power and accused him of trickery with his weird magic. [The Imperial Court] banished him. Rumor says,
"Ozunu was able to manipulate demonic spirits, making them draw water and gather firewood.
When they disobeyed, he bound them using sorcery.
Izu Ōshima featured prominently in The Return of Godzilla, as the location in which the JSDF successfully
trapped Godzilla after luring him to the crater, whereupon charges were detonated, sending him falling
into the magma-filled volcano.

In 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.


In 1970 - Free released "Fire and Water"


In 1995 - The Chemical Brothers released "Exit Planet Dust"


In 2024 – Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the US Department of Justice.

Birthdays:

Paul Thomas Anderson



Jürgen Reil


Harriet Wheeler


Terri Nunn


Mick Jones


Reggie Workman


Colin Wilson
on the Internet Archive
Interview on ThinkingAllowedTV

Wolfgang Reitherman


Donald M. Ashton


Virginia Satir
YouTube playlist

Lynd Ward
"Beowulf wrestles with Grendel"


Charlotte Zolotow
on the Internet Archive

Viktor Schreckengost
"Jazz Bowl"

The New Yorker (a.k.a. The Jazz Bowl) is the name given to Viktor Schreckengost's best-known piece
commissioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1931

"Apocalypse '42"

...launched a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. "The image of a frightened horse bearing Hitler,
Mussolini, Hirohito, and a figure of Death (in a German war uniform) across the globe was made to protest
the rise of fascism. Schreckengost's statement for this piece of art, addressing the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
was: "I've always felt that you can say more with one vivid cartoon than you can with a lot of heavy words."

Peter Lorre
as Roderick Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment"

as Joel Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon"


Big Bill Broonzy


Mitchell Lewis
as Herod, Tetrarch of Judea in "Salomé"


Daoud Corm
sketch

"Melons"


Branwell Brontë
"Portrait of Anne, Emily and Charlotte"

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