Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, June 11, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Gemini. Some notable people born on this date include biologist, author and inventor Jacques Cousteau, legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, pianist and singer Hazel Scott, author William Styron, actress Adrienne Barbeau; actors Gene Wilder, Chad Everett, Peter Dinklage, Hugh Laurie and Shia LeBoeuf; race car driver Jackie Stewart, football player Joe Montana and surgeon, author and television host Mehmet Oz.
Today’s Questions:
When did you last see a doctor or other medical professional?
Years ago. No reason to go there.
Are you planning any trips this summer?
I am already where l wanted to be 
Do you have any devices that are solar powered?
My wrist watch.
Have you ever had freshly baked homemade bread?
Just baked for the weekend:
How do you feel about talking on the telephone?
Always joyful! Prefere talk to text!
Do you have any mystery keys that you have no idea what they’re for, but you’re afraid to throw them away?
A whole, big ziplock bag. Old keys that might fit to old, replaced locks (those are in a box), keys from my old workplaces, and bunch of padlocks with not matched keys. Several keys to my old cars too. 
Wonderful stuff to read!
Today in History:
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1559 – Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of 1,500, intending to settle on the gulf coast (present-day Vera Cruz, Mexico).
1748 – Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
1901 – The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
1903 – A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
1940 – World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1944 – USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they finally register.
1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963 – John F. Kennedy gives an address proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
1968 – Lloyd J. Old identifies the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so.
1971 – The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
1987 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
1998 – Compaq Computer pays nine billion dollars for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2004 – Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations for abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
2010 – The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
2013 – Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It is opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
Word of the Day:
effusive \ i-ˈfyü-siv \adjective
1. expressed with unrestrained enthusiasm or emotion
2. extravagantly demonstrative
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Quote of the Day:
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
- Vince Lombardi
Today Is:
National Children’s Day.
It was on June 1st, where I live
Race Unity Day
Corn on the Cob Day
Cousteau Day
National Cotton Candy Day
National German Chocolate Cake Day
Thank you, Bayarea - like always delightful QOTD 
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