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Saturday, June 6, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown indicate likely thunderstorms today into tomorrow morning. Rainfall could be locally heavy at times. Moderate Southeasterlies bring upper 70's to the afternoons.

Today is “D-Day,” the anniversary in 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. The opening five minute of Steven Spielberg's film “Saving Private Ryan” captured a sense of what it might have been like storming Omaha Beach. Full disclosure: This clip is not the easiest film narrative to watch.

Sex and the City began airing on HBO today in 1998, and it became one of the most popular and influential television series of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

It's almost the 4th anniversary of Joyce Vance's Civil Discourse.

Speaking of anniversaries, some will want to mark their calendars: Monday will be Tim Cook's last Apple event as CEO. The World Wide Development Conference, WWDC for short, will be streamed live on youtube and on Apple's website, at Noon Central Time.

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, novelist Aleksandr Pushkin was born in 1799 Moscow. He established his claim with the novel Eugene Onegin.

Diego Velázquez was baptized on this day in 1599, Sevilla, Spain. He became, perhaps, the most important Spanish painter of the 17th century, certainly a giant of Western art.

Paul Giamatti is 59 today, born in 1967, New Haven, Connecticut. The multiple laureate actor excels at portraying likable idiosyncratic everyman characters. My fave film of his remains Sideways.

Nobel laureate author Thomas Mann was born today in 1875, Lübeck, Germany.

And it's the birthdate of Maxine Kumin. A six-decade career as a poet and novlist brought her The Pulitzer Prize and The U.S. Poet Laureate – among many other prestigious accolades. She was born in 1925 Philadelphia.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. –Thomas Mann