Happy June 21 when it comes – but what about us Travel people?
June 21 is the glorious date when out Covid restrictions will be lifted and we can all go back to the way we were.
So if it is to be a Deliverance Day we all celebrate in the future then a bit more about its significance already.
Harry’s Day
Harry Potter: No not that merry merry band of brothers that fought with King Harry on St Crispin’s Day nor the pussy-whipped current Prince Harry.
No this Harry is the magical boy wizard Harry Potter whose book the Order of the Phoenix was released today in 2009 and became the fastest selling in history.
And so the legend which is celebrated from Watford through Edinburgh to Orlando grew.
Make way for the Molly Maguires
Molly Maguires: Anyone who has enjoyed an Irish trad band in an Irish bar will have ‘made way for the Molly Maguires’.
Probably without knowing who they were.
Irish coal-mining activists in Pennsylvania, ten of whom were hanged this day in 1877….
‘They’ve drinkers, they’re liars but they’re men, you’ll never see the likes of them again.’
Reagan shot
The 47th President of America: In Washington DC
Ronald Reagan shot: In a country where everything is marked with a plaque it is noteworthy that the spot where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan is not.
I looked for it but didn’t find it when I stayed at the Washington Hilton
I did find Ford’s Theater where John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, and a swathe of American history in DC.
A new King Billy
Prince William born: The one who will be king and probably why he’s sticking around.
That and the fact that his wife isn’t homesick for Hollywood.
Prince William was born this day in 1982. Who knows when he will sit on the throne but London and all its royal schmaltz will reopen. Hurrah!
