Born in 1914 – Jack Delano, American photographer and composer.

Above: Pledging Allegiance to the Flag in a School in Puerto Rico, 1946

Born in 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Cybill Shepherd in Bogdanovich‘s 1971 film, The Last Picture Show.

Born in 1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American photographer and filmmaker.

Above: Kubrick directing Malcolm McDowell in his 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

A few things Kubrick said about education:

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”

“If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.”

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Born in 1952 – Gus Van Sant, American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Still from the 2002 film, Gerry.

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1918. Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.

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Born in 1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish filmmaker.

“…art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. He lived and died without being more or less important than other artisans; ‘eternal values,’ ‘immortality’ and ‘masterpiece’ were terms not applicable in his case. The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.“

Above: Bergman with his wife, Kabi Laretei, and their son, Daniel.

Born in 1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American artist.

Above: Pentecost, 1989 tempera on panel.

It’s the saint day of Benedict of Nursia, the founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino and 12 other monastic communities in 6th century Italy. The author of the Rule of Saint Benedict.

Born in 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator.

Above: JEANNE D’ARC : Les Voix (1957)

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On July 3rd, 1988 the US Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing all two hundred and ninety innocent men and women including sixty six children on board.