Put away the umbrellas and get out the sunscreen, because we’re starting a period of warm and sunny days for the next several days. High pressure will slide through starting today. It will give us clear conditions with the warmth building in starting this weekend. We might even see temperatures hovering around the 30c mark again.
1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is premiered
The horror-thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles has become one of the classics of the genre. The shower scene is one of the best-known murder scenes in the history of film.
1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
The Soviet cosmonaut completed 48 orbits on board the spaceship “Vostok 6” before returning safely to Earth. The former textile worker was declared “Hero of the Soviet Union” and received the United Nations Gold Medal of Peace.
2010 The world’s first country-wide total tobacco ban goes into effect
Bhutan banned the cultivation, harvesting, production, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products. It is still legal in the South Asian country to smoke in a private setting, but obtaining tobacco products legally is close to impossible.
One of the many murals created for the Summer Moon Festival that continues through to Saturday.
Here’s wishing you a great weekend and a safe one! See you Monday morning!
