PERSONALITIES BORN ON 19 JUNE

Being a Gemini, born on 19 June, I am proud to list down some personalities around the world born on that day. The names were collated from Wikipedia.

Births

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
• 1566 – King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
• 1595 – Guru Har Gobind- 6th sikh guru (d. 1644)
• 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
• 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)
• 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (d. 1893)
• 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American librarian and poet (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British Field Marshal and Commander of British forces in WW I (d. 1928)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)
• 1865 – Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
• 1872 – Theodore Payne, English horticulturist who preserved California native plants (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1898 – James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Thelma Barlow, English actress
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian-born American actress (d. 1972)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer
• 1936 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano
• 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Ian Smith, Australian actor
• 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Shirley Muldowney, Female drag racer, NHRA champion Racecar Driver
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1942 – Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, musician
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel laureate
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
• 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer
• 1947 – Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian author
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American musician
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1952 – Robert Ainsworth, British Politician
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American musician
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1956 – Doug Stone, American singer
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian hockey player
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer, songwriter and trumpeter
• 1960 – Luke Morley, British guitarist
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer
• 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
• 1964 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and political commentator
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, British politician
• 1964 – Brian Vander Ark, American musician
• 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress
• 1965 – Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
• 1966 – Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
• 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
• 1969 – Lara Spencer, American TV personality
• 1969 – Thomas Breitling, American entrepreneur
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1970 – Brian 'Head' Welch, American guitarist (Korn) and vocalist (Head)
• 1970 – Antonis Remos, Greek singer
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
• 1974 – Bumper Robinson, American actor and voice artist
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor
• 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer
• 1976 – Patrick Surtain, American football player
• 1976 – Abdoul Thiam, German footballer
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1977 – Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
• 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
• 1978 – Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1978 – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
• 1979 – Moonika Aava, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1979 – John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
• 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian football player
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
• 1980 – Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
• 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1982 – David Pollack, American football player
• 1982 – May Andersen, Danish supermodel
• 1982 – Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
• 1982 – Michael Yarmush, American actor
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
• 1982 – Trevor Hamilton, Northern Irish murderer
• 1983 – Jason Capizzi, American football player
• 1983 – Mark Selby, British snooker player
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast.
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player

See also http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays/June/19

http://www.famouswhy.com/Born_Today/6/19.html

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/mobile/jun19.html

WORLD EVENTS ON 19 JUNE

In remembrance of my Birthday - 19 June every year, I would like to share events that happened on 19 June that had been recorded. Though it is not a complete list, these events are 'food for our thoughts' and had gone down in history.....

Events

• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
• 1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 1807 – Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
• 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1915 – The USS Arizona (BB-39) is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1943 – Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1978 – Garfield appears in his first comic strip.
• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, was ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 2006 – Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
• 2009 – British troops begin Operation Panther's Claw, one of the largest air operations in modern times, when more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions and subsequently repelled Taliban counter-attacks.

This list was taken from Wikipedia.

Additional events:

1867

The first running of the Belmont Stakes.

1977

Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States.

1885

... that today is Statue of Liberty Day? The Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home at Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor on June 19, 1885, aboard the French frigate Isere. A gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, the 151-foot-tall statue was created to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence.

1987

The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.

2002

Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in.

WHAT IS 'GEMINI' AND QUOTATIONS

GEMINI

My Birthday falls on 19th June every year. I am a GEMINI- 'The Twins'.

'June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of the year.'

GEMINI

According to Wikipedia:

'Gemini (Gem-en-i.e.) (♊) is the third astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Gemini. In western astrology, this sign is no longer aligned with the constellation as a result of the precession of the equinoxes. In astrology, Gemini is considered a "masculine", positive (extrovert) sign. Perhaps the most dominant Geminian characteristic is versatility. It is also considered an air sign, and is one of four mutable signs.^[4] Gemini has been closely associated with the planet Mercury and is considered to be ruled by it. Being the third sign of the zodiac, Gemini has been associated with the astrological third house.

Gemini were twin brothers in Greek mythology and collectively known as the Dioskouroi. They were the sons of Leda by Tyndareus and Zeus respectively, the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, They are known collectively in Greek as the Dioscuri (Greek: Διόσκουροι, Dioskouroi) "sons of Zeus"

Individuals born when the Sun was in this sign are considered Gemini individuals. Under the tropical (western) zodiac, Sun is in the sign of Gemini roughly from May 21 to June 20, ending at the moment of summer solstice by definition. Under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently there roughly from June 15 to July 15. The Sanskrit name of Gemini in Hindu astrology is Mithuna.'

Gemini! About My Sign...

Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. They take up new activities enthusiastically but lack application, constantly needing new interests, flitting from project to project as apparently purposelessly as a butterfly dancing from flower to flower. To them life is a game which must always be full of fresh moves and continuous entertainment, free of labor and routine. Changing horses in the middle of the stream is another small quirk in the Gemini personality which makes decision making, and sticking to a decision, particularly hard for them.

Since they lack the quality of conscientiousness, they are apt to fight a losing battle in any attempts they make to be moral (in the widest sense of the word). Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. They quickly learn to use their outward attractiveness to gain their own ends, and when striving for these they will use any weapon in their armory - unscrupulous lying, and cunning evasiveness; escaping blame by contriving to put it on other people, wrapped up in all the charm they can turn on. In their better moments they may strive to be honest and straightforward, but self-interest is almost always the victor. If things go against them, they sulk like children. Also like children, they demand attention, admiration, and the spending on them of time, energy and money, throwing tantrums if they don't get what they want. They reflect every change in their surroundings, like chameleons, and can become pessimistic, sullen, peevish and materialistically self-centered if circumstances force them to struggle in any way. If the conditions of life become really adverse, their strength of will may desert them entirely. They can become uncertain of themselves, either withdrawn, or nervously excitable worriers, sullenly discontented, hard and irritable, with "Self" looming ever larger in their struggles. On the other hand their versatility can make them very adaptable, adjusting themselves to control the world around them by means of their inherent ingenuity and cleverness

Most Gemini have a keen, intuitive, sometimes brilliant intelligence and they love cerebral challenges. But their concentration, though intense for a while, does not last. Their mental agility and energy give them a voracious appetite for knowledge from youth onward, though they dislike the labor of learning. They easily grasp almost everything requiring intelligence and mental dexterity, and are often able to marry manual skills to their qualities of mind. Their intellect is strongly analytical and sometimes gives them so great an ability to see both sides of a question that they vacillate and find it hard to make decisions. But their intelligence may very well be used to control and unify the duality of their natures into a most efficient unit. If faced with difficulties, they have little determination to worry at a problem until they find a solution - they will pick the brains of others. In their intellectual pursuits, as in other departments of their lives, they risk becoming dilettantes, losing themselves in too many projects which they follow until they become difficult.

In love they are fickle, not intentionally so but because of the basic inconsistency of their emotional nature, which has an amoral aspect to it. Their is a side to Geminians which can become deeply involved emotionally, and another, hostile to sentimentality, which stands back from a romantic situation, laughing at it and the protagonists in it, including themselves while analyzing it intellectually. Gemini subjects take nothing seriously. So, in love, in spite of their temporary depth of feeling, for the intensity of involvement lasts only while it is new, they are superficial, light-hearted, cool, flirtatious and unimaginative in the understanding of the pain they may give others. They like intrigue, the excitement of the chase, but once they have caught the prey, they lose interest and look around for the next creature to pursue. In less serious situations they make witty, entertaining companions, good acquaintances rather than friends. Even at their worst they are never dull - there is usually playfulness below the surface, and they can be brilliant conversationalists - but they can also be quarrelsome, prattlers, boasters, liars and cheats.

Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. In business any work which combines quick-wittedness with a change of surroundings suits them; working as a traveling salesperson, brokerage work, or dealing with the public in any capacity is right up their alley. Because they are dispassionate, logical, rational and analytical they make good scientists, especially in the fields of medicine and astronomy. They can also make excellent members of the Armed Forces, for they take danger no more seriously than anything else and can earn themselves a reputation for devotion to duty and heroic acts. In the arts they may excel in music, painting and sculpture. They make good psychic researchers of a sceptical kind. Negatively they can degenerate into confidence tricksters, thieves and even adepts in the black arts.

Traditional Gemini traits

Adaptable and versatile
Communicative and witty
Intellectual and eloquent
Youthful and lively

On The Dark Side.....
Nervous and tense
Superficial and inconsistent
Cunning and inquisitive

QUOTATIONS

I would like to share interesting quotations from people who were born or died on 19th June taken from various sources in the internet.

BORN ON 19 JUNE

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." Blaise Pascal
(06/19/1623 – 08/19/1662)
French mathematician

"The anvil is not afraid of the hammer." Charles H. Spurgeon
(06/19/1834 – 01/31/1892)
English clergy

"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856 – 05/07/1915)
US writer

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you." Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856 – 01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent

"[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him." Earl Douglas Haig
(06/19/1861 – 01/29/1928)
Scottish military

"You knuckleheads!" Moe Howard
(06/19/1897 – 05/04/1975)
US stooge (Also see Larry Fine, Curly Howard)


"If you have integrity—nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity—nothing else matters." Evelle J. Younger
(06/19/1918 – 05/04/1989)
US attorney general (CA)

"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'" Pauline Kael
(06/19/1919 – 09/03/2001)
US (Petaluma, CA-born) film critic

"[The Libyan Army] is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." Muammar al-Gaddafi
(06/19/1942 – )
Libyan military, political leader

"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now." Salman Rushdie
(06/19/1947 – )
Indian-English writer

"Things can always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office." Adrienne Gusoff
(06/19/1953 – )
US telegram

"I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay." Kathleen Turner
(06/19/1954 – )
US actor

"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men." John Dalberg Acton
(01/10/1834 – 06/19/1902)
English historian

DIED ON 19 JUNE
"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate." Thomas John Watson, Jr.
(02/17/1874 – 06/19/1956)
US businessman (IBM president)

"Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it." Ed Wynn
(11/09/1886 – 06/19/1966)
US actor

"Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?" William Golding
(09/19/1911 – 06/19/1993)
English writer

"We shall never be content until man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself." Jerome K. Jerome
(05/02/1859 – 06/19/1927)
English writer

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life." Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860 – 06/19/1937)
Scottish writer (Peter Pan)

19 JUN -BERMULANYA SEJARAH HAMBA

Syukur Alhamdulillah, 19hb Jun merupakan Hari Jadi Hamba. Kalau mengikut Zodiac, Hamba berbintang Gemini... Bertambah setahun lagi umur Hamba. Semoga Allah swt akan terus memberkati diri Hamba... dipanjangkan umur dan dimurahkan rezeki...

Kalau nak diletakkan lilin diatas kek Hari Jadi, dah tak muat... 63 batang lilin. Tetapi 63 batang lilin inilah melambangkan kehidupan yang telah dilalui..diharungi..pahit, manis, sedih dan gembira... Dari Zaman sebelum Kemerdekaan Negara -darurat, daif, miskin, tertindas - sehinggalah kini- Negara yang maju, aman dan merdeka!!!!!! Alangkah bertuahnya Hamba dapat melihat perjuangan untuk mencapai Kemerdekaan Negara...perjuangan dan penglibatan Raja-Raja Melayu.... pengorbanan pejuang-pejuang kemerdekaan kita dahulu seperti Dato Onn, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Dr Ismail dll.. yang sanggup bergadai- golok demi untuk memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Negara... dan pengorbanan pihak tentera dan polis kita!!!!

Hamba dapat bezakan hidup sebelum Kemerdekaan dengan selepas Kemerdekaan. Perbezaan inilah yang dapat membuatkan Hamba insaf dan sedar betapa pentingnya kita perlu mempertahankan Kemerdekaan Negara, mengekalkan dan mempertahankan institusi Raja-Raja, dan mengekalkan serta mengukuhkan keamanan dan keharmonian Negara. Jangan ujud lagi Peristiwa 13 Mei 1969... pelajarilah dari kesilapan yang telah berlaku. Janganlah kita jadi 'Kacang Lupakan Kulit'...'Kaduk Naik Junjung'.

Hamba bersyukur kepada Allah swt., kerana dapat merasai kenikmatan hidup di negara ini.. Mudah-mudahan Hamba akan terus dapat menikmati kesejahteraan Negara ini bertahun-tahun lagi.
Doa Hamba dipanjangkan umur, diberi kesihatan dan keberkatan serta dimurahkan rezeki. Amin....

MEMORIAL UNTUK SIAPA?

Hamba terbaca dalam akhbar Utusan Malaysia di ruang 'Rencana' tulisan Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee mengenai Memorial. Termenung sejenak apabila Hamba membaca tulisan tersebut.

Setahu Hamba Memorial yang diujudkan oleh Arkib Negara adalah untuk mengenang jasa dan sumbangan Negarawan Utama Negara, iaitu khususnya untuk Bekas Perdana Menteri - Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang telah meninggal dunia, contohnya Memorial Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra; serta juga untuk Memperingati Peristiwa Penting Dalam Sejarah Negara Malaysia, contohnya Memorial Pengisytiharan Kemerdekaan.

Untuk Negarawan Utama yang masih hidup, seperti Tun Dr Mahathir, serta tokoh-tokoh terpilih tanahair yang telah meninggal dunia, seperti P.Ramlee; dan Institusi atau Peristiwa tertentu tanahair, seperti Perkhidmatan Awam dan Darurat, Arkib Negara menggunakan perkataan Galeria, Pustaka, Pustaka Peringatan dan Rumah Kelahiran. Dengan itu ujudlah Galeria Perdana ( Tun Dr Mahathir), Pustaka Peringatan P.Ramlee dan Pustaka Perkhidmatan Awam.

Pada asalnya perkataan 'Arkib dan Pustaka' digunakan berasaskan kepada 'Presidential Archives and Library' untuk Presiden-Presiden di USA. Di India dan Filipina, mereka menggunakan 'Memorial' untuk memperingati jasa bekas Perdana Menteri dan Presiden mereka yang telah meninggal dunia.

Untuk negara kita, terdapat perubahan dan penambahbaikan kepada istillah yang telah digunakan. Dengan itu ujudlah istillah-istillah seperti 'Pustaka Peringatan, Pustaka, Memorial, Galeria, Rumah Kelahiran' dsbnya, yang masih digunakan hingga kini.

Yang pastinya sejak dahulu lagi, Arkib Negara telah memutuskan MEMORIAL adalah khusus untuk Bekas Perdana Menteri- Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang telah meninggal dunia sahaja, serta untuk Memperingati Peristiwa Terpenting Tanah Air iaitu Kemerdekaan Tanah Air kita. Sekiranya istillah 'Memorial' telah digunakan oleh pihak-pihak tertentu, istillah itu bukanlah digunakan dengan persetujuan Arkib Negara.

Hamba mohon maaf kalau tersalah cakap, kerana maklumlah sejak Hamba mula terlibat dalam perancangan dan perlaksanaan untuk mengujudkan Memorial di Arkib Negara, pada tahun 1972 sehinggalah Hamba pencen tahun 2003, mungkin ada yang Hamba terlupa. Hamba pasti Arkib Negara lebih arif untuk menjelaskan dengan lebih tepat lagi mengenai perkara ini.

Dato' Habibah Zon
Mantan Ketua Pengarah Arkib Negara Malaysia

(Nota: Artikel ini telah disiar dalam akhbar Utusan Malaysia, ruangan Forum pada Khamis 17hb Jun,2010)

VEMMA WORLD CONVENTION 2010 DI LAS VEGAS

Sejak tahun 2002, Hamba dah lama tak menjejak kaki di bumi Amerika Syarikat. Tup..tup.. Vemma ada Conventionnya di Las Vegas pada akhir Januari, 2010. Hati ini terlalu teringin nak turut hadir, nak tenguk bagaimana gahnya Convention Vemma tahun ini.

Keluarga tak menghalang, tapi mereka risau takut sakit pinggang kerana Hamba memang ada prolapsed disc di lumber 3 dan 4. Maklumlah dulu terbang duduk Kelas Pertama atau pun Business Class sebab memang kelayakan Hamba. Jadi bolehle baring.. tak le sakit pinggang. Kali ini Hamba naik Kelas Ekonomi... bergayut kaki hampir 22 jam perjalanan. Dalam flight itu Hamba pergi bersama 3 orang lagi kawan-kawan Hamba...semua otai-otai. Kawan-kawan lain, 9 orang yang lain, menaiki kapal terbang yang lebih awal.

Hamba sampai Los Angeles dan menaiki kapal terbang yang lain ke Las Vegas. Waktu sampai hari dah malam. Ajaib... pinggang Hamba tak sakit. Agaknya Hamba minum jus Vemma setiap hari sejak bulan Jun 2009. Tak rasa pun lenguh, sakit atau kebas!!!! Syukur ..Alhamdulillah.

'Sin City' memang bergemerlapan malam itu... cantik dan bercahaya. Kami tinggal di Hotel MGM Grand, salah sebuah hotel yang terbesar disana. Casino yang besar, restaurant yang banyak, shopping dan zoo dlm Hotel tersebut!!!!! Wow.. tergangga Hamba. Biliknya pun best, cantik dan bersih.. dihiasi dgn gambar-gambar bintang filem Hollywood.

Esoknya Convention bermula.. pendaftaran dan malamnya acara pembukaan. Hari berikutnya ramai yang hadir di Dewan yang disediakan, lebih kurang 4000 orang. Kebanyakan dari USA dan Eropah, dan Malaysia merupakan negara di Asia yang paling ramai menghantar wakil di Covention - 13 orang. Buat pertama kali Malaysia diberi penghormatan untuk berucap dan Presidential Salehin telah mengunggulinya. Syabas Salehin .. orang pertama di Malaysia dan Asia yang mencapai Presidential.

Selama 4 malam di Las Vegas menghadiri Convention Vemma begitu menarik bagi Hamba. Bakal-bakal jutawan Vemma, beribu-ribu orang... berkumpul dibawah satu bumbung, masing-masing dengan aspirasi, harapan dan kecekalan hati yang begitu kuat. Harapan akan menjadi kenyataan sekiranya kita betul-betul telah mem'bulatkan' niat, usaha, azam, kegigihan, kesepakatan dan senantiasa mengingatiNya.