THE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021 On This Date 1884 – The first roller coaster in the Quote of the Day U.S. began operation at Coney Island. “Joy is not in things; 1909 – Glenn Curtiss sold his first it is in us.” airplane for $5,000 to the New York Aeronautical Society. The biplane ~ Richard Wagner was called the Gold Bug but later was known as the Golden Flyer. 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival Happy Birthday! was held, featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, Janis Joplin, Helen Traubel (1899–1972) was an and the Grateful Dead, beginning American opera singer from St. Louis, “The Summer of Love.” Missouri. Known for her powerful, dramatic soprano roles in German 1981 – Ken Taylor, Canada’s former composer Richard Wagner’s operas, ambassador to Iran, was awarded the she made her debut in 1923 with the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal for St. Louis Symphony helping six Americans escape from Orchestra. Traubel Iran during the hostage crisis. continued as a concert singer until her opera career Daily Trivia began in 1937. She sang for the Chicago Which insect has transparent City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, wings covered in tiny scales, uses and the San Francisco Opera, among their feet to taste, drinks from a other companies. She performed on straw-like proboscis, and lives Broadway, radio, and television. In for a period of only a few 1959, her autobiography, St. Louis short weeks? Woman, was published. She also Answer: The butterfly wrote two murder mysteries. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN).