Church leaders Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball were part of the Board of Regents that made the Deseret alphabet. Other important creators were George D. Watt and William W. Phelps.
Before they decided to use the Deseret alphabet, the Board of Regents thought they would use Pitman style alphabets. On 29 November 1853, they came together to vote. Then, Willard Richards, who was sick when the Board of Regents had talked about which alphabet to use, saw the Pitman style alphabet. He said it looked too much like the English alphabet, and he wanted to start over with something new. His words convinced Brigham Young and the rest of the Board of Regents to make the Deseret alphabet. Less than two months later, the Board of Regents approved the first 38-letter Deseret alphabet.
In the Deseret alphabet, capital letters ("majuscule" or upper case) look the same as the lower case ("minuscule") letters, except the capital letters are larger. In the chart below, the "Glyph" is the letter shape, and next to it is the letter's name, which is how it sounds.
June 2017 Champs-Élysées attack
On 19 June 2017, the driver of a car containing guns rammed the car into a police vehicle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. He was immediately killed by police.
The Champs-Élysées was the site of the an attack in April.
At 3:40 pm Paris local time in Paris a man attempted to ram his vehicle into a police car on the heavily guarded Champs-Élysées. The car contained an AK47 assault rifle, handguns, and a gas canister. The attacker was killed and the incident is under investigation as possible terrorism.
Helen Freedhoff
Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She was born in Toronto, Ontario.
She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London. Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time. She married Stephen Freedhoff while an undergraduate, and had two children, Michal Freedhoff and Yoni Freedhoff.
Freedhoff died suddenly of cardiac arrest on 10 June 2017 at the family's cottage in Muskoka, Ontario, aged 77.
Luis Lusquiños
Luis Lusquiños (27 November 1951 – 17 June 2017) was an Argentine politician. He was born in the San Luis Province. He had the highest number of absences in the 2005-2009 period. He was appointed Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during the brief presidency of Adolfo Rodríguez Saá.
Lusquiños died on 17 June 2017 at the age of 65.
Ivan Dias
Ivan Dias (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Bandra, a suburb of Bombay.
Dias was Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2006 to 2011, having served as Archbishop of Bombay (1996–2006) and papal diplomat in the Balkans, East Asia, and West Africa. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Otto Warmbier
Otto Frederick Warmbier (; December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student. He was imprisoned in North Korea from March 2016 to June 2017 after being convicted of "hostile acts" against the country.
Warmbier, then 21 years old, confessed to stealing a political propaganda poster from a hotel and was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor. The United States made diplomatic efforts to seek Warmbier's release. A U.S. State Department spokesman said Warmbier's harsh sentence was a response to U.S. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear activities. According to his father, Warmbier's confession was forced and he was abducted by the North Korean government for political purposes.
Warmbier fell into a coma in North Korea and was released in June 2017, after nearly 18 months in North Korea. According to North Korean authorities, Warmbier's coma was a result of botulism and a sleeping pill, but U.S. physicians cast doubt on that claim. Warmbier arrived in Cincinnati on June 13 and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for immediate evaluation and treatment. He was diagnosed with "severe neurological injury."
His father believes that he was "terrorized and brutalized".
Warmbier died on June 19, 2017 in Cincinnati, six days after his return to the United States from complications of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by botulism and sepsis. He was also suffering from pneumonia and kidney failure.
Brian Cant
Brian Cant (12 July 1933 – 19 June 2017) was an English actor, television presenter and writer. He was best known for his work in BBC television programmes for children from 1964 until his death in 2017. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. He was best known for presenting "Play School" and for starring as Brian the Farmer in "Dapplewood Farm". On 28 November 2010, he received the special award at the Children's BAFTAs for his work in children's television.
Cant died on 19 June 2017 in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 83.
Josh Peck
Joshua Michael Peck (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and YouTube personality. He is best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom "Drake & Josh". He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on "The Amanda Show". He has since acted in films such as "Mean Creek", "Drillbit Taylor", "The Wackness", "ATM", and "Red Dawn", along with voicing Eddie in the "Ice Age" franchise. He also starred as Gerald in a lead role with John Stamos in the series "Grandfathered". He formerly voiced Casey Jones in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". He also starred in a Netflix comedy, "Take the 10", along with Tony Revolori.
As of 2017, Peck began branching out in YouTube starting his own comedic lifestyle YouTube channel, Shua Vlogs, featuring David Dobrik and his wife Paige O' Brien.
Peck was born in New York City, New York, where he attended P.S. 40 and The Professional Performing Arts School. His parents were unmarried at the time of his birth and he has never met his biological father. He grew up with his mother, Barbara, who is a career coach, and his maternal grandmother. Peck is Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He had asthma during his childhood, and often stayed indoors watching old sitcoms. He was inspired to become involved in stand-up comedy when he was eight years old.
Peck subsequently appeared at TADA! Youth Theater and performed stand-up comedy at Carolines on Broadway for the Audrey Hepburn foundation. At the age of 13, he was offered a role on Nickelodeon's "The Amanda Show" and, at his mother's suggestion, accepted the part and moved to Los Angeles to further pursue an acting career.