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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

February 21st

February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 304 days remaining until the end of time.




1431 England begins trial against cross-dresser Joan of Arc.  I wonder how this will turn out. . .
1848 Lovers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.  You've got to fight for your right to party.
1885 A life-size monument of George Washington’s thin and pointy penis is dedicated in Washington D.C.
1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale in anticipation of the repeal of Prohibition.
1937 Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1953 Francis Crick (r) and James Watson (l) discover structure of DNA-molecule while trading blow jobs
1958 The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.

 
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on American Bandstand
1988 Jimmy Swaggart confesses about getting caught with his dick in a "female sex worker" without admitting that he had his dick in a "female sex worker"

1903 Anaïs Nin, bisexual French-Cuban writer/diarist
1907 W. H. Auden, gay English-born US poet
 
Oh for a lover like this. . .
 
1933 Nina Simone [Eunice Kathleen Waymon], US singer/songwriter/pianist/gay icon
1934 Rue McClanahan, golden US actress/gay icon
1936 Barbara Jordan, gay US politician/congressperson
1939 Borje Ahlstedt, Swedish actor
1943 David Geffen, power gay US film producer/record executive
1953 William Petersen, US actor
1956 Woody Brown, US actor
1961 Christopher Atkins, often naked US actor/model
Ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille. . .
1962 Martin Armknecht, German actor
1963 William (Billy) Baldwin, US actor/one of the cute Baldwins



1965 Malcolm X [El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz], US civil rights activist/ Muslim leader, assassinated in New York City at 39




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