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Sunday, June 17, 2012

June 17th

June 17 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 187 days remaining until the end of time.




1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to ass-ass-inate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1876 Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud—1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Crazy Horse beat off General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory. . .and a good time was had by all.
1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1946 Grindr beta:  SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service in St. Louis
1963 The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing reciting Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools
1967 Barbra Streisand happens in Central Park
1971 President Richard Nixon declares the US War on Drugs.
1972 Five White House drug warriors are arrested for clumsily burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate building in an attempt by the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition. Those nutty Republicans sure love their technology, don’t they?
1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA
1978 "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32.  Here's John Barrowman's "Paradise in Cheeseburger"
1991 Notoriously dyspeptic President Zachary Taylor’s body is exhumed to determine if he was the victim of arsenic poisoning as conspiracy theorists have conjectured for more than 150 years
 
1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges and the Los Angeles police chase his white Ford Bronco for 1 hour before he gives up.  Ford appreciates the free advertising.
2008 Same sex couples may apply for marriage licenses–not domestic partnership or civil union licenses–in California.   Uh, hold that thought.



1880 Carl Van Vechten, gay US writer and photographer of famous gays and Harlem Renaissance luminaries 
1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born French/US composer  
1903 Ruth Wakefield, blessed US home economist/World’s Greatest Inventor (Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies)
1932 Peter Lupus, US actor/Mission: Impossible's Willy---indeed! 
1943 Barry Manilow [Barry Alan Pincus], maybe gay US singer and composer/Bette's bathhouse piano player
1957 Steve Shellen, Canadian actor 
1957 Jon Gries, US actor 
1957 Joachim Krol, German actor 
1958 Jello Biafra [Eric Reed Boucher], US punk rock musician 
1960 Thomas Haden Church [Thomas Richard McMillen], US actor 
1961 Denis Lavant, maybe gay French actor 
1963 Greg Kinnear, US actor 
1964 Michael Groß, German swimmer/”The Albatross” 
1966 Jason Patric [Miller], US actor/Jackie Gleason’s grandson 
1968 Omar Germenos, Mexican actor 
1970 Will Forte [Orville Willis Forte IV], maybe gay US comedian/actor 
1970 Michael Showalter, maybe gay US comedian/actor 
1974 Pedro Rendon, Colombian actor 
1979 Guile Branco, Brazilian actor/bodybuilder 
1980 Victor Rios, gay US pornographic actor 
1981 Shane Watson, Australian cricket player 
1982 Marcos Pitombo, Brazilian model/actor 



1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre. What an honor!
1984 Chet Allen, maybe gay US child actor/boy singer (Amahl and the Night Visitors), emits a nocturnal gift of his own
1986 Kate Smith, plus-sized US singer (God Bless America), is the fat lady who sings
1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct
1989 John Matuszak, US football player (Oak Raider)/actor, gets blocked




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