June 20th

June 20 is the 172nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 184 days remaining until the end of time.

1793 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin in search of the perfect very dry martini. Fail!

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph

1910 "Krazy Kat" gay comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal. There is no comic strip simpler, on the face of it, than Krazy Kat. In its 31-year run (from 1913 to 1944) the plot never changed much. Ignatz Mouse, sadist supreme, aims to bean the beribboned Krazy Kat, soulful innocent, with a brick, and usually succeeds. Krazy Kat takes the brick, even seeks it out, as a missile of love. And Krazy’s secret admirer, the police dog Offissa Bull Pupp, throws the errant mouse in jail. All’s well.

1948 Deutsche Mark is introduced to West Germany, they fall madly in love and make many beautiful babies until that slut, Euro, comes between them

1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act passes. Passes for what we don’t know.

1963 The "red phone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.  First, it isn't red.  Second, it isn't a telephone.  Third, it can't locate the nearest gay boy ready for sex.

1991 The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

1909 Errol Flynn, swashbuckling bisexual Australian actor 

1940 John Mahoney, gay English-born US actor/Niles and Frasier Crane's daddy  

1952 Kadu Moliterno, Brazilian actor   The intimate video is on-line 

1953 Larry Riley, gay US actor/AIDS victim  

1954 Miles O’Keeffe, maybe gay US actor/another Tarzan 

1958 Chuck Wagner, maybe gay US actor   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905843/

1962 Ray Dragon, gay US fashion designer/photographer/my favorite pornographic actor 

1969 Peter Paige, gay US actor/forever Emmett Honeycutt  

1971 Josh Lucas, US actor  

1972 Simon Verhoeven, maybe gay German actor/celebuspawn (Senta Berger and Michael Verhoeven) 

1973 Tom Wlaschiha, German actor/Game of Throne’s Jaqen H’ghar  

1975 Sergio Volpini, Italian actor  

1979 Frederic Cermeno, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model  

1979 Marcos Mion, Brazilian actor/Brazilian MTV VJ  

1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel [Benjamin Hymen Siegelbaum], US gangster, has a very bad day

1999 Clifton Fadiman, US intellectual/critic/writer/host, who helped start the Book-of-the-month Club and starred in every filmstrip I ever saw in school, enjoys another party of one.

2011 Ryan Dunn, US Jackass, is involved in another car accident.