June 25th

June 25 is the 177th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 179 days remaining until the end of time.

1630 Fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop

1913 US Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.

1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg

1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam which is later Hoover Dam. Much more impressive than the proposed George W. Bush Sewage Plant in San Francisco.  Read More

1947 Tennis shoe is introduced

1948 The Berlin airlift begins.

1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks

1967 Mohammed Ali sentenced to 5 years for wanting only to beat people up rather than kill them

1976 Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I’m from Missouri, but I’m not sorry.

1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration as constitutional as it appeals to their prurient interests

1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride. Of course, "Fox Valley IL 605" is code for Lesbian and Gay Pride while "15 Mar 2006" is code for 25 Jun 1989

1994 Gay Games close in New York City. Trust me, the gay games never end, honey!

2006 Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the poor dears

1852 Antoni Gaudi, probably gay Catalan architect 

1935 Larry Kramer, gay US writer The Normal Heart, co-founder Gay Men's Health Crisis, and the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (Act Up). Pulitzer prize recipient 

1952 Al Parker [Andrew Robert Okun], gay US pornographic icon/AIDS victim 

1953 Udo Samel, German actor 

1956 Anthony Bourdain, US chef 

1963 George Michael [Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou], gay English pop singer/serial cruiser

1963 John Benjamin Hickey, gay US actor 

1969 Hunter Foster, US actor 

1970 Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete 

1970 Brad Hunt, gay US pornographic actor 

1971 Jason Lewis, US actor 

1975 Robert Balint, Hungarian porn star 

1982 Rain [Jung Ji-Hoon], Korean singer 

1986 Charlie Davies, US soccer player who survived horrific auto crash

1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn or the Greasy Grass: Sitting Bull and his Lakota-Cheyenne warriors wipe out Brevet Major General (Lt. Col) George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry Regiment which include his 2 brothers and brother-in-law. Custer’s last words? "Where the fuck did all these Indians come from?"

1956 Alfred C Kinsey, bisexual US zoologist/sexologist, experiences his greatest orgasm

1984 Michel Foucault, gay post-modern French philosopher (Madness and Civilization, History of Sexuality), succumbs to AIDS at 57

2009 Farrah Fawcett, US actress (Charlie’s Angels), is a good sport even though her story doesn’t make an entire news cycle before. . .

2009 . . .Michael Jackson, US singer, pop icon, humanitarian pederast (Wiz), beats it