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| June 6 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 198 days remaining until the end of time. |
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| 1772 Haitian explorer Jean-Baptiste Pointe Dusable settles Chicago |
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| 1844 Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London as a place where men can be men |
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| 1850 Levi Strauss makes his 1st blue jeans |
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| 1933 1st drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey |
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| 1944 Major League Baseball cancels all games due to D-Day invasion; 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France |
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| 1949 "It Pays To Be Ignorant" game show debuts on CBS-TV |
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| 1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" which, of course, is what the lonely often do. |
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| 1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement |
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| 1972 David Bowie releases "Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" |
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| 1981 Maya Ying Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial |
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| 1984 Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released. |
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| 1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele, is located and exhumed, pissed on, crushed under boulders, ground into powder and sprinkled in a cesspool |
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| 1988 3 giant turtles are found in a Bronx sewage plant |
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| 2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. |
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| 1875 Thomas Mann, gay German novelist (Death in Venice)/essayist/critic |
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| 1928 Ed Fury [Holovchik], maybe gay US bodybuilder/physique model |
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| 1945 David Dukes, US actor |
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| 1950 Gary Graham, US actor |
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| 1952 Harvey Fierstein, gay US playwright/actor |
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| 1955 Sandra Bernhard, mainly gay US actress/comedian/singer |
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| 1956 Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player/men’s underwear designer and manufacturer |
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| 1959 Colin Quinn, maybe gay US comedian/actor/tv host |
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| 1963 Jason Isaacs, English actor |
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| 1965 Vincent Young, US actor |
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| 1970 Randy Becker, US actor |
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| 1985 Victor Basa, maybe gay Filipino model/actor |
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| 1991 Larry Kert, gay US actor (Tony-West Side Story), succumbs to AIDS at 60 |
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| 1993 James Bridges, gay US writer and director (Paper Chase)/life partner of Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen–Superman), sees bright lights, big city |
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| 1994 Barry Sullivan, US actor (Great Gadsby), makes the payment on demand |
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| 2006 Billy Preston, gay US singer/organist/5th Beatle, lets it be |
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