July 15th

July 15 is the 197th day of the year.  There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year.

1099 Christian crusaders take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege. Surprise! Jesus is not there!

 

1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England who asked for the tasty bits

1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.  Now found daily in your SPAM folder.

1869 Margarine is patented by Hippolye MPge-MouriPs for use by French Navy. . .but we won’t say what its use was

1922 1st duck-billed platypus, undoubtedly the queerest animal on the planet, is publicly exhibited in US, at New York zoo

1973 John Paul Getty III is kidnapped and ransomed only after his ear is delivered to his skinflint grandfather. He later becomes famous as Balthazar’s dad.

1987 Boy George is barred from British TV show because he may be a bad influence. Ya Think?

2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

1779 Clement Clarke Moore, maybe gay US poet/lexicographer

1925 Philip Carey, heterosexual US actor who played Steve, the gay football player, on "All in the Family".

1944 Jan-Michael Vincent, US actor 

1948 John Gibson, US model/actor/Vanna White’s fiancee (Some girls have all the luck)

1952 Franklyn Seales, St. Vincentian actor

1952 Terry O’Quinn, US actor 

1959 Vincent Lindon, French actor 

1960 Willie Aames (Albert William Upton), US actor 

1973 Brian Austin Green, US actor 

1974 Renzo Lewis Jr., US actor 

1974 Evan Marriott, US consturction worker/model/Joe Millionaire 

1979 Philipp Karner, Austrian actor  (guy without glasses)

1979 Travis Fimmel, Australian model/actor 

1980 Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor 

1987 Garrett Forbes, US model/actor 

1883 Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), only requires half a grave plot

1940 Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), is already close to heaven despite the bad suit

1997 Gianni Versace, best looking fashion designer in his family, gets caught up in Andrew Cunanan’s delerium