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| July 16 is the 198th day of the year. There are 168 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 622 Mohammed flees from Mecca to Medina in the Hejira. A fatwa is issued against Joni Mitchell for singing about it. |
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| 1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading), but birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated Mormons do it. |
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| 1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in the Oklahoma capital, Oklahoma City. |
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| 1941 Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that is an enduring MLB record. |
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| 1945 The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
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| 1951 "Catcher in the Rye," a novel about teenaged homosexual angst and frustration, by J. D. Salinger is published |
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| 1955 Disneyland park opens in Anaheim |
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| 1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus held under a canvas tent, but boys having fun in tents proves hard to suppress. Isn't that right, Jack and Ennis? |
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| 1993 The Slackware operating system is first released, and a generation of slackers is born. |
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| 2004 Millenium Park in Chicago opens with an amazing abstract sculpture of testicles. |
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| 1872 Roald Amundsen, maybe gay Norse explorer |
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| 1888 Percy Kilbride, maybe gay US actor (Pa Kettle) |
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| 1907 Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Katherine Stevens], maybe gay US actress |
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| 1956 Tony Kushner, gay US playwright (Angels in America) |
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| 1962 Mathias Herrmann, German actor |
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| 1964 Peter Dobson, US actor |
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| 1964 Kevin Levrone, Italian/US body-builder/actor |
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| 1967 Will Ferrell, US comedian/actor |
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| 1971 Corey Feldman, US actor |
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| 1971 Ed Kowalczyk, US musician (Live) |
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| 1974 Chris Pontius, US jackass |
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| 1978 Brian Bianchini, maybe gay US model |
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| 1994 Mark Indelicato, US actor/Ugly Betty/Justin's coming-out story was one of the best things on TV that year |
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| 1982 Patrick Dewaere, French actor (Catherine and Co), has a coup de tète |
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| 1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., US publisher/philanthropist (George), shaves his beard |
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| 2005 Crown Prince Yi Gu of Korea runs down his own leg |
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