July 20th

July 20 is the 202nd day of the year.  There are 164 days remaining until the end of the year.

1712 The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain

1801 A 560kg (1,235-pound) cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr., who happily and patiently scraped all of the cheese from his funky hunky neighbors’ nether regions. The huge ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to President Thomas Jefferson at the White House. Or, maybe not.

1885 The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.

1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends with a movie

1968 Special Olympics is founded.

1969 Neil Armstrong takes one small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind.

1976 Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.

1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America due to some lesbianic photos

1989 Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.

2000 The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.  Fuckin’ Mormons.

2000 Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.  Want some cheese with that whine, Carlito?

2005 Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage after the bill, C-38, receives Royal Assent.

356BCE Alexander III, gay gay gay King of Macedon, Hegemon of the Hellenic League, Shahanshah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt and Lord of Asia  

1822 Gregor Mendel, probably gay Austrian monk/scientist/Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery of St. Thomas in Brno/father of genetics  

1941 Kurt Raab, gay German actor/AIDS victim 

1945 Larry Craig, probably gay US Senator (R-Idaho)/closet tea-room queen/toe-tapper  

1946 Randal Kleiser, gay US producer/director (Grease & Blue Lagoon) 

1948 Muse Watson, maybe gay US actor, Mike Franks on NCIS 

1955 Dan Monahan, US actor  

1963 Adoni Maropis, maybe gay US actor 

1964 Dean Winters, US actor 

1964 RE Rogers, US actor/director  

1964 Chris Cornell [Christopher John Boyle], US singer/Soundgarden  

1968 Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor 

1969 Josh Holloway, US model/actor  

1974 Simon Rex [Cutright], US VJ/actor/masturbator 

1975 Jason Raize, maybe gay US actor/singer/dancer 

1978 Cedric Heymans, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model  

1978 Fritz Aanes, Norse wrestler  

1979 Artur Taymazov, Uzbek wrestler   

1979 David Ortega Pitarch, Spanish swimmer  

1980 Dado Dolabella [Carlos Eduardo Bouças Dolabella Filho], Brazilian model/actor/celebuspawn (actors Carlos Eduardo Dolabella and Pepita Rodríguez)  

1981 Biboy Ramirez, Filipino actor 

1923 Pancho Villa [Doroteo Orango Arámbula], Mexican rebel, joins Yale’s Skull and Bones Society

1973 Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam], US actor (Green Hornet, Enter the Dragon), waxes on, waxes off but mainly off

2007 Tamara "Tammy" Faye LaValley Bakker Meissner, US singer/evangelist of inclusion, does not let fear inform this event either.