July 29th

July 29 is the 211th day of the year.  There are 155 days remaining until the end of the year.

1567 13 month old James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.

1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as a monument to gay sex.

1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell, bisexual English soldier described as a "man’s man", forms his own troop of special Boy Scouts in England.  Ironic, isn't it?

1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders to Black Jack Pershing, but not the booty

1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" about a precocious rat is released

1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace" about a precocious brat 1st appears

1957 Jack Paar's Tonight Show premieres and, Freakonomically, leads to later start times for many workers.

1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life) that asserts without foundation that any artificial forms of birth control are prohibited. Extreme and wacky consequences ensue.

1974 Episcopal Church ordains female priests affirming the equal value of all humans of, by and before God. Extreme and wacky consequences ensue. I’m just saying.

1981 Some jug-eared swell marries a bird with a Justin Bieber haircut

1987 Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor, Cherry Garcia

1905 Dag Hammarskjöld, gay Swedish diplomat/UN Secretary General/Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 

1923 Gordon Mitchell [Charles Allen Pendleton], maybe gay US bodybuilder/actor  

1943 Roz Kelly, maybe gay maybe violent US actress/Pinky Tuscadero 

1946 Robert LuPone, maybe gay US actor/Patti’s older brother 

1953 Tim Gunn, gay US fashion consultant/educator/host of Project Runway  

1955 Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor  

1962 Kevin Spirtas, gay STLMO-born US actor  

1970 Jonah Falcon, bisexual US actor/has large schlong as documented on HBO and verified by TSA  

1973 Stephen Dorff, maybe gay US actor  

1976 Sonny Markham [Robert Davidson], gay US pornographic actor  

1985 Zoltan Fodor, Hungarian greco-roman wrestler in blue/interesting position    

1946 Gertrude Stein, gay US author, butches up one last time.

1982 Vladimir Zworykin, blessed of God, Russian-born US physicist/inventor (iconoscope, kinescope and color tv), gets his vertical and horizontal adjusted

1998 Jerome Robbins, gay US choreographer (West Side Story), happily, knows how to dance on a star

2010 Michèle Causse, gay French philosopher, exits lickety-split.