June 5th

1661 Cock-tease Isaac Newton is admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge and drives the other boys crazy!

1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe serializes Uncle Tom’s Cabin over ten months in the National Era newspaper.  The sex scenes aren't very convincing.

1876 Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Many years later, people discover that bananas taste good, too!

1957 New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes

1959 Robert Zimmerman graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota

1981 5 gay men are hospitalized with a rare form of pneumonia and compromised immune systems

1983 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (6-2 7-5 7-6) and never calls anyone a "fucking faggot" like his son will do almost 30 years later.

1986 A man in Auburn, Washington, takes an Excedrin capsule for his headache: unfortunately, it is laced with cyanide.

1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9" in New York.  It would've gone further in Denver. . .

2005 The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

1723 Adam Smith, gay Scottish economist and his "invisible hand"

1883 John Maynard Keynes, bisexual English economist 

1898 Federico Garcia Lorca, gay Spanish writer/poet/Salvadore Dali's lover 

1905 John Abbott, gay English character actor 

1928 Tony Richardson, bisexual English director/producer 

1941 Spalding Gray, bisexual US author, actor, monologist 

1951 Suze Orman, gay US finance advisor 

1967 Ron Livingston, US actor 

1969 Christian Boeving, maybe gay US model/actor  

1970 Steve Hooper, English pornographic actor

1971 Mark Wahlberg, US actor 

1974 Marcus Patrick, maybe gay English actor/model/stripper 

1974 Chad Allen, gay US actor 

1975 Thomas Lombard, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1977 Jesdaporn Pholdee, marvelously named Thai model/actor/Sexiest Man in Thailand 2003 

1979 Pete Wentz, US boy singer/cell-phone camrera user 

1979 Francois Sagat, head-tattooed gay French pornographic actor/model  

1953 Big Bill Tilden, gay US tennis phenom/chicken hawk, does not survive this advantage out

1999 Mel Torme, US singer/songwriter, feels his chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

2004 Ronald Reagan, actor/governor (R-CA)/US president (1981-89), does this for the Gipper.

2009 Jeff Hanson, maybe gay US singer-songwriter (Radio Goodnight), puts his "angelic falsetto" to good use.

2010 Samurai sword-wielding Stephen Clancy Hill (aka, Steve Driver), obscure US pornographic actor/murderer, takes the plunge . . .from a cliff.  This guy was so insignificant to the industry that there are NO photos of him “gettin’ busy”