June 8th

June 8 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 196 days remaining until the end of time.

452 Attila the Honey invades Italy to take a Roman holiday

1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu. Here is a depiction of a Brit beating a Bantu

1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.  Don't laugh, but this is how many of us were introduced to computer technology.

1869 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner. . .and the rest, as they say, is history

1936 1st parking meters are invented by the spawn of Satan

1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants cannot refuse to serve black people. They find a work-around solution.

1984 Fabulousness is declared legal in New South Wales

1986 Alleged Secretary General of the United Nations and former Nazi Kurt Waldheim is elected President of Austria

1987 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing about how many unshredded secret documents can fit up her cooter

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on jets cut bird collisions by 20%—they go a little too far with the idea though.

2003 Best Tony Awards without NPH:  Tony Awards honor "Hairspray" (Best Musical) and "Take Me Out" (Best Play)

2004 The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.  Excuse me, but FOXNews led me to believe that this was a once in a lifetime occurrence.

1903 Marguerite Yourcenar, gay Belgian writer/Memoirs of Hadrian

1912 Henry Brandon, gay US actor 

1939 Bernie Casey, US football player turned actor 

1949 Jeffrey Mylett, gay US musical comedy performer/AIDS victim 

1958 Cyril O’Reilly, US actor/Melissa Gilbert’s “first” 

1963 Frank Grillo, US model/actor  <le sigh>

1965 Rob Pilatus, gay US lip sync-er/Milli Vanilli 

1967 Dan Futterman, US actor 

1968 Eduardo Moscovis, Brazilian actor 

1969 David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor 

1971 Mark Feuerstein, US actor 

1973 Jeronimo Gil, Venezuelan actor 

1974 Brad Gorton, maybe gay US actor 

1975 Andrew and Kevin Atherton, English gymnasts turned Cirque du Soleil performers 

1976 Eion Bailey, US actor 

1977 Kanye West, US musician/as big a dick as asshole

1983 Guillaume Bernad, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1984 Andrea Casiraghi, Monegasque royal/Princess Caroline’s eldest son 

1985 Alexandre Despatie, incredibly hot Canadian diver/ferret smuggler 

1986 Miguel Marsicano, conservative Brazilian model 

632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam, peace be upon him (and no fatwa on me), ascends to heaven

1954 Alan M Turing, unrepentant gay British mathematical genius, eats the apple to await his Prince Charming

1970 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, has needs

2009 The marvelously named Omar Bongo, President of Gabon, beats it.