July 17th

July 17 is the 199th day of the year.  There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.

180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Scilly Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

1863 Battle of Honey Springs, the only known campaign of porn during the Civil War, is waged

1893 Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket. We can’t have enough cricket history (especially when you check out his crotch)

1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

1945 At Potsdam, U.S. President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. . .and Harry’s got a secret he’s just dying to tell the guys. . .

1968 A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

1988 Highest temperature ever is recorded in San Francisco, 103 degrees F (39 degrees C). Of course, one needs a wrap that evening to ward off the chill.

1989 First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber hits a snag.

1998 Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died, to save on funeral expenses.

1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, maybe gay US lawyer/author (Perry Mason) 

1928 Vince Guaraldi, maybe gay US jazz musician, composed the music for the Peanuts tv specials 

1935 Peter Schickele, maybe gay US composer and parodist, known for his work championing the overlooked and forgotten P. D. Q. Bach 

1935 Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor 

1941 Fred Halsted, gay US pornographic icon 

1946 Alun Armstrong, English actor 

1949 Bruno Pradal, maybe gay French actor 

1950 Derek deLint, Dutch actor 

1952 David Hasselhoff, US actor/singer 

1962 Scott Peterson, US Playgirl model (May, 1986).  It's a shame that a notorious murderer shares the same name.

1963 Damian Ford, gay US pornographic actor/director 

1968 Darren Day, English actor/singer/presenter 

1971 Helfried Jurtschitsch, Austrian rower on left with...um...well...you can see 

1975 KC Armstrong, US actor/body-builder/comedian 

1975 Alec Powers, gay US pornographic actor  

1976 Eric Winter, US actor/Kevin's ex-boyfriend the minister on Brothers and Sisters and Carleen's brother on GCB 

1979 Mike Vogel, US actor 

1985 Tom Fletcher, English singer (McFly) 

1987 Darius Boyd, Australian rugger 

1790 Adam Smith, gay Scottish economist, watches his supply become inelastic

1903 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, gay US/British writer (Bride Tomorrow)/painter, becomes a study in black and gray, but mostly black

 

1959 Billie Holiday [Elinore Harris], bisexual US goddess, sings the blues but for a different label

 

2009 Walter Cronkite, most trusted US broadcast journalist, discovers that’s the way it was.