June 3 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 201 days remaining until the end of time.
1851 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers. Of course, they look better out of uniform.
1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine. Here it is in theory and in practice.
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional. Back to work, you little crumbsnatchers!
1946 1st bikini bathing suit is displayed in Paris, but not perfected until decades later for men
1968 Valerie Solanas, American feminist activist and author (Society for Cutting Up Men), shoots American artist, Andy Warhol. She probably shouted "R. E. S. P. E. C. T. find out what it means to me" It is interesting to note that our own, dear Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy is a charter member.
1976 Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold. I see a little silhouett-o of a man.
2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence and reclaiming her maiden name. But think of the children!
1906 Josephine Baker, bisexual STLMO-born US cabaret/concert entertainer
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Herschel Schwartz], bisexual US actor
1926 Allen Ginsberg, gay US poet who saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical, naked drag themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...
