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...
April 21 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 244 days remaining until the end of time.
753BCE Twins Romulus and Remus found Rome after suckling.
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" premieres in London
1920 John Galsworthy's "Skin Game" premieres in London
1948 1st Polaroid camera is sold in US, and boys start taking pictures of themselves in mirrors.
1959 Alf Dean using a rod and reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark, the largest fish ever caught on a rod
1960 Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil on Dia de Tiradentes (See below)
1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston, Jamaica, an event that is considered one of the holiest occurrences in the Rastafarian canon
1983 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom. Heavy.
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry are launched into orbit to create more space debris
