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Saturday, June 30, 2012

June 30th

June 30 is the 182nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 174 days remaining until the end of time.  In any event, time will tell. . .
1906 The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1953 1st Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan, which until the advent of Viagra t-shirts, was the surest way to diagnose a driver suffering from erectile dysfunction
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4) decision in the unfortunately ironic case of Bowers v Hardwick
1992 1st pay bathrooms in U.S. open: 25 cents, New York City. Due to the economy, people understandably find less expensive remedies
1996 "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 308 performances
1997 The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
1998 Female impersonator Linda Tripp begins to testify before a grand jury about the Lewinsky case
2005 Spain becomes the 3rd country to permit same-sex marriage
1685 John Gay, probably gay English poet and playwright who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" 
1927 James Goldman, maybe gay US screenwriter 
1936 Dave Van Ronk, not gay US folk singer/arrested for assaulting an officer on the first night of the Stonewall riots 
1938 Billy Mills [Makata Taka Hela], Lakota/US runner/film Running Brave, starring Robby Benson, was about him 
1950 Leonard Whiting, English actor/forever Romeo 
1956 Paris Barclay, gay US director/writer (NYPD Blue) 
1959 Chance Caldwell aka Jay Huntington, US pornographic actor 
1959 Vincent D’Onofrio, US actor 
1963 Rupert Graves, English actor 
1966 Mike Tyson, US heavyweight boxing champion 
1966 Peter Outerbridge, Canadian actor 
1966 Marton Csokas, Kiwi/Hungarian actor 
1969 Ben Patrick Johnson, gay US actor 
1970 Brian Bloom, maybe gay US actor <le sigh> 
1970 Leonardo Sbaraglia, Argentine actor/Burnt Money 
1985 Michael Phelps, 14-time US Olympic Gold Medal swimmer/high on life 
1520 Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, plots his revenge and orders time to end on December 21, 2012
1985 James Dewar, who created the Hostess Twinkie to show that God loves us and wants us to be happy, grows younger and more beautiful
2010 Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides, gets to keep his very cool title, but nothing else.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

February 1st: Official Launch Date

Today is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the Mayans were correct, there are 324 days remaining until the end of time.




1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth got nothing on the Oswald State Correctional Facility. . .
The things that come out of the showers. . .
1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.

1929 1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402 lbs.  I can think of several ounces that I could clean and jerk. . .

1960 Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.  They were not served, but they remained undeterred.

1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama

1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert

1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.  Nothing good can come from this, I fear.

2004 Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines. We must wait, unfortunately for Justin Timberlake’s Dick In A Box, though.

2005 Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.

2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay head of state in the modern world





1908 Langston Hughes, US gay poet/novelist

1959 Matt Lattanzi, US actor/An Olivia Newton John boytoy that didn't disappear suspiciously

1968 Pauly Shore, US comedian/actor

1969 Brian Krause, US actor
1983 Ronnie Kroell, US model/actor
1983 Jason Sizemore, US porn star

1989 Marco Pigossi, Brazilian actor




1650 Rene Descartes, French philosopher, stops thinking and, therefore, isn’t

1944 Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Composition in Blue), breaks up time and space

2010 Jack Brisco, US professional wrestler, is counted out.

2010 Justin Mentell, US actor (Boston Legal), gets overruled.