June 22nd

June 22 is the 174th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 182 days remaining until the end of time.

1342 Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning)

1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, but it’s all downhill from there

 

1847 Doughnut is created as proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

1903 Hammond (Indiana) Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 clowns in Ivanhoe, Illinois

1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

1963 Little Stevie Wonder, age 13, releases "Fingertips"

1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment to lower age for voting and appearances in porn to 18.

1979 Little Richard quits rock and roll for religious pursuit. Pr-r-r-aise Jesus!

 

2009 Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of Kodachrome color film, concluding the company's 74-year run as a photography icon.

1922 Bill Blass, gay US fashion designer 

1928 Ralph Waite, US actor 

1936 Kris Kristofferson, US Rhodes Scholar/musician/actor 

1958 Jacques Bonnaffe, French actor  

1968 Kevin Aviance [Eric Snead], gay US entertainer 

1970 Michael Trucco, US actor 

1972 Benz Antoine, Canadian actor 

1973 Giorgio Pasotti, Italian actor 

1977 Denis Moschitto, German actor 

1979 Jai Rodriguez, gay US actor/musician/Queer Eye culture guide  

1984 Thor Knai, Norse model/actor 

1984 Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian pro tennis player/underwear model 

1985 Douglas Smith, Canadian actor 

1989 Djibril Camara, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1969 Judy Garland is swept up over the rainbow. She is 47 years old. As Ray Bolger put it, "She just plain wore out."

1993 Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States, is dicked one last time.

2002 Ann Landers [Eppie Lederer], American advice columnist, can’t ask Dear Abby.

2008 [Dolores] Dody Goodman, US comedienne/actress (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Grease), finds her own private resort

 

2008 George Carlin, US comic genius, can’t take his stuff with him

March 26th

March 26 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 270 days remaining until the end of time.

 

1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.

1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury

1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America

The pairs competition.

1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the U.K.

1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.

2006 Smoking is banned in restaurants and bars in Scotland

1874 Robert Frost, US poet 

1911 Tennessee Williams, gay St. Louis playwright 

1916 Sterling Hayden, US actor/writer

1931 Leonard Nimoy, US actor/director/musician/Spock 

1934 Alan Arkin, US actor/father of Adam 

1940 James Caan, US actor/father of Scott 

1944 Diana Ross, US diva 

1946 Johnny Crawford, US actor/singer/musician 

1948 Steven Tyler, US singer/musician/spacy American Idol judge (Aerosmith) 

1961 Billy Warlock, US actor 

1973 T. R. Knight, outed gay US actor/Grey's Anatomy 

1974 Bruno Carvalho, Brazilian footballer/G Mag model 

1979 Nacho Novo, Spanish soccer player 

1980 Son Hoyoung, Korean singer 

1985 Jonathan Groff, gay US actor 

1987 Julien Fumat (on ground), French rugger/Dieux du Stade model  with Djibril Camara

1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, unpleasant German composer (Appassionata), doesn’t realize that everyone around him is singing the ode to joy at his passing 

1892 Walt Whitman, gay US poet, gaily sings the body electric (alternating current only) 

1973 Sir Noël Peirce Coward, gay English playwright (Private Letters), becomes a blithe spirit 

2004 Jan Berry, US singer/Jan and Dean, can’t make the turn at dead man’s curve 

2009 Shane McConkey, Canadian skier and BASE jumper, lands splat.