May 18 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 217 days remaining until the end of time.
1876 Wyatt Earp grows a pornstache to become US Marshall of Dodge City, Kansas
1897 Bram Stoker’s Dracula is published
1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1917 US passes Selective Service act. . .They aren't too selective.
1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California. She shows up a month later and says she was kidnapped. . .but the suck marks on her neck and shoulders give her away. SHE'S A VAMPIRE!
1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law" that was upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon is convicted of tax evasion. I wonder what gave him away?!?! It couldn't have been the cheesy cape and crown.
1994 Israelis withdraw from the Gaza Strip club
1048 Omar Khayyam, maybe gay Persian poet/astronomer/philosopher
1868 Nicholas II of Russia, 1868 Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, last tsar of Russia
March 3 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 293 days remaining until the end of time.
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens by Samuel Cole, not Samuel Malone
1855 Congress approves $30,000 (almost $750,000 in 2009 dollars) to test camels for military use. They aren't very good marksmen.
1873 Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. Who reads books anymore?
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller so that Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke can win Oscars, and overlook the obvious sexual tension between them
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem
1933 Mount Rushmore is dedicated
1951 Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1966 Buffalo Springfield forms (Stephen must have a roll of quarters in his pants pocket, or something)
1972 Sculpted figures of the traitors Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia
1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis premieres on ABC-TV.
1991 Four Los Angeles Police severely beat Rodney King and captured on amateur video.
1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce. Oh dear, will she ever find love again? We know he will because he's hot!
1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, US track & field phenomenon/humanitarian from East St. Louis, Illinois
1963 Suzette Charles, Miss America Runner-Up who became the second black Miss America after soft-core lesbianic photos of Vanessa Williams are published in Penthouse
