June 1st

June 1is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 203 days remaining until the end of time.

1495 1st written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor, of blessed memory, is the distiller

1850 The first convict ship arrives in Western Australia carrying 75 male convicts.

1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1

1939 1st boxing match to be televised— Lou Nova defeats Max Baer

1951 International Cheese treaty is signed

1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya and dares anyone to call him "Jomo, the Homo" anymore

1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1974 "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12. Here’s "Our Girl Al"

1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and half-way back

1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years. Danny Pintauro (California), however, is still looking to erupt

1994 Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery. Here’s Norm and what the doctor saw

2001 Crown Prince Diprenda (left), the heir to the Nepalese throne kills his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride. Nepal kicks out his bumbling uncle, the new king, Gyanendra, and becomes a republic on May 29, 2008

2007 Dr. Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 assisted suicide death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.

1926 Marilyn Monroe, The Ultimate Sex Symbol/US actress/singer 

1934 Pat Boone, US singer/actor/asshole homophobe with little dick 

1936 Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian actor 

1946 Brian Cox, Scottish actor 

1968 Jason Donovan, Australian actor/singer 

1973 Adam Garcia, Australian actor 

1971 Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor 

1973 Glenn Manton, Aussie Rules footie 

1983 Jake Silbermann, US actor/Noah, half of Nuke, the gay couple on As the World Turns 

1729 Matthaeus de Cock, very popular Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1725-29), leaves ‘em wanting more

1975 Steve Prefontaine, very pretty US runner/5K (Olympics-4-1972), runs out of time

1981 Arthur C. Nielsen, US businessman, sees his ratings take a nosedive

2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French couturier, is in stitches

January 28th

Today is January 28, 2012.  It is the 28th day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 328 days remaining until the end of time.

1624 Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts which is named after the most famous Kitts of all.

1754 Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.

 

1813 Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom—and has remained a bestseller ever since.

1851 Northwestern University in northeastern Cook County, IL, is chartered. Alma mater of a certain humble and modest almanackist from MO. Go, U Northwestern!

1858 John Brown organizes raid on arsenal at Harper's Ferry.  He should've raided a closet on the way!  And would it kill you to wear a tie?

 

 

1934 The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.

1953 J. Fred Muggs [Kokomo] joins NBC's "Today Show" and little Roger Ailes gets a wonderful idea for his future Fox News correspondents

 

1967 Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"

1997 Pat Boone goes heavy metal. Really. 

1890 Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz (1890-1963), prisoner/ornithologist

1928 David Lodge, English critic/novelist

1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Latvian-born US ballet artist/actor

1968 Keith Hamilton Cobb, gay US actor

1975 Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer

1978 Gianluigi Buffon, Italian soccer player

814 Charlemagne, Frankish emperor/1st Holy Roman Emperor (800-814), not so magne anymore