June 10 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 194 days remaining until the end of time.
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning— what a shock!
1899 Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati. Hmm, I wonder how it was improved. . .
1915 Girl Scouts are founded
1935 Lovers Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous to blame their relationship on drinking too much.
1944 With the war still raging, Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player in major league history
1963 President John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women
1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's assassin) escapes from prison
1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
1985 The glove don’t fit: Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
1985 Coca Cola brings back their 99-year-old formula
1988 Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London
1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
May 31 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 204 days remaining until the end of time.
1279BCE Ramses II (The Great) becomes pharoah
1621 Sir Francis Bacon, gay English statesman, is thrown into Tower of London for 1 night–probably just to entertain the poor unfortunate prisoners
1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Shabbatai Tsvi proclaims himself Messiah without benefit of a star, some wise men and shepherds, angels, or even a purported virgin.
1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes, the hideous fashion of the day and the shortage of chocolates.
1870 E. J. DeSmedt patents asphalt pavement. So, do you think Shemar has been blacktopped or is a blacktopper?
1884 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" that his younger, smarter brother, William, markets
1943 Zoot Suit Riots begin in Los Angeles
1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
1991 Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia. . .for the baby’s sake
2005 While most people would know that deep throat is Linda Locelace, Watergate figure Deep Throat is revealed to be W. Mark Felt a former F.B.I agent who gladly demonstrates his technique
2010 In the international waters, Israeli navy attacks flotilla attempting to break the blockade on Gaza Strip.
1819 Walt Whitman, our great gay US poet had a taste for younger working-class men. (Nude photos by Thomas Eakins) One of his most documented personal relationships was with Peter Doyle, a street car conductor.
"For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast and that night I was happy.”
1983 David Hernandez, gay US singer/American Idol Season 7 contestant/former stripper
1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist, already knows the 12-step prayer God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that You will make all things right, If I surrender to Your will, So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
1982 Jack Dempsey, US heavyweight boxing champ/actor, is out for the count
1993 Spuds Mackenzie, US advertisement dog, can’t party like he used to
1996 Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard professor and LSD guru, turns on, tunes out and really drops out
