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| 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. |
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| 1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. |
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| 1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas |
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| Leavenworth got nothing on the Oswald State Correctional Facility. . . |
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| The things that come out of the showers. . . |
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| 1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations. |
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| 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. . . |
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| 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. |
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| 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama |
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| 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert |
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| 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile. Nothing good can come from this, I fear. |
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| 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. |
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| 2005 Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage. |
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| 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 |
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| 1908 Langston Hughes, US gay poet/novelist |
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| 1959 Matt Lattanzi, US actor/An Olivia Newton John boytoy that didn't disappear suspiciously |
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| 1968 Pauly Shore, US comedian/actor |
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| 1969 Brian Krause, US actor |
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| 1983 Ronnie Kroell, US model/actor |
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| 1983 Jason Sizemore, US porn star |
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| 1989 Marco Pigossi, Brazilian actor |
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| 1650 Rene Descartes, French philosopher, stops thinking and, therefore, isn’t |
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| 1944 Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Composition in Blue), breaks up time and space |
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| 2010 Jack Brisco, US professional wrestler, is counted out. |
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| 2010 Justin Mentell, US actor (Boston Legal), gets overruled. |
