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| July 22 is the 204th day of the year. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1376 The Pied Piper comes to Hamelin (Hameln), a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, and leads the children out of town. |
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| 1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40. Persons of interest were questioned about their whereabouts. |
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| 1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour and order is restored to the space-time continuum |
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| 1969 Aretha Franklin gets no r-e-s-p-e-c-t and is arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit because Church’s Fried Chicken was out of spicy wings |
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| 1976 "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances until the star can hold out no longer and wipes out the first 6 rows |
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| 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to blowing (off) 17 males in 1978 and snacking on a few |
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| 1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison to avoid extradition to the US and the prospect of forcible rape of his juicy booty |
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| 1993 Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. There’s news of a guy breaching one of the levees so he could spend more time with his mistress on the Illinois side of the river while his wife was on the Missouri side. Is this a great country, or what? |
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| 1994 O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder. He is lying, of course. |
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| 1997 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris, but a suspect is quickly apprehended |
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| 2011 Norway experiences twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya. |
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| 1849 Emma Lazarus, maybe gay US poet, best known for her sonnet "The New Colossus", which appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. |
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| 1860 Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, gay English author |
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| 1889 James Whale, gay US theater and film director |
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| 1938 Terence Stamp, English actor |
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| 1943 Bobby Sherman, US teen idol/actor/singer |
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| 1946 Danny Glover, US actor |
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| 1955 Willem Dafoe, US actor |
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| 1963 Emily Saliers, gay US singer-songwriter/Indigo Girl |
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| 1963 Emilio Butragueno, Spanish soccer player |
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| 1964 John Leguizamo, US actor |
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| 1965 Shawn Michaels [Michael Shawn Hickenbottom], US professional wrestler |
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| 1967 Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor |
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| 1969 Terrell Tilford, US actor |
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| 1971 Martin Dingle-Wall, Australian actor |
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| 1972 Colin Ferguson, maybe gay Candian-born US actor |
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| 1972 Stephen Mangan, English actor |
1973 Rufus Wainwright, gay US/Cnadian singer
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| 1973 Jaime Camil, Mexican actor/singer/tv host |
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| 1974 Claudio Santamaria, Italian actor |
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| 1983 Pavlo Rozenberg, German diver |
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| 1983 Steven Jackson, US football player/STLMO Rams |
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| 1916 James Whitcomb Riley, maybe gay US poet and creator of Little Orphan Annie, finally understands the meaning of the life of Riley |
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| 1934 John Dillinger is shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago at 33 and the myth about the size of his cock is born |
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| 2008 Estelle Getty, US actress, is golden |
