TODAY IN HISTORY (May 26):
1697 - The Massachusetts Bay colony revised its sodomy laws. The name was changed from "sodomy" to "buggery," and it was lumped together with bestiality. Both remained capital crimes.
1868 - President Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by one vote.
1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1959 - Pittsburgh Pirates’ Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing, 1–0, in the 13th.
1977 - George Willig, "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines—a penny per floor.
1978 - The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada was opened in Atlantic City.
1951 - Gay British spies Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess defect to the Soviet Union. Their defections sparked a witch hunt for gays in the British Foreign Office.
1971 - Serial killer Juan Corona was arrested for the murder of twenty-five men. His lawyer blamed the murders on deranged homosexuals, though evidence included Corona's bank receipts found in one of the graves, a journal Corona kept of the murders, and the murder weapon which was found in his home. There was no evidence of a sexual element to the crime.
1999 - The ACLU filed a class action suit against Florida, the only state that expressly bans homosexuals from adopting. The ban was upheld by the Florida Supreme Court and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the decision.
2004 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Born on this day:
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1886 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
1907 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
1913 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
1923 - James Arness, American actor
1926 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
1928 - Jack Kevorkian, American physician
1939 - Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster
1948 - Stevie Nicks, American songwriter and actress
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
1949 - Hank Williams Jr., American singer
1949 - Pam Grier, American actress
1951 - Sally Ride, astronaut
1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
1962 - Genie Francis, American actress
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1971 - Matt Stone
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