Happy Gay Day, Lords of Kobol Edition

TODAY IN HISTORY (April 28): 1788 - Maryland became the 7th state in the United States. 1789 - Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh. 1945 - Benito Mussolini was executed. 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki. 1967 - Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, refused induction into the U.S. Army. Critics and supporters spent years discussing the boxing champ’s refusal to serve in the armed forces. In fact, Ali’s world heavyweight crown was later taken away from him as a result of his actions, which he said were based on religious grounds. 1981 - Marilyn Barnett filed a palimony suit against tennis player Billie Jean King, claiming the two had a seven-year relationship. 1989 - While being questioned in a security check, Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer acknowledged to DIS Agent Brent Troutman that she was a lesbian. She would become the highest ranking person to be discharged from the US military because of homosexuality. 1989 - British artist Francis Bacon died of a heart-attack in Madrid. 1990 - Queer Nation stages its first public action. Almost 500 members of the recently formed organization march in Greenwich Village in protest of a pipe bomb attack on a local gay bar. 1992 - The Santa Cruz city council passed an extensive protection ordinance. 1992 - The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.” 1997 - Michael Allen, a gay man, was beaten to death with a hammer by two of his tenants. The two suspects, Brad Chesnel and Leroy Tomah, blamed each other. Both were convicted in Feb. 1998. Born on this day: 1758 - James Monroe 1878 - Lionel Barrymore 1921 - Rowland Evans 1926 - Harper Lee 1926 - Blossom Dearie 1929 - Gay journalist John Paul Hudson. He is one of the first gay writers to take up gay rights and become involved in the media. He wrote for the periodical Gay in 1969, the Advocate in 1970 and contributed to David, Gaysweek, News West, Flash and Vector. A tireless activist he is credited with being one of the founders of the gay rights movement that grew out of the Stonewall riots. 1937 - Saddam Hussein (Happy Birthday, motherfucker!) 1941 - Ann-Margret 1945 - My dick of a father – who knew that he and Saddam are simpatico? 1948 - Marcia Strassman ("Welcome Back, Kotter," "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids") 1949 - Bruno Kirby 1950 - Jay Leno 1953 - Mary McDonnell 1974 - Penelope Cruz 1981 - Jessica Alba

Comments

[Famous Author Rob Byrnes]

1945... work it out, Mal. Work it out...

[Tommy]

Reincarnation is a bitch.

Tommy - Athens Greece