Ever been "mesmerized"? Not much more than a couple of centuries ago, you weren't.
TODAY IN HISTORY (May 23):
1788 - South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.
1873 - The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1911 - The New York Public Library, the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated in New York City after 16 years of construction.
1934 - Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.
1949 - The German Federal Republic came into existence.
1952 - The first benefit for a gay rights cause was held in Los Angeles to benefit the defense of Dale Jennings, who was being tried for indecency after an incidence of entrapment.
1960 - Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1964 - Psychiatrist Dr. George Henry died. Dr. Henry worked with a group of New York City Quakers to provide support to gay and lesbian youth.
1972 - Delaware repealed its sodomy laws.
1977 - A bill to repeal Nebraska's sodomy law was vetoed by Governor James Exon.
1985 - Massachusetts banned gay men and lesbians from becoming foster parents.
1988 - Four lesbians tried to take over a broadcast of the BBC evening news to protest Clause 28, which was about to take effect.
2000 - The Massachusetts state Senate rejected a budget amendment which would have slashed funding for gay and lesbian teen suicide and AIDS prevention programs. Born on this day:
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
1810 - Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1910 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
1910 - Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
1928 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1931 - Barbara Barrie, American actress
1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
1943 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1952 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer
1956 - Buck Showalter, baseball player and manager
1958 - Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 - Drew Carey, American actor and comedian
1961 - Karen Duffy, American actress
1974 - Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
1974 - Jewel, American singer
1983 - Heidi Range, British singer Sugababes
1949 - The German Federal Republic came into existence.
Is that the Bundesrepublik Deutschland or the Deutsche Demokratische Republik?
Posted by: QC | May 23, 2006 at 03:24 AM
"Bundes" is German for "federal."
Posted by: Malcontent | May 23, 2006 at 12:06 PM
Broadway producers are shysters of the highest order, but few know that the primary difference between those worlds and publishing is just a few zeros at the end of every calculation. (Actually theater is in much worse shape now, but already I'm digressing far too much...)
Posted by: Converse pro star | May 17, 2011 at 01:52 AM