Birthdays: King Henry VIII, Luigi Pirandello, Jean Jacques
Rousseau, John Dillinger, Richard Rogers, Gilda Radner, Cartoonist George Booth
is 88, Leon Panetta, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates is 66, John Cusack is 48,
Mel Brooks is 88
1868- Artist Claude Monet was so broke and depressed he
jumped in the Seine River. After splashing around for a while, he decided its
silly to drown himself so he swam to the riverbank and went for a drink. He
outlived all the Impressionist painters of his generation, dying in 1926.
1928- Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines recorded West End
Blues.
1969- THE STONEWALL UPRISING- New York City Police got a
false tip about a stabbing in a mob-owned Stonewall gaybar in Greenwich
Village. Others claim the cops were there to get their money kickbacks, and
when it wasn’t paid, they started arresting patrons. But for once the patrons
didn’t go quietly but began to fight back. In the 60’s era of social
revolution, the incident caused three days of urban rioting and the Gay Pride
Movement was born.
1970 -On the one year anniv of the Stonewall Uprising, today
marked the first Gay Pride Marches in New York, SF, Chicago and Los Angeles.
1975- Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling died during open
heart surgery. He was 50. His last movie script was called The Man, about the
first black president of the United States.
1997- Heavyweight prizefighter Mike Tyson was banned from
boxing and fined $3 million for biting off a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear
during a match.
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