Born this day
Loie Fuller (1862 – 1928) USDancer
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952) US
Photographer / Photojournalist
Mazo de la Roche (1879 – 1961) Canadian
Author
Ivor Novello (1893 – 1951) UK
Actor / Playwright / Composer
Disley Jones (1926 – 2005) UK
Set Designer
Agustin Gomez-Arcos (1939 – 1998) Spanish
Author
Kate Hogan (1957 – ) US
Politician
Zak Spears (1965 – ) US
Porn
Jeffrey Altergott (1968 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter
Mason Wyler (1984 – ) US
Porn
Died this day
Francois Raucourt (1756 - 1815) FrenchActress
Modest Tchaikovsky (1850 - 1916 ) Russian
Playwright, brother of the composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Torvald Tu (1893 - 1955) Norwegian
Poet / Playwright / Author
Brian Howard (1905 - 1958) UK
Poet
John Dall (1918 - 1971) US
Actor
Sodomy in history, January 15th
1892 — An Ohio newspaper reports the arrest of a man for throwing a kettle of hot soup over his wife because she wouldn’t leave the house so that he could "sleep with" a man he brought home.
1958 — An Ohio appellate court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man while conceding that there is evidence that he was framed.
1958 — A Texas appellate court upholds the right of the state to try sodomy defendants without an attorney.
1968 — The Virginia Supreme Court rules that merely placing the mouth on a penis does not violate the state’s sodomy law.
1958 — An Ohio appellate court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man while conceding that there is evidence that he was framed.
1958 — A Texas appellate court upholds the right of the state to try sodomy defendants without an attorney.
1968 — The Virginia Supreme Court rules that merely placing the mouth on a penis does not violate the state’s sodomy law.
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