on this day in history..
1915 - lenora fagan aka billie holliday is born in philadelphia. jazz critic leonard feather said of lady day, 'billie holliday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. as a human being she was sweet, sour, kind, mean, generous, profane, loveable, impossible, and nobody who knew her expects to see anyone quite like her again.'
1963 - tito, formerly known as josip broz, is a named 'president for life' of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia. 'now there's a guy with job security,' is what the average communist worker said of the president whenever he passed by.
1969 - the supreme court revises obscenity law, giving rise to the 'golden age of porn.'
1994 - genocide is waged by the tutsi patriotic rebel front against the hutu-dominated government and military. an estimated half million people lost their lives and thousands are still displaced to this day as a result of the terror. in a strange twist of historical irony, the vatican announces the same day that it officially acknowledges the holocaust. know what that means? only 45 more years till the church admits that it fosters pedophilia! yay!
if anybody is interested in raising a glass in celebration of lady day's birthday, feel free to join me at the pig n' whistle on hollywood blvd tonite.
1915 - lenora fagan aka billie holliday is born in philadelphia. jazz critic leonard feather said of lady day, 'billie holliday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. as a human being she was sweet, sour, kind, mean, generous, profane, loveable, impossible, and nobody who knew her expects to see anyone quite like her again.'
1963 - tito, formerly known as josip broz, is a named 'president for life' of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia. 'now there's a guy with job security,' is what the average communist worker said of the president whenever he passed by.
1969 - the supreme court revises obscenity law, giving rise to the 'golden age of porn.'
1994 - genocide is waged by the tutsi patriotic rebel front against the hutu-dominated government and military. an estimated half million people lost their lives and thousands are still displaced to this day as a result of the terror. in a strange twist of historical irony, the vatican announces the same day that it officially acknowledges the holocaust. know what that means? only 45 more years till the church admits that it fosters pedophilia! yay!
if anybody is interested in raising a glass in celebration of lady day's birthday, feel free to join me at the pig n' whistle on hollywood blvd tonite.
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desilou:
thank you for the comment in my journal. i appreciate it.
yonderboy:
so, you coming up on the 17th? 