Guess What Today Is!

[Bowwowmeow]

Today is the anniversary of television's first interracial kiss, broadcast on Star Trek on November 22, 1968. :psmooch:

[Bowwowmeow]

Today is also the birthday of the peerless Joaquin Rodrigo (http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/874.htm), my favorite classical music composer. :colors:

[Phoenix]

Today is the anniversary of television's first interracial kiss, broadcast on Star Trek on November 22, 1968. :psmooch:
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Gliondrach]

Today, 24th November, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Webb Ellis, the chap who is said to have invented the game of rugby when he picked up the ball during a game of football and ran with it. The cad! Actually, at Rugby School at that time they did pick up the ball - I think. In the US they call the game 'football'. It should more accurately be called 'American rugby, which is what I call it. The game of rugby was named after the school. I wonder what it would have been called if Ellis had been a pupil at Giggleswick School?

[Fauxmage]

Its the Village People's 30th Anniversary!!!


LOS ANGELES, Apr 13, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The Village People, who brought "YMCA" and "Macho Man" to the U.S. disco dance scene, celebrates its 30th anniversary in show business this spring.
Next month the group heads off to Germany; last month it toured Mexico.

Since the release of "San Francisco" in 1977, the group that was responsible for the first and only gay-theme musical, "Can't Stop the Music," has taken only one 18-month break, Variety said Friday.

David Hodo, the construction worker, remembers how producers sought potential band members. "The ad said, 'Must have mustache.' "Back in 1977, producers thought the gay disco group should have "a very dark, very heavy Marlboro Man" image, Hodo said. He took the image in a different direction.

"There was absolutely no way I could do this seriously, so I started to spoof on the stuff," he said. "We realized it was more fun to have fun with it. That's what the group is, tongue-in-cheek."

Now, 30 years later, Hodo said, "Kindergarten kids are taught the song and arm movements to 'YMCA' along with 'I'm a Little Teapot.'"

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[my3labs]

I saw the Village People live when I was around 11. I remember that it was the first time I saw openly gay men. It was my first concert and it was very cool.

[Oracl]

Its the Village People's 30th Anniversary!!! :villagepeople:
I love 'em! :agree: :D