Frederick Park (right) and Ernest Boulton as Fanny and Stella

Boulton și Park, Două Victorian homosexuals from clasa mijlocie superioara English families, were travesti and enjoyed playing the women's roles in theatrical performances. Lordul Arthur Clinton, Membru al Parlamentului pentru Newark, entered into a relationship with Boulton. Boulton and Park were arrested in 1870 after leaving a London theatre in drag. They were still in women's dresses the next morning when they appeared in court, where hundreds had gathered. Boulton and Park were charged with conspiracy to commit sodomie, a crime that carried a maximum prison sentence of life with munca grea. They were found not guilty after the prosecution failed to establish that they had sex anal. Judecatorul, Sir Alexander Cockburn, was highly critical of the police investigation. Boulton and Park admitted to appearing in public dressed as women, which was "an offence against public morals and common decency". They were legat peste for two years. The case was reported in all the major newspapers, much of it in lurid terms. (Articolul complet...)

Thinzar Shunlei Yi

• ... acea Thinzar Shunlei Yi (foto) hid in the Burmese jungle for a month and joined a rebel militia following the Lovitură de stat din Myanmar din 2021?
• ... că 1892 Milwaukee Cold Storage Co. Building has very few windows, and walls which are two feet (0.6 m) thick?
• ... că veneţian amiral Angelo Emo invented floating artillery batteries on rafts during his campanie împotriva Beylik din Tunis?
• ... acea a San Antonio TV station și-a pierdut Vulpe affiliation on twelve days' notice to the public?
• ... că în anii 1930 Alfred Verdross, an Austrian international lawyer and future judge of the European Court of Human Rights, sympathised with Național-socialismul?
• ... that although he was expected to exit the race after about 30 km (19 mi), pacemaker Reuben Kipyego ended up winning the Maratonul Abu Dhabi and US$100,000?
• ... că maritime painter Gordon Ellis had his first commission published when he was just 13 years old?
• ... că la Campionatul Mondial de Snooker 1978, Fred Davis reached the semi-finals at the age of 64?

Devon conway

• La cricket, prima ligă indiană se încheie cu Chennai Super Kings învingându-l pe Titanii din Gujarat in finală (jucatorul meciului Devon conway Fotografiată).
• În cursele auto, Josef Newgarden victorii Indianapolis 500.
• Cântăreață și actriță rock Tina Turner moare la vârsta de 83.
• Nouăsprezece copii sunt uciși un foc la un cămin de liceu în mahdia, Guyana.
• La golf, Brooks Koepka victorii Campionatul PGA.
• american fotbal Hall of Fame fundasul Jim Brown moare la vârsta de 87.

31 mai: Ziua Mondială Fără Tutun

Bessarion

• 455 - Petronius Maximus, conducător al Imperiul Roman de Apus, a fost ucis cu pietre de o gloată în timp ce fugea din Roma înainte de sosirea lui a vandal forta asta a jefuit orașul.
• 1223 - Invazia mongolă a Rusiei Kievene: Mongol forţelor învins a Rusia Kievană armată la râul Kalka din Ucraina de astăzi.
• 1468 – Cardinal Bessarion (foto) și-a anunțat donația de 746 de greacă și latină Codicele la Republica Veneția, formând Biblioteca Marciana.
• 1935 - Un cutremur înregistrare 7.7 M_w lovit Balochistan în Raj britanic, acum parte a Pakistanului, ucigând între 30,000 și 60,000 de oameni.
• 2013 - O tornada a lovit Central Oklahoma, ucigând 8 persoane și rănind peste 150.