1862
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.
1911
The first motion picture censorship board was established in Pennsylvania.
June 19, 1973
The Rocky Horror Show musical debuts at London’s Royal Court Theatre. Two years later, it starts a brief Broadway run and is adapted into the cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
1976
Bette Midler appeared on the HBO television show Standing Room Only.
Future Smiths singer Steve Morrissey had a letter published in this weeks music magazine Record Mirror and Disc asking the editor why the paper had not included any stories on The Sex Pistols.
on the LP charts, Here and There from Elton John was #4
1980
Donna Summer is the first artist to sign with Geffen Records.
1998
Sinead O’Connor opened the second annual Lilith Fair in Portland, Oregon. Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Sarah McLachlan, Missy Elliott, Shawn Colvin, Natalie Merchant, Lisa Loeb, Lauryn Hill, Paula Cole, Queen Latifah, Suzanne Vega, Meredith Brooks, Neneh Cherry, Joan Osbourne, Des’ree, Billie Myers, Erykah Badu and the Indigo Girls also performed.
2004
An audience member hurls a lollipop on stage while David Bowie is performing in Oslo, Norway. The lollipop wedges itself in David Bowie’s left eye (which already has an enlarged and frozen pupil following a childhood fight). Bowie halts the concert to remove the lollipop. Luckily, he escapes serious injury.
2021
Rabbi Abba Cohen, Agudath Israel of America’s vice president for government affairs, called the decision “wonderful” and “just another step in clarifying… how do you reconcile religious rights versus gay rights.”
blogger nina notes: How do you reconcile? not by putting the idea of religion over actual people, and at the expense of children
Nineties Dyke 