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** The attempted repeal of a gay rights ordinance in Seattle, Washington is also defeated by a two-to-one margin.
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** SBA / ATT — Stolen base attempts: total number of times the player has attempted to steal a base ( SB + CS )
** Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) attempted to solve the Great Western Schism. The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a pope and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.
** President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.
** The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.
** The Nazi authorities kill 117 Dutch men in reprisal for the attempted murder Hanns Albin Rauter.
** Spartacist uprising: Socialist demonstrations in Berlin, Germany turn into an attempted communist revolution.
** As one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian troops massacres the entire community of Debre Libanos, killing 297 monks and 23 laymen.
** The U. N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
** Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempted to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip.
** In Iraq, Prime Minister Arif Abd ar-Razzaq's attempted coup fails.
** Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.
** Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
** An attempted assassination of Miguel Maza Marquez, director of the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad ( DAS ) in Bogotá, Colombia is committed by members of the Medellín Cartel, who kill 4 and injure 37.
** Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general who has unsuccessfully attempted to sustain Carthage's military ascendancy on the Spanish peninsula in the face of Roman attacks
** Juan de Jáuregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange ( d. 1582 )
** After the Vorlons had left the galaxy, a number of people attempted to travel to Vorlon to lay claim to the advanced technology there.
** Guglielmo Acton, his first cousin once removed, officer in the Neapolitan Navy, attempted to intercept Garibaldi at Marsala
** Lunar Orbiter ( attempted lander )
** The Royal Shakespeare Company debuted a performance piece called The Pilate Workshop in the summer of 2004, which attempted to cast Wroe's research in the form of a mystery play.
** Gang of Four in New York Senate, Democratic senators supporting attempted change of Majority Leader in 2009 leadership crisis
** Following the American Civil War, the Radical Republicans attempted to put a land reform through Congress, promising " forty acres and a mule " to newly freed blacks in the South, which was ultimately rejected by moderate elements as " socialistic.
** Chinese pseudo-Christian leader Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion, claimed to be Christ's younger brother, and attempted to establish rule as a divine king.
** Levi LaVallee attempted the first double backflip on a snowmobile
** made a mistake as to his legal rights ( typically because the actual owner attempted to convey the property, but the transfer is invalid or ineffective for some reason );
** In an attempted coup ( the February 26 Incident ), nearly 1500 junior officers of the IJA 1st Division occupy the National Diet Building, the Prime Minister's Residence ) and other key locations in Tokyo.
** and repeal
** Beer is legalized in the United States, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.
** NDP: The NDP introduces its election platform, including $ 29 billion for health care, an inheritance tax, and a repeal of terrorism laws.
** NDP: Jack Layton announces that he would repeal the Clarity Act if elected.
** NDP: In a speech to his supporters in Winnipeg, NDP parliamentary leader Bill Blaikie speaks out in opposition to Jack Layton's proposal to repeal the Clarity Bill.
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** Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
** San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U. S.
** Chaz Bono, American actor and advocate of gay rights
** Michael Lucas, Russian gay pornographic actor and director
** Tyson Cane, American gay pornographic actor
** Brad Patton, Swedish gay pornographic actor
** Matthew Rush, American gay pornographic actor
** California voters defeat the Briggs Initiative that would have prohibited gay school teachers.
** Harvey Milk, American gay rights activist ( b. 1930 )
** Dan White receives a light sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, gay men in the city riot.
** Canon Jeffrey John, the first would-be gay bishop in the Church of England, withdraws his acceptance of the post of Bishop of Reading after discussions with church leaders.
** new movements-movements which became dominant from the second half of the 20th century-like the feminist movement, pro-choice movement, civil rights movement, environmental movement, free software movement, gay rights movement, peace movement, anti-nuclear movement, alter-globalization movement, etc.
** People Like Us ( Singapore ) ( PLU3 ), the premiere spokesgroup of Singapore's gay intelligentsia
** Damon Wayans, a featured player during that show's eleventh season, hosted an episode from SNLs 20th season in 1995, where he brought on two of his famous In Living Color characters: homeless wino Anton Jackson and gay film critic Blaine Edwards.
** That based on these different views, some concluded that a gay or lesbian person in a committed relationship could be ordained as a minister and others not.
** The Tea-Cup Brindisi (" Eat, drink and be gay ")
** — For and about gay people
** Anti-Gay, a book critical of LGBT culture, by gay author Mark Simpson
** City officials in San Francisco, California, start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, performing the first known civil marriage of a same-sex couple in the U. S. by marrying a lesbian couple, gay rights activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.
** Officials at the city and county of San Francisco, California, estimate by the end of the day that they will have issued 2, 000 licenses for same-sex marriages in the four days since they started granting legal recognition to gay and lesbian unions.
** Authorities in Nepal raid bars and clubs to arrest 39 members of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights and AIDS education organization and charge them with " spreading perversion.
** New Jersey governor James McGreevey becomes the first openly gay chief executive of a US state when he discloses an extramarital affair with another man and announces his resignation effective November 12.
** By a margin of two to one, voters in Tacoma, Washington reject a ballot initiative which would have reinstated a gay civil rights law repealed by voters in November 1989.
** Deborah Glick becomes the first openly gay or lesbian individual elected to the legislature of the U. S. state of New York.
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