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22 Sunday

January

English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon, whose addiction to pink-cheeked Welsh servant-boys is noted

by contemporary biographers, born in London, 1561.

23 Monday

Caresse Crosby, American editor of the 1920s who claimed to have been the first Girl Scout, to have invented the backless brassiere, to have held briefly the woman's record for the 220-yard dash, and to have been indirectly responsible for the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, dies, 1970.

24 Tuesday

The emperor Caligula is murdered by a palace guard named Chaerea who was his passive partner in buggery and was regularly forced to kiss the royal middle finger in public, 41 A.D.

25 Wednesday

Virginia Woolf, whose delicately feminine response to the "strangely masculine" virtues of Vita Sackville-West is beautifully described by Leonard Woolf in Downhill All the Way, born in London, 1882.

26 Thursday

Hon, Francis Bacon Baro de Veru Cam Vice-Comes SAlbani mortuus 9. Aprilis, Anno Dii. 1626. Annog Actat 66.

The British Colonial Secretary, Lord George Germain, who is reputed to have been in love with the American Benjamin Thompson, who eventually became his literal and figurative undersecretary, born in London, 1716.

27 Friday

Sir Francis Bacon:

He loved the lads of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.

Male nurse Robert Hedrich enters (and loses) the Miss Hope beauty contest in Cattaraugus County, New York, 1975.

28 Saturday

Despite his reputation for sexual aggressiveness, Richard Loeb, kidnapper of Bobby Franks, is murdered by a fellow inmate at the Illinois State Prison for refusing to submit to a homosexual act, 1936.