Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl ‘wardrobe malfunction’ (2004)
2004: Nation shocked by Nipplegate
On this day in 2004, Super Bowl viewers witnessed Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during a racy halftime duet with Justin Timberlake, who yanked open her costume exposing her right breast. The “Nipplegate” incident triggered a flood of outrage from America’s self-appointed defenders of morality. However, at no time did Mr. Timberlake grab Ms. Jackson by the pussy.
Read my satirical 2004 “Nipplegate” coverage below:
Super Bowl XXXVIII: Thanks for the mammaries
On this day in 1861, Texas voted to secede from the U.S.A. after “them damn Yankees” suggested there might be something wrong with owning human beings.
On this day in 1964, the Beatles blew up with their first No. 1 hit … “I Want to Hold Your Hand Grenade.”
Today's Birthdays:
Clark Gable (1901-1960): famed Hollywood leading man; best known for his role as a dashing tracheotomy survivor in “Gone With the Windpipe.” Won an Oscar for the 1934 romantic comedy, “Shit Happened One Night.”
Sherman Hemsley (1938-2012): actor; starred as the wise-cracking illegitimate great, great grandson of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings in “The Jeffersons.”
Lisa Marie Presley (1968-2023): divorced Michael Jackson in 1996 because he wanted her to father a set of androgynous albino chimpanzee quintuplets.