Battle of Rorke's Drift a touring English Northern Union rugby league team defeated Australia 14–6 to win the Ashes in the final Test match. Depleted by injuries and fielding only ten men for much of the second half, the English outclassed and outfought the Australians in what quickly became known as the 'Rorke's Drift Test'. In 1914, the Edison Company made a two-reel silent film titled Rorke's Drift starring Richard Tucker. The 1964 film "Zulu" produced by Stanley Baker is a depiction of the Battle of Rorke's Drift. The film received generally positive reviews from the critics. Some details of the film's account are,
Michael McConnell and Jack Baker Michael McConnell and Jack Baker Michael McConnell and Jack Baker are pioneering advocates of marriage rights for gay couples. Jack Baker was a name used by Richard John Baker during his activist work in the 1970s to promote full equality for gay men and women. He and Michael McConnell applied in Hennepin County for a license to marry, then appealed the clerk's denial to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which dismissed the claim. "Under the law at the time (since repealed) governing the [U.S.] Supreme Court's jurisdiction over appeals from state-court decisions, "Baker v. Nelson" reached the justices as a mandatory