Fans are said to likely gather at the Los Angeles cemetery, where Michael Jackson is interred, as well as London’s Lyric Theater, where a monument to the star has been erected. A commemoration will also take place at New York’s Apollo Theater.

Prisoners in the Philippines, known for their cross-dressing mass dance number recreating Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” will stage a new version of the dance for the public on Saturday.


In similar news: Fans—and Ryan O’Neal, the late Farrah Fawcett’s lover—are still mourning the loss of Charlie’s hottest Angel. Fawcett also died one year ago today.

On a lighter note, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the porn industry would be allowed to use the top-level domain prefix dot-xxx for their websites.

“The decision should soon bring to fruition our six-year effort to create a specific Web address for online adult entertainment, and comes on the heels of an independent review that declared that ICANN’s previous decision to deny dot-xxx was wrong,” said Stuart Lawley, the Chairman for ICM, the corporation behind the dot-xxx registry.

At the same time, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that countries within the Union were not obliged to allow same-sex marriage. In mixed messages, the Court declared that denying marriage to gay couples did not violate their human rights, but at least it also made “advances by recognizing the at least factual and symbolic equality of same-sex and other couples.”