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Sunday, January 29, 2012

January 29th

Today is January 29, 2012.  It is the 29th day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 327 days remaining until the end of time.








1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published. Here is David deCoteau’s interpretation.
1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor to satisfy the results of using a different rolling machine. Not that I’m advocating anything.
1933 German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor adding to the disasters associated with his name 
1953 The Robe, 1st movie in Cinemascope, premieres.
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"  is released  and finally reveals why Sleeping Beauty was kissed



1913 Victor Mature, US actor
1945 Tom Selleck, US actor/producer/writer/wet dream
1948 Marc Singer, Canadian-born US actor
1960 Greg Louganis, gay US Olympic diver/animal protection activist
1962 Nicholas Turturro, US actor
1969 Thomas Jane, US actor/apparent false advertiser
1969 Robert Glen Keith, US actor
1975 Sara Gilbert, gay US actress
1979 Andrew Keegan, US actor
1979 Francesco D'Macho, Italian porn star



1888 Edward Lear, gay English poet (limerick)/author, becomes prosaic
2002 Harold Russell, US war veteran/Oscar winner (The Best Years of Our Lives), is given a hand

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