January 31st

Today is January 31, 2012.  It is the 31st day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 325 days remaining until the end of time.

1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America

Voluntary slavery is okay. . .

1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri.

NOT this James Gang

1928 Scotch tape is first marketed by 3-M Company although it is not as useful as duct tape.

1990 Marx and Lenin spin in their graves at mach speeds: the first McDonald's opens in Moscow.

1903 Tallulah Bankhead, American actress, born on January 31, 1903

1919 Jackie Robinson, US major league baseball player

1942 Derek Jarman, gay English director

1948 Paul Jabara, gay US actor/songwriter (It's Raining Men)

1959 Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor

1962 Nick DiPaolo, US comedian

1973 Portia De Rossi, gay Australian actress/Mrs Degeneres

1976 Malvino Salvador, Brazilian actor/model.  Is he a Mormon?!? 

1981 Justin Timberlake, US singer/actor

<1990 Dean Spencer, Irish porn star

<1990 Johnny Castle, US porn star

1606 Guy Fawkes, English anarchist convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", goes zffft and occupies!

 1888 John Bosco, Italian priest/"youth worker"/saint, seduces the cherubim with his tasty chocolate flavored "syrup"

1956 A. A. Milne, English Author, leaves the house on Pooh Corner by one.