February 11th

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 314 days remaining until the end of time.

1790 Society of Friends (Quakers) petitions Congress for abolition of slavery.

1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat which uses his own hotness to make steam.

1858 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes France who was probably smoking dope at the time and was afraid to admit that she had seen God.

1878 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms

1902 Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels and are roundly criticized for hitting girls.

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. Wonder how that turns out.

1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) and dairymen in the province work overtime churning "butter."

1990 Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) is freed from Victor Verser Prison in South Africa.  What harm could he do?

2006 Dick Cheney "accidentally" shoots his "friend" Harry Whittington in the face.  I wonder what he would do to his enemies!?!

1909 Max Baer, US heavyweight boxer/actor

1936 Burt Reynolds, US actor/centerfold 

1941 Sonny Landham, US actor/political wing-nut with a big dick

1962 Tammy Baldwin, first openly gay person elected to US Congress.

1973 Scott Klein, bodybuilder/model/actor who must've done something really spectacular to have his Wikipedia entry deleted

1974 D’Angelo, US singer/musician

1974 Isaiah Mustafa, cock-teasing sexually-ambiguous US actor/model/the man your man could smell

1975 Hal Rockland, US porn actor

1985 Harris Allan, Canadian actor/played the adopted kid on QAF

1987 Mathieu Nicolas, French rugger/Dieux du Stade

1554 Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, finds her head lighter after wearing the crown for 9 days. Her husband, Guilford Dudley, becomes a head shorter, too. Check the basket on the executioner!

2010 Alexander McQueen, gay English fashion designer, leaves us all in stitches.