February 5th

Today is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 320 days remaining until the end of time.

1644 1st U.S. livestock branding law is passed by Connecticut

1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome

1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale

1901 J. Pierpont Morgan forms U.S. Steel Corporation which, in a strange turn of events, helps collapse the US and world economy 107 years later.  Bastard.

1958 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. LOST?!? What do you mean ‘lost’?

1973 Funeral for Lieutenant Colonel William Nolde, whose most ignominious accomplishment is being the last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War

1991 Howard Stern kisses New York Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl. There is only extant audio of that event, so here is a picture of the Rock forcing Vince McMahon to kiss some guy’s ass.

1848 Belle Starr, US outlaw

1914 William S. Burroughs, gay US novelist/philosopher from STLMO

1941 David Selby, US actor

1961 Tim Meadows, US comedian/actor

1964 Laura Linney, US actress/Tales' MaryAnn

1969 Bobby Brown, USsinger/songwriter/dancer

1969 Michael Sheen, Welsh actor

1973 Diego Serrano, Ecuadoran actor

1977 Pavel Novotny aka Max Orloff aka Jan Dvorak, Czech porn star/model

1985 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugese soccer great

1995 Doug McClure, U.S. rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), goes to the land that time forgot

2008 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation, may have transcended, but we’ll never know.

2010 Brendan Burke, gay Canadian-US hockey player/activist, gets iced.

2011 John Paul Getty III, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, now hears this