March 12th

March 12 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 284 days remaining until the end of time.

1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, Georgia, by Juliette Gordon Low, a rather mannish-looking woman.  Run, Romeo, run!

1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra is laid, but happily does not get pregnant

1950 Pope Pius XII issues encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" but he never issued one "On gassing Jews, gypsies and homosexuals"

1970 U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18

1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 young men in Chicago and burying them under his house.  Unlike Jeffrey Dahmer, he doesn't stop for snacks.

2009 Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.  What's the opposite of "the China Syndrome"?

1832 Charles Boycott, despicable British land agent 

1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, surprisingly heterosexual Polish ballet dancer/artist/schizophrenic 

1922 Jack Kerouac, bisexual US novelist/poet 

1928 Edward Albee, gay US playwright 

1930 Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas, US child actor 

1946 Liza Minnelli, diva/actress/singer/dancer/2nd generation gay icon 

1947 Mitt Romney, US Mormon

1953 Ron Jeremy, US porn star/The Hedghog/friend of Joey Buttafuoco.  See Mitt Romney, above.

1961 Jason Beghe, US actor 

1968 Aaron Eckhart, US actor  

1976 Xaver Hutter, Austrian actor 

1979 Peter Doherty, singer/artist/poet/druggie 

1980 John-Paul Lavoisier, US actor 

1980 Arap Bethke, sniffable Mexican actor 

1982 Bruno Udovic, Brazilian actor 

1986 Danny Jones, musician/the always naked group McFly 

1507 Cesare Borgia, lusty Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal, enjoys all that heaven allows

1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, gets a bum fortune in his cookie although he's cuter than Mao

1945 Anne Frank [Annelies Marie Frank], diarist, is martyred in Belsen Camp (estimated date)

1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker, U.S. jazz saxophonist, doesn’t know what time it is

1978 John Cazale, actor (Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), keeps it together this time

1989 Maurice Evans, gay English actor (Bewitched, Macbeth), cannot touch his nose to get out of this one