May 18th

May 18 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 217 days remaining until the end of time.

1876 Wyatt Earp grows a pornstache to become US Marshall of Dodge City, Kansas

1897 Bram Stoker’s Dracula is published

1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic

1917 US passes Selective Service act. . .They aren't too selective.

1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California. She shows up a month later and says she was kidnapped. . .but the suck marks on her neck and shoulders give her away.  SHE'S A VAMPIRE!

1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law" that was upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial

1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon is convicted of tax evasion.  I wonder what gave him away?!?!  It couldn't have been the cheesy cape and crown.

1994 Israelis withdraw from the Gaza Strip club

1048 Omar Khayyam, maybe gay Persian poet/astronomer/philosopher 

1868 Nicholas II of Russia, 1868 Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, last tsar of Russia

1911 Big Joe Turner, maybe gay US blues singer 

1917 James Donald, maybe gay Scottish actor 

1918 Massimo Girotti, maybe gay Italian actor 

1922 Bill Macy, US actor 

1960 Tom Byrd, US actor 

1960 Yannick Noah, French tennis player/musician/father of Joakim  

1962 Nathaniel Parker, English actor 

1974 Felipe Folgosi, Brazilian actor 

1975 George Vidanov, gay Hungarian actor 

1980 Michael Llodra, French tennis player/shouldn't all male tennis players be required to strip after a match? 

323BCE Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia/conqueror, is miscast in the movie

1995 Alexander Godunov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), does not drink himself to death because he has AIDS, his publicist insists

2006 Andrew Martinez, maybe gay University of California "Naked Guy," has to wear a robe