October 19th

October 19 is the 293rd day of the year.  There are 73 days remaining until the end of the year.

1469 Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. And other stuff happens.

1512 Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia). He works to cure Roman Catholicism.

 

1901 Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March" premieres in Liverpool, but no one gets a diploma. 

1917 Love Field in Dallas, Texas opens. Some people always take things too literally.

1957 "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances. There are still no shower scenes in any of the revivals.

1971 Last issue of "Look" magazine is published, but not with the tasty Mr. Frechette on the cover.

1975 Hamlisch and Klebans musical "A Chorus Line" premieres at Shubert Theater New York City for 6,137 performances

1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City

1987 "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 804 performances

2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II, a little sooner than usual.

2005 Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq on charges of crimes against humanity.  His underwear is a crime against humanity.

1932 Robert Reed [John Robert Rietz, Jr.], gay US man named Brady 

1937 Sean Garrison, US actor 

1945 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], gay US actor/filthy woman 

1945 John Lithgow, US actor 

1968 Blake Harper [Peter Tiefenbach], gay Canadian pornographic actor/nurse/my fantasy boyfriend 

1969 Trey Parker, US actor/producer (South Park) 

1974 Volker Waldschmidt, maybe gay German actor 

1976 Roland Dane, bisexual Hungarian pornographic actor/director  

1976 Desmond Harrington, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Omar Gooding, maybe gay US actor/brother of Cuba 

1978 Thom Bishops, maybe gay US actor 

1979 Alex Feldman, Ukrainian actor 

1988 Sascha Visser, Dutch actor/tv presenter/soccer player 

1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, bisexual US poet and playwright, finds that her candle burning at both ends does not last the night

2008 Mr. Blackwell [Richard Sylvan Selzer], gay US fashion designer/critic, is forced to wear an off-the-rack robe like everybody else. Pure hell!