November 13th

November 13  is the 318th day of the year.  There are 48 days remaining until the end of the year.

1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal, but give it back after realizing that the French don’t like the English either.

1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms – traditionalists mourn

1922 Harlem Renaissance begins
Pictured:  Row 1: (left to right) Countee Cullen and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Row 2: Angelina Weld Grimké and Langston Hughes
Row 3: Alain Locke and Claude McKay
Row 4: Wallace Thurman and Carl Van Vechten

1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minnesota, leads to the invention of Spam

1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released

1942 Minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18

1952 False fingernails 1st sold

1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses. . .

1960 . . .and fears in certain quarters over the Supreme Court’s decision are realized when Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt.  Next thing you know homoseckshuls will want to get married...

1964 Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor. It isn’t the really nice one, though.

 

1965 Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "Fuck" on BBC, and everybody acts like they’ve never heard it before. 

 

1987 1st condom commercial airs on BBC TV. 

2005 Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old gay Scottish model, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.

354 Augustine of Hippo, gay Algerian theologian/plagiarist/saint   Seems Auggie had a problem with lust:
"But I, wretched, most wretched, in the very commencement of my early youth,
had begged chastity of Thee, and said, 'Grant me chastity and continence, only not yet.'"
In his "Confessions", he mentions his passionate love for another young man.
Like a good Republican, he later condemns all sex (homo and hetro) not aimed at procreation. 

1941 Dack Rambo [Norman Rambeau], gay US actor/AIDS victim 

1954 Chris Noth, US actor/Law & Order/Big-Sex In The City/The Good Wife 

1960 Neil Flynn, maybe gay US actor/Scrubs/The Middle 

1961 Sam Crockett, gay US pornographic actor 

1963 Vinny Testaverde, lickalicious US quarterback/broadcaster 

1963 Johnny Rey, gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim 

1964 Sam Carson, gay US pornographic actor

1965 Kurt Marshall [James Allen Rideout, Jr.], gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim 

1967 Steve Zahn, US actor 

1968 Steve Lemme, US actor/comedian/Broken Lizard 

1969 Gerard Butler, maybe gay Scottish actor 

1973 Hernan Piquin, maybe gay Argenitne ballerino 

1976 Josh Feinberg, US actor/Big Brother contestant/Playgirl model 

1978 Dan O'Connor, Australian actor 

1979 Riccardo Scamarcio, Italian actor 

1979 Ron “Metta World Peace” Artest, US basketball player 

1979 Chad Bannon, gay US pornographic and television actor/martial artist (also goes by Chad Ullery/Todd Marshall) 

1980 Daniel Zueras, maybe bisexual Spanish singer 

1981 Shawn Yue, Chinese actor 

1982 Jonatan Conejeros, gay Argentine model/actor/dancer 

1984 Simon-Paul Wagner, German actor 

1849 William Etty, gay nude English painter, is brushed off

1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim is permanently KOed by Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, giving new meaning to the term "ultimate fighting."