January 31st

Today is January 31, 2012.  It is the 31st day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 325 days remaining until the end of time.

1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America

Voluntary slavery is okay. . .

1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri.

NOT this James Gang

1928 Scotch tape is first marketed by 3-M Company although it is not as useful as duct tape.

1990 Marx and Lenin spin in their graves at mach speeds: the first McDonald's opens in Moscow.

1903 Tallulah Bankhead, American actress, born on January 31, 1903

1919 Jackie Robinson, US major league baseball player

1942 Derek Jarman, gay English director

1948 Paul Jabara, gay US actor/songwriter (It's Raining Men)

1959 Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor

1962 Nick DiPaolo, US comedian

1973 Portia De Rossi, gay Australian actress/Mrs Degeneres

1976 Malvino Salvador, Brazilian actor/model.  Is he a Mormon?!? 

1981 Justin Timberlake, US singer/actor

<1990 Dean Spencer, Irish porn star

<1990 Johnny Castle, US porn star

1606 Guy Fawkes, English anarchist convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", goes zffft and occupies!

 1888 John Bosco, Italian priest/"youth worker"/saint, seduces the cherubim with his tasty chocolate flavored "syrup"

1956 A. A. Milne, English Author, leaves the house on Pooh Corner by one.

January 30th

Today is January 30, 2012.  It is the 30th day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 326 days remaining until the end of time.

1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Henry Greathead (if that is his true name and not a boast), the inventor. Here is a similar concept.

1956 Martin Luther King, Jr's home bombed. Please, don’t tell me squat about the evils of Islamist terrorism.

1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3. If you know my secret identity, you will understand why I have always hated this song.

 

1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  32nd US President, elected to four terms in office

1941 Dick Cheney - US dick/Satan-in-a-Suit

1974 Christian Bale, Welsh actor

Christian Bale, a swinging dick (in the most positive and affectionate way)

1986 Bernardo Velasco, Brazilian model

 

1836 Betsy Ross, US icon, gets wrapped up in her work.

1948 Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, goes off into the wild blue yonder.

 

 

January 29th

Today is January 29, 2012.  It is the 29th day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 327 days remaining until the end of time.

1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published. Here is David deCoteau’s interpretation.

1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor to satisfy the results of using a different rolling machine. Not that I’m advocating anything.

1933 German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor adding to the disasters associated with his name 

1953 The Robe, 1st movie in Cinemascope, premieres.

1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"  is released  and finally reveals why Sleeping Beauty was kissed

1913 Victor Mature, US actor

1945 Tom Selleck, US actor/producer/writer/wet dream

1948 Marc Singer, Canadian-born US actor

1960 Greg Louganis, gay US Olympic diver/animal protection activist

1962 Nicholas Turturro, US actor

1969 Thomas Jane, US actor/apparent false advertiser

1969 Robert Glen Keith, US actor

1975 Sara Gilbert, gay US actress

1979 Andrew Keegan, US actor

1979 Francesco D'Macho, Italian porn star

1888 Edward Lear, gay English poet (limerick)/author, becomes prosaic

2002 Harold Russell, US war veteran/Oscar winner (The Best Years of Our Lives), is given a hand