March 1st

March 1 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 295 days remaining until the end of time.

1565 Rio de Janeiro is founded. ¡Deixe o rolo de tempos bom!

1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park for gays.

1893 Hot Daddy Nikola Tesla makes the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.  You should've seen his antenna!

1912 Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane over Jefferson Barracks in , you guessed it, St. Louis.

1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book

1969 Jim Morrison is arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium. There are no extant photos, though. Dammit!

1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.  This story has a lot of holes in it.

1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center for her addiction to marrying gay men.

1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City

2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed capital crimes before age 18

 

1910 David Niven, English actor

1927 Harry Belafonte, US singer/actor/social activist

1929 Homo. . .Robert Conrad, US actor. . .phobe

1944 Roger Daltrey, English actor/singer/songwriter (The Who)

1956 Timothy Daly, US actor

1961 Michael Sundin, acrobat/dancer/TV presenter/AIDS victim 

1969 Javier Bardem, Spanish actor. . .frontal

. . .rearal

1973 Jack Davenport, English actor

1974 Mark-Paul Gosselaar, US actor

1978 Mark Cirillo, gay US actor. . .

. . .observing World Prayer Day

1985 John Bregar, Canadian actor

1994 The Biebs, popular Canadian teenager currently experimenting with heterosexuality

1932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; flies away

2006 Jack Wild, British actor (Oliver!), does not dodge this artfully or otherwise.

2010 Kristian Digby, gay British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy), can leave his hat on.