March 23rd

March 23 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 273 days remaining until the end of time.

1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Something big is sure to happen...hmm, I'm thinking England for some reason.

 

1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London; George III stands up. Hallelujah!

1806 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast but find no free parking spaces at the beach, so they turn around and go home

1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] in Boston's Morning Post. In much of the world, however, this sign is not OK.

1868 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. Fuckin’ hippies.

1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization. It is a hostile act against white people; I’ve been to Oklahoma and I’m not white!

1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1957 U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons which are mighty tasted when roasted

1966 Old Men In Dresses!  1st official meeting after 400 years of Roman Catholic and Anglican Catholic Church leaders (Popo Paul IV and Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Arthur Ramsey). Nothing is settled; Henry VIII still can’t have his divorce.

1969 Rally for Decency in Miami.  Yeah, right.

1994 Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail after 4 months and 9 days for statutory rape

1905 Joan Crawford, US actress/mother/wire hanger hater 

1910 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director/writer/producer 

1912 Wernher von Braun, phallus-obsessed German-born US physicist/engineer/Leader in rocket technology 

1922 Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor/director/writer 

1960 Terry Sweeney, US comedian/only openly gay Saturday Night Live cast member 

1962 Marc Cherry, gay US TV producer/beyotch-slapper of "Desperate Housewives" 

1965 Richard Grieco, US model/actor/singer 

1967 John Wayne Bobbitt, US penis amputee 

1975 Collin O'Neal, gay US porn star/substitute teacher  (seen here with Johnny Hazzard)

1978 Caco Ricci, Brazilian model 

1978 Perez Hilton [Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr.], gay US gossip monger/blogger/compulsive doodler 

1980 Jason Chambers, uncircumcised US actor/martial artist/TV host 

1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), goes in search of the stuff that dreams are made of

 

1983 Barney Clark, 1st artificial heart recipient, asks the Wizard for a new heart

1985 Singing Nun [Sr. Luc Gabriel nee Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers], and her lesbian lover have nothing to sing about

2008 Chase Tatum, US WCW wrestler and road manager for Outkast, goes down and out

2011 Dame Elizabeth Rosamond Taylor, British-American actress (National Velvet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8)/AIDS activist, will always be the girl who had everything.