April 14th

April 14 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 251 days remaining until the end of time.

1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III which is not nearly as much fun as Pope Bobo.

1614 Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe. Future miscegenation laws will prevent further depredations like this

1865 President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. Stayed tuned for the dramatic conclusion coming tomorrow!

1872 San Francisco organizes its Bar Association

1894 Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device called a kinetoscope

1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium

1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. Stayed tuned for the dramatic finale coming tomorrow!

1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" is published. I know how tasty Okie Henry Fonda coulda made a few bucks!

1986 Desmond Tutu is elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals. Here are some disappointed Seals who were turned down.

2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

1904 Sir John Gielgud, gay English actor 

1925 Rod Steiger, US actor  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001768/

1936 Frank Serpico, NYPD officer/activist 

1945 Steve Martin, US actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer 

1949 John Shea, US actor 

1957 Lothaire Bluteau, maybe gay Canadian actor

1961 Humberto Martins, Brazilian actor 

1961 Robert Carlyle, English actor 

1964 Hans Werner Meyer, German actor 

1966 Lloyd Owen, English actor 

1971 Luka Ribeiro, maybe gay Brazilian actor 

1972 Alex Lundqvist, Swedish supermodel 

1973 Adrien Brody, US actor 

1975 Antwon Tanner, US actor 

1976 Oh Ji-Ho, South Korean actor 

1977 Rob McElhenney, US actor/It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 

1977 Ben Jakks, US porn star 

1979 Iain Balshaw, English rugger/Comso model 

1981 Morgan Souply, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1964 Rachel Carson, gay US Ecologist/Author (Silent Spring), is swallowed up by the sea around us

1965 Perry E Smith and Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderers (In Cold Blood), can’t hang around for the movie’s premiere

1986 Simone de Beauvoir, bisexual French feminist/author (The Second Sex), comes in third

1995 Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), turns frosty

1999 Anthony Newley, singer/composer (The Candyman), doesn’t stop the world, but he does get off without showing his merkin

2010 Peter Steele [Petrus T. Ratajczyk], American musician (Type O Negative), realizes that life is killing him.