April 9th

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1770 Captain James Cook finds Botany Gay

1865 Robert E. Lee and 26,765 rebel troops surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse.

1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada

1872 Delaying wiping up after a particularly good round of sex, Samuel R. Percy gets an idea and patents dried milk

1928 Mae West's New York City debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

1939 Marian Anderson sings before 750,000 at the Lincoln Memorial as a fuck-you to the Daughters of the American Revolution

1966 Sophia Loren marries already married Carlo Ponti in Paris even though they aren't Mormons

1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles even though it's John Lennon's band

1992 Manuel Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges.  All things considered, he gets a much better deal that Saddam Hussein!

2005 Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are married in a civil ceremony

1980 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer/motion picture pioneer 

1898 Paul Robeson, US actor/athlete/basso concert singer/civil rights activitist 

1909 Sir Robert Helpmann, gay Australian dancer/actor/director/choreographer 

1926 Hugh Hefner, serial heterosexual US editor/Playboy CEO 

1928 Tom Lehrer, maybe gay US mathematician/singer/songwriter/satirist 

1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor 

1954 Dennis Quaid, US actor 

1963 Marc Jacobs, gay US fashion designer 

1966 Cynthia Nixon, gay US actress/Miranda Hobbs 

1966 Chris Austad, gay US model 

1966 Paul Lekakis, gay US singer/actor/Boom Boom Boom, Let's Go Back to My Room!! 

1968 Jay Chandrasekhar, US actor/director/comedian/Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe 

1970 Massimo Poggio, Italian actor 

1970 Spencer Rice, Canadian comedian/Kenny & Spenny 

1979 Mark Ruiz, US (Puerto Rican) diver 

1981 Arlen Escarpeta, Belizean actor 

1982 Borgy Manotoc, model/grandson of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos 

1985 Antonio Nocerino, Italian soccer player 

1987 Romulo Arantes Neto, Brazilian model/actor 

1990 Marston Hefner, born exactly 64 years after dear old dad, Hugh.  This one doesn't know how to treat women though.

1553 François Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), goes out big

1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, is martyred by the Nazis

1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, must answer to St. PETA

 

1988 Brook Benton, maybe gay US singer (Just a Matter of Time), rushes in where angels don’t fear to tread

2010 Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), veers off the Yellow Brick Road.