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Thursday, May 10, 2012

May 10th

May 10 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 225 days remaining until the end of time.




1497 Old Muffin-top Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1752 Benjamin Franklin 1st tests the lightning rod
1924 J. Edgar Hoover, who is pretty enough to be gay, is appointed head[case] of US Federal Bureau of Investigation
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater New York City after 69 performances. Indeed.
 
1954 Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts
1986 Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, marries Heather Locklear. And, how’d that work out?
1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists who have smaller dicks than his.
1994 Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1996 "Twister" premieres although I seem to remember it from a much earlier date
2005 A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from US President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. Good pitchers are such a rare commodity these days.



1899 Fred Astaire, US actor/singer/dancer/choreographer 
1940 Daisuke Inoue, maybe gay (or just happy) Japanese inventor of Karaoke machine 
1957 Sid Vicious [John Beverley], English musician (Sex Pistols)/actor 
1958 Rick Santorum, gay-obsessed former US Senator from PA/Presidential aspirant 
1960 Bono [Paul Hewson], Irish singer (U2)/humanitarian 
1966 Jason Brooks, US actor 
1968 Erik Palladino, actor/ER 
1969 Judson Mills, US actor 
1970 Dallas Roberts, US actor 
1971 Adriano Giannini, Italian actor 
1972 Victor Noriega, Mexican singer/actor/model   
1973 Victor Racek, gay Czech actor 
1974 Sylvain Wiltord, French soccer player 
1975 Helio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver/former Dancing With The Stars winner 
1977 Hugo Silva, Spanish actor 
1980 Quentin Elias, gay French singer, actor, and model 
1981 Rob Newton, openly gay English hurdler 
1983 Andrei Kravtos, Russian gymnast 



1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), stops rebelling eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War.
1994 John Wayne Gacy, US clown/mass murderer, unfortunately, does not get the shock of his life that he so richly deserves
2000 André "Dédé" Fortin, maybe gay Quebeçois singer and songwriter (Les Colocs), travers les brumes




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