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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

May 29th

May 29 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 206 days remaining until the end of time.




1660 Charles II is restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth bows to stylish convention advancing jheri curls
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1919 Following several awkward boners, Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1953 Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa lover, Tensing Norgay, are 1st to reach summit of Everest where the thin air causes massive erections
 
1982 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62
1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months. The other participants finished 13 months earlier.
1993 Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks, he damages his arm, but some corticosteroid injections fix him up good as new.
1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.



1906 T. H. White, gay English writer (The Once and Future King) 
1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th US president 
1926 Charles Denner, maybe gay French actor 
1944 Helmut Berger, bisexual Austrian actor best known for his work with Luchino Visconti (with whom he had an affair) 
1948 Nick Mancuso, Italian-born-Canadian actor 
1959 Dear Rupert Everett, gay English actor/author/rent boy/singer 
1959 Adrian Paul, English actor  
1961 Melissa Etheridge, gay US singer/songwriter  
1962 John D LeMay, maybe gay US actor 
1964 Carlton Wilborn, gay US former Madonna backup dancer turned actor 
1965 Matthew Porretta, maybe gay US actor 
1965 Dursley McLinden, gay Manx actor/AIDS victim
1970 Jean-Michel Portal, gay French actor 
1973 Dean Maxwell, gay US pornographic actor  
1974 Eric Hanson, gay US pornographic actor 
1974 Aaron McGruder, maybe gay US cartoonist (Boondocks)
1975 David Burtka, gay US actor/husband of Neil Patrick Harris 
1978 Adam Rickitt, English actor/singer/model  Good advice--Give 'em a squeeze!
1979 Ari Borovoy, Mexican actor 
1981 Chris Violette, Canadian actor 
1982 Elyas M'Barek, German actor 



1978 Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), shoots and is shot
1992 Bill Beyers, gay US actor (Wally-Capitol), succumbs to AIDS at 37
2010 Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (Easy Rider, Cool Hand Luke), shows true grit




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