May 9th

May 9 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 226 days remaining until the end of time.

1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn. Fucking fundamentalists!

1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America shows divided snake and caption, "Join or Die."  It is not particularly funny.

1868 The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.

1899 Lawn mower receives US patent #666-666.

1908 The wonderfully named Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname

1927 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia although nothing was wrong with Melbourne. Just wasteful!

1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage

1982 "9" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 739 performances

1987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33) marry. This is the last time Tom Cruise is as tall as his beard

1992 Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV

1800 John Brown, militant US abolitionist 

1860 Sir James M. Barrie, asexual Scottish author (Peter Pan) 

1923 Johnny Grant, maybe gay US radio-TV producer/unofficial Hollywood mayor 

1936 Albert Finney, English actor 

1947 Anthony Higgins, English actor 

1961 John Corbett, US actor 

1963 Gary Daniels, English actor/kickboxer 

1968 Hardy Krüger, Jr., German actor 

1979 Matt Morris, gay US singer songwriter/Mouseketeer 

1985 Kim Seung-Il, Korean gymnast 

1903 Paul Gauguin, French Artist, deserves what he gets for being a pedophile and cutting off poor Vincent’s ear.  Read about it here.

1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), climbs a little higher, but without his tall gay lover this time

2010 Lena Horne, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz), settles into a cabin in the sky.