October 11th

October 11 is the 285th day of the year.  There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year.

1689 Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia.  Here is a great peter...

1809 Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand--probably due to his broken heart over his unrequited love for Billy Clark.

1868 Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine (dictaphone)

1910 Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flies for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.  They later retire to more comfortable surroundings to "fly together" some more.

1939 Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb. Frankie gets a spontaneous hard-on.

1975 Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham

1975 Considering the earlier event of the day (above), Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.

1976 George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford. His pension is not made retroactive, however.

1983 Last hand-cranked telephones in US go out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, are switched over to direct-dial. Although this hand-cranking is not what I thought it might be, I’m sure they appreciate the convenience.

1987 300,000 - 500,000 gays march for civil rights and more financing for AIDS research in Washington. As Cleve Jones' inspiration, the AIDS Quilt goes on public display for the first time (on the mall). The march also marks the starting point for National Coming Out Day.

1991 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart finds his dick in a wringer when he is seen soliciting a prostitute. BUSTED!

1991 Professor Anita Hill testifies that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her

1995 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase the length of his stubby penis 3 inches

1821 Sir George Williams, latent homosexual English draper who described himself as a "careless, thoughtless, godless, swearing young fellow" and founder of  the YMCA 

1884 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, bisexual First Lady of the US (1933-1945)/diplomat/humanitarian/in some weirdly alternate universe, she's Angelina Jolie 

1884 Sig Ruman [Siegfried Rumann], maybe gay German-born US actor 

1918 Jerome Robbins [Rabinowitz], gay US choreographer/director 

1935 Frederick Combs, gay US writer/actor/victim of AIDS  

1937 Ron Leibman, US actor 

1954 [Alexander] Sascha Hehn, maybe gay German actor 

1956 Stephen Spinella, gay US actor/Love Valour Compassion 

1963 Marcus Graham, maybe gay Australian actor 

1965 Sean Patrick Flanery, maybe gay US actor 

1965 [Coy Luther] Luke Perry, US actor 

1967 Artie Lange, US comedian 

1974 Darien Sills-Evans, maybe gay US actor 

1974 Joey Hart, gay US pornographic actor  

1974 Rodolfo Renwick, Venezuelan actor 

1977 Matthew Bomer, gay US actor/White Collar 

1975 Bryan Kidd, gay US pornographic actor  

1978 Trevor Donovan [Neubauer], maybe gay US model/actor 

1979 Matt Felker, US model/actor 

1979 Gabe Saporta, sexually ambiguous Uruguayan-born US musician who kisses boys a lot 

1980 John Rochette, US actor 

1980 Justin Cuyugan, Filipino actor 

1987 Jean Monribot, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1963 Edith Piaf [Édith Giovanna Gassion], French singer (No, I don't regret anything), is no longer in the pink

1963 Jean Cocteau, bisexual French author (La Voie Humaine), swoons upon hearing the news about Edith

1989 [Albert] Paul Shenar, gay US actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), succumbs to AIDS