October 12th

October 12 is the 286th day of the year.  There are 80 days remaining until the end of the year.

1492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas out of season

1773 America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.

1775 US Navy forms

1810 First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.

1892 Pledge of Allegiance is 1st sieg heil-ed in public schools

1972 "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances but appears longer

1978 Sid Vicious charged for breaking and breaking up with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

1997 Transamerica Senior Golf. Must’ve been a deleted scene

1876 Aleister Crowley [Edward Alexander Crowley], bisexual English occultist, founded the church of Thelema, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn  

1904 Lester Dent, maybe gay US pulp fiction /Doc Savage 

1947 Randy West, heterosexual US pornographic actor/Playgirl model 

1950 Robin Askwith, English actor 

1951 Don Dacus, maybe gay US actor/musician (Chicago) 

1953 David Threlfall, English actor/Frank Gallagher-Shameless (UK) 

1957 Kristen Bjorn [Robert Russell], gay English pornographic actor/photographer/producer 

1962 Chris Botti, gay US hornblower 

1962 Colton Ford [Glenn Soukesian], gay US pornographic actor/singer 

1964 Francisco Gattorno, Cuban actor 

1965 Hank Hightower, gay US pornographic actor 

1965 Andy Dill [Timothy Leon Chanaud], gay US pornographic actor 

1966 Jonathan Crombie, maybe gay Canadian actor 

1968 Hugh Jackman, still not gay Australian actor 

1973 Patrick Harzig, German actor 

1975 Rob Romoni, gay US pornographic actor  

1975 Julian Andretti, Rios/Jordan Rivers, Powers/London Kane, heterosexual US pornographic actor/professional masturbator 

1977 Bode Miller, US Olympic snow boarder 

1980 Yannick Larguet, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1981 Guillaume Bousses, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1982 Gabriel Canella, Brazilian model 

1984 Nicholas Cobb, maybe gay Australian model kissing Rusty Joiner 

1985 Johnny Olson, maybe gay US TV announcer (Price is Right), cums on down

1985 Ricky Wilson, gay US rock guitarist (B-52's), succumbs to AIDS at 32

1995 Gary Bond, gay English actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), succumbs to AIDS at 55 one month after his lover, Jeremy Brett