October 16th

October 16 is the 290th day of the year.  There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year.

1859 John Brown leads raid on Harper's Fairy in West Virginia – and Harper is none too happy about his boyfriend enjoying it.

1869 Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, stokes the fantasies of size queens everywhere.

1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic at 46 Amboy Street, Brooklyn

1923 Disney company is founded

1934 Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March. If they had only stopped and asked for directions...

1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute

1978 Most eligible bachelor in Poland, Karol Wojtyla, is elected supreme pontiff, John Paul II

1981 Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy" premieres in New York City

1984 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Baboon heart is transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl–she already has a red butt

1987 "Baby Jessica" McClure is rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft. . .only equivalent to 65 days in Chilean miner time.

1993 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed from blast, 45 from indigestion. . .

1995 Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend)

2000 Mel Carnahan, Governor (MO-D), still beats John Aschroft for the US Senate after a fatal airplane crash

1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, scandalous gay English author 

1956 Jim Youngs, maybe gay US actor/John Savage’s brother 

1958 Tim Robbins, US actor 

1959 Gary Kemp, English actor/singer 

1961 Scott O’Hara, gay US pornographic actor 

1962 Flea [Michael Peter Balzary], Australian musician/Red Hot Chili Peppers 

1962 David “Shark” Fralick, maybe gay US actor 

1968 Randall Batinkoff, maybe gay US actor  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000871/

1970 Marco Rossi, gay US pornographic actor 

1972 Pablo Martin, Venezuelan actor 

1973 Philipp Hochmair, Austrian actor 

1976 Mateo Torres, gay Hungarian pornographic actor 

1977 John Mayer, US singer 

1977 Rav Wilding, English police officer/tv presenter 

1980 Jeremy Jackson [Dunn], US actor 

1981 Naím Thomas, maybe gay Spanish singer/actor 

1982 Frederic Michalak, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model

1984 Shayne Ward, English singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayne_Ward

1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), fakes being naked prey

1994 Raul Julia [Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay], actor (Addams Family), does not get a morning after

2010 Barbara Billingsley, US actress (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!), ain’t jive talking today.