October 27th

October 27 is the 301st day of the year.  There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year.

1838 MO governor Lilburn Boggs issues Extermination Order 44 which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.  Unfortunately, this Executive Order will be rescinded in 1976...

1925 Water skis are patented by Fred Waller

1936 Mrs. Wallis Simpson files for divorce and a whole bunch of other stuff ensues

1964 Singers Sonny and Cher wed. Cher wears bell-bottoms NOT designed by Bob Mackie!

1975 Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen.

1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide without considering many more creative options.

1988 Larry Flynt pays hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra. SINATRA?!? Outrageous!

1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military.  30 years later, gays are allowed to serve openly in the US military. 

1994 The US prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.

1997 US releases a redesigned $50 bill

2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

1466 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, probably gay Dutch humanist/priest/wit 

1932 Jean-Pierre Cassel [Crochon], French actor 

1939 John Cleese, English comedian/actor/Python/Minister of Silly Walks 

1952 Roberto Benigni, Italian actor 

1953 Peter Firth, English actor 

1957 Jeff East, STLMO actor 

1958 Simon LeBon, English singer/Duran Duran 

1960 Patrick Breen, maybe gay US actor 

1965 Jack Angelino, gay US pornographic actor  (and, as you can tell, a personal favorite)

1966 Matt Drudge, self-loathing QUEER conservative "not-gay" (wink-wink) blogger/The Drudge Report

1966 Tom Steele, gay US pornographic actor 

1967 Scott Weiland, US musician/Stone Temple Pilots 

1967 Trent Cougar, gay US pornographic actor 

1968 Jordan West, gay US pornographic actor   

1970 Grant Larson, gay US pornographic actor 

1972 Gaetano Jones [Schiralli], US actor  

1975 Lorant Deutsch [László Matekovics], French actor (right) 

1978 Marty West, maybe gay US actor 

1983 Kivanç Tatlitug, Turkish actor/model  

1984 Brady Quinn, US quarterback/wet dream

1984 Sebastian Gacki, Canadian actor 

1986 Gabriel Thomson, English actor/gay son Michael–My Family 

1980 Steven Peregrine Took [Porter], gay English rocker, is taken 

2003 Rod Roddy, maybe gay US tv announcer/The Price Is Right, comes on down

2006 Brad Will, gay US anarchist and independent journalist, conforms. . . unwillingly.