October 6th

October 6 is the 280th day of the year.  There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year.

1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War. Oooh, I can’t wait to see how it will turn out!

1863 Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath in Brooklyn

 

1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres in New York City...cinematic make-up techniques have improved significantly since then. 

1955 LSD is made illegal in US

1956 Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

 

1963 Gay boys’ heaven on earth: Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show" 

2007 After 13 years, Englishman Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

1898 [James] Mitchell Leisen, bisexual US director 

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer/expeditionist 

1938 Serge Nubret, maybe gay French body builder 

1954 Mark Herrier, US actor/director 

1960 Jeff Trachta, maybe gay US actor/singer 

1963 Jsu Garcia/Nick Corri, gay US actor 

1971 Peter Raeg, gay Australian pornographic actor   

1971 Lamman Rucker, maybe gay US actor 

1973 Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor 

1974 Jeremy Sisto, US actor 

1974 Alexis Georgoulis, maybe gay Greek actor/director 

1975 Oliver Bjerrehuus, bisexual Danish model/actor 

1977 Wes Ramsey, maybe gay US actor 

1979 Owen Hawk, gay US pornographic actor 

1981 Jeremy Hall, gay Canadian pornographic actor

1988 Kayky Brito, Brazilian actor 

1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, maybe gay English poet, crosses the bar

1992 Denholm Elliott, bisexual English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), turns the noises off

2010 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (All Stars), has some goede tijden, slechte tijden