October 7th

October 7 is the 281st day of the year.  There are 85 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

1492 Columbus misses Florida when he changes course for Haiti. 

1520 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain

1928 Ras Tafari Makonnen is crowned king of Abyssinia

 

1955 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco. 

1959 Far side of moon is seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR.'s Luna 3.  Gary Larson comes later.

1960 "Route 66" premieres

1988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson

2005 Mohamed El-Baradei receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Go figure.

1879 Joe Hill [Joel Emmanuel Hägglund], maybe gay Swedish-born US labor activist (IWW)/poet/songwriter/ martyr 

1952 Vladimir Putin, President of Russia 

1964 Dan Savage, gay US sex-advice columnist/hunanitarian 

1975 Sergei Jordanov, gay Hungarian pornographic actor 

1976 Taylor Hicks, maybe gay US personality/American Idol winner who beat Chris Daughtry...yeah, America knows best 

1977 Brandon Quinn [Swierenga], maybe gay US actor 

1978 Joe Armstrong, maybe gay English actor 

1979 Gauge, bisexual US pornographic actor 

1979 Alex Sanderson, maybe gay English rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1979 Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor/X-Men 

1979 Aaron Ashmore, maybe gay Canadian twin brother of Shawn/actor/Jimmy Olsen in Smallville 

1980 Edison Chen [Chen Xing Hua], Canadian actor 

1980 Alessandro Talotti, Italian high jumper 

1984 Giuseppe Sulfaro, Italian actor 

1985 Evan Longoria, baseball player 

1943 [Marguerite] Radclyffe Hall, gay English author, drinks from the well of loneliness

1956 Clarence Birdseye, maybe gay US inventor, is frozen in time