November 18th

November 18  is the 323rd day of the year.  There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year.

1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head; son wets pants.

1776 Pointy head Hessian jaegers capture Ft Lee, NJ, a Mr. Richard Feder writes.

1820 Antarctica is discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer.

1852 State funeral for Duke of Wellington is over-produced thanks to an over-the-top gay designer.

1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge is happily joined in gay marriage

1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft. He got enough of a draft from his porno days no doubt. We know he got blown a lot.

1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances. Continues as a popular website.

1966 Observing the Feast of St. Peter, US Roman Catholic bishops end rules against eating meat on Fridays so they can have dick everyday!

1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US, presumably (according to the National Lampoon) to market his new fashion invention.

1976 After 37 years of dictatorship, Spain's parliament establishes democracy with a king...and this is different how?

1978 Don’t drink the Kool-aid! In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand

1993 WWF boss Vince McMahon is charged with steroid distribution. He tells ’em to kiss his ass.

2003 In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

2004 The phallic Clinton Presidential Center is opened in Little Rock, Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs, 80 million documents, and miscellaneous cigar butts, condoms, and blue dresses. The Ho Gallery proves to be a popular attraction

2005 Chiang Mai Night Safari opens in Thailand to look at animals in the dark instead of cruising for sex. Those silly Thais!

1874 Clarence Day, gay US author (Life with Father) 

1928 Mickey Mouse, US cartoon character (his birthday is celebrated today, due to release of Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928) 

1927 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], maybe gay US singer/songwriter ("The Twist") 

1947 José Alonso [Zepeda], Mexican actor 

1962 Christopher Peterson, gay Canadian female impersonator/actor 

1968 Owen Wilson, US actor/writer 

1968 Romany Malco, US actor (Weeds) 

1971 Paul Korver, maybe gay US actor 

1975 Ant McPartlin, English comdeian/television presenter 

1976 Steven Pasquale, US actor 

1977 Trent Barrett, Australian rugger 

1980 Emanuel Sandhu, maybe gay Canadian figure skater 

1985 Christian Siriano, gay US fashion designer/Project Runway winner 

[Valentin Louis Georges Eugêne] Marcel Proust, gay French novelist (A la recherche du temps perdu), forgets things past

1972 Danny Whitten, maybe gay drug-abusing US musician and songwriter (Crazy Horse), doesn’t want to talk about it.

1986 Gia Carangi, gay US supermodel, succumbs to AIDS at 26.