November 1st

November 1 is the 306th day of the year.  There are 60 days remaining until the end of the year.

1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano is founded in California. I understand that they swallow there!

1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations with weather watchers at 24 locations

1896 1st bare breast (Zulu) appear in National Geographic Magazine, and the magazine’s success is guaranteed.  I’ve seen better, though...

1915 Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit and Twinkie Depot.

1922 Ottoman Empire is split up into occasional furniture

1936 Rodeo Cowboy's Association is founded. Hot damn!

1947 Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane without flotation devises

1950 Pope Pius XII clicks his ruby slippers and claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. Just because you’re infallible doesn’t mean you are right.

1959 Brutally handsome Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.

1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)

1972 1st gay theme TV movie, "That Certain Summer", ridiculously posits a love affair between Martin Sheen (okay) and Hal Holbrook (are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me?)

1903 Max Adrian [Bor], gay English actor/stage producer 

1941 Robert Foxworth, US actor 

1956 Anthony DeAngelo, gay US pornographic actor 

1962 Anthony Kiedis, US musician/Red Hot Chili Peppers 

1963 Rick Allen, one-armed English drummer/Def Leppard 

1965 Sweet Williams, bisexual US pornographic actor 

1967 Jack Ketchmark, US soft-core actor 

1968 Alberto San Juan, excitable Spanish actor 

1974 Michael Yo, maybe gay US tv host/celebrity kiss-up 

1974 [Zavan] Zay Harding, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Chad Lindberg, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Logan Marshall-Green, maybe gay US actor 

1977 Alistair Griffin, gay English singer/songwriter 

1981 Thiago Fragoso, Brazilian actor 

1981 Pierre Fitch, gay Canadian pornographic actor 

1983 Jon Wilkin, English rugger 

1947 Man o' War, champion American thoroughbred racehorse , finds greener pastures.

1994 Syd Dernley, British hangman, runs out of rope

1999 Walter Payton, American football great, gets tackled at the goal line

2007 Paul Tibbets, retired US Air Force Brigadier General/Enola Gay pilot who dropped the a-bomb on Hiroshima, doesn’t ask, doesn’t tell, but bombs anyway