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Monday, November 05, 2012

November 5th

November 5  is the 310th day of the year.  There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year.




1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba and corn-holing from his crew
1605 Al-Qatholics try to blow up the king and English Parliament.
1831 Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1872 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never pays the fine, but 3 years later on the same date, she is arrested again for trying to vote. Obviously, she is a career criminal!
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1943 Allies bomb Al-Qatholics headquarters at the Vatican. Hooray, Allies!
1953 Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince" premieres in London...oh the lucky actor who gets to wake him up with a "kiss"
1973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service
1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US The Great Santa but a typo makes it “Satan”
1981 Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play" premieres in New York City
1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana...Happily, no one recognizes him after his sex change to become Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1987 "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances
1994 George Foreman, 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he grills Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
1999 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rules that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".
2000 Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral 25 years in the planning by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
2006 Saddam Hussein is caught with his pants down and is sentenced to death by hanging.
2007 Writers Guild of America goes on strike



1911 Roy Rogers [Leonard Slye], US cowboy actor/singer 
1937 Harris Yulin, US actor 
1941 Art Garfunkel, US singer/songwriter/actor/Paul Simon's boyfriend 
1957 Jon-Erik Hexum, US actor/model/wet dream/a terrible shame 
1958 Robert Patrick, US actor 
1959 Bryan Adams, Canadian singer/guitarist/songwriter 
1964 Tim Blake Nelson, US actor/director 
1965 Kevin Williams, gay US pornographic legend/power bottom 
1968 Sam Rockwell, maybe gay US actor 
1968 Seth Gilliam, maybe gay US actor/OZ 
1971 Corin Nemec [Joseph Charles Nemec IV], US actor/Parker Lewis 
1975 Samuel Page [Elliott], maybe gay US actor 
1981 Javier Pereira, Spanish actor  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673144/
1982 Jeremy Lelliott, US actor 
1983 Andrew Hayden-Smith, gay English actor/television presenter 



1960 Mack Sennett [Michael Sinnott], maybe gay Canadian director/producer (Keystone Kops), makes a joyful noise unto the Lord
1969 Lloyd Corrigan, gay US actor (Professor McKillup in 'Hank'), reaches the last outpost
1989 Barry Sadler, gay US Army/singer (Green Berets), trades in his beret




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