September 29th

September 29 is the 273rd day of the year.  There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

480BCE Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.

1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.

1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)

1954 "A Star Is Born" makes its world premiere in Hollywood.

1959 "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV, but the love of a friend with benefits counts more...

1960 "My Three Sons" starring Don Grady as Robbie, debuts on ABC-TV

1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, goes ape shit crazy at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts ... Small shoe=small feet=?

1963 "Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV

1966 The Chevy Camaro is introduced (model year 1967) and becomes a status symbol in trailer parks across America.

1976 Boy George expelled from school for a variety of reasons, but officially for wearing stiletto heels.

1982 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide permanently relieve minor aches and pains for 7 people in Chicago

1982 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV

1985 "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV

1986 "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS

1991 "My Own Private Idaho" premieres

2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.

1905 Ted de Corsia, gay US actor 

1942 Ian McShane, English actor 

1948 Mark Farner, US musician/Grand Funk Railroad 

1957 Andrew “Dice” Clay [Silverstein], US comic/actor 

1961 Tom Sizemore, US actor 

1974 Alexis Cruz, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian soccer player 

1977 Won Bin, Korean model/singer 

1980 Zachary Levi [Pugh], maybe gay US actor/Chuck 

1989 Danny Noriega, gay US American Idol contestant 

1970 Edward Everett Horton, gay US actor, finds his fairy tale life fractured

1973 Wystan Hugh Auden, gay English-born US poet, goes forth on the frontier.

2010 Tony Curtis, bisexual US actor (Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, Spartacus), plays it to the bone.

May 12th

May 12 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 223 days remaining until the end of time.

1459 Sun City India is founded by Rao Jodhpur

1888 Crouching start 1st used by hidden tiger, Charles Sherrill of Yale

1890 Louisiana legalizes prize fighting, but only if the boys wear pants.

1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey, while his father was entertaining his gay lovers

1952 Gaj Singh is crowned maharaja of Jodhpur but keeps the staff uniforms

1986 Bicycle, pedaled at 65 mph, is so fast it strips off the poor guy’s racing suit.

1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting. Admittedly, he is an ass

1993 Last broadcast of "Knots Landing" on CBS

1993 Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV

1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, after an ugly public incident with her aging lover in which he struck her <the cad>, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida. Unfortunately, due to the "wet-foot/dry-foot" US immigration policy, she is denied entry into and must swim back.

2008 8.0 Earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000. May they rest in peace.

2008 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever workplace raid at the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

1812 Edward Lear, gay English author and poet  

1820 Florence Nightingale, allegedly asexual English camp follower/nurse/statistician/"The Lady with the Lamp" 

1907 Katharine Hepburn, bisexual US actress/called herself "Jimmy"/spent three decades with someone called Phyllis 

1925 John Simon, probably gay Serbian-born/US  theater critic (New York Magazine, New York Times)  sample:
    "Miss Streisand looks like a cross between an aardvark
    and an albino rat surmounted by a platinum-coated horse bun."

1937 George Carlin, US author/comedian/actor 

1937 Gerry Studds, first openly gay US congressman (D-Massachusetts) 

1950 Bruce Boxleitner, US actor/writer

1950 Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor 

1959 Ving Rhames, US actor 

1962 Emilio Estevez, US actor/Martin Sheen's sane son even though he was married to Paula Abdul 

1966 Stephen Baldwin, US actor/the stupid Baldwin 

1966 Sami Bouajila, French actor  (on left)

1967 Jeff Allen, gay US actor 

1970 Hardy-Ames Hill, US actor/Big Brother 2 housemate 

1973 Forbes March, English actor 

1975 Jonah Lomu, Kiwi rugger/bodybuilder 

1976 Daniel Newman, English actor 

1977 Jeff Lacy, US middleweight boxer 

1978 Jason Biggs, US actor/Pie-fucker.  Husky. 

All growed up.

Still in the kitchen. . .

1978 Aaron Abrams, Canadian actor/writer (Young People Fucking} 

1976 Juan Diaz, Spanish actor 

1979 Charlie Herschel, gay US lawyer/Survivor Gabon contestant 

1981 Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor 

1985 Andrew Howe, US-born/Italian sprinter/jumper 

1988 Marky Cielo, maybe gay Filipino actor 

1992 Robert Reed, gay US actor (Brady Bunch), can now be a free spirit.

1995 Arthur Lubin [Arthur William Lubovsky], gay US film director (Buck Privates, Incredible Mr. Limpet), knows who’s on first

For Mags (aka Hilda Swandumper:  2001 Pierino Roland "Perry" Como, US singer, mambos off the stage

2009 Antonio Vega, maybe gay Spanish pop singer-songwriter, misses el momento.