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| October 18 is the 292nd day of the year. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1776 In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, an obviously witty gay customer orders a "cock tail" |
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| 1851 Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley Press of London. The sock only makes it look larger than it really is |
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| 1878 Edison makes electricity available for household usage though the shallower of us prefer propane |
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| 1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. |
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| 1954 Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio. [$46.95 in 1954 would cost $370.48 in 2009] |
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| 1962 Dr. Watson (US), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA |
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| 1968 Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90 m (29' 2½") in the long jump at the Mexico City games, but still lands on his ass. |
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| 1991 "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater New York City |
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| 1804 King Mongkut of Siam [Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthramaha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua], the real King of the King and I (1851-1868) |
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| 1926 Klaus Kinski [Nikolaus Günther Nakszynski], Polish actor |
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| 1926 Chuck Berry, US (STLMO) musician |
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| 1956 Martina Navratilova, gay Czech-born US tennis player |
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| 1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme [Van Varenberg], Belgian action star |
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| 1962 Vincent Spano, US actor |
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| 1965 Curtis Stigers, maybe gay US musician |
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| 1968 Michael Stich, German tennis player |
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| 1969 Vince Gatton, gay US actor |
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| 1972 Kurt Caceres [Heinzman], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1974 Marcus Iron, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1974 Robbie Savage, Welsh soccer player |
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| 1977 Chris L. McKenna, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1979 Alex Sirvent, Mexican actor |
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| 1982 Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith], US singer |
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| 1987 Zac Efron, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1987 Sam Clark, Australian actor/singer |
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| 1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, US actor (Bear), extends his appeal to necrophiliacs <le sigh> |
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| 1994 Cab Calloway, US Musician, hi-de-hos |
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| 2010 Yertward "Eight Finger Eddie" Mazmanian, US hippie, flips the bird. |
