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Sunday, November 25, 2012

November 25th

November 25  is the 330th day of the year.  There are 36 days remaining until the end of the year.




1817 1st sword swallower in U.S. performs in New York City. He is overwhelmingly popular on his days off.
1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1867 Cutie-patooty Swede, Alfred Nobel, patents dynamite
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy. Enjoy it while you got it.
1920 Gimbel's of Philadelphia sponsors 1st Thanksgiving Parade
1940 Woody Woodpecker, an obviously penis-obsessed gay bird, debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1947 Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" [ Alvah Bessie, screenwriter; Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director; Lester Cole, screenwriter; Edward Dmytryk, director; Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter; John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; Albert Maltz, screenwriter; Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter; Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter; Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter] are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. They didn’t enjoy being blackballed as much as this guy.
1959 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 460 performances...with a few more times on the mattress, it might have had more performances
1963 John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, and eternal flames become a fad among the fortunate few
1979 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 53 performances when it is revealed that Enzyte really doesn’t work as promised
1986 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office in her prodigious cleavage which, ironically, is how she got the job in the first place
2010 A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified in Thailand.  To hell with PETA and Greenpeace.  I'm glad the mofo is extinct!



1870 [Bernard Francis] Solanus Casey, US Capuchin priest declared venerable/candidate for beatification/imagine it–a Blessed Sunny Asshole 
1869 Virgil Thomson, influential gay US composer 
1914 Joe DiMaggio, US baseball center fielder (New York Yankees)/married Marilyn Monroe 
1920 Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-US actor/Mr. Rourke/KHAAANNN!!!/sexy mofo 
1955 Bruno Tonioli, gay Italian-born English dancer/Dancing With The Stars judge 
1956 Steve Rambo, gay US pornographic actor   
1960 John F. Kennedy, Jr., long rumored to be gay US Presidential spawn/lawyer/journalist/publisher 
1961 Mattias Freihof, gay German actor/rimmer 
1962 Lance [David Alan Reis], gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim 
1965 [Stephen] Dougray Scott, US actor 
1974 Giampaolo Morelli, Italian actor 
1974 Hakan Serbes, heterosexual German pornographic actor 
1984 Gaspard Ulliel, French actor/young Hannibal 



1973 Laurence Harvey [Laruschka Mischa Skikne], bisexual English actor (Of Human Bondage), is released from human bondage
2005 George Best, Northern Irish footballer too pretty not to have been photographed naked, gets kicked out of bounds




Tuesday, April 24, 2012

April 24th

April 24 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 241 days remaining until the end of time.




1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle. Vive la France!!
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1895 Joshua Slocum dribbles across the finish line to complete around-the-world solo voyage in 11-meter boat.  Obviously, he is not sponsored by Old Navy. . .
1907 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey is opened for the exclusive use of his employees. I bet the Hershey Highway is the main attraction.
1909 Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds, but fail to qualify for the Amateur Athletic Association finals.
1916 Éirí Amach na Cásca: the start of the Easter Rising led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett
1928 Fathometer is patented, ostensibly, to measures underwater depth, but does a better job measuring how hot DILFs are.
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1956 AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1968 Students take over Columbia University, New York City.  Imagine it: white kids kinda rioting in Harlem!  And it's not even Opposite Day!
1969 Paul McCartney says he is not dead, despite persist rumors and evidence to the contrary
1992 Bisexual David Bowie marries model Iman with the 6" clitoris in Switzerland.  Cute couple.



1942 Barbra Streisand, Mecha-singer/actress/composer/producer/director/funny girl 
1952 Jean-Paul Gaultier, gay French fashion designer 
1953 Eric Bogosian, US actor/writer
1964 Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor/dancer/fashion model 
1964 Beau Saxon, gay US actor 
1966 Ty Fox, gay US model/actor 
1968 Aidan Gillen, Irish actor/QAF (UK) 
1968 Mark Vanderloo, Dutch model 
1969 Dean Coulter, gay US actor 
1971 Alejandro Fernandez, Mexican singer/songwriter 
1971 Aaron Austin, gay US actor 
1973 Dean Armstrong, Canadian actor/acting coach/QAF (US) 
1974 Noah Danby, Canadian actor 
1975 Thad Luckinbill, US actor 
1977 Eric Balfour, US actor/singer (Born As Ghosts) 
1980 Austin Nichols, US actor/Jake's BFF 
1982 David Oliver, US runner 
1984 Tyson Ritter, US singer/guitarist (The All American Rejects) 



1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, cums and goes
1947 Willa Cather, gay US author, is a lost lady since she is obviously butch.
1997 Pat Paulsen, US comedian (Smothers Brothers Show)/Presidential candidate (1968, 1972), loses this campaign, too.
2010 Elizabeth Post, US etiquette expert, is simply mortified at this turn of events.