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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

November 20th

November 20  is the 325th day of the year.  There are 41 days remaining until the end of the year.




1521 Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine. Apparently, Arabs do believe everything they read!
1873 Rival but loving cities of Buda and Pest gay marry to form the capital of Hungary.
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1966 "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1166 performances
1969 Alcatraz Island is seized by militant Native Americans
1984 The SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial gay Intelligence) Institute is founded, but hasn’t found any yet.
1992 Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire. Happy anniversary, Liz and Phil!
1995 Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview. Here’s the evidence.
1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. . .and we all know what happened the last time a man was without sin. . .
2003 Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation, a charge that could carry an 8-year jail term—about the same age as the boy.



1925 Kaye Ballard [Catherine Gloria Balotta], maybe gay US actress/comedienne 
1942 Joe Biden, US Vice-President/former Delaware Senator 
1942 Super Dave Osborne [Stewart Robert "Bob" Einstein], maybe gay US comedian/actor 
1946 Duane “Skydog” Allman, US guitarist 
1956 Mark Gastineau, US football player 
1961 Jim Brickman, maybe gay US musician 
1970 Joe Zaso, sexual US actor/filmmaker/bodybuilder/Paragon among men 
1971 Joel McHale, US television presenter/actor/Community 
1972 Cláudio Heinrich [Meier], Brazilian actor 
1974 Florian David Fitz, German actor 
1974 Memos Begnis [Begniswas], maybe gay Greek actor 
1976 Jason Thompson, US actor/t-shirt 
1977 Gage Weston, gay US pornographic actor 
1979 Kamil Mackowiak, Polish dancer/actor 
1988 Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor 



1975 Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), begins his death marathon.
2003 Robert Addie, English actor (Excalibur), relocates to another country.
2006 Robert Altman, US film director, gets MASHed.




Monday, October 29, 2012

October 29th

October 29 is the 303rd day of the year.  There are 63 days remaining until the end of the year.




1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes. I’ve always wondered why they call it "Black Tuesday" when everything went into the red?
1953 A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns
1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up in a powerfully bold display of daddy/son love
1958 Boris Pasternak <le sigh> refuses Nobel prize for literature upon close counsel of the Soviet government
1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay <le sigh> wins his first professional fight
1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive which has proven so effective that only 1 guy has ever become pregnant
1998 Grandpas in Space:  John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery in another failed bid to become President of the United States
2004 The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 US presidential election.
2004 In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.



1897 Hope Emerson, maybe gay US actress/Westward the Women 
1967 Rufus Sewell, English actor 
1968 Grayson McCouch, maybe gay US actor 
1973 Trevor Lissauer, maybe gay US actor 
1977 Jon Abrahams, maybe gay US actor 
1977 Julio Camejo [Sánchez González], Mexican actor/dancer 
1977 Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor 
1980 Ben Foster, US actor 



1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his "companion" Frederick I, Margrave of Baden, by Charles I of Sicily, a spurned lover and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1618 Walter Raleigh, maybe gay English scholar, poet and historian, loses his pretty head for a moment
1901 Cutie-pie Leon Czolgosz, gay US anarchist/assassin of US President William McKinley, lights up the night
1971 [Howard] Duane Allman, rock guitarist, lay-la in gay GA (Georgia)
1996 James Leo Herlihy, gay US (Midnight Cowboy), goes all Ratso