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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

November 6th

November 6  is the 311th day of the year.  There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.




1860 Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, is 1st Republican, 3rd homosexual and 16th man elected President of the United States of America
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to an overly generous 6 year term as president of the confederate states
1879 Canada celebrates its 1st Thanksgiving Day
1897 Peter Pan opens in New York at Empire Theater.
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver
1949 Greek civil war ends as they rediscover the common connection that binds them together as a culture
1962 Former Vice-President Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing the race for governor of California to Jerry Brown’s dad, Pat.
1968 Showing his true masochistic tendencies, Dick Nixon is the 6th homosexual and 37th man elected President of U.S. to be kicked around some more
1968 Head is released. Wait. . .that didn’t come out right!
1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.  An act of God?
1978 Midnight Express is released
1979 Major killjoy, Ayatolla Ru-Holla Khomeini, takes over in Iran
1987 Less Than Zero is released
1998 Velvet Goldmine is released



1494 Suleiman the Magnificent Turban Wearer, great Turkish Sultan of the Ottoman empire 
1814 [Antoine-Joseph] Adolphe Sax, maybe gay but definitely tasty Belgian musical instrument designer and musician 
1949 Nigel Havers, English actor 
1949 Brad Davis, bisexual US actor/AIDS victim 
1955 Christopher Lowell [Richard Lowell Madden], gay US designer 
1959 Eric Stone, gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim 
1961 Florent Pagny, gay French singer/actor 
1962 Frank DeCaro, gay US comic/Out at the Movies/The Dead Celebrity Cookbook 
1970 Ethan Hawke, US actor/director 
1970 Sebastian Estevanez, Argentine actor 
1971 Bruce Blauer, maybe gay US model/actor 
1976 Pat Tillman, walking wet dream US pro football player/US Army enlistee/killed in Afghanistan under mysterious circumstances 
1978 Manuel Casella, maybe gay Italian model/actor 
1982 Vin Nolan, gay US pornographic actor 
1986 Ruben Bansie-Snellman, maybe gay US actor 



1944 Segundo "Boy" Ecury, maybe gay Aruban WW II resistance fighter, wouldn’t’ve gotten any resistance from me. . .yum! Fucking Nazis.
1972 Tod Andrews, maybe gay US actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), learns what his first name means in German. . .the hard way



Friday, February 03, 2012

February 3rd

Today is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the Mayans were correct, there are 322 days remaining until the end of time.




1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258. Because those pictures are so gruesome, here is Ethan Hawke quaking by a bay.
1967 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. Man, it must really suck to be you, Ron.
1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him. Great scene for Pacino, though.



1956 Nathan Lane, gay US actor
1969 Paolo Roberto, Swedish boxer/actor/Stieg Larsson character
<1980 Johnny Law, US porn star
<1984 Park Wiley, US porn star



1468 Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, German blacksmith/goldsmith/printer/publisher, is pressed for time even though his invention is hailed as the best invention of the millennium
1959 The Day the Music Died. Buddy Holly, US rocker (That'll be the Day), Big Bopper, US DJ/rocker (Chantilly Lace), and Richie Valens, Mexican-born US rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), are killed in plane crash
1991 Nancy Kulp, gay US actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies, Pamela Livingston-Bob Cummings Show), lies in wait for Ellie Mae, not Jethro.