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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

October 31st

October 31 is the 305th day of the year.  There are 61 days remaining until the end of the year.




834 All Hallows’ Eve (Hallowe’en) is first observed to drive away evil spirits before All Saints’ Day
1517 For his Hallowe’en trick, Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church. They should’ve given him candy!
1846 Unable to cross the Donner Pass and upon constructing a winter camp, the Donners have a Party. Later, the survivors change their name to Dahmer
1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes about a detective who loves to suck pipe and hang out with his gay physician--unless he's on CBS-TV
1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ends the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.
1941 Mount Rushmore is completed
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US. Liar.
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks
2006 PETA-pal Bob Barker retires after 35 years as host of The Price is Right



1795 John Keats, probably gay English poet 
1902 Eduard Franz [Schmidt], maybe gay US actor 
1935 Charles Cioffi, maybe gay US actor 
1942 David Ogden Stiers, gay US actor/M*A*S*H 
1946 [Graham] Stephen Rea, Irish actor 
1954 Ken Wahl [Anthony Calzaretta], US actor 
1956 Christopher de Leon, Filipino actor 
1963 Dermot Mulroney, US actor 
1963 Rob Schneider, US comedian 
1964 Darryl Worley, US country singer 
1966 AJ Hammer [Andrew Goldberg], maybe gay model/entertainment tv host 
1966 Thom Collins, gay US model 
1967 Vanilla Ice [Robert Matthew Van Winkle], rapper / going as a douchebag, oops it's not a costume 
1969 Kim Rossi-Stuart, Italian actor 
1970 Craig Kelly, English actor 
1970 Toby Anstis, maybe gay English TV Presenter 
1970 Diego DeLaHoya, gay US pornographic actor 
1972 Matt Dawson, US rugger/Cosmo model 
1975 [Jonathan] Johnny Whitworth, maybe gay US actor 
1975 James Thornton, English actor 
1978 Brian Hallisay, maybe gay US actor 
1979 Simao Sabrosa, Portugese soccer player 
1980 Tomm Voss, Danish body-builder/model 
1980 Eddie Kaye Thomas, US actor 
1982 Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor
1986 Sean Paul Lockhart/Brent Corrigan, gay US model/actor/pornographic entrepreneur 



1926 Harry Houdini [Erich Weisz], US magician, can’t escape so he disappears
1993 River Phoenix [Bottom], actor (Stand By Me), gets buried like his own private Idaho potato
1996 Marcel Carné, tres gay French film director (La Merveilleuse visite), becomes l’enfant du paradis.




Saturday, March 24, 2012

March 24th

March 24 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 272 days remaining until the end of time.




1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. Undoubtedly, some of the colonists looked forward to having guests in their homes.
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith is beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio, but not enough
1837 Canada gives black men the right to vote and just look who gets to be Governor-General?!?!?
1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat, but it doesn’t stop the trash talk
1955 Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances. What’s troubling poor Brick?
1958 Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army.
1987 ACT UP's first demonstration on Wall Street, in New York City. Over 250 protested the FDA's sweetheart deal with Burroughs Wellcome to charge $10,000 a year for the only approved anti-AIDS drug, AZT. Silence = Death.
1992 A Chicago judge settles the Milli-Vanilli class-action suit by approving cash rebates of up to $3 to anyone proving they bought the group's music before November 27, 1990 — the date the lip synching scandal broke.
1996 Eastenders star Michael French is outed by the Sunday Mirror.
2001 During an exhibition game against the Giants, National League Cy Young winner Diamondback hurler Randy Johnson's fastball hits and instantly kills a dove flying in front of home plate. The bird appears to explode.



1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz], Hungarian-born US magician/escape artist/actor/debunker 
Houdini with the next birthday boy. . .
1887 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, US actor/director/writer/Acquitted of any wrongdoing
/career was still ruined/he used the pseudonym "William Goodrich" thereafter 
1909 Clyde Barrow, bank robber/Teamed notoriously with Bonnie Parker/not nearly as pretty as Warren Beatty 
1930 Steve McQueen, US actor
1940 Bob Mackie, Cher's favorite bisexual US fashion designer 
1945 Curtis Hanson, maybe gay <wink><wink> US director/writer 
1953 Louie Anderson, maybe gay <wink><wink> US comedian 
1954 Robert Carradine, US actor  NERRRRRDSSS!! 
1965 Peter Jacobson, US actor / House/ NOT Peter Marc Jacobson Fran Drescher’s gay ex-husband 
1967 Mark Anthony, Welsh porn star 
1970 Jeff Lewis, high-strung hyperactive gay US real estate flipper 
1972 Gabriel Olds, US actor 
1973 Jim Parsons, maybe gay <wink><wink> US actor/Big Bang Theory 
1976 Peyton Manning, very rich but old US quarterback 
1981 Philip Winchester, actor 



1603 Elizabeth I Tudor, queen of England (1558-1603), bursts off the scene
1905 Jules Verne, French sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), gets to heaven much faster
2010 Robert Culp, US actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond), indulges in his favorite deadly sins
2011 Lanford Wilson, gay US playwright, checks out of the Hot l Baltimore