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Thursday, September 13, 2012

September 13th

September 13 is the 257th day of the year.  There are 109 days remaining until the end of the year.




1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata. Won’t Lasik surgery fix that?
1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the US gold market
1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV. Damn, that Francis Muldoon is hawt!
1963 Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould (no relation to Jay Gould) marry. And how’s that work out?
1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV. We control the horizontal. . .
1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS while Grandpa pervs on John-boy
1974 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV. Rockford is a true maverick.
1977 1st TV viewer discretion warning for a regularly scheduled series introduces "Soap" on ABC-TV
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the US after the September 11, 2001 attacks.



1857 Milton Snavely Hershey, US chocolatier/Blessed and beloved of God almighty, and the peoples of the world in supplication; refined a Swiss process to create and manufacturer milk chocholate. Built the world's largest chocolate factory, complete with company town 
1924 Scott Brady [Gerard Kenneth Tierney], studly US actor 
1947 Gary Brockette, maybe gay US actor 
1952 Randy Jones, gay US singer/Village People Cowboy 
1962 Jacek Lenartowicz, Polish actor  (far left)
1964 Tavis Smiley, maybe gay US talk show host 
1965 Jeffrey Ross, maybe gay US comedian/Roastmaster 
1968 [Santiago] Santi Millán, maybe gay Spanish actor/tv host 
1969 Tyler Perry [Emmitt Perry, Jr.], maybe gay US actor/director/producer/cross-dresser 
1973 Fabio Cannavaro, Italian soccer player 
1973 Nicolas Trevijano, Argentine-born Brazilian actor 
1975 Scott Vickaryous, maybe gay Canadian actor 
1980 [Bennett] Ben Savage, maybe gay US actor 
1980 [Robert] Braden Bacha, maybe gay US model/actor/surfer/reality show participant 
1981 Blake Fountain Young, gay US actor from STLMO 
1983 Sergio Parisse, Italian rugger/Dieux du Stade model 



1899 Henry Bliss finds his own personal bliss when he becomes the first person in the North America to be killed in an automobile accident.
1982 Her Serene Highness Princess Grace [Kelly] of Monaco, makes her debut into really high society
1996 Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), is rapped in broad daylight in Las Vegas at 25, and there have still been no arrests




Saturday, April 07, 2012

April 7th

April 7 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 258 days remaining until the end of time.




1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches though he has greater name recognition with this other concoction
1902 Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms. You can trust your car to the man who wears the star. . .
1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the 1st black to appear on a U.S. stamp. His 10¢ stamp is not widely used since postage is only 2¢.
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. This guy is lucky.
1978 Gutenberg Bible sells for $2,000,000 (~$6.4M now) at auction in New York City
 
1915 Billie Holiday aka Lady Day, bisexual legendary US blues-jazz/singer/composer 
1928 James Garner, actor/Bret Maverick/Jim Rockford/Space Cowboy (on far right) 
1939 Sir David Frost, English broadcaster/TV host
1949 John Oates, porn mustachioed US singer/musician/producer (Hall & Oates) 
1951 Janis Ian, gay US singer/songwriter/author 
1954 Jackie Chan, Chinese (Hong Kong) actor/stunt choreographer/director/writer/martial artist/comedian 
1963 Paul Michael Robinson, US Skinemax actor 
1964 Russell Crowe, Kiwi actor 
1970 Leif Ove Andsnes, gay Norse pianist 
1971 Guillaume Depardieu, French actor/son of actor Gerard Depardieu 
1972 Tony Acosta, US porn star 
1974 Kledi Kadiu, Albanian-born Italian dancer/model 
1974 Tygo Gernandt, Dutch actor 
1975 Ronde & Tiki Barber, US football players/commentators 
1975 Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spanish actor 
1976 Kevin Alejandro, US actor 
1978 Duncan James, English TV presenter/boy-band singer (Blue) 
1980 Michael Bellisario, US actor/NCIS 
n.d. Gabriel & Oscar Peron aka "The Odyssey Twins", Spanish porn stars



1891 Phineas T Barnum, US circus impressario, finds his way to the Great Egress
1993 Richard Schmiechen, Oscar-winning film maker (Harvey Milk Story), succumbs to AIDS
2010 Christopher Cazenove, English actor (Dynasty), can now tell his own tales from the crypt.
2010 George Nissen, 96, US gymnast/co-inventor of the trampoline, bounces.