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Showing posts with label James Purefoy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Purefoy. Show all posts

Sunday, June 03, 2012

June 3rd

June 3 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 201 days remaining until the end of time.




1851 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers. Of course, they look better out of uniform.
1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine. Here it is in theory and in practice.
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional. Back to work, you little crumbsnatchers!
1946 1st bikini bathing suit is displayed in Paris, but not perfected until decades later for men
1968 Valerie Solanas, American feminist activist and author (Society for Cutting Up Men), shoots American artist, Andy Warhol.  She probably shouted "R. E. S. P. E. C. T. find out what it means to me"  It is interesting to note that our own, dear Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy is a charter member.
1976 Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold. I see a little silhouett-o of a man.
2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence and reclaiming her maiden name.  But think of the children!



1901 Maurice Evans, maybe gay English actor 
1903 Eddie Acuff, maybe gay US actor 
1906 Josephine Baker, bisexual STLMO-born US cabaret/concert entertainer 
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Herschel Schwartz], bisexual US actor 
1926 Allen Ginsberg, gay US poet who saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical, naked drag themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix... 
1930 Marion Zimmer Bradley, gay US author
1931 Anthony Harvey, maybe gay English film editor/director 
1953 John Moulder-Brown, English actor 
1958 Scott Valentine, US actor 
1960 Jorge Juste, Spanish actor 
1964 James Purefoy, English actor 
1967 Anderson Cooper, probably gay US journalist/news anchor 
1970 Jamie Durie, Australian model/landscaper/TV host 
1982 Joshuah Welch, nasty gay US Big Brother housemate 
1986 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player/currently #2  



1991 Eva Le Gallienne, gay British/US actress/director (Resurrection), exits stage left
1996 Peter Glenville, gay US actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), <<le sigh>>
2001 Anthony Quinn [Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca], Mexican/US actor (Viva Zapata, Zorba the Greek, Lust for Life), walks in the clouds
2009 David Carradine, US actor (Kill Bill), makes his final move in a Thai hotel room
2010 Rue McClanahan, US actress (Maude), is truly golden.




Monday, May 14, 2012

May 14th

May 14 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 221 days remaining until the end of time.




1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia. His name is James, and I’d settle for going to town on him!
1878 The reason May is International Masturbation Month:  Vaseline is 1st sold.  (h/t mtndew)
1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in U.S., and you know your prick cousin will win.
1904 1st Olympics in US are held in St. Louis
1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1948 Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1973 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV
1991 World's Largest Burrito is created at 1,126 lbs.  Event is sponsored by the maker of Pepto-Bismol
1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader. Cute kid.



1868 Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician/gay rights activist 
1881 Julian Eltinge, maybe gay US actor/female impersonator/"Mr. Lillian Russell" 
1921 Richard Deacon, gay US actor/Mel Cooley 
1936 Bobby Darin, US singer/songwriter/actor 
1943 Jack Bruce, maybe gay Scottish musician/Cream 
1948 Walter Olkewicz, US actor 
1959 Patrick Bruel, French singer/actor/poker player 
1962 Danny Huston, US actor/director 
1966 Fabrice Morvan, maybe gay French faux singer/Milli Vanilli  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Morvan
1980 Justin Klosky, maybe gay obsessive-compulsive US actor 
1980 Hugo Southwell, English rugger/Dieux du Stade model 



1919 Henry J. Heinz, US businessman, pours out slowly
1940 Emma Goldman, bisexual US anarchist/feminist/author (Living My Life), complains and protests but to no avail
1970 Billie Burke, US actress/comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), clicks her heels together