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Sunday, November 25, 2012

November 25th

November 25  is the 330th day of the year.  There are 36 days remaining until the end of the year.




1817 1st sword swallower in U.S. performs in New York City. He is overwhelmingly popular on his days off.
1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1867 Cutie-patooty Swede, Alfred Nobel, patents dynamite
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy. Enjoy it while you got it.
1920 Gimbel's of Philadelphia sponsors 1st Thanksgiving Parade
1940 Woody Woodpecker, an obviously penis-obsessed gay bird, debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1947 Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" [ Alvah Bessie, screenwriter; Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director; Lester Cole, screenwriter; Edward Dmytryk, director; Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter; John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; Albert Maltz, screenwriter; Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter; Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter; Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter] are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. They didn’t enjoy being blackballed as much as this guy.
1959 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 460 performances...with a few more times on the mattress, it might have had more performances
1963 John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, and eternal flames become a fad among the fortunate few
1979 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 53 performances when it is revealed that Enzyte really doesn’t work as promised
1986 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office in her prodigious cleavage which, ironically, is how she got the job in the first place
2010 A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified in Thailand.  To hell with PETA and Greenpeace.  I'm glad the mofo is extinct!



1870 [Bernard Francis] Solanus Casey, US Capuchin priest declared venerable/candidate for beatification/imagine it–a Blessed Sunny Asshole 
1869 Virgil Thomson, influential gay US composer 
1914 Joe DiMaggio, US baseball center fielder (New York Yankees)/married Marilyn Monroe 
1920 Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-US actor/Mr. Rourke/KHAAANNN!!!/sexy mofo 
1955 Bruno Tonioli, gay Italian-born English dancer/Dancing With The Stars judge 
1956 Steve Rambo, gay US pornographic actor   
1960 John F. Kennedy, Jr., long rumored to be gay US Presidential spawn/lawyer/journalist/publisher 
1961 Mattias Freihof, gay German actor/rimmer 
1962 Lance [David Alan Reis], gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim 
1965 [Stephen] Dougray Scott, US actor 
1974 Giampaolo Morelli, Italian actor 
1974 Hakan Serbes, heterosexual German pornographic actor 
1984 Gaspard Ulliel, French actor/young Hannibal 



1973 Laurence Harvey [Laruschka Mischa Skikne], bisexual English actor (Of Human Bondage), is released from human bondage
2005 George Best, Northern Irish footballer too pretty not to have been photographed naked, gets kicked out of bounds




Monday, July 16, 2012

July 16th

July 16 is the 198th day of the year.  There are 168 days remaining until the end of the year.
622 Mohammed flees from Mecca to Medina in the Hejira.  A fatwa is issued against Joni Mitchell for singing about it.
1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading), but birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated Mormons do it.
1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in the Oklahoma capital, Oklahoma City.
1941 Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that is an enduring MLB record.
1945 The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1951 "Catcher in the Rye," a novel about teenaged homosexual angst and frustration, by J. D. Salinger is published
1955 Disneyland park opens in Anaheim
1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus held under a canvas tent, but boys having fun in tents proves hard to suppress.  Isn't that right, Jack and Ennis?
1993 The Slackware operating system is first released, and a generation of slackers is born.
2004 Millenium Park in Chicago opens with an amazing abstract sculpture of testicles.
1872 Roald Amundsen, maybe gay Norse explorer 
1888 Percy Kilbride, maybe gay US actor (Pa Kettle) 
1907 Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Katherine Stevens], maybe gay US actress 
1956 Tony Kushner, gay US playwright (Angels in America) 
1962 Mathias Herrmann, German actor 
1964 Peter Dobson, US actor 
1964 Kevin Levrone, Italian/US body-builder/actor 
1967 Will Ferrell, US comedian/actor 
1971 Corey Feldman, US actor 
1971 Ed Kowalczyk, US musician (Live) 
1974 Chris Pontius, US jackass 
1978 Brian Bianchini, maybe gay US model 
1994 Mark Indelicato, US actor/Ugly Betty/Justin's coming-out story was one of the best things on TV that year 
1982 Patrick Dewaere, French actor (Catherine and Co), has a coup de tète
1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., US publisher/philanthropist (George), shaves his beard
2005 Crown Prince Yi Gu of Korea runs down his own leg