October 16th

October 16 is the 290th day of the year.  There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year.

1859 John Brown leads raid on Harper's Fairy in West Virginia – and Harper is none too happy about his boyfriend enjoying it.

1869 Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, stokes the fantasies of size queens everywhere.

1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic at 46 Amboy Street, Brooklyn

1923 Disney company is founded

1934 Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March. If they had only stopped and asked for directions...

1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute

1978 Most eligible bachelor in Poland, Karol Wojtyla, is elected supreme pontiff, John Paul II

1981 Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy" premieres in New York City

1984 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Baboon heart is transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl–she already has a red butt

1987 "Baby Jessica" McClure is rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft. . .only equivalent to 65 days in Chilean miner time.

1993 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed from blast, 45 from indigestion. . .

1995 Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend)

2000 Mel Carnahan, Governor (MO-D), still beats John Aschroft for the US Senate after a fatal airplane crash

1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, scandalous gay English author 

1956 Jim Youngs, maybe gay US actor/John Savage’s brother 

1958 Tim Robbins, US actor 

1959 Gary Kemp, English actor/singer 

1961 Scott O’Hara, gay US pornographic actor 

1962 Flea [Michael Peter Balzary], Australian musician/Red Hot Chili Peppers 

1962 David “Shark” Fralick, maybe gay US actor 

1968 Randall Batinkoff, maybe gay US actor  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000871/

1970 Marco Rossi, gay US pornographic actor 

1972 Pablo Martin, Venezuelan actor 

1973 Philipp Hochmair, Austrian actor 

1976 Mateo Torres, gay Hungarian pornographic actor 

1977 John Mayer, US singer 

1977 Rav Wilding, English police officer/tv presenter 

1980 Jeremy Jackson [Dunn], US actor 

1981 Naím Thomas, maybe gay Spanish singer/actor 

1982 Frederic Michalak, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model

1984 Shayne Ward, English singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayne_Ward

1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), fakes being naked prey

1994 Raul Julia [Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay], actor (Addams Family), does not get a morning after

2010 Barbara Billingsley, US actress (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!), ain’t jive talking today.

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.