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Friday, November 23, 2012

November 23rd

November 23  is the 328th day of the year.  There are 38 days remaining until the end of the year.


1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan; begins pledge drive for Touchdown Jesus mosaic.
1937 Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" premieres in New York City
1942 Poon Lim sets adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed
1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series, debuts in England
1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1993 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 216 performances
1995 Grant Morrison asks readers of his comic book series The Invisibles to participate in a worldwide "wank-off" to give power to a sigil intended to keep the series in circulation.
2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country. Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf will share the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
2007 MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. Although there are no fatalities, it’s pretty clear that anything named Microsoft will crash sooner or later.



1859 Billy the Kid [William H. Bonney [McCarty]], maybe gay US outlaw 
1892 Erté [Romain de Tirtoff], bisexual Russian-born French artist/designer 
1941 Franco Nero [Francesco Sparanero], bisexual Italian actor 
1948 Bruce Vilanch, gay US comedy writer/actor 
1959 Maxwell Caulfield, English actor 
1966 Vincent Cassel [Crochon], French actor 
1970 Oded Fehr, Israeli actor 
1970 Christoph Mory, German actor 
1976 Page Kennedy, maybe gay US actor 
1978 Kayvan Novak, Iranian-English actor 
1981 Alex Barahona, Spanish actor 
1983 Gaston Dalmau, maybe gay Argentine actor/singer 



1991 Klaus Kinski [Nikolaus Günther Nakszynski], German actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), loses his venom




Monday, May 28, 2012

May 28th

May 28 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 207 days remaining until the end of time.




585BCE A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1664 Alleged 1st Baptist Church organizes in Boston
1851 Sojourner Truth addresses Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
1863 1st black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1892 San Franciscan John Muir forms the Sierra Club for conservation of nature
1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1952 Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. I’ve always known that geography was not a strong point of mine, but this is ridiculous!
1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) of the Orient Express after 78 years
1964 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) forms
1974 1st Daytime Emmy Award presentation: Susan Lucci loses for the 1st time
1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German sportpilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR. in Red Square
2003 The Right Reverend Peter Hollingworth, Governor-General of Australia, resignS his office as a result of criticism about his handling of a diddling affair years earlier.



1888 Jim Thorpe/Wa-Tho-Huk (Bright Path), American pentathlete, decathlete, football, baseball and basketball player 
1912 Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate, his 1981 autobiography revealed his homosexuality 
1934 Dionne Quintuplets, famous Canadians:
    Yvonne Édouilda Marie, Annette Lillianne Marie,
    Cécile Marie Émilda, Émilie Marie Jeanne, Marie Reine Alma
1944 Billy Vera, maybe gay US singer/Billy Vera & the Beaters 
1961 Roland Gift, maybe gay English singer/Fine Young Cannibals 
1963 Matt Gunther, gay US pornographic actor 
1965 Alon Abutbul, Israeli actor 
1967 Nick Manning, US model/heterosexual pornographic actor/director known for copious ejaculations
1967 Diogo Infante, maybe gay Portugese actor 
1967 Rick Hammersmith, gay Canadian pornographic actor 
1968 Kylie Minogue, Australian singer/songwriter/actress/entertainer/gay icon 
1969 Justin Kirk, maybe gay US actor 
1970 Alex LeMonde, gay Canadian pornographic actor/model 
1974 Romain Duris, French model/actor 
1976 Alexei Nemov, Russian Olympic Gymnast 
1977 Manuel Torres, gay US pornographic actor/model 
1979 Jesse Bradford, US actor 
1979 Mike Branson, gay US pornographic actor/electrical engineer  
1980 Mark Feehily, gay Irish boybander/singer/Westlife  
1983 Toby Hemingway, English actor 
1985 Pedro José Pallares, Colombian model/actor 



1843 Noah Webster, US lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), has a defining moment
1971 Audie Murphy, US war hero/actor (To Hell and Back), goes to heaven and stays
 1972 Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Emperor of India (1936), rejects another crown
1975 Eric Emerson, US Warholian entertainer (Lonesome Cowboys), feels the heat
1987 Charles Ludlam, gay US playwright/director/actor (Big Easy), succumbs to AIDS at 44
2010 Gary Coleman, US actor, receives a diff’rent stroke.
2011 Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), swings and misses