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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




Thursday, October 18, 2012

October 18th

October 18 is the 292nd day of the year.  There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year.




1776 In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, an obviously witty gay customer orders a "cock tail"
1851 Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley Press of London. The sock only makes it look larger than it really is
1878 Edison makes electricity available for household usage though the shallower of us prefer propane
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1954 Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio. [$46.95 in 1954 would cost $370.48 in 2009]
1962 Dr. Watson (US), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1968 Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90 m (29' 2½") in the long jump at the Mexico City games, but still lands on his ass.
1991 "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater New York City



1804 King Mongkut of Siam [Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthramaha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua], the real King of the King and I (1851-1868) 
1926 Klaus Kinski [Nikolaus Günther Nakszynski], Polish actor 
1926 Chuck Berry, US (STLMO) musician 
1956 Martina Navratilova, gay Czech-born US tennis player 
1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme [Van Varenberg], Belgian action star 
1962 Vincent Spano, US actor 
1965 Curtis Stigers, maybe gay US musician 
1968 Michael Stich, German tennis player 
1969 Vince Gatton, gay US actor 
1972 Kurt Caceres [Heinzman], maybe gay US actor
1974 Marcus Iron, gay US pornographic actor 
1974 Robbie Savage, Welsh soccer player 
1977 Chris L. McKenna, maybe gay US actor 
1979 Alex Sirvent, Mexican actor 
1982 Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith], US singer 
1987 Zac Efron, maybe gay US actor  
1987 Sam Clark, Australian actor/singer 



1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, US actor (Bear), extends his appeal to necrophiliacs <le sigh>
1994 Cab Calloway, US Musician, hi-de-hos
2010 Yertward "Eight Finger Eddie" Mazmanian, US hippie, flips the bird.