Time Will Tell: Malcolm McDowell

Friday, August 31, 2012

August 31st

August 31 is the 244th day of the year. There are 122 days remaining until the end of the year.

1535 Pope Paul II excommunicates King Henry VIII

1803 New lovers Meri Lewis and Billy Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 o clock in the morning.

1897 Thomas Edison patents his movie camera (Kinetograph). 25¢ peep shows start the following week.

1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris

1948 Actor Robert Mitchum is arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He will later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and be sentenced to 60 days in prison.

1955 1st microwave TV station begins operations in what was Lufkin, Texas

2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people. Who's bright idea was it to drive cattle through downtown Baghdad?

2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream (also known as Fellatio Wait) is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

12 Gaius Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), omnisexual bat-shit crazy Roman emperor and god http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula

1935 [Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver, US author/Black Panther leader/serial rapist/Mormon

1940 Jack Thompson [John Hadley Payne], Australian actor

1949 Richard Gere, US actor

1955 Edwin Moses, US Olympic gold medal hurdler

1967 Jonathan Cake, English actor

1969 Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor

1969 Andrew Cunanan, gay US spree killer/killed Gianni Versace

1970 Zack Ward, maybe gay Canadian actor

1977 Del Marquis [Derek Gruen], gay US guitarist/Scissor Sisters

1978 Mike Erwin, maybe gay US actor

1981 Joe Swanberg, US filmmaker/actor

1862 Ignaz Assmayer, maybe gay Austrian composer/organ master, gets topped

1997 Dodi Al-Fayed [Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed], Egyptian film producer (F/X), has his own chariots of fire moment with. . .

1997 HRH Diana, Princess of Wales, divorced English royal, becomes the Queen of Hearts

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

June 13th

June 13 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 191 days remaining until the end of time.

1898 Yukon Territory is formed with Dawson as its capital.

1920 Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post

1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins for Charlie Osborne after a hog he was slaughtering fell on him. He hiccups over 435 million times before it stops after 68 years in 1990. He died on May 1, 1991.

1927 Lindbergh gets a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in NYC

1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini calls the German dictator "his silly little monkey".

1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California

1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1981 At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II which is what Prince Phillip has been doing for several years now

1983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System. I wonder how long the experts argued about dick size.

1991 A spectator is killed by lightning at U.S. Open Golf tournament. He probably had a winning lottery ticket in his pocket, too.

2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch. If the dick don’t fit. . .