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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

March 21st

March 21 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 275 days remaining until the end of time.




1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever
1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds. . .and, man oh man, was he pissed!
1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is closed after Clint escapes
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
1980 SPOILER ALERT!!! On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot. Not fatally as it turns out.
1994 Dudley Moore is arrested for hitting girlfriend



1922 Russ Meyer, breast-fixated heterosexual US director/producer/"King of the Nudies" 
1930 James Coco, gay US actor 
1944 Timothy Dalton, English actor/James Bond #4/1st baby daddy of Mel Gibson's baby mama 
1952 Christophe Malavoy, French actor 
1958 Gary Oldman, English actor 
1962 Rosie O’Donnell, gay US comedienne/actress/TV host/producer
1962 Matthew Broderick, US actor 
1964 Austin Masters, US porn star 
1968 Jaye Davidson, gay US-UK actor/fashion designer 
1975 Justin Pierce, US-UK actor/skater 
1978 Kevin Federline, US dancer/rapper/model/model father/Celeb Fit club contestant 
1979 Alex Sibley, English model/UK Big Brother 3 contestant 



1916 Cole Younger, US outlaw, won’t get older
1974 Candy Darling [James Slattery], gay US female impersonator, takes a walk on the wild side
1985 Sir Michael Redgrave, bisexual English actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips, Mr. Arkadin), lets the chips fall where they may, especially since yesterday was his birthday.
1987 Dean Paul "Dino" Martin, US singer/actor (Billy-Misfits of Science)/US Air Force pilot, is lost in space
1991 Leo Fender, US inventor (Fender guitar), hits a wrong chord
1994 Dack Rambo, gay US actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), succumbs to AIDS




Sunday, February 19, 2012

February 19th

February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 306 days remaining until the end of time.




1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested–again–in Alabama for treason; is later found innocent.  Who is his lawyer?!?!?
1906 WK Kellogg and Charles Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company to market Dr. JK Kellogg’s health food invention. Matthew Broderick’s buns were already healthy.
1913 Suffragette bomb destroys Lloyd George’s home.  That’s Marie Lloyd (no relation) on the left in the lip lock.
1919 Pan-African Congress is organized in Paris by W. E. B. Du Bois.  Not many Africans, though.
1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days; Allies award medals to the crocs.
2001 DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME:  A 28-year-old demolition worker attempted to commit suicide by washing down nitroglycerine pills with vodka. After swallowing the pills, he tried to explode the nitroglycerine by repeatedly ramming himself into a wall. He was treated for bruises and released from the hospital... with counseling
1985 Mickey Mouse is welcomed in China, but nobody writes an opera about it. . .
1987 First anti-smoking ad airs on TV featuring Yul Brynner.  I spy something with my lower eye I'd like to smoke. . .



1924 Lee Marvin, US actor
1943 Lou Christie [Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco], US singer
1948 Pim Fortuyn [Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn], ultra-conservative gay Dutch politician
1953 Toon Agterberg, Dutch actor
1955 David Murray, US saxophonist
1955 Jeff Daniels, US actor/playwright
1956 Ray Winstone, English actor
1960 Prince Andrew, Duke of York
1963 Seal [Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel], singer/songwriter/affed Mr. Klum
1967 Mateus Carrieri, Brazilian actor



1951 Andre Gide, gay French novelist (Nobel laureate), follows his own bent.
1994 Derek Jarman, English actor and director (Tempest, Sebastiane), succumbs to AIDS at 52
2010 Jamie Gillis, US pornographic film actor, stays stiff longer than 4 hours.