November 18 is the 323rd day of the year. There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year.
1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head; son wets pants.
1776 Pointy head Hessian jaegers capture Ft Lee, NJ, a Mr. Richard Feder writes.
1820 Antarctica is discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer.
1852 State funeral for Duke of Wellington is over-produced thanks to an over-the-top gay designer.
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge is happily joined in gay marriage
1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft. He got enough of a draft from his porno days no doubt. We know he got blown a lot.
1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances. Continues as a popular website.
1966 Observing the Feast of St. Peter, US Roman Catholic bishops end rules against eating meat on Fridays so they can have dick everyday!
1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US, presumably (according to the National Lampoon) to market his new fashion invention.
1976 After 37 years of dictatorship, Spain's parliament establishes democracy with a king...and this is different how?
1978 Don’t drink the Kool-aid! In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand
1993 WWF boss Vince McMahon is charged with steroid distribution. He tells ’em to kiss his ass.
2003 In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
2004 The phallic Clinton Presidential Center is opened in Little Rock, Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs, 80 million documents, and miscellaneous cigar butts, condoms, and blue dresses. The Ho Gallery proves to be a popular attraction
2005 Chiang Mai Night Safari opens in Thailand to look at animals in the dark instead of cruising for sex. Those silly Thais!
1874 Clarence Day, gay US author (Life with Father)
1928 Mickey Mouse, US cartoon character (his birthday is celebrated today, due to release of Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928)
1927 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], maybe gay US singer/songwriter ("The Twist")
March 5 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 291 days remaining until the end of time.
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes. ¡Gracias, Paco!
1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus", a scientific treatise on circle jerking rocking your world, is placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures first pistol, .34-caliber "Texas" model. Colt models have improved over time, but they are still judged on their ability to shoot.
1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army with rank of sergeant
2004 "Starsky and Hutch" opens. Obviously, there are several missed opportunities which could've improved this weak movie.
1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, gay Italian poet/writer/director/murdered by a hustler
1625 James VI & I, king of Scots (1567-1625) and England (1603-25)/poet/author/has a Bible named after him, is led to the valley of the shadow of death
1770 Crispus Attucks, a slave, is first to take one for American independence during Boston Massacre
1953 Those lips, those eyes: Joseph Stalin, Soviet Leader, visits a warmer gulag a lot further south
1963 Patsy Cline, US country singer (Crazy), falls to pieces—literally
1974 Billy DeWolfe [William Andrew Jones], US actor (Doris Day Show, Good Morning World)/"confirmed bachelor", is meticulously groomed by the mortician
1980 Jay Silverheels [Harold J. Smith], Canadian First Nations actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), rides alone, kemosabe
2010 Richard Stapley (aka Richard Wyler), probably gay British-born US actor (The Three Musketeers), is target zero today.
