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Showing posts with label Patrick Swayze. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

September 14th

September 14 is the 258th day of the year.  There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year.




1814 Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1847 US Marines under General Scott enter the halls of Montezuma, and Montezuma gets his revenge
1954 Benjamin Britten's "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice, and enters the lexicon of the gay Kama Sutra
1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 but Jack Twist is Ennis' #1 .
1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1965 "F-Troop" premieres
1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV
1969 The US Selective Service selects September 14th as the First Draft Lottery Date. To this day, this is the only lottery I have ever "won."
1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan. Since I find Gunther von Hagen’s work disgusting, here are the only body worlds exhibit I’m interested in.



1914 [Jack Carlton] Clayton Moore, US actor/Lone Ranger 
1947 [Nigel John Dermot] Sam Neill, Kiwi actor 
1954 Michael Patrick King, gay US writer/producer/Sex & the City 
1959 Morten Harket, Norwegian singer /A-ha  
1960 Callum Keith Rennie, maybe gay English-Canadian actor 
1960 Anthony Addabbo, US actor 
1966 Michael J Peluso, maybe gay US actor/model 
1969 Francesco Antonioli, Italian soccer player 
1973 Andrew Lincoln [Clutterbuck], English actor 
1976 Rhett O'Hara, gay US pornographic actor 
1978 Ben Cohen, English rugby hunk/LGBT super ally 
1979 Ricardo Pereira, Portugese actor 
1982 [Hiroshige] Hiroki Narimiya, maybe gay Japanese actor/model 
1985 [Jojo] Tyron Perez, gay Filipino actor/suicide December 29, 2011  



1927 [Angela] Isadora Duncan, bisexual US dancer, regrets not wearing a sensible hat today.
2006 Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder/Mr. Universe, discovers a primitive love
2009 Patrick Swayze, US actor, dancer, and songwriter (Dirty Dancing, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar), uses up his three wishes.




Saturday, August 18, 2012

August 18th

August 18 is the 231st day of the year.  There are 135 days remaining until the end of the year.




1835 Last Potawatomie Indians leave Chicago for the ‘burbs
1872 1st mail-order catalog is issued by Aaron Montgomery Ward without a discreet section for men’s undergarments
1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1920 Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing suffrage for people who have sex.
1926 Weather map is televised for 1st time and some people have not changed the channel since
1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
1977 Steve Biko is arrested "with prejudice" at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. Uh-oh. How do you say "martyr" in Afrikaans?
1986 Crockett's Tavern and Whorehouse opens in Fort Wilderness
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment but warns of minimal but possible side effects
2005 A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the largest and most widespread power outage and orgy in history



1774 Meriwether Lewis, maybe gay US explorer/soldier/governor 
1906 Marcel Carné, maybe gay French director 
1941 Christopher Jones [William "Billy" Frank Jones], US actor 
1952 Patrick Swayze, US actor/dancer/songwriter 
1957 Denis Leary, US actor/comedian/writer/director 
1958 Reg E Cathey, maybe gay US actor 
1962 Brian Buzzini, maybe gay US model/actor (Playgirl's Man of the Year 1986)  
1966 Paul Carrigan [Manning Paul Tillman], gay US pornographic actor 
1969 Christian Slater, US actor 
1969 Edward Norton, US actor 
1975 Ricardo Tozzi, Brazilian actor 
1978 Wendell Ramos, Filipino actor/model 
1983 Mica Penniman, bisexual English singer 



1850 Honoré de Balzac, French Novelist, does not find this human comedy the least bit funny despite having a last name that sounds like "ball-sack"
1992 Christopher McCandless, maybe gay US non-survivalist, goes into the wild