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| November 8 is the 313th day of the year. There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1519 In Mexico, 1st meeting of Montezuma and Hernando Cortez who wonders what the king is hiding under that very long loin cloth. |
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| 1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn by St. Elijah Craig of Bourbon, Kentucky |
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| 1895 Shocker: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays |
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| 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty allows Charles McLaughlin to display the full range of his homoerotic desire for Clark Gable |
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| 1939 Georg Elser fails to assassinate Hitler in München Burgerbraukeller by two minutes. He could’ve prevented the WWII. Coulda, shoulda, woulda just means didn’t. |
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| 1940 The Mark of Zorro is released with tasty lovers Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone |
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| 1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in Casablanca and go after the usual suspects |
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| 1957 Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock” poignantly portrays the cruel and barbaric conditions in America’s penal system |
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| 1966 Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, by becoming 1st African American elected to Senate since Reconstruction, gives Barbara Walters jungle fever. |
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| 1966 Actor Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California. No, really. |
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| 1974 Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappears after the children’s nanny is found murdered. Doug Henning is a person of interest in the case. |
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| 1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit. Yeah, right. My mom went into orbit almost every day until she discovered Valium, also known as "mother’s little helper." |
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| 1990 "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 496 performances, so does that mean it’s 36493 or 34936 given t=1. . .n and n=audience size + Kevin Bacon? |
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| 1996 Beautiful Thing is released and it certainly is |
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| 1847 Bram Stoker [Abraham Stoker], maybe bisexual English author |
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| 1935 Alain Delon, French actor |
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| 1958 Jeff Speakman, US actor/martial artist |
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| 1959 Chi Chi LaRue [Larry David Paciotti], gay US pornographic director |
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| 1960 [Rolf] Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor/Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) |
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| 1961 Leif Garrett [Narvik], US singer/actor |
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| 1964 Ted Matthews [Paul Matta], gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1965 Craig Chester, gay US actor/writer/director |
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| 1966 Gordon Ramsay, celebrity Scottish chef/host of Hell’s Kitchen |
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| 1969 Boris Terral, maybe gay French actor |
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| 1969 Gardo Versoza [Mennen Torres Polintan], maybe gay Filipino actor |
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| 1970 Rolf Peter Kahl, German actor/white boy dancer |
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| 1970 Tom Anderson, maybe gay US founder of MySpace |
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| 1972 Ben Hull, English actor |
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| 1982 Sam Sparro, gay Australian actor/singer |
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| 1983 Chance Stroot, US model |
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| 1985 Jack Osbourne, English reality television star/celebuspawn |
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| 1986 Jamie Roberts, Irish rugger |
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| 1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish theologian/philosopher (eponym for “dunce”), wises up |
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| 1983 James Hayden, maybe gay US actor (Once Upon a Time in America), goes cruising in an unfamiliar park |
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| 1998 Jean Marais, gay French actor (Les hommes nouveaux), is un homo nouveau |
