November 12 is the 317th day of the year. There are 49 days remaining until the end of the year.
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act. He also designed garment that bears his name, but he looks a lot better without it.
1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected 1st baseball commissioner
1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey, but not Holland, opens
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
1939 Jews in Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow star of David
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, is closed in favor of greater sporting opportunities.
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II"
1968 US Supreme Court declares that stupid Arkansans are unconstitutional (even though Kansas is part of their state’s name) and overturns law banning teaching evolution in public schools
1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V. Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no 6 year old boy on board.
1990 Akihito becomes 125th Japanese Emperor despite disapproval from certain quarters.
1998 Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler. Apples and sour grapes?
2011 Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis, government corruption and sex.
1934 Charles Manson, bisexual US cult leader/conspirator/singer-songwriter
May 10 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 225 days remaining until the end of time.
1497 Old Muffin-top Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1752 Benjamin Franklin 1st tests the lightning rod
1924 J. Edgar Hoover, who is pretty enough to be gay, is appointed head[case] of US Federal Bureau of Investigation
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater New York City after 69 performances. Indeed.
1954 Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts
1986 Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, marries Heather Locklear. And, how’d that work out?
1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists who have smaller dicks than his.
1994 Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1996 "Twister" premieres although I seem to remember it from a much earlier date
2005 A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from US President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. Good pitchers are such a rare commodity these days.
1899 Fred Astaire, US actor/singer/dancer/choreographer
1940 Daisuke Inoue, maybe gay (or just happy) Japanese inventor of Karaoke machine
1957 Sid Vicious [John Beverley], English musician (Sex Pistols)/actor
1958 Rick Santorum, gay-obsessed former US Senator from PA/Presidential aspirant
1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), stops rebelling eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War.
1994 John Wayne Gacy, US clown/mass murderer, unfortunately, does not get the shock of his life that he so richly deserves
2000 André "Dédé" Fortin, maybe gay Quebeçois singer and songwriter (Les Colocs), travers les brumes
