October 3 is the 277th day of the year. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year.
1873 Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War. Of course, Captain Jack cannot die.
1899 J. S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner. Fun and games ensue.
1934 Jockey introduces tighty-whities.
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV. Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1957 Allen Ginsberg's “Howl and Other Poems” is ruled not obscene.
1964 First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours. It sounded more interesting in print...
1995 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
2003 Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
2008 The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush–not presidential candidate Barack Obama. Let’s keep the record straight -- er, accurate!
1283 Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), becomes the first person in the village to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
1998 Roddy McDowell, gay English actor/photographer, Planet of the Apes, gains the keys to the kingdom
BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: In what year was Gandhi awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
BONUS TRIVIA ANSWER: Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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
