September 11, 2012

September 11 is the 255th day of the year.  There are 111 days remaining until the end of the year.

1226 The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

1839 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)

1857 The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormonss and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1858 First ascent of Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps.  Here is Dom Fumusa, the third highest billed star in Take Me Out.

1930 Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks, meat and oozing cheese 2 miles

1941 Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accuses the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.  Cf: Clint Eastwood’s empty chair speech.

1941 Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.

1970 The Ford Pinto is introduced. Despite its explosive reputation for combustability, the Pinto was not used in the first attack on the New York World Trade Center in 1993.

1985 Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit but still needs to buy a ticket to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

2001 19 Arab extremist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. The mastermind, Osama bin Laden, is now somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.

1885 [David Herbert] DH Lawrence, bisexual English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter 

1928 Earl Holliman, maybe gay US actor/Police Woman

1935 Gerome Ragni, gay US playwright (Hair) 

1962 [Christina] Kristy McNichol, gay US actress/mental healthcare advocate

1963 Andrew Jackson, maybe gay Canadian actor 

1964 Victor Wooten, maybe gay US bassist 

1965 Moby [Richard Melville Hall], US musician  

1967 Arpad Miklos, bisexual Hungarian pornographic actor 

1968 Blade Thompson, bisexual US pornographic actor 

1970 Andrea Boccaletti, maybe gay US model/actor 

1971 Johnny Vegas [Michael Joseph Pennington], English comedian  

1974 Mike Begovich, maybe gay US actor 

1974 Wade Peters, gay US pornographic actor 

1977 Mars Saibert, maybe gay German actor/singer 

1981 Lachlan Nieboer, maybe gay English actor/Torchwood, Downton Abbey 

1981 Dylan Klebold, fucked-up US high school student/mass murderer 

2001 Mark Bingham, gay US rugby playing passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 who thwarts the efforts of Al Qaida hijackers, earns 72 virgin Muslim cubs and otters in heaven