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.