September 15th

September 15 is the 259th day of the year.  There are 107 days remaining until the end of the year.

1776 American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign hoping to mount Kip Noll.

1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.

1916 "Little Willie", 1st tank is used in war at Battle of Somme near Flors, France. Here's a tank with a little willie.

1928 Alexander Fleming, a notorious messy housekeeper, discovers penicillin on some stale rye bread

1949 "Lone Ranger", a horse opera about the tender love between a disgraced Texas lawman and his hunky Indian boyfriend, premieres on ABC-TV

1951 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances, but continues in large and small tearooms across America with a variety of amateur casts

1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres, and there is no public outrage that a gay man is raising a teen-aged girl.  The Mattachine Society takes this as proof that times are changing.

1982 1st issue of "USA Today", the Cliff's Notes of newspapers, is published by Gannett Co Inc

1986 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV and all those hawt hawt men

2008 Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. History.  It is expected that Lehman Brothers will resolve its bankruptcy and be renamed "Lamco."  I'm certain that is pronounced Lame-co.

1254 Marco Polo, maybe gay Venetian merchant/explorer 

1907 Jack Bailey, maybe gay US host of the daily quiz show "Queen for a Day'.  Oddly, "Queen for A Day" does not entail heterosexual men giving up the booty as an "experiment"

1918 {Julius] Nipsey Russell, maybe gay US comedian/poet 

1946 Tommy Lee Jones, US actor/slept with Al Gore

1960 Jack Gwaltney, US actor 

1968 Danny Nucci, Austrian-born US actor 

1968 Josh Rafter, Nigerian-born English model/Big Brother UK contestant 

1971 Josh Charles, maybe gay US actor 

1977 [Edward Thomas] Tom Hardy, English actor 

1977 Rene Haselbacher, Austrian cyclist  

1977 Cory Schneider, gay US actor/comedian (Queers of Comedy) 

1984 HRH Prince Henry of Wales, English Royal Marine 

1987 Christian Cooke, English actor 

1885 Train 1-- Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant, 0

1963 Four girls are martyred in 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama