September 19 is the 263rd day of the year. There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year. |
1900 Bad boy lovers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [Harry Longabaugh], commit their first robbery together. |
1934 Illegal alien, Richard “Bruno” Hauptmann, is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh III. |
1952 The US bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. |
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland. |
1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them. Love him. Not so crazy about her. |
1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. |
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music. |
Here’s what Frank thought. |
1986 US federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients. So what if it's slightly poisonous... |
1988 Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals, come out as gay, announce that he is HIV positive, and pose naked for Herb Ritts. |
1991 Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists. |
2006 The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. Why? It is a puzzlement. |
1927 William Hickey, gay US actor (Prizzi's Honor) |
1928 Adam West [William West Anderson], US actor/Batman |
1948 Jeremy Irons, English actor |
1954 Steve Parker, porn star |
1962 Bruno Todeschini, Swiss actor |
1967 Alexandr Karelin, Russian Olympic wrestler |
1967 Austin Black, gay top US pornographic actor (deceased) |
1973 Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, maybe gay Australian actor |
1972 Rick Drake, gay US pornographic actor |
1974 Sam Tyson, gay US pornographic actor |
1976 Carter Oosterhouse, US carpenter/model/recently married to quell the rumors of his sexuality |
1978 Ramin Karimloo, maybe gay Iranian-born Canadian actor |
1980 Dimitri Yachvili, Georgian-born French rugger/Dieux du Stade model |
1984 Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor |
1881 James A Garfield, 20th US President (1881)/2nd US President assassinated, didn’t actually expect to take one for the home team |
1995 Orville Redenbacher, US botanist and businessman, simply pops |
2002 William Rosenberg, US founder of Dunkin' Donuts, loses his handle on things |
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