September 20th

September 20 is the 264th day of the year.  There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year.

622 Prophet Mohammed and his main squeeze Abu Bakr arrive in Jathrib (Medina). [I feel a fatwa coming on!]

1633 Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.

1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

1962 James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi. If they let him in, the next thing you know is they’ll want to be President.

1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

1984 "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV

1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.. And how does that work out?

2011 Ask.  Tell.  Machts nicht.  Your ass still has to serve in the US military.

1902 [Florence Margaret] Stevie Smith, maybe gay English poet and novelist 

1949 Anthony John Denison [Sarrero], US actor

1951 Guy Lafleur, legendary Canadian hockey player 

1956 Gary Cole, US actor 

1957 Michael Hurst, English actor/writer/director 

1958 Mike Roberts, gay US pornographic actor 

1960 Peter Phelps, Australian actor 

1961 Bo Dixon, gay US pornographic actor  

1963 Robert LaSardo, maybe gay US actor 

1965 Robert Rusler, gay US actor 

1967 Kristen Johnson, maybe gay US actress 

1968 Joe Finfera, maybe gay US model/actor 

1968 Mitch Mullany, US comedian/actor 

1969 Julio Mannino, maybe gay Mexican actor 

1972 Henning Baum, German actor 

1973 Brad Beyer, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Lane Fuller, gay US pornographic actor 

1977 Zohar Liba, maybe gay Israeli actor/model 

1981 Feliciano Lopez, Spanish tennis player 

1981 Andre Bankoff, Brazilian model/actor 

1984 Brian Joubert, not gay French figure skater 

1863 Jacob Grimm, maybe gay German philologist, jurist and mythologist, does not live happily ever after

1959 Olin Howlin [Howland], maybe gay US actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), is a cockeyed wonder

2003 Gordon Mitchell [Charles Allen Pendleton], maybe gay US bodybuilder/actor, is called Trinity