September 26th

September 26 is the 270th day of the year.  There are 96 days remaining until the end of the year.

1831 Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator" premieres in New York City to rave but scandalous reviews

1887 Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone

1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)  They don’t march in cool formations, but jeepers, they are hawt!

1904 George Bernard Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband" premieres in New York City. Hmmmm.

1904 Earl Grey teabags Canada as Governor-General

1957 Bernstein and Sondheim's musical, "West Side Story," premieres at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City.  Ooh, Bernardo...

1962 TV comedy series, "Beverly Hillbillies," premieres on CBS

1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album

1986 Pam is disappointed that Bobby’s death is only a dream.

1988 Canada's Ben Johnson is stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test, but not his track suit, dammit!

2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

1898 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershovitz], gay US songwriter with brother Ira 

1914 [François] Jack LaLanne, US fitness guru

1924 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor 

1947 Graham Faulkner, English actor 

1955 [Hans-Jürgen] Richy Müller, German actor 

1968 Orlando Fundichely, Cuban actor 

1981 John Kenney, US reality show participant/Survivor: Vanuatu 

1962 Patrick Bristow, gay US actor/comedian 

1967 David Milbern, US actor 

1969 Dan Stulbach, Brazilian actor 

1975 Jake Paltrow, maybe gay US director/Yes. Of those Paltrows 

1976 Michael Ballack, German soccer player 

1979 Mark Famiglietti, maybe gay US actor 

1979 Eric Dearborn, maybe gay US model/actor 

1982 Ludovico Fremont, Italian actor 

1984 Thore Schölermann, German actor/Christian-Verbotene Liebe  

1937 Bessie Smith, bisexual US singer, is more red than blue after this car crash

1991 Miles Davis, US musician, blows

2000 Richard Mulligan, US actor (Soap, Empty Nest), snaps and thinks he’s invisible