September 27th

September 27 is the 271st day of the year.  There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year.

1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is founded by Ignatius Loyola to prey on little boys — allegedly.

 

1912 W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues," the 1st blues song

1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens in Albion, New York

1954 The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC

1964 Warren Commission is released and conveniently finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

1988 Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin is not Christ's burial cloth after scientist with cold blows his nose on it.

1998 The Google is founded.

2008 CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7. Hot boy in cold space!

1932 Roger C. Carmel, gay US actor/forever Harcourt Fenton Mudd 

1945 Roger Herren, US actor/Myra Breckenridge 

1947 Denis Lawson, Scottish actor/director/Ewan MacGregor’s uncle 

1948 [Adolph] A Martinez, US actor 

1958 Shaun Cassidy, US actor/director/producer 

1960 Jean-Marc Barr, French-US actor/director 

1965 Roschdy Zem, maybe gay French actor/director/writer 

1968 [William] Patrick Muldoon, maybe gay US actor/model 

1975 Tim Campbell, gay Australian actor 

1976 Francesco Totti, Italian soccer player 

1976 Sander Lantinga, Dutch DJ who streaked Wimbledon 

1980 Kristopher Turner, maybe gay Canadian actor 

1984 Giulio Berruti, Italian actor 

1590 Poor Santa drag queen, Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history and becoming the inspiration for the Pope John Paul I show.

2000 Frank Wills, maybe gay US security guard who reported that the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, is locked down

2009 Ivan Dykhovichnyy, maybe gay Russian film director/screenwriter, vdokh, vydokh, vodka.  Chug!