September 28th

September 28 is the 272nd day of the year.  There are 94 days remaining until the end of the year.

351 Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius in first intergalactic warfare.

1066 William the Conqueror invades England

1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) which is better than John McCain’s 864th in a class of 899

1938 Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye" premieres in New York City

1961 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV

1975 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.

1994 "Ed Wood" premieres

2008 SpaceX launches the first ever buttplug-shaped spacecraft, the Falcon 1, into orbit.

2009 The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, rapes, kills, and wounds protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre. That fucker knows how to party!

1571 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, gay Italian painter 

1905 Max Schmeling, German world heavyweight boxing champ 

1938 Ben E King, maybe gay US singer/Stand by Me 

1942 Pierre Clémenti, French actor 

1946 Jeffrey Jones, gay US actor/convicted sex offender 

1972 Casper Andreas, gay Swedish actor/director 

1972 John Light, English actor 

1975 Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer 

1979 [Brandon] Bam Margera, US Jackass/skateboarder 

1891 Herman Melville, bisexual US writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), doesn’t bless Captain Vere as he sleeps with the fishes

1953 Edwin P Hubble, maybe gay US astronomer, designer of telescopes, discovers the way we were

1978 After the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lose 2 straight games at the beginning of the season, John Paul I [Albino Luciani], pope (1978), gets recalled

2004 Geoffrey Beene, gay US fashion designer, becomes unraveled.