September 29th

September 29 is the 273rd day of the year.  There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

480BCE Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.

1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.

1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)

1954 "A Star Is Born" makes its world premiere in Hollywood.

1959 "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV, but the love of a friend with benefits counts more...

1960 "My Three Sons" starring Don Grady as Robbie, debuts on ABC-TV

1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, goes ape shit crazy at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts ... Small shoe=small feet=?

1963 "Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV

1966 The Chevy Camaro is introduced (model year 1967) and becomes a status symbol in trailer parks across America.

1976 Boy George expelled from school for a variety of reasons, but officially for wearing stiletto heels.

1982 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide permanently relieve minor aches and pains for 7 people in Chicago

1982 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV

1985 "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV

1986 "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS

1991 "My Own Private Idaho" premieres

2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.

1905 Ted de Corsia, gay US actor 

1942 Ian McShane, English actor 

1948 Mark Farner, US musician/Grand Funk Railroad 

1957 Andrew “Dice” Clay [Silverstein], US comic/actor 

1961 Tom Sizemore, US actor 

1974 Alexis Cruz, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian soccer player 

1977 Won Bin, Korean model/singer 

1980 Zachary Levi [Pugh], maybe gay US actor/Chuck 

1989 Danny Noriega, gay US American Idol contestant 

1970 Edward Everett Horton, gay US actor, finds his fairy tale life fractured

1973 Wystan Hugh Auden, gay English-born US poet, goes forth on the frontier.

2010 Tony Curtis, bisexual US actor (Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, Spartacus), plays it to the bone.