September 2nd

September 2 is the 246th day of the year.  There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year.

31BCE Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under kinky Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

1752 Last Julian calendar day in U.S. and England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th). Here is a Julian [Sands] who doesn’t seem too upset about the prospect

1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them. Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong. I’m just sayin’. . .

1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. I wonder if he was thinking about the men’s room at the airport like this fellow Republican.

1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas which is a pretty long way to get rid of some shit if you ask me.

1946 Nehru forms government in India of collar-less jackets and very tight trousers. Especially the very tight trousers.

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well). He could too with a strategically concealed rolled-up sock. . .  [cf:  his son, Sean, whose birthday was yesterday.]

1982 Poor dear Rolling Stone Keith Richards' house burns down leaving him without even the clothes on his back. Bless his heart.

1946 Billy Preston, gay US musician/5th Beatle 

1948 Terry Bradshaw, US football player/actor/commentator 

1951 Mark Harmon, US actor/Leroy Jethro Gibbs  

1958 Jerry Augustyniak, maybe gay US drummer/10,000 Maniacs 

1964 Keanu Reeves, US actor 

1966 Tuc Watkins [Charles Curtis Watkins III], maybe gay US actor from STLMO/gay on Wisteria Lane 

1966 Jon Galt, gay US pornographic actor 

1968 Vincent De Paul, gay US actor 

1972 Casey Williams, gay US pornographic actor

1973 Andy Davoli, maybe gay US actor 

1974 Dan Southworth, gay US actor/martial artist 

1976 Michael Lombardi, US actor 

2001 As for you, Troy Donahue, US actor (A Summer Place), I know what you wanna do

2005 Bob Denver, US actor (Maynard G. Krebs, Gilligan), gets out of wooooo-rk

2006 Bob Mathias, maybe gay US gold medal decathlete/congressman (ironically defeated by a guy named Krebs), didn’t eat his Wheaties today

2006 Willi Ninja [William Roscoe Leake], gay US dancer and choreographer, succumbs to AIDS at 45.