September 30 is the 274th day of the year. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe, who leaves out the pertinent detail of Friday’s pert buns)
1791 Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna. Here is David Copperfield holding his magic flute case.
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. With less alcohol and more steroids, he could've hit 100.
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), is commissioned by the Navy to take out New York City
1954 "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 483 performances
1960 Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show, and promises we will have a gay old time — but they were exaggerating
1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabell finally talks, "Goodbye, Kids"
1968 Supremes release "Love Child" which should be the theme song for Maury Povich's show
1994 Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service. "Tube station?" I love local colloquialisms...
1998 Scott Caan and his companion, Ross Porterfield, are arrested for assault after a fight with two other men in a gay bar in West Hollywood. This is not to imply that Mr. Caan and Mr. Porterfield are either gay and/or fucking each other’s brains out.
2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
1630 John Billington, English Mayflower Compact signatory/murderer, is left hanging as 1st person of European ancestry to be executed in America
1955 James Dean will never come back to the five and dime.
2010 Stephen J. Cannell, latent homosexual (?) prolific US TV producer and writer (The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street), meets a real wiseguy.
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