September 4th

September 4 is the 248th day of the year.  There are 118 days remaining until the end of the year.

476 Romulus Augustus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy, thus ending the Western Romulan Empire.

1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war.

1894 In NYC, 12,000 tailors go on strike protesting sweat shops which makes for an interesting Fashion Week.  

1949 The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. He is just so good that the troglodytes can’t handle it. . .

1950 First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. It should be noted that Private Bailey has never gone to war. . . Bonus Trivia Question:  Who is Beetle's sister?

1954 Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania. I did the math for you; he weighed 116 pounds.

1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 heavily armed, militant, terrorist, crypto-anarcho, drug-smuggling black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. That commie-loving President Eisenhower nationalizes the Arkansas National Guard.

1957 Ford Motor Company introduces Edsel, and still doesn’t ask for a bail-out!

1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz <le sigh> becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals unnecessarily since he was already every gay boy's right hand (or left) fantasy

1991 Panel of 8 baseball experts (none from Kansas City, btw) vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record because he dared to top Babe Ruth's season homerun record

1991 "Most Happy Fella" opens at New York State Theater New York City, but it doesn't work despite the free samples that are offered on tv to the first 100 callers

1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.  Why haven't these boys won a Nobel Prize?!?

1896 Antonin Artaud, gay French actor/playwright 

1905 Mary Renault (Eileen Mary Challans), gay English novelist.  She wrote a number of historical novels, all with gay male themes. noted works include "The King Must Die", "The Persian Boy", and "Fire From Heaven". 

1960 Damon Wayans, US comedian/actor/father 

1968 Mike Piazza, maybe gay US "Not Gay" baseball player 

1968 Phill Lewis, maybe gay US actor 

1969 Noah Taylor, English actor 

1971 Rick McNair, US Olympic water polo 

1972 Carlos Ponce, US actor/singer from Puerto Rico

1973 Andersen Gabrych, gay US actor/comic book writer 

1975 Kai Owen [Matthew Mark Stevens], Welsh actor/Rhys on Torchwood 

1977 Andrew Levitas, maybe gay actor/Renaissance man 

1975 Mark Ronson, English musician/DJ/music producer  Bonus Trivia Question:  What famous gay person is pulling down Mark's pants?

1978 Wes Bentley, US actor 

1978 Borys Szyc [Borys Michalak], Polish actor

1981 Pierre Chatagny, maybe gay Swiss model/actor 

1982 Lorenzo Balducci, gay Italian actor 

1991 Thomas Tryon, US actor (Cardinal)/writer (The Other), does not survive his longest day

1993 Herve Villechaize, French actor (Fantasy Island), despairs over not getting a date

2001 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf [Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.], US radio personality, has another reason to be angry for all the good it’ll do.

2006 Steve Irwin, Australian scientist/zoologist, wrestles an angel instead of a crocodile