September 7th

September 7 is the 251st day of the year.  There are 115 days remaining until the end of the year.

1652 Battle of Monte Cristo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat the English to the delicious sandwich

1892 Gentleman James Corbett (L) KOs John L. Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title. Who’d you rather. . .?

1895 The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played in England, starting the 1895-96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol, aka, Marquess of Queensberry Rules against Sodomy.

1916 Workmen's Compensation Act is passed by Congress.  Happily, today is the day I get compensated for my work!

1921 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held. The pageant becomes much more fabulous in later years.

1923 Interpol forms in Vienna to track down Canadians

1936 Boulder Dam, now Hoover Dam, begins operation

1953 Playboy Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but he is no Della Street.

1979 The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut. Needs more gay.

1981 Judge Wapner and People's Court premiere on TV

1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown

2005 First presidential election is held in Egypt for the sake of the emerging media industry ... not for government

2008 The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Here's Freddie's fanny that looks like it needs taking control of.

1923 Peter Lawford [Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen], English-US actor/Rat Packer/Kennedy in-law 

1937 John Phillip Law, US actor 

1954 Corbin Bernsen, US actor 

1956 Michael Feinstein, gay US musician, anthropologist, musical historian and archivist 

1956 Diane Warren, maybe gay US songwriter 

1957 Jermaine Stewart, gay US singer/AIDS victim 

1961 Jochen Horst, German actor 

1963 Easy-E [Eric Lynn Wright], sexually precocious US rapper/NWA/AIDS victim 

1969 Rudy Galindo, gay US figure skater 

1970 Tom Everett Scott, US actor 

1972 Robert Webb, English actor/comedian 

1978 Devon Sawa, maybe gay Canadian actor

1984 Brent Everett [Dustin Germaine], gay Canadian pornographic actor 

1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, maybe gay US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, finds the chapel of the hermits

1971 Spring Byington, gay US actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), meets angels in the outfield

1978 Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), discovers who’s next

1996 Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times in broad daylight on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match. The United States can later find Saddam Hussein in a hole in the ground halfway around the world, but has yet to find who shot Tupac. . .I’m just sayin’