September 8th

September 8 is the 252nd day of the year.  There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year.

1504 Michelangelo's David is unveiled to Florence who immediately points out the obvious inaccuracy.  You might be Republican if you can't spot it. . .

1713 Pope Clemens XI publishes decree "Unigenitus" which I think is a rule about having one testicle. My Latin isn’t very good.

1868 New York Athletic Club forms. The t-shirt industry cranks up later.

1892 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

1930 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape

1943 General Eisenhower announces unconditional surrender of Italy in WWII

1952 Ernest Hemmingway's illustrated autobiography, "The Old Man and Sea", is published

1956 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks.  Day-oh-umm, Harry!

1966 The gay soap opera, Star Trek, premieres on NBC-TV

1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709) without the use of steroids.

1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.  I hazard to guess that it had to be a very good blow job since Nixon was never indicted for any crime.

1975 US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual." He is later given a general discharge

1986 Surprisingly, Westinghouse sells Muzak instead of being forced to give it away for free

1994 Last US, British and French troops leave West Berlin

1925 [Richard] Peter Sellers, English actor/Inspector Clouseau 

1954 Pascal Greggory, French actor 

1954 Mark Lindsay Chapman, English actor 

1954 Clayton Norcross, US actor 

1954 Mark Foley, disgraced and disgraceful gay Florida congressman/page turner 

1962 Thomas Kretschmann, German actor 

1964 Mitchell Whitfield, maybe gay US actor 

1968 Cutter West, gay US pornographic actor 

1971 David Arquette, US actor now Cox-less but not like his brother/sister 

1972 Martin Freeman, English actor 

1972 Coby Archa, gay US hairdresser/Survivor contestant 

1977 Mark Kenneth Woods, gay Canadian actor/entertainer 

1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas [Jonathan Taylor Weiss], maybe gay US actor 

1981 Alberto Guzman, maybe gay Spanish model 

1981 Morten Gamst Pedersen, maybe gay Norse soccer player/singer 

1991 Brad Davis, gay US actor (Midnight Express, Querelle), succumbs to AIDS at 41

1999 Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin], blind US composer/musician/poet/inventor, misses out on squeezing Gidget.

2006 Frank Middlemass, probably gay English actor (Barry Lyndon, Emmerdale Farm), will be remembered fondly as time goes by.