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Sunday, September 09, 2012

September 9th

September 9 is the 253rd day of the year.  There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.




1492 Columbus' fleet sets sail west. I don’t have a good feeling about this. . .
1904 Mounted police 1st used in New York City. Ooooh!
1926 The US National Broadcasting Company is formed as the first publicly traded company for gays.
1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth is removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the log
1956 Elvis Presley comes on Ed Sullivan for the first time.  Ed lends his pocket square for him to "clean up."
1971 John Lennon releases splooge on his album. Imagine!
1971 Prisoners at Attica Penitentiary imagine being free and begin a four-day riot, which eternally frees 39 at the avenging angelic hands of state troopers retaking the prison
1978 Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army. The perv. . .
1983 Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player. Homeless, Vitas relies on the kindness of strangers.
1993 PLO recognizes state of Israel after getting new glasses
2009 Entire Beatles catalogue is digitally remastered and released. I’d pay my kids' inheritance to see the original digital mastering and releasing. . .



1585 Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac, maybe gay French clergyman, statesman  
1955 Edward Hibbert, gay US actor 
1962 Renato Gaucho [Portaluppi], Brazilian soccer player 
1965 Jesus Vazquez, gay Spanish actor 
1966 Adam Sandler, US comedian/actor 
1966 David Bennent, maybe gay Swiss actor/Dr Who 
1967 Akshay Kumar [Rajiv Hari Om-Bhatia], Indian actor  
1967 Franco Trentalance, Italian pornographic actor/Uncut 
1968 Alec Danes, gay US pornographic actor  
1971 Henry Thomas, US actor/ET 
1971 Chris Ryman, maybe gay English actor 
1974 Shane Crawford, Aussie Rules footie 
1975 Michael Bublé, Canadian musician  
1976 Luke Savage, gay US pornographic actor 
1979 Marcin Bosak, Polish actor 
1979 Santi Senso, Spanish actor 
1987 Angelo Rodrigues, Portugese actor/singer 



1087 William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, gets read his own personal domesday book story.  Here’s William the Next.
1976 Mao Tse-Tung [or Mao Zedong, if you prefer], Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), gets the little red book thrown at him
2008 Richard Monette, maybe gay Canadian actor and director (Oh Calcutta, Popeye Doyle), is just dancing in the dark.




1 comment:

sdt (a.k.a. stevil) said...

The David Bennett stuff is messed up. Bennett was around 12 when he was in The Tin Drum, so he is not the actor pictured as being in a scene from that movie. And it was David Tennant who was the best Dr. Who. This was a test wasn't it?