September 25 is the 269th day of the year. There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year.
1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa is 1st European to see Pacific Ocean and, man oh man, is it cold
1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City
1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I — just in time for the sequel
1955 The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded only to be surpassed by the Air Jordan.
1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game and celebrates with his buddies
1965 Children find trunk in Amsterdam canal expecting a treasure, find a corpse instead. Judge Crater, is that you?
1996 The last of the Magdalene Asylums for Wayward Women closes in Ireland.
2002 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2008 China shoots off the spacecraft Shenzhou 7 with live audience. Messy!
March 27 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 269 days remaining until the end of time.
1790 The shoelace is invented
1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1871 The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. He gets a Cadillac later.
1914 1st successful blood transfusion in Brussels
1915 Typhoid Mary Mallon, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at 46th St. New York City after 1577 performances
1983 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in New York City. Shemar on the gay beach is more memorable IMHO
1998 Food and Drug Administration approves the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, saying it helps about two-thirds of impotent men improve their sexual function
922 Mansur Al-Hallaj, Sufi mystic, is flogged, stoned, hanged, has his legs and arms cut off and then is beheaded for heresy before being cremated and having his ashes scattered to the four winds. Talk about pissing off someone. . .
1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, shows that it is safer to fly in a rocket than in an airplane
1972 Maurits Cornelis Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), has his ups and downs as he comes and goes
1991 Aldo Ray [DaRe], US actor (Battle Cry), is an angel
2002 Milton "Mr. Television" Berle, US comedian with reported exceptionally large penis, keeps his "Uncle Miltie" in his dress
2002 Dudley Moore, actor (10, Arthur), goes beyond the fringe
2011 Farley Granger, gay US actor (Rope, Strangers on a Train), doesn’t wait for the next big thing
