September 16 is the 260th day of the year. There are 106days remaining until the end of the year.
1893 Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. . .some Sooner than others.
1908 The General Motors Corporation is founded and saved 101 years later
1920 The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured. Al Qaeda is suspected. . .
How the story ends. . .
1927 Heterosexual Rene Lacoste beats off Homosexual Bill Tilden for U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act to begin the 1st peacetime draft
1968 President Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" but doesn’t really get it "socked to him."
1978 Grateful Dead perform outside Cairo, Egypt
1983 Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1984 "Miami Vice", a gritty and tense drama about the complications of an interracial gay relationship and fashion, premieres on NBC-TV
1856 Wilhelm Von Gloeden, gay German photographer of beautiful young Sicilian men
1934 George Chakiris, astonishingly beautiful gay US actor (on the London stage, he played Riff, the leader of the Jets On screen, he played Bernardo, leader of the Sharks)/dancer/singer
1949 Ed Begley, Jr., US actor/environmental activist and entrepreneur
1952 [Philip Andre] Mickey Rourke, US actor/plastic surgery warning
1736 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, maybe gay Polish physicist/engineer/glass blower, cools down
2008 Norman Whitfield, maybe gay US musical genius/creator of Motown Sound (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Just My Imagination), ain’t too proud to beg.
2010 Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor, finds the opposite of being born in sin.
July 30 is the 212th day of the year. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year.
579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), would’ve killed himself if he could see how subsequent cloned versions of himself become degraded!
762 Caliph Abu Jafar abd-Allah al-Mansur founds Baghdad.
1839 Slave rebels take over slave ship, Amistad, rip off their shirts for their captured slavers to admire and caress the rippling muscles of their obsidian chests
1908 New York to Paris Automobile Race ends in Paris when lovers George Schuster and Montague Roberts, driving a 1907 Thomas Flyer, cum first after the 169 day orgy–I mean, ordeal
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the US Army
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie, Girl Crazy, is released
1963 British double agent Kim Philby is discovered in Moscow where a flag is planted in his ass and he is claimed for the Queen
1975 Teamsters’ leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
2006 World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show aired for 42 years. Carl Hardwick is the Top of the Pops as far as I’m concerned. . .
1818 Emily Brontë, asexual English writer, sister, poet
1929 Sid Krofft [Cydus Yolas], maybe gay Canadian kids TV producer
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born US bodybuilder/actor /Governor of California/womanizer
