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
August 16 is the 229th day of the year. There are 137 days remaining until the end of the year.
1829 Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan about handling the suspected homosexuality of her son, Arthur, since she figured Buchanan would know. . .if the rumors were true
1870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1920 Ray Chapman, of Indians is beaned by Yankees' Carl Mays fastball pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
1930 The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer to reduce the band's pretty-boy quotient and solid drumming
1984 L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges. You just know that the jury screened Back to the Future the night before the verdict. . .
1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday. And, how’s that work out, kids?
1988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers after they become increasingly aggressive. He doesn’t.
