September 30 is the 274th day of the year. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe, who leaves out the pertinent detail of Friday’s pert buns)
1791 Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna. Here is David Copperfield holding his magic flute case.
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. With less alcohol and more steroids, he could've hit 100.
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), is commissioned by the Navy to take out New York City
1954 "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 483 performances
1960 Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show, and promises we will have a gay old time — but they were exaggerating
1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabell finally talks, "Goodbye, Kids"
1968 Supremes release "Love Child" which should be the theme song for Maury Povich's show
1994 Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service. "Tube station?" I love local colloquialisms...
1998 Scott Caan and his companion, Ross Porterfield, are arrested for assault after a fight with two other men in a gay bar in West Hollywood. This is not to imply that Mr. Caan and Mr. Porterfield are either gay and/or fucking each other’s brains out.
2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
1630 John Billington, English Mayflower Compact signatory/murderer, is left hanging as 1st person of European ancestry to be executed in America
1955 James Dean will never come back to the five and dime.
2010 Stephen J. Cannell, latent homosexual (?) prolific US TV producer and writer (The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street), meets a real wiseguy.
March 17 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 279 days remaining until the end of time.
1756 St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern, and thus the tradition of drinking on this day begins.
1762 1st St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, and thus the tradition of wandering the streets drunk on this day begins.
1845 Rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry of London for his own prurient interests
1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world heavyweight championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1912 Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick organizes the Campfire Girls who should not be confused with Hooker’s Army who were "camp followers"
1961 Chicago River is 1st dyed green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and to make the river a lot less brown.
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' thanks to a built-in aileron
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war; Iraq says it was a bad batch of falafel
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade unlike in some US cities.
2008 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Sight-challenged mistress-keeper, David Paterson becomes New York State governor, and thus the blind lead the blind...
1987 Rob Kardashian Jr, US reality show star/gluteus-maximally blessed
493 St. Patrick, Welsh-born Apostle and Patron Saint (with Ss. Brigid and Columba) of Ireland, may have driven the snakes out of Ireland, but the worms get him in the end.
1989 Merritt Butrick, gay US actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill, Star Trek II), succumbs to AIDS.
1995 Ronnie Kray, gay English gangster (The Firm), goes out with gay abandon
