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| September 29 is the 273rd day of the year. There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 480BCE Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I. |
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| 1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London. |
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| 1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) |
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| 1954 "A Star Is Born" makes its world premiere in Hollywood. |
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| 1959 "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV, but the love of a friend with benefits counts more... |
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| 1960 "My Three Sons" starring Don Grady as Robbie, debuts on ABC-TV |
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| 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, goes ape shit crazy at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts ... Small shoe=small feet=? |
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| 1963 "Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
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| 1966 The Chevy Camaro is introduced (model year 1967) and becomes a status symbol in trailer parks across America. |
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| 1976 Boy George expelled from school for a variety of reasons, but officially for wearing stiletto heels. |
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| 1982 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide permanently relieve minor aches and pains for 7 people in Chicago |
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| 1982 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV |
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| 1985 "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV |
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| 1986 "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS |
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| 1991 "My Own Private Idaho" premieres |
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| 2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced. |
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| 1905 Ted de Corsia, gay US actor |
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| 1942 Ian McShane, English actor |
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| 1948 Mark Farner, US musician/Grand Funk Railroad |
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| 1957 Andrew “Dice” Clay [Silverstein], US comic/actor |
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| 1961 Tom Sizemore, US actor |
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| 1974 Alexis Cruz, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1976 Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian soccer player |
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| 1977 Won Bin, Korean model/singer |
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| 1980 Zachary Levi [Pugh], maybe gay US actor/Chuck |
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| 1989 Danny Noriega, gay US American Idol contestant |
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| 1970 Edward Everett Horton, gay US actor, finds his fairy tale life fractured |
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| 1973 Wystan Hugh Auden, gay English-born US poet, goes forth on the frontier. |
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| 2010 Tony Curtis, bisexual US actor (Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, Spartacus), plays it to the bone. |
