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| September 18 is the 262nd day of the year. There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1437 Farmer uprising in Transylvania results in bloodless revolt |
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| 1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building ... sorry, this is not what I expected |
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| 1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is opened for breakfast ... WARNING: Do NOT Google “Tiffany & Young” |
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| 1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone---ooh, a 3-way! |
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| 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St and a 23 year depression of the US economy |
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| 1925 Big Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship. More accurately, he won his 6th consecutive championship. |
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| 1965 "Get Smart" premieres |
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| 1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List. |
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| 1988 Coup in Haiti. I could only find a picture of a coupe in Haiti. |
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| 1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square. Here is a 350-400 pound chocolate kiss that is displayed in a high school yearbook. |
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| 2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Burma, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution although it looks more like paprika. |
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| 2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera, "The Guiding Light," ends as its final episode is broadcast. |
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| 1905 Greta Garbo [Gustafsson], bisexual Swedish icon |
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| 1933 Robert Blake [Michael James Vincenzo Gubitosi], US actor (Our Gang, Baretta)/acquitted murderer |
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| 1937 [Robert] Rod Roddy, maybe gay US actor/radio & tv announcer |
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| 1939 Frankie Avalon, US singer/actor/teen idol |
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| 1946 Nicolas Clay, English actor |
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| 1951 Dee Dee Ramone [Douglas Glenn Colvin], bisexual US musician |
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| 1961 Justin Fashanu, gay English soccer player |
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| 1971 Lance Armstrong [Gunderson], disgraced US cyclist/cancer survivor |
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| 1973 James Marsden, US actor |
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| 1975 Charlie Finn, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1976 Jalil Lespert, French actor |
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| 1978 Daniel Miagany, gay US model |
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| 1981 Aitor Luna, maybe gay Spanish actor |
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| 1986 Billy Marquart, US model |
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| 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld, gay Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, gets peace without working for it |
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| 1970 Jimi Hendrix, US rock guitar legend (Purple Haze), goes all along the watchtower |
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| 2007 Pepsi Tate [Huw Justin Smith], Welsh bassist (tigertailz), should’ve had a Dr. Pepper |
