September 25th

September 25 is the 269th day of the year.  There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year.

1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa is 1st European to see Pacific Ocean and, man oh man, is it cold

1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City

1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I — just in time for the sequel

1955 The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded only to be surpassed by the Air Jordan.

1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game and celebrates with his buddies

1965 Children find trunk in Amsterdam canal expecting a treasure, find a corpse instead. Judge Crater, is that you?

1996 The last of the Magdalene Asylums for Wayward Women closes in Ireland.

2002 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.

2008 China shoots off the spacecraft Shenzhou 7 with live audience.  Messy!

1926 Aldo Ray [DaRe], US actor 

1926 John Ericson, German-born US actor 

1943 Robert Walden [Wolkowitz], maybe gay US actor 

1944 Michael Douglas, US actor

[nb: today is also his wife’s birthday] 

1951 Mark Hamill, US actor 

1952 Colin Friels, Scottish actor 

1957 Michael Madsen, US actor 

1960 Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor 

1963 Tate Donovan, US actor 

1965 Gordon Currie, Canadian actor 

1965 Gregg Avedon, maybe gay US model 

1965 Matt Battaglia, US actor 

1966 Jason Flemyng, English actor 

1968 Will Smith, US rapper/actor 

1968 Justin Carroll, US actor 

1968 Frank Towers/Mark Slade, US pornographic actor 

1969 Hal Sparks, US comedian/actor/forever Michael Novotny-Queer as Folk 

1971 Nikos Psarras, Greek actor 

1972 Gaël Morel, gay French actor/writer/director 

1973 Chadwick Pelletier, maybe gay model/Road Ruler 

1974 Sebastian Cole, gay Australian pornographic actor 

1975 Daniel Hyde, maybe gay English actor 

1980 T. I. [Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr.], US hip hop artist 

1981 Danny Hunter, gay US pornographic actor 

1981 Chris Austad, US model 

1984 Walter Pidgeon, bisexual Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver), doesn’t get a two minute warning

1987 Emlyn Williams, bisexual Welsh actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), is blown away by the wind of heaven

1991 Klaus Barbie, needle-dicked German Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyon, is pretty in pink

May 3rd

May 3 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 232 days remaining until the end of time.

1494 Columbus discovers Jamaica; he names it "St. Iago," but avoids landing there due to its vitriolic, rampant homophobic reputation

1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits. Must shower afterwards.

1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain. We’d rather recognize James Franco for his small "c" catholic appeal.

1944 Meat rationing ends meaning USDA Prime for everyone!

1956 Frank Loesser's musical, "Most Happy Fella", premieres in New York City. It’s a lie, though.

 

1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech.

1979 Martin Sherman's "Bent" premieres in London

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain. I’m still scared of her!

1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances

2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. I wonder why?!?

1469 Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine political strategist

1889 Beulah Bondi, maybe gay US actress 

1898 Golda Meir, co-founder of state of Israel, and its 4th prime minister (In a cage fight with Margaret Thatcher, my money would be on Golda) 

1913 William Inge, gay US playwright/novelist 

1926 Ann B. Davis, maybe gay US actress/religious fanatic/everyone's favorite live-in housekeeper 

1928 James Brown, US R&B legend/hardest working man in show business

1932 Robert Osborne, maybe gay US film historian/Turner Classic Movies host 

1948 Chris Mulkey, US actor 

1967 Kenny Hotz, Canadian comedian/writer/director/Kenny vs Spenny 

1970 Bobby Cannavale, US actor 

1973 Jamie Baulch, English sprinter/tv presenter 

1975 Valentino Lanús, Mexican actor 

1976 Alfonso DeNigris, Mexican actor/model 

1977 Ben Olsen, US soccer player 

1980 Marcel Vigneron, petulant gay US Top Chef runner-up 

1982 Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born US football player 

1985 Greg Raposo, US singer/actor 

1987 Fernando Fernandes, Portugese actor 

1988 Christian Carabias, Mexican model/actor/banana smuggler 

1965 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, wishes he could trace his lineage to Matt.

1972 Bruce Cabot [Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac], actor (Diamonds are Forever), is no longer among the undefeated

1989 Christine Jorgensen, US soldier/1st transsexual, travels further than Denmark for this change.