September 16 is the 260th day of the year. There are 106days remaining until the end of the year.
1893 Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. . .some Sooner than others.
1908 The General Motors Corporation is founded and saved 101 years later
1920 The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured. Al Qaeda is suspected. . .
How the story ends. . .
1927 Heterosexual Rene Lacoste beats off Homosexual Bill Tilden for U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act to begin the 1st peacetime draft
1968 President Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" but doesn’t really get it "socked to him."
1978 Grateful Dead perform outside Cairo, Egypt
1983 Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1984 "Miami Vice", a gritty and tense drama about the complications of an interracial gay relationship and fashion, premieres on NBC-TV
1856 Wilhelm Von Gloeden, gay German photographer of beautiful young Sicilian men
1934 George Chakiris, astonishingly beautiful gay US actor (on the London stage, he played Riff, the leader of the Jets On screen, he played Bernardo, leader of the Sharks)/dancer/singer
1949 Ed Begley, Jr., US actor/environmental activist and entrepreneur
1952 [Philip Andre] Mickey Rourke, US actor/plastic surgery warning
1736 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, maybe gay Polish physicist/engineer/glass blower, cools down
2008 Norman Whitfield, maybe gay US musical genius/creator of Motown Sound (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Just My Imagination), ain’t too proud to beg.
2010 Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor, finds the opposite of being born in sin.
June 23 is the 175th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 181 days remaining until the end of time.
930 World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, is established, and like every other deliberative public body since, it has failed to make any worthwhile decision
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1784 1st US balloon flight by 13 year-old Edward Warren at the desperate but encouraging insistence of his parents. Have you ever lived with a 13 year-old? I rest my case.
1810 PETA Antichrist John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone. I wouldn’t mind blowing a Sax.
1860 US Secret Service is created
1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president. Alas, it is not meant to be.
1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports requiring all athletics to be performed co-ed and in the nude
1894 Alfred Kinsey, bisexual US biologist/sexologist
1912 Alan Turing, gay English mathematician/logician/cryptanalyst/computer scientist who broke Germany's WWII Enigma Code. He was outed, lost his security clearance and his job. To stay out of jail he agreed to chemical castration. He was found dead, a half eaten apple poisoned with cyanide beside his body. The offical cause of death was listed as suicide. The computer I'm using to write this, and the computer you use to read it exist due to Alan Turning.
