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| September 8 is the 252nd day of the year. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1504 Michelangelo's David is unveiled to Florence who immediately points out the obvious inaccuracy. You might be Republican if you can't spot it. . . |
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| 1713 Pope Clemens XI publishes decree "Unigenitus" which I think is a rule about having one testicle. My Latin isn’t very good. |
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| 1868 New York Athletic Club forms. The t-shirt industry cranks up later. |
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| 1892 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion) |
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| 1930 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape |
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| 1943 General Eisenhower announces unconditional surrender of Italy in WWII |
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| 1952 Ernest Hemmingway's illustrated autobiography, "The Old Man and Sea", is published |
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| 1956 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks. Day-oh-umm, Harry! |
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| 1966 The gay soap opera, Star Trek, premieres on NBC-TV |
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| 1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709) without the use of steroids. |
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| 1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes. I hazard to guess that it had to be a very good blow job since Nixon was never indicted for any crime. |
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| 1975 US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual." He is later given a general discharge |
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| 1986 Surprisingly, Westinghouse sells Muzak instead of being forced to give it away for free |
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| 1994 Last US, British and French troops leave West Berlin |
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| 1925 [Richard] Peter Sellers, English actor/Inspector Clouseau |
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| 1954 Pascal Greggory, French actor |
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| 1954 Mark Lindsay Chapman, English actor |
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| 1954 Clayton Norcross, US actor |
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| 1954 Mark Foley, disgraced and disgraceful gay Florida congressman/page turner |
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| 1962 Thomas Kretschmann, German actor |
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| 1964 Mitchell Whitfield, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1968 Cutter West, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1971 David Arquette, US actor now Cox-less but not like his brother/sister |
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| 1972 Martin Freeman, English actor |
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| 1972 Coby Archa, gay US hairdresser/Survivor contestant |
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| 1977 Mark Kenneth Woods, gay Canadian actor/entertainer |
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| 1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas [Jonathan Taylor Weiss], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1981 Alberto Guzman, maybe gay Spanish model |
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| 1981 Morten Gamst Pedersen, maybe gay Norse soccer player/singer |
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| 1991 Brad Davis, gay US actor (Midnight Express, Querelle), succumbs to AIDS at 41 |
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| 1999 Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin], blind US composer/musician/poet/inventor, misses out on squeezing Gidget. |
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| 2006 Frank Middlemass, probably gay English actor (Barry Lyndon, Emmerdale Farm), will be remembered fondly as time goes by. |
