Note to Stevil re: David Bennent 9/9/12 --- Take it up with Male Celebrity Snapshots ;-)
September 10 is the 254th day of the year. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.
1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
1608 John Smith – if that is his real name – is elected president of Jamestown colony council after one wild night with some of the locals. Was this Disney movie rated PG?
1846 Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.
1869 Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan. I'm Episcopalian, and I'd rather ride a nealshaw.
1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. Moral of the story? Wring the chicken’s neck if you want dinner any time soon.
1953 Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner". There is no truth that Mike the Headless Chicken was the star.
1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire and his name is Quint Asper, the blacksmith!
1963 20 black students enter public schools in Alabama and immediately raise the academic standing of the state
1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across U.S. (24 days) after unsuccessfully trying to run away from home without anyone noticing. After successfully changing his name and getting a tan, little Sean grows up to be President of the United States.
1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents highlighting the need for national health care insurance to control escalating costs
2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva. Nothing interesting, like Switzerland vaporizing, happens.
September 4 is the 248th day of the year. There are 118 days remaining until the end of the year.
476 Romulus Augustus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy, thus ending the Western Romulan Empire.
1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war.
1894 In NYC, 12,000 tailors go on strike protesting sweat shops which makes for an interesting Fashion Week.
1949 The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. He is just so good that the troglodytes can’t handle it. . .
1950 First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. It should be noted that Private Bailey has never gone to war. . . Bonus Trivia Question: Who is Beetle's sister?
1954 Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania. I did the math for you; he weighed 116 pounds.
1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 heavily armed, militant, terrorist, crypto-anarcho, drug-smuggling black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. That commie-loving President Eisenhower nationalizes the Arkansas National Guard.
1957 Ford Motor Company introduces Edsel, and still doesn’t ask for a bail-out!
1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz <le sigh> becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals unnecessarily since he was already every gay boy's right hand (or left) fantasy
1991 Panel of 8 baseball experts (none from Kansas City, btw) vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record because he dared to top Babe Ruth's season homerun record
1991 "Most Happy Fella" opens at New York State Theater New York City, but it doesn't work despite the free samples that are offered on tv to the first 100 callers
1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. Why haven't these boys won a Nobel Prize?!?
1905 Mary Renault (Eileen Mary Challans), gay English novelist. She wrote a number of historical novels, all with gay male themes. noted works include "The King Must Die", "The Persian Boy", and "Fire From Heaven".
