September 11 is the 255th day of the year. There are 111 days remaining until the end of the year.
1226 The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1839 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1857 The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormonss and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1858 First ascent of Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps. Here is Dom Fumusa, the third highest billed star in Take Me Out.
1930 Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks, meat and oozing cheese 2 miles
1941 Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accuses the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. Cf: Clint Eastwood’s empty chair speech.
1941 Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1970 The Ford Pinto is introduced. Despite its explosive reputation for combustability, the Pinto was not used in the first attack on the New York World Trade Center in 1993.
1985 Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit but still needs to buy a ticket to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2001 19 Arab extremist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. The mastermind, Osama bin Laden, is now somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
1885 [David Herbert] DH Lawrence, bisexual English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
1981 Lachlan Nieboer, maybe gay English actor/Torchwood, Downton Abbey
1981 Dylan Klebold, fucked-up US high school student/mass murderer
2001 Mark Bingham, gay US rugby playing passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 who thwarts the efforts of Al Qaida hijackers, earns 72 virgin Muslim cubs and otters in heaven
September 1 is the 245th day of the year. There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.
1689 Russia began taxing men's beards. I wonder how much Kelly would fetch.
1807 Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason on charges of plotting to set up an empire, but guilty of being über hot
1830 Sarah Josepha Hale publishes Mary Had A Little Lamb. Iron Chef Morimoto does the honors.
1862 Federal tax is levied on tobacco. What?!?! Next they’ll want to tax our incomes.
1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as last king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande. Of course, he doesn’t know he would be the last. . .
1926 Turkey allows civil marriage, although anyone who has ever been married will attest there is no such thing as a "civil" marriage. However, in each marriage there is usually one turkey.
1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1979 L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man--check that, the only boy--to win U.S. Tennis Open match
1989 "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 804 performances
2006 Luxembourg becomes the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
1864 Sir Roger David Casement [Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn], gay Irish martyr/British consul, famous for reporting civil and human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru. When he turned to his own country and the rights of the Irish, he was arrested, tried, and hanged by the Brits for treason. The verdict prompted much outrage and sympathy for Casement, so the British produced his "black diaries" in which it became apparent that Sir Roger liked them young and hung. Those agitating on his behalf were silenced. They didn't really hang him for treason, they hanged him for sucking cock.
1899 Richard Arlen [Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore], US leading man on man kisser.
1966 Tim Hardaway, homophobic US basketball player. Want to teach him a lesson he'll never forget? Print the picture. Cum on it. Send it to Tim as fan mail.
1973 J. D. Fortune [Jason Dean Bennison], maybe gay Canadian singer
