September 13 is the 257th day of the year. There are 109 days remaining until the end of the year.
1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata. Won’t Lasik surgery fix that?
1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the US gold market
1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV. Damn, that Francis Muldoon is hawt!
1963 Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould (no relation to Jay Gould) marry. And how’s that work out?
1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV. We control the horizontal. . .
1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS while Grandpa pervs on John-boy
1974 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV. Rockford is a true maverick.
1977 1st TV viewer discretion warning for a regularly scheduled series introduces "Soap" on ABC-TV
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the US after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1857 Milton Snavely Hershey, US chocolatier/Blessed and beloved of God almighty, and the peoples of the world in supplication; refined a Swiss process to create and manufacturer milk chocholate. Built the world's largest chocolate factory, complete with company town
1924 Scott Brady [Gerard Kenneth Tierney], studly US actor
April 22 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 243 days remaining until the end of time.
1823 R. J. Tyers patents roller skates
1864 The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency starting with the new 2¢ coin.
1876 Tchaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
1970 1st Earth Day is held internationally to observe conserving natural resources. Fuckin' hippies.
1974 Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1983 The German magazine Der Stern claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
1994 Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
2000 Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba
2010 Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig owned by BP and Transocean, sinks to the bottom of the Gulf Of Mexico after having a blowout two days earlier. The well then created the largest oil spill in U.S. history by constantly gushing oil through the damaged wellhead.
