27 September

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 September:

1. Marvin Lee Adair was born on this date in 1947. He's better known as Meat Loaf, the rock singer, famous for Bat out of Hell.
2. Top Cat, starring Arnold Stang as the voice of a New York alley cat was first broadcast on this date in 1961. It also featured Sgt Bilko’s Maurice Gosfield as the voice of Benny.
3. In 2011, Tony Bennett, 85, became the oldest living person to top the US album chart when his Duets II album went to No.1.
4. In 2005, a Methuselah of Louis Roederer Cristal 1990 sold for $14,730.00 at a London auction, making it the world’s most expensive Champagne.
5. British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger liner ever built, was launched at Clydebank in Scotland on this date in 1938. The 80,000 ton liner was launched by the Queen Mother.
6. In 1869, a gunfight took place in Hays City, Kansas. Wild Bill Hickok  shot and killed Sam Strawhim, a drunken teamster who was causing trouble in the local saloon.
7. In 1888, The Central News Agency in London received a letter which began "Dear Boss, I keep on hearing the police have caught me, but they won't fix me just yet..." It was signed Jack the Ripper, the first time the name was used.
8. In 1846, an apparition of Edinburgh appeared in the sky over Liverpool.
9. The first Santa Claus training school opened in Albion, N.Y. on this date in 1937.
10. In 1995, an event organised in Colorado for people named Bob, “Bobfest”, was cancelled. It’s organiser, Tom Britz (One wonders why a festival for people named Bob was organised by a Tom...) said he was tired of running it. “I met one bad Bob and it spoiled the bunch,” he said.

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