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| August 12 is the 225th day of the year. There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1833 Chi-town toddles. |
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| 1851 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine to stymie some future contestants on Project Runway. The side-mounted dual circular saw is an interesting choice. |
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| 1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device |
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| 1896 Gold is discovered at Klondike River in Dawson’s Crack. |
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| 1916 Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz and Paquerette are photographed in Paris. It is unclear whether the photo was snapped before or after the marathon man-pile orgy. |
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| 1969 Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside. Afterwards, their little bogsides got it real good. |
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| 1981 The IBM Personal Home Computer (Model 5150) goes on sale. Got DOS? Side-mounted dual circular saws would've sped thing up a bit or a byte. |
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| 1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released. SPOILER ALERT: Jesus dreams he gets laid. |
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| 1994 Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series–which the St. Louis Cardinals would’ve undoubtedly won. |
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| 2004 New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man with good taste in male flesh. |
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| 1880 [Marguerite] Radclyffe Hall, gay English writer/lesbian classic “The Well of Loneliness” |
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| 1926 John Derek [Derek Delevan Harris], ridiculously beautiful serial heterosexual US actor/director |
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| 1939 George Hamilton, tan US actor/TV host |
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| 1954 Sam J. Jones, US actor/Playgirl model |
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| 1956 [Stuart] Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor |
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| 1962 Miss Cleo [Youree Dell Harris], gay US paranormal/huckster |
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| 1965 Peter Krause, US actor |
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| 1967 Andy Hui, Chinese singer/actor |
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| 1970 Kristopher Schau, Norse musician/actor/comedian |
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| 1970 Krzysztof Zawadzki, Polish actor |
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| 1971 Pete Sampras, US tennis player/DILF |
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| 1972 Rafael Calomeni, Brazilian model/actor |
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| 1975 Casey Affleck, US actor |
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| 1979 Rogério Dragone, maybe gay Brazilian gravedigger/Big Brother Brazil contestant/G Magazine model- |
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| 1981 Gregory Mahe, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model |
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| 1981 Steve Talley, US actor |
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| 1988 Justin Gaston, US singer/model/dated Miley Cyrus |
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| 30BCE Egyptian Asp bites Cleopatra VII Philopator. Cleopatra VII Philopator bites Egyptian dust. |
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| 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, US musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), gets tagged |
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| 2007 Merv Griffin, bisexual US singer/tv host/game show creator/producer (Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune), buys a vowel |
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