August 13th

August 13 is the 226th day of the year.  There are 140 days remaining until the end of the year.

1642 More Mars News:  Cutie-patootie Christiaan Huygens, gay Dutch genius, discovers Martian south polar cap, but he doesn’t get to plant a flag there or anything.

1792 Revolutionaries imprison French royals in conditions that are still nicer than those of the other 99% of the French population.

1909 A UFO was seen at about 11 p.m. at Glen Innes, a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, when "several responsible residents described an object like a balloon moving in a northerly direction. A night glass was obtained and the object was found to be shaped like an inverted top. The lower portion was lighted, and as the body revolved a light like a small flashlight kept turning on the land beneath. The upper portion was in darkness and the object continued drifting in a northerly direction".  Considering the time of day, the location of the sighting and the witnesses, an over-indulgence of Foster’s cannot be ruled out.

1913 Harry Brearley, maybe gay English metallurgist, invents stainless steel and touts its many potential benefits

1918 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is established as a public company in Germany.

1918 Very butch women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

1923 U.S. Steel initiates 8th-hour work day so workers can enjoy more leisure time.  F***ing commies!

1942 Walt Disney's animated cartoon Bambi premiered, and no boy has been named Bambi since.

2008 US vampire Michael Phelps sets the Olympic record for most the gold medals won by an individual in a single games with his win in the men's 200m butterfly.  He gets a few more medals in 2012 to become the most decorated athlete of all time–olympically-speaking

1908 Gene Raymond [Raymond Guion], bisexual US actor 

1952 Herb Ritts, gay US photographer 

1959 Danny Bonaduce, US actor/TV host/ radio host 

1962 John Slattery, US actor/Mad Men 

1965 Jorge Perugorria, Cuban actor 

1971 Lorenzo Crespi, Italian actor 

1971 David Monahan, maybe gay US actor/streaker 

1971 Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor 

1976 Chris Geary, gay English photographer/pornographer 

1977 Merill Moses, US Olympic water polo player 

1980 Alex Gonzalez [Augusto Alejandro José González], Spanish actor 

1981 Valerio Pino, gay Italian model/actor/Ricky Martin's ex-boyfriend

1995 Mickey Mantle, US baseball great (New York Yankees), strikes out