August 24th

August 24 is the 237th day of the year.  There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year.

410 Rome is overrun by Visigoths leading to the fall of Western Roman Empire

1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid — ironically, the Magna Carta asserts the rights of the innocent

1814 British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.

1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum [who is, undoubtedly, blessed by God] in Saratoga Springs, New York

1858 In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning to read and cipher. . .and eating potato chips

1967 Yippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up--the greedy bastards

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder. His parole is denied again for the seventh time in 2012.

1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes

1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling which seriously impacts his future earnings

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head and birthmark of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

2006 Pluto is demoted to a pet planet status

2008 Beijing Olympic games end colorfully, and freedom and democracy spontaneously breaks out in China. Okay, maybe not.

1591 Robert Herrick, probably gay English poet/cleric/rosebud gatherer

1899 Jorge Luis Borges, gay Argentine novelist and poet 

1945 Vince McMahon, maybe latent homosexual US wrestling promoter/WWE founder, shows his ass... 

rims...

is rimmed

1957 Stephen Fry, gay English actor/writer/wit 

1958 Steve Guttenberg, US actor 

1961 Jared Harris, English actor 

1968 [Michael] Jason Nesmith, maybe gay US actor/musician/Monkee spawn 

1969 Pierfrancesco Favino, maybe gay Italian actor  (2nd from left)

1973 Carmine Giovinazzo, US actor 

1976 Alex O'Loughlin [Alexander O'Lachlan], Australian actor/Hawaii 5-0 

1975 [Simon] James D'Arcy, maybe gay English actor 

1980 Brett Wilde, gay US pornographic actor 

1980 Ivan DeMorais, gay Brazilian pornographic actor 

1981 Chad Michael Murray, US actor 

1981 Tomas Fonzi, maybe gay Argentine actor 

1981 Lorenzo Porzio, maybe gay Italian rower/organist (bulge on left) 

1983 Daniel Zubrinsky, Brazilian actor 

1983 Christopher Parker, gay English actor 

1987 Bayard Rustin, gay US civil rights activist, turns the red black and green of black liberation into a colorful rainbow flag

1988 Leonard Frey, gay US actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), succumbs to AIDS at 49

2006 Cristian Nemescu, maybe gay Romanian film director (Marilena from P7), doesn’t finish California dreamin’