August 25th

August 25 is the 238th day of the year.  There are 128 days remaining until the end of the year.

1485 Battle at Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor beats off king Richard III.

1689 Montreal is taken by Iroquois, and just as quickly given back

1718 Hundreds of fabulous French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans is found to their liking

1910 Yellow Cab Company is founded.

1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes in Harlem, New York, but doesn't serve the Grand Funk Railroad

1944 Paris is liberated from Nazi occupation, Freedom Tuesday

1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth

1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship

1970 Elton John makes his 1st U.S. appearance in Los Angeles

1976 Cutie patooty Harm Wiersma becomes world checkers champion

1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps.  Any day now, after 35 years in space, Voyager 2 will break through the heliosphere and travel into farther  reaches of the galaxy.

1916 Van Johnson, gay US actor 

1918 Leonard Bernstein, gay US conductor/composer 

1930 Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor/Bond, James Bond 

1933 Tom Skerritt, US actor 

1949 John Savage [John Smeallie Youngs], US actor 

1949 Gene Simmons [Chaim Weitz], US singer/musician/tongue/KISS 

1951 Rob Halford, gay English lead singer of Judas Priest 

1958 Christian Jules LeBlanc, maybe gay US actor 

1958 Michael Genet, maybe gay US actor/writer 

1964 Saverio Guerra, maybe gay US actor 

1964 Blair Underwood, US actor 

1965 Adriano Marquez, gay Spanish pornographic actor 

1966 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor 

1966 Robert Maschio, maybe gay US actor 

1967 Brad Dryborough, Canadian actor 

1967 Tom Hollander, maybe gay English actor 

1969 Michael Haboush, gay US actor/director 

1974 Eric Millegan, gay US actor 

1974 Louis-Karim Nebati, maybe gay Franch actor 

1975 Rhasaan Orange, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor/Stellan's son

1975 Justin Magnum, South African heterosexual pornographic actor 

1976 Jensen Atwood, maybe gay US actor/Noah’s Wade 

1979 Haus Weston, gay US pornographic actor  

1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, gay German philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), is proven not to be a superman

1956 Alfred C Kinsey, bisexual US zoologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report), cums and goes

1982 Johannes "Hans" van Tongeren, Dutch actor (Spetters), sputters

1984 Truman Capote [Truman Streckfus Persons], gay author (In Cold Blood), goes toward other voices, other rooms

2009 Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts, wins the battle for national health care a bit too late.