August 29th

August 29 is the 242nd day of the year.  There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.

1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle–a very uncomfortable motorcycle.

1896 Chop suey is invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese ambassador

1904 3rd modern Olympic Games open in Estièlmeaux

1916 Congress creates US Naval Reserve.  Ooh, baby—sailors on tap to tap

1967 SPOILER ALERT:  "Fugitive" Dr. Richard Kimball is exonerated when the one-armed man falls off the carnival ride.

1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench although his dick was still there technically.

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq, proving once again that one shouldn’t let his mouth write a check that his ass can’t cash.

1991 John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney–undoubtedly due to excellent briefs

2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the US Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.

1844 Edward Carpenter, gay English poet/socialist agitator/activist 

1922 Richard Selzer aka Mr. Blackwell, gay US fashion critic 

1938 Elliott Gould, US actor/former Mr Streissand 

1939 Joel Schumacher, gay US director 

1958 Michael Jackson, maybe gay US King of Pop 

1972 Bae Yong-Jun, Korean actor 

1975 Pelle Hvenegaard, maybe gay Danish actor  /

1975 Juan Diego Botto, Argentine actor 

1977 [Johannes] Jo Weil, German actor/Oliver “Olli” Sabel, Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) 

1981 Jay Ryan [Jay Bunyan], Australian actor 

29 John the Baptist, maybe gay Palestinian apocalyptic prophet, gives head and gets served

1971 Nathan Leopold, infamous queer/convicted US kidnapper/murderer (Little Bobby Franks, 1924), cannot hire Clarence Darrow to argue this case.

1987 Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), paints his wagon before abandoning the ship of fools

1993 Dorian Corey, gay US female impersonator/actor (Paris is Burning), succumbs to AIDS at 56