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| August 2 is the 215th day of the year. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers begins |
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| 1819 1st parachute jump in US. The record is silent on whether it was successful or not, but Jesus had to move to Brazil. |
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| 1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets |
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| 1875 World 1st roller skating rink opens in London |
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| 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes of Tales of the City. |
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| 1921 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Chicago "Black" Sox for throwing the ‘19 World Series |
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| 1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks near the Solomon islands |
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| 1991 Funk singer Rick James is arrested on sexual torture charges. And this is surprising, why? |
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| 1992 Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick. Happy anniversary, you lucky, lucky girl! |
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| 2004 Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention at the idea of W being re-nominated for President. |
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| 1924 James Baldwin, gay US novelist/playwright/civil rights activist |
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| 1941 Fabio Testi, Italian actor |
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| 1943 Max Wright, bisexual US actor/ALF |
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| 1950 Mathieu Carriere, German actor |
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| 1953 Butch Patrick [Patrick Alan Lilley], maybe gay US actor/forever Eddie Munster |
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| 1957 Mojo Nixon [Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr.], maybe gay US singer and lyricist. How can you not like someone whose songlist includes: Elvis is Everywhere, Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-headed Love Child, Don Henley Must Die, etc. He has recently come out of retirement. Good |
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| 1959 Victoria Jackson, hateful, homophobic US “actress”/”Christianist”/pile of dog poop |
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| 1960 Olivier Gruner, maybe gay French kickboxer/marine/actor |
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| 1974 Kerry McCoy, US 2x Olympic wrestling gold medalist |
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| 1976 Rory MacGregor, maybe gay English actor |
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| 1976 Sam Worthington, English-born Australian actor |
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| 1977 Edward Furlong, US actor |
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| 1977 Florian Stetter, maybe gay German actor |
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| 1980 Dingdong Dantes [José Sixto Raphael González Dantes III], Filipino model/actor |
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| 1982 Grady Sizemore, US baseball player with iPhone |
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| 1986 Roy Marcus Cohn, thoroughly despicable closeted gay US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), succumbs to AIDS at 59. |
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| 1997 William S. Burroughs, bisexual STLMO-born US author (Naked Lunch), dresses for the occasion |
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