August 3 is the 216th day of the year. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year. |
8 Cross-dressing Roman general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatians |
1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs; Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. I didn’t know that Columbus was Jewish. |
1914 World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms. Huh? I recognize all of the words but I can’t imagine what they mean. Even God asks, "WTF?" |
1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash at Berlin Olympics and ruins Dolphchen’s Meisterreichsspiele |
1943 General Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice |
1944 Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers. Care to speculate how many of the "old men" perved on the kid in the locker room? |
1949 The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States. |
1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated with fanfare. It is consecrated 30 years later with blood and tears. |
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer of which 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered |
2005 Cute, but crazy, closeted gay boy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran. |
1887 Rupert Brooke, maybe gay English poet. William Butler Yates called him "the handsomest young man in England". Other thought so, too. Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes fought for the favour of his company. |
1900 John T. Scopes, maybe gay US high school science teacher who taught evolution in Tennessee |
1926 Gordon Scott, US actor in B movies |
1940 Martin Sheen [Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez], US actor/daddy of Charlie & Emilio |
1958 Lambert Wilson, maybe gay French actor |
1959 John C. McGinley, US actor |
1959 Simon Keenlyside, English baritone |
1959 Lee Ryder [Darras Robert Pyron], gay US pornographic icon/AIDS victim |
1972 Adria Collado, maybe gay Spanish model/actor/entrepreneur |
1972 Jorge Luis Pila, Cuban actor |
1977 Tom Brady, US football quarterback |
1979 Danso Gordon, maybe gay Canadian actor |
1982 Robert Stadlober, bisexual Austrian actor |
1984 Jon Foster, US actor |
1984 Ryan Lochte, US Olympic swimmer who recently and most shockingly beat off Michael Phelps and several other guys on broadcast tv |
1966 Lenny Bruce, US comedian, f—king sees the needle take another man. G-ddammit |
2001 Christopher Hewett, probably gay English actor (Mr. Belvedere), must babysit the cherubim |
2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)/Nobel Laureate, is not a happy camper |
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