August 5th

August 5 is the 218th day of the year.  There are 148 days remaining until the end of the year.

1861 US Army abolishes flogging

1914 1st traffic light is installed at Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland

 

1957 "American Bandstand" begins network TV (ABC).

1966 John Lennon says Beatles are bigger than Jesus.  Judge for yourself.

1966 Martin Luther King, Jr., is stoned during Chicago march. Right on, Duuuude!

1981 How Republicans create jobs:  President Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers

2010 Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft below the ground. More as this story develops. . .

1850 Guy de Maupassant, maybe gay French short story writer   Guy de Maupassant  

1862 Joseph Merrick, English sideshow performer/"The Elephant Man"/probably a virgin

1936 John Saxon [Carmine Orrico], US actor 

1937 Alan Howard, English actor 

1951 John Jarratt, Australian actor  

1955 Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, maybe gay US musician/Twisted Sister 

1957 Clayton Rohner, maybe gay US actor 

1959 Pete Burns, sexually confused English spinning gender-bending singer of Dead or Alive 

1959 Pat Smear [Georg Ruthenberg], US musician/Foo Fighters–the non-naked one, dammit! 

1965 Scott William Winters, US actor 

1966 Jonathan Silverman, US actor 

1968 James Wilder, US actor 

1971 "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff [Jared Victor Hennegan], US singer/bassist/Bloodhound Gang 

1973 Ethan Erickson, US actor/TV host 

1975 Iddo Goldberg, English/Israeli actor 

1975 Antony Cotton [Antony Dunn], gay English actor 

1979 Jose Fidalgo, Portugese actor/model

1895 Friedrich Engels, gay German economist/philosopher (Communist Manifesto), does not arise with the workers of the world.

1962 Marilyn Monroe, US icon, lives her life like a candle in the wind

1984 Richard Burton, bisexual Welsh actor (Cleopatra), doesn’t look back in anger

2000 Sir Alec Guinness, bisexual English actor (Bridge on the River Kwai), meets a man in a white suit