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| August 9 is the 222nd day of the year. There are 144 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1842 US-Canada border is defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
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| 1851 Gold is discovered at Sovereign Hill, Victoria, Australia, starting one of the world's greatest and most productive gold rushes. Within three years, 80 tonnes of gold are dug up in the gold rush. |
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| 1877 Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Cavalry over one, particularly talented and accommodating young man. . . |
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| 1944 Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention and then goes Hollywood |
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| 1945 Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the US B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly. Click here to learn how to defuse a nuclear bomb. . .just in case. |
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| 1960 Harvard professor Dr Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms in Cuernavaca, Mexico. |
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| 1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders (The crime scene photos were too gruesome, even for me!) |
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| 1971 British security forces arrest hundreds of Irish nationalists and detain them without trial in Abu Ghraib--check that--Long Kesh prison. Twenty people die in the riots that follow. |
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| 1974 One of the happiest events of my life: Richard Nixon resigns presidency. Unelected Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th President, but 1st unelected President. |
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| 1988 1st night game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Fortunately for STL Cardinal fans, the Cubs still play in the dark! |
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| 1997 Security guard Abner Louima is brutally attacked by New York City police. There should be law against cops having broom handles. . . |
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| 1943 Ken Norton, US heavyweight boxing champion/actor |
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| 1944 Sam Elliott, US actor/DILF |
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| 1958 Amanda Bearse, gay US actress |
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| 1959 Ted Prior, US actor/Playgirl model |
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| 1959 Michael Kors [Karl Anderson, Jr.], gay US fashion designer/Project Runway judge |
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| 1965 Alexis Ayala [David Alexis Ayala Padró], US actor |
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| 1968 Gillian Anderson, bisexual US actress/X-files |
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| 1968 Eric Bana, Australian actor with prosthesis |
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| 1969 Chris Stone, gay Costa Rican pornographic actor |
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| 1970 Thomas Lennon, heterosexual US comedian/actor/Lt. Dangle-Reno 911 |
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| 1976 Mark Priestley, maybe gay Australian actor |
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| 1976 Texas Battle[Clifton Quincy Battle], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1976 James Lafazanos, maybe gay Canadian actor |
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| 1980 Charlie David, gay Canadian actor/singer/TV host |
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| 1982 Tyson Gay, 4th place US Olympic sprinter |
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| 1984 Pierre Perrier, French actor |
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| 1985 Grégory Capra, French model/trainer |
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| 1967 Joe Orton, gay English actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered), knows what the butler saw |
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| 2010 Tab Baker [Terrence Alonzo "Tab" Baker], maybe gay US actor (Prison Break), discovers something stranger than fiction. |
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