August 23rd

August 23 is the 236th day of the year.  There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year.

79 Mount Vesuvius cums

1869 1st carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco from Boston

1947 President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert is not well-received

1948 World Council of Churches is formed although they cannot decide on the shape of the table.

1970 Organized by US union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.  F--- you, vegans!

1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.

1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City.  I see no defects whatsoever!

1995 Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant

2006 Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, manages to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity. This begins the series of Austrian kink reports.

1940 Richard Sanders, maybe gay US actor /Les Nesman/"Oh the humanity!"

1946 Keith Moon, English singer/songwriter/drummer (The Who) 

1949 Rick Springfield [Richard Lewis Springthorpe], Australian singer/songwriter/musician/actor 

1954 Charles Busch, gay US actor/writer/female impersonator (and as Angela Arden in Die, Mommie, Die!) 

1956 Skipp Sudduth [Robert Lee Sudduth IV], maybe gay US actor/Kohl’s brother 

1960 Chris Potter, Canadian actor/Queer as Folk 

1960 Rod Phillips [Gregory Leslie Patton], gay US pornographic actor 

1965 Ken “Flex” Wheeler, maybe gay US body-builder 

1966 Charley Boorman, English actor/writer/biker

1970 [Jon] Jay Mohr, US actor/comedian 

1970 River Phoenix [River Jude Bottom], US actor 

1971 Aaron Douglas, Canadian actor 

1972 Jim Thalman, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Scott Caan, maybe gay US actor 

1978 James Bulliard, gay Swiss-born Canadian actor 

1978 Kobe Bryant, US basketball player/flagrantly heterosexual/Olympic gold medalist 

1981 Oscar "Ozzy" Lusth, Mexican actor/reality TV personality (Survivor: Cook Islands) 

1981 Sam Horrigan, maybe gay US actor 

1540 Guillaume Budé, French humanist who is most famous for his treatise, “De Asse et Partibus”, is remembered for his perfect partibus asse that gave rise to “budé’s” popularity as a slang term for the ages

1914 Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, is executed by German troops at 3 weeks for unknown crimes

1926 Rudolph Valentino [Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla], Italian silent movie idol (Sheik), crushes a billion fantasies

1992 Wayne McLaren, maybe gay US actor/rodeo cowboy/model/Marlboro Man, gets smoked

2001 Kathleen Freeman, gay US actress (Too Much, Too Soon), gets too little, too late

2010 George David Weiss, maybe gay US composer ("What a Wonderful World", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), can’t help falling.

2010 Gareth Williams, probably gay British intelligence officer, gets his freak on for the last

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