August 31st

August 31 is the 244th day of the year.  There are 122 days remaining until the end of the year.

1535 Pope Paul II excommunicates King Henry VIII

1803 New lovers Meri Lewis and Billy Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 o clock in the morning.

1897 Thomas Edison patents his movie camera (Kinetograph).  25¢ peep shows start the following week.

1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris

1948 Actor Robert Mitchum is arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He will later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and be sentenced to 60 days in prison.

1955 1st microwave TV station begins operations in what was Lufkin, Texas

2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.  Who's bright idea was it to drive cattle through downtown Baghdad?

2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream (also known as Fellatio Wait) is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

12 Gaius Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), omnisexual bat-shit crazy Roman emperor and god  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula

1935 [Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver, US author/Black Panther leader/serial rapist/Mormon 

1940 Jack Thompson [John Hadley Payne], Australian actor 

1949 Richard Gere, US actor 

1955 Edwin Moses, US Olympic gold medal hurdler 

1967 Jonathan Cake, English actor 

1969 Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor 

1969 Andrew Cunanan, gay US spree killer/killed Gianni Versace 

1970 Zack Ward, maybe gay Canadian actor 

1977 Del Marquis [Derek Gruen], gay US guitarist/Scissor Sisters 

1978 Mike Erwin, maybe gay US actor 

1981 Joe Swanberg, US filmmaker/actor 

1862 Ignaz Assmayer, maybe gay Austrian composer/organ master, gets topped

1997 Dodi Al-Fayed [Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed], Egyptian film producer (F/X), has his own chariots of fire moment with. . .

1997 HRH Diana, Princess of Wales, divorced English royal, becomes the Queen of Hearts