September 1 is the 245th day of the year. There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.
1689 Russia began taxing men's beards. I wonder how much Kelly would fetch.
1807 Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason on charges of plotting to set up an empire, but guilty of being über hot
1830 Sarah Josepha Hale publishes Mary Had A Little Lamb. Iron Chef Morimoto does the honors.
1862 Federal tax is levied on tobacco. What?!?! Next they’ll want to tax our incomes.
1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as last king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande. Of course, he doesn’t know he would be the last. . .
1926 Turkey allows civil marriage, although anyone who has ever been married will attest there is no such thing as a "civil" marriage. However, in each marriage there is usually one turkey.
1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1979 L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man--check that, the only boy--to win U.S. Tennis Open match
1989 "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 804 performances
2006 Luxembourg becomes the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
1864 Sir Roger David Casement [Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn], gay Irish martyr/British consul, famous for reporting civil and human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru. When he turned to his own country and the rights of the Irish, he was arrested, tried, and hanged by the Brits for treason. The verdict prompted much outrage and sympathy for Casement, so the British produced his "black diaries" in which it became apparent that Sir Roger liked them young and hung. Those agitating on his behalf were silenced. They didn't really hang him for treason, they hanged him for sucking cock.
1899 Richard Arlen [Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore], US leading man on man kisser.
1966 Tim Hardaway, homophobic US basketball player. Want to teach him a lesson he'll never forget? Print the picture. Cum on it. Send it to Tim as fan mail.
1973 J. D. Fortune [Jason Dean Bennison], maybe gay Canadian singer
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
