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| August 17 is the 230th day of the year. There are 136 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River |
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| 1859 1st airmail (in a balloon) takes off from Lafayette, Indiana, but doesn’t get there any faster |
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| 1891 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath) |
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| 1903 Joseph Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes although Daddy Joe is a prize in himself <yum> |
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| 1945 Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published |
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| 1957 Richie Ashburn’s foul balls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat. 1st one breaks her nose, second one while she is on the stretcher |
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| 1958 World's 1st moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec. Premature . . . |
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| 1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins. Kinda sloppy workmanship for Germans. . . |
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| 1978 Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine, with an important letter, no doubt! |
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| 1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres |
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| 1982 The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany. Now this is the German craftsmanship we have come to know and expect. |
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| 1997 Macy's Tap-o-mania crumbles the pavement on 34th Street. Not a miracle. |
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| 1888 Edgar Montillion “Monty” Woolley, gay US actor |
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| 1933 Glenn Corbett [Glenn Rothenburg], US actor |
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| 1943 Robert DeNiro, US actor/director |
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| 1953 Kevin Rowland, English cross-dressing singer of Dexy's Midnight Runners |
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| 1960 Sean Penn, US actor/director |
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| 1963 Matt Scoggin, US Olympic diver/coach |
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| 1968 Jackie Warner, gay US gym and spa owner/Work Out |
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| 1968 Anthony E Zuiker, maybe gay US tv producer/writer/creator all of the CSIs |
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| 1969 Donnie Wahlberg, US singer/actor/New Kids On the Block/Mark's big bro |
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| 1972 Jason Schnuit, actor |
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| 1972 Jason Nikas, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1973 David Bromstad, gay US interior designer/HG Design Star |
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| 1975 Guy Arieli, Israeli singer/boybander/actor/model |
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| 1975 Ilhan Mansiz, Turkish soccer player. We'll just have to take his word that it's mansize. |
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| 1977 Edu del Prado, maybe gay Spanish actor/musician |
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| 1977 Thierry Henry, French soccer player |
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| 1978 Mehdi Baala, French middle distance runner and ferret smuggler |
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| 1979 Marcus Patric [Patrick Henry Gosling], English actor |
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| 1986 Tobias Schönenberg, German model/actor, also a ferret smuggler |
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| 1989 Frederick Lau, German actor |
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| 1980 Dani Guiza, Spanish soccer player |
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| 1979 Vivian Vance, US actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), needs some vitameatavegemin in a hurry |
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| 1992 Tommy Nutter, English fashion designer (bell bottom pants), succumbs to AIDS at 49 |
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| 1992 Al Parker [Andrew "Drew" Okun], American adult film actor/producer/director Inches), succumbs to AIDS at 40. May light perpetual shine on him. Love you forever, Al.♥ |
