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| August 6 is the 219th day of the year. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1890 Denton True "Cy[clone]" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game |
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| 1926 IT'S ALIVE!: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel to burn off the calories from the rich French food. |
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| 1930 New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater disappears in New York City |
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| 1945 Atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima at 8:16 a.m. from the B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbits |
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| 1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout |
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| 1961 1st case of motion sickness in space is reported |
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| 1964 Prometheus, a 5,000 year-old bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down in its prime. It was probably for a good cause. . . |
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| 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks |
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| 1973 Stevie Wonder is involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma. Stevie was driving. |
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| 1986 Sydney gets a spot of rain when a low-pressure system dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day. |
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| 1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances |
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| 1991 It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
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| 1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. |
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| 1809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, gay English poet Laureate for most of Queen Victoria's reign http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson |
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| 1844 James Henry Greathead, maybe gay, brilliantly named, South African-born English engineer,built tunnels for subways and railroads |
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| 1908 Will Lee, maybe gay US actor/Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper |
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| 1928 Andy Warhol [Andrew Varchola, Jr.], gay US painter/filmmaker/the art of pop art |
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| 1938 Paul Bartel, gay US director/writer/actor |
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| 1947 Oliver Tobias [Freitag], Swiss actor/director |
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| 1957 Jim McGreevey, Gay American/former NJ Govenor |
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| 1971 Alex Avery, maybe gay English actor |
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| 1972 Jason O'Mara, Irish actor |
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| 1975 Jamie McGonnigal, gay US actor |
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| 1980 Leo Alkemade, maybe gay Dutch actor/comedian |
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| 1982 Danny Lopes, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1982 Karl Davies, English actor |
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| 1890 William Kemmler, US murderer, is first to be executed in electric chair (NY). Read the news and eye-witness accounts. Ain't technology wonderful? |
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| 1978 Paul VI [Giovanni Montini], probably gay Italian Pope (1963-78), meets the boss |
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| 2009 John Hughes, American film director (Mr. Mom, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), is a victim of weird science. |
