August 30th

August 30 is the 243rd day of the year.  There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.

1574 Guru Ram D’ass becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Buttfuck Master

 

1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins.

1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1979 President Carter is attacked by a killer commie rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia

1979 1st recorded occurrence—commie comet attacks the sun releasing energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)

1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points, but really, who cares?

1924 Geoffrey Beene, gay US fashion designer 

1944 [Mary] Molly Ivins, maybe gay US political pundit 

1951 Timothy Bottoms, US actor 

1969 Marco Hofschneider, maybe gay German actor 

1970 Derek and Drew Riker, twin US models/The Amazing Race contestants/celebrity photographers 

1974 Seth William Meier, maybe gay US actor 

1976 Lillo Brancato Jr, maybe gay now Colombian-born US actor/lifer 

1977 Elden Henson [Elden Ryan Ratliff], maybe gay US actor 

1977 Felix Sanchez, US-born Dominican Olympic gold medal 400m hurdler/ferret smuggler 

1979 Leon Lopez, maybe gay English actor/singer/songwriter 

1983 Akihiro Sato, maybe gay Japanese Brazilian actor/model 

1963 Guy Burgess, gay English-born Soviet spy, visits another country.

1994 Lindsay Anderson, maybe gay English film director (If....), doesn’t look back in anger.

2003 Charles Bronson, tough US actor (Death Wish), gets his wish

2008 Walter "Killer" Kowalski [Edward Władysław Spulnik], maybe gay giant Canadian professional wrestler, gets pinned.

July 18th

July 18 is the 200th day of the year.  There are 166 days remaining until the end of the year.

64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle; he lyred)

1801 Matthew Flinders leaves England to circumnavigate and map Australia, the name he gives to the continent. I guess he didn't pay attention to Amerigo Vespucci’s precedent in continent naming.

1863 Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island – the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails in their assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner. The deserving movie fails to win the Oscar. . .

1870 Papal infallibility is proclaimed . . . by the Pope.

1936 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile takes to the roads

1969 Teddy Kennedy swims away from Chappaquiddick Island. Mary Jo Kopechne doesn’t.

1984 McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. Service at McDonald’s has improved significantly ever since.

2003 Kobe Bryant is charged with sexually assaulting a 19 year girl who willingly went to his hotel room, most assuredly intending to read him passages from the Book of Mormon.

1940 James Brolin [Craig Kenneth Bruderlin], actor / Mr Streissand 

1940 Gerald Grant, gay US actor

1950 Glenn Hughes, maybe gay US singer/Village People Biker

1966 Dan O'Brien, US decathlete 

1967 Vin Diesel [Mark Sinclair Vincent], US actor 

1968 Grant Bowler, Kiwi actor 

1972 Rafael Alencar, gay Brazilian pornographic actor 

1981 Miguel Avramovic, Argentine rugger 

1710 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, gay Italian painter, gets to meet his hunky Jesus

1817 Jane Austen, writer, sexually frustrated English author, loses her sense and sensibilities