August 22 is the 235th day of the year. There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.
565 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness. Of course, Columba is an Irishman. . .
1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers who were notoriously fancy dressers and cut-ups. Nyuk. Nyuk. Nyuk.
1715 Handel’s Watermusic premiers on the Thames.
1818 Grand Duchy of Bathe forms
1864 Geneva Convention is signed in blood by 12 nations and hence, the International Red Cross forms
1877 Nez Perce Indians flee into Yellowstone National Park which isn’t a national park yet.
1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded and subsequently. . .
1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 1st Victor Victrola is manufactured
1944 Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed. It isn't.
1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup, stirs up a bunch of shit about Domino’s Pizza winning hearts and minds. The ho.
1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed and longtime lovers must part, alas.
1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry. Ooh, juicy gossip. . .
. . .I wonder who is named as co-respondent?
1988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1995 S-s-s-smokin' hot FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Starts some major shit.
1918 Mary McGrory, maybe gay US journalist and columnist/Nixon's enemy list
1924 James Kirkwood, Jr., gay US author/playwright/A chorus Line, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
May 16 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 219 days remaining until the end of time.
1763 Samuel Johnson meats his future boy-biographer, James Boswell, in London
1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1868 President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1891 George A Hormel and Company introduces Spam
1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy leads off for the Reds against Luther "Dummy" Taylor of the NYGiants. Reds win 5-3
1965 The date marking the end of civilization: The Campbell Soup Company introduces Spaghetti-Os under its Franco-American brand.
1975 Wings release the homoerotic homage to sado-masochism, "Listen to What the Man Said," in UK
1986 "Top Gun" premieres starring at least one homosexual
1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
2005 Sony's PlayStation 3 makes it's debut at the E3 trade show
1919 Liberace, gay US pianist/TV host/actor/entertainer
1953 Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor/Remington Steele/James Bond #5
