August 29th

August 29 is the 242nd day of the year.  There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.

1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle–a very uncomfortable motorcycle.

1896 Chop suey is invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese ambassador

1904 3rd modern Olympic Games open in Estièlmeaux

1916 Congress creates US Naval Reserve.  Ooh, baby—sailors on tap to tap

1967 SPOILER ALERT:  "Fugitive" Dr. Richard Kimball is exonerated when the one-armed man falls off the carnival ride.

1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench although his dick was still there technically.

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq, proving once again that one shouldn’t let his mouth write a check that his ass can’t cash.

1991 John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney–undoubtedly due to excellent briefs

2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the US Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.

1844 Edward Carpenter, gay English poet/socialist agitator/activist 

1922 Richard Selzer aka Mr. Blackwell, gay US fashion critic 

1938 Elliott Gould, US actor/former Mr Streissand 

1939 Joel Schumacher, gay US director 

1958 Michael Jackson, maybe gay US King of Pop 

1972 Bae Yong-Jun, Korean actor 

1975 Pelle Hvenegaard, maybe gay Danish actor  /

1975 Juan Diego Botto, Argentine actor 

1977 [Johannes] Jo Weil, German actor/Oliver “Olli” Sabel, Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) 

1981 Jay Ryan [Jay Bunyan], Australian actor 

29 John the Baptist, maybe gay Palestinian apocalyptic prophet, gives head and gets served

1971 Nathan Leopold, infamous queer/convicted US kidnapper/murderer (Little Bobby Franks, 1924), cannot hire Clarence Darrow to argue this case.

1987 Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), paints his wagon before abandoning the ship of fools

1993 Dorian Corey, gay US female impersonator/actor (Paris is Burning), succumbs to AIDS at 56

May 23rd

May 23 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 212 days remaining until the end of time.

1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals

1829 Accordion patent granted in Vienna to Cyrill Demian— aka SATAN.

1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players in Philadelphia. The one-armed guys win 34-11.

1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee (after DiMaggio) to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning, but he's sprouting more wood than Joltin’ Joe.  I’m just saying. . .

1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy"

1979 "Kids Are All Right" is released all over the world, except Ireland.  Like "Tommy," it is later made into a movie.

1994 Finale of Star Trek The Next Generation starring Sir Patrick Stewart airs. . .again this week in syndication

1883 Douglas Fairbanks, US actor/writer/producer/director/executive 

1912 John Payne, cleft-chinned US actor/singer 

1933 Joan Collins, English actress/Alexis Colby Carrington Dexter Rowan/The Bitch 

1958 Lea Delaria, gay US comedienne/jazz singer 

1960 Linden Ashby, US actor 

1965 Tom Tykwer, maybe gay German director 

1967 Wotan Wilke Mohring, German actor 

1970 Carlos Evelyn, Brazilian actor 

1971 Eric Nies, US model/reality series star/TV host/naked dog rescuer 

1975 Jason Land, gay US actor 

1980 Ben Ross, Australian rugger 

1983 Tommy DeLuca, gay US actor 

1984 Ross Davenport, English swimmer 

1701 Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate, has his giblets gibbeted.
    When the courts wished to make a particular example of a criminal, e.g. a highwayman, mail robber or murderer, they could order the additional punishment of gibbeting (also known as hanging in chains). After the hanging, the prisoner would be stripped and their body dipped into molten pitch or tar and then, when it had cooled, be re-dressed and placed into an iron cage that surrounded the head, torso and upper legs. The cage was riveted together and then suspended from either the original gallows or a purpose built gibbet. The body was left as a grim reminder to local people and could stay on the gibbet for a year or more until it rotted away or was eaten by birds, etc.

 

1934 With all due respect to Chubby Checker, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, US outlaws, invent the twist. 

1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue and Gray, Dr. Strangelove), doesn’t make this a long goodbye