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| August 23 is the 236th day of the year. There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 79 Mount Vesuvius cums |
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| 1869 1st carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco from Boston |
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| 1947 President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert is not well-received |
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| 1948 World Council of Churches is formed although they cannot decide on the shape of the table. |
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| 1970 Organized by US union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins. F--- you, vegans! |
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| 1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. |
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| 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City. I see no defects whatsoever! |
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| 1995 Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant |
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| 2006 Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, manages to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity. This begins the series of Austrian kink reports. |
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| 1940 Richard Sanders, maybe gay US actor /Les Nesman/"Oh the humanity!" |
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| 1946 Keith Moon, English singer/songwriter/drummer (The Who) |
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| 1949 Rick Springfield [Richard Lewis Springthorpe], Australian singer/songwriter/musician/actor |
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| 1954 Charles Busch, gay US actor/writer/female impersonator (and as Angela Arden in Die, Mommie, Die!) |
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| 1956 Skipp Sudduth [Robert Lee Sudduth IV], maybe gay US actor/Kohl’s brother |
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| 1960 Chris Potter, Canadian actor/Queer as Folk |
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| 1960 Rod Phillips [Gregory Leslie Patton], gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1965 Ken “Flex” Wheeler, maybe gay US body-builder |
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| 1966 Charley Boorman, English actor/writer/biker |
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| 1970 [Jon] Jay Mohr, US actor/comedian |
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| 1970 River Phoenix [River Jude Bottom], US actor |
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| 1971 Aaron Douglas, Canadian actor |
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| 1972 Jim Thalman, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1976 Scott Caan, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1978 James Bulliard, gay Swiss-born Canadian actor |
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| 1978 Kobe Bryant, US basketball player/flagrantly heterosexual/Olympic gold medalist |
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| 1981 Oscar "Ozzy" Lusth, Mexican actor/reality TV personality (Survivor: Cook Islands) |
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| 1981 Sam Horrigan, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1540 Guillaume Budé, French humanist who is most famous for his treatise, “De Asse et Partibus”, is remembered for his perfect partibus asse that gave rise to “budé’s” popularity as a slang term for the ages |
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| 1914 Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, is executed by German troops at 3 weeks for unknown crimes |
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| 1926 Rudolph Valentino [Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla], Italian silent movie idol (Sheik), crushes a billion fantasies |
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| 1992 Wayne McLaren, maybe gay US actor/rodeo cowboy/model/Marlboro Man, gets smoked |
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| 2001 Kathleen Freeman, gay US actress (Too Much, Too Soon), gets too little, too late |
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| 2010 George David Weiss, maybe gay US composer ("What a Wonderful World", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), can’t help falling. |
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| 2010 Gareth Williams, probably gay British intelligence officer, gets his freak on for the last |
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