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| August 8 is the 221st day of the year. There are 145 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors). Over-hyped. |
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| 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St. Helena |
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| 1854 Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges |
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| 1864 Red Cross forms in Geneva |
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| 1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C. I love a parade! |
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| 1963 16 men pull off the Great Train Robbery in England stealing more than £2.6 million (~£26 million in 2008) in bank notes on their way to be destroyed. |
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| 1973 US Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vows not to resign (Right!) |
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| 2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. |
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| 1879 Emiliano Zapata [Salazar], maybe gay Mexican revolutionary |
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| 1920 Jimmy Witherspoon, maybe gay US jump blues singer |
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| 1922 Rudi Gernreich, gay Austrian-born US fashion designer/co-founder of the Mattachine Society |
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| 1937 Dustin Hoffman, US actor |
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| 1944 John Holmes [John Curtis Estes], iconic US pornographic actor/AIDS victim |
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| 1949 Keith Carradine, US actor |
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| 1951 Randy Shilts, gay US journalist/writer/And the Band Played On, Conduct Unbecoming/AIDS victim |
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| 1952 Anton Fig, maybe gay South African drummer/David Letterman’s Late Night CBS Orchestra |
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| Still hot DILF ... |
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| 1955 Peter Speach, maybe gay US actor/October ‘79 Playgirl model |
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| 1961 Chris Freeman, gay US musician/Pansy Division |
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| 1962 Oliver Stokowski, German actor |
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| 1964 Jan-Josef Liefers, German actor |
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| 1967 Steve Callahan, gay US actor (with husband, Matthew Montgomery) |
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| 1970 Chris Beetem [Christopher Lapinski], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1972 Jorge Fernandez, Spanish actor |
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| 1973 Mark Wills [Daryl Mark Williams], maybe gay US singer |
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| 1974 Enzo Cilenti, English actor |
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| 1974 [Walter] Kohl Sudduth, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1976 [Joshua Scott] JC Chasez, maybe gay US singer / *N'SYNC |
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| 1980 Michael Urie, gay US actor |
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| 1980 Mike Hindert, maybe gay US bass guitarist |
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| 1984 Richard Deacon, gay US actor (Fred Rutherford-Leave It To Beaver, Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show), flips his lid |
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| 1991 Brad Davis, gay US actor (Roots, Querelle, Sybil, Midnight Express), succumbs to AIDS at 41 |
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| 2007 Joybubbles [Josef Carl Engressia, Jr.], notable US phone phreak/genius, hangs up. Read more about this amazing gentle man here. |
