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| August 24 is the 237th day of the year. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 410 Rome is overrun by Visigoths leading to the fall of Western Roman Empire |
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| 1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid — ironically, the Magna Carta asserts the rights of the innocent |
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| 1814 British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings. |
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| 1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum [who is, undoubtedly, blessed by God] in Saratoga Springs, New York |
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| 1858 In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning to read and cipher. . .and eating potato chips |
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| 1967 Yippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up--the greedy bastards |
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| 1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder. His parole is denied again for the seventh time in 2012. |
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| 1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes |
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| 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling which seriously impacts his future earnings |
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| 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head and birthmark of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 2006 Pluto is demoted to a pet planet status |
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| 2008 Beijing Olympic games end colorfully, and freedom and democracy spontaneously breaks out in China. Okay, maybe not. |
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| 1591 Robert Herrick, probably gay English poet/cleric/rosebud gatherer |
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| 1899 Jorge Luis Borges, gay Argentine novelist and poet |
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| 1945 Vince McMahon, maybe latent homosexual US wrestling promoter/WWE founder, shows his ass... |
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| rims... |
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| is rimmed |
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| 1957 Stephen Fry, gay English actor/writer/wit |
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| 1958 Steve Guttenberg, US actor |
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| 1961 Jared Harris, English actor |
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| 1968 [Michael] Jason Nesmith, maybe gay US actor/musician/Monkee spawn |
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| 1969 Pierfrancesco Favino, maybe gay Italian actor (2nd from left) |
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| 1973 Carmine Giovinazzo, US actor |
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| 1976 Alex O'Loughlin [Alexander O'Lachlan], Australian actor/Hawaii 5-0 |
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| 1975 [Simon] James D'Arcy, maybe gay English actor |
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| 1980 Brett Wilde, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1980 Ivan DeMorais, gay Brazilian pornographic actor |
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| 1981 Chad Michael Murray, US actor |
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| 1981 Tomas Fonzi, maybe gay Argentine actor |
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| 1981 Lorenzo Porzio, maybe gay Italian rower/organist (bulge on left) |
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| 1983 Daniel Zubrinsky, Brazilian actor |
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| 1983 Christopher Parker, gay English actor |
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| 1987 Bayard Rustin, gay US civil rights activist, turns the red black and green of black liberation into a colorful rainbow flag |
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| 1988 Leonard Frey, gay US actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), succumbs to AIDS at 49 |
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| 2006 Cristian Nemescu, maybe gay Romanian film director (Marilena from P7), doesn’t finish California dreamin’ |
