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| August 14 is the 227th day of the year. There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1281 Kublai Khan’s invading fleet disappears in divine typhoon (Kamikaze) near Nagasaki, Japan. At least one of the 900 ships will be discovered in 2010. |
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| 1642 Hoping for better luck than Kublai Khan, Abel Tasman’s ships Zeehaen and Heemskerck depart out of Batavia |
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| 1842 Seminole War ends; Indians begin trail of tears from Florida to Oklahoma |
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| 1873 "Field and Stream" begins publishing is homo-suggestive articles |
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| 1893 France issues 1st driving licenses requiring a test |
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| 1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing and end Boxer rebellion. 2,000 marines against 2 million Chinamen not on Kublai Khan's ships? Please. There’s just so much bullshit any one can human believe. |
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| 1908 The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England. |
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| 1935 United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired. |
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| 1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. I just got this great idea for a new reality show. . . |
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| 1945 V-J Day: Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II |
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| 1974 Congress authorizes U.S. citizens to own gold; some people can’t handle it |
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| 1980 Hunky troublemaker Lech Walesa leads strikes at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards. |
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| 2000 Two onboard torpedoes explode on the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea, which eventually killed all onboard, despite a massive international rescue operation |
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| 1851 John Henry “Doc” Holliday, maybe gay US dentist/card sharp/gunfighter |
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| 1945 Steve Martin, US actor/comedian/writer/banjo player |
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| 1953 James Horner, maybe gay US composer/movie scorer (Titanic) |
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| 1955 Greg Bradford, US actor |
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| 1959 Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Jr., US basketball player and kisser/AIDS survivor and activist |
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| 1966 Rex Chandler [Paul D. Fow], gay-for-pay US legitimate and pornographic actor/military police officer |
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| 1968 Adrian Lester, English actor |
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| 1970 Alexander Armstrong, English actor/comedian |
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| 1971 Luigi Baricelli, Brazilian actor |
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| 1971 Peter Franzén, Finnish actor |
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| 1971 Raoul Bova, criminally beautiful Italian actor/model |
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| 1972 Jay Manuel, gay US make-up artist/photographer/America’s Top Model |
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| 1973 Patrick “Paddy” McGuinness, English comedian/actor |
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| 1976 Steve Braun, maybe gay Canadian actor |
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| 1976 Will Lemay, bisexual Canadian model/actor |
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| 1976 Alex Albrecht, gay US actor/host |
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| 1978 Major Dodge, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1982 Benjamin Cohen, gay English journalist/founder of Pink News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Cohen_%28journalist%29 |
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| 1987 Tim Tebow, US Christianist football player/virgin |
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| 2006 Bruno Kirby [Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr.], American actor, is truly an American tragedy |
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| 2007 Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna, is pushed over |
