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| July 18 is the 200th day of the year. There are 166 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle; he lyred) |
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| 1801 Matthew Flinders leaves England to circumnavigate and map Australia, the name he gives to the continent. I guess he didn't pay attention to Amerigo Vespucci’s precedent in continent naming. |
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| 1863 Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island – the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails in their assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner. The deserving movie fails to win the Oscar. . . |
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| 1870 Papal infallibility is proclaimed . . . by the Pope. |
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| 1936 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile takes to the roads |
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| 1969 Teddy Kennedy swims away from Chappaquiddick Island. Mary Jo Kopechne doesn’t. |
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| 1984 McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. Service at McDonald’s has improved significantly ever since. |
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| 2003 Kobe Bryant is charged with sexually assaulting a 19 year girl who willingly went to his hotel room, most assuredly intending to read him passages from the Book of Mormon. |
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| 1940 James Brolin [Craig Kenneth Bruderlin], actor / Mr Streissand |
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| 1940 Gerald Grant, gay US actor |
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| 1950 Glenn Hughes, maybe gay US singer/Village People Biker |
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| 1966 Dan O'Brien, US decathlete |
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| 1967 Vin Diesel [Mark Sinclair Vincent], US actor |
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| 1968 Grant Bowler, Kiwi actor |
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| 1972 Rafael Alencar, gay Brazilian pornographic actor |
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| 1981 Miguel Avramovic, Argentine rugger |
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| 1710 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, gay Italian painter, gets to meet his hunky Jesus |
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| 1817 Jane Austen, writer, sexually frustrated English author, loses her sense and sensibilities |
