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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:52 pm
July 30th 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:53 pm
July 30th 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:53 pm
July 30th 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:53 pm
July 30th 1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:53 pm
July 30th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:54 pm
July 30th 1866 – New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:55 pm
July 30th 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:55 pm
July 30th 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:55 pm
July 30th 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:55 pm
July 30th 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:55 pm
July 30th 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:56 pm
July 30th 1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:57 pm
July 30th 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:57 pm
July 30th 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:57 pm
July 30th 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:57 pm
July 30th 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:57 pm
July 30th 1974 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:58 pm
July 30th 1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:58 pm
July 30th 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 1:58 pm
July 30th 1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:00 pm
July 30th 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:00 pm
July 30th 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:00 pm
July 30th 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:00 pm
July 30th 1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:00 pm
July 30th 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:01 pm
July 30th 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:01 pm
July 30th 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:01 pm
July 30th 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
I remember that day well!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 2:02 pm
July 30th 2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:30 pm
July 31st 30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:30 pm
July 31st 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:30 pm
July 31st 904 – Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:30 pm
July 31st 1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:31 pm
July 31st 1200 – Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:31 pm
July 31st 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:31 pm
July 31st 1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:31 pm
July 31st 1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:31 pm
July 31st 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:33 pm
July 31st 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:34 pm
July 31st 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
http://unitedcats.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/spanish_armada.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:34 pm
July 31st 1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:35 pm
July 31st 1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:35 pm
July 31st 1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:35 pm
July 31st 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:35 pm
July 31st 1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:36 pm
July 31st1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:36 pm
July 31st 1790 – First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:36 pm
July 31st 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:36 pm
July 31st 1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:37 pm
July 31st 1895 – The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Basque nationalist leader Sabino Arana.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:38 pm
July 31st 1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:38 pm
July 31st 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:38 pm
July 31st 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:39 pm
July 31st 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
Is this show still running today?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:40 pm
July 31st 1932 – The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:40 pm
July 31st 1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:41 pm
July 31st 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:41 pm
July 31st 1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:41 pm
July 31st 1940 – A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:41 pm
July 31st 1941 – Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:42 pm
July 31st 1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:43 pm
July 31st 1945 – John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:43 pm
July 31st 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:43 pm
July 31st 1951 – Japan Airlines is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:43 pm
July 31st 1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:44 pm
July 31st 1959 – The Basque separatist organisation ETA is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:44 pm
July 31st 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:45 pm
July 31st 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:45 pm
July 31st 1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:45 pm
July 31st 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:47 pm
July 31st 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
http://isaiahtwofour.com/images/Apollo_15_Lunar_Rover_and_Irwin.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:49 pm
July 31st 1972 – Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:49 pm
July 31st 1972 – Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:49 pm
July 31st 1972 – Three car bombs are detonated in Claudy, Northern Ireland, killing nine in what is believed to be a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:50 pm
July 31st 1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:50 pm
July 31st 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:50 pm
July 31st 1981 – General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:51 pm
July 31st 1981 – 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:51 pm
July 31st 1981 – A total solar eclipse occurs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:51 pm
July 31st 1987 – A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:52 pm
July 31st 1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:52 pm
July 31st 1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:52 pm
July 31st 1992 – A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:52 pm
July 31st 1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:52 pm
July 31st 1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:53 pm
July 31st 2002 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:53 pm
July 31st 2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:53 pm
July 31st 2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/10 at 11:56 pm
July 31st 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
http://www.harrybishop.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/face_on_mars.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/10 at 1:29 am
August 1st 1981 – The American cable television network MTV, the first dedicated video-based outlet for music, made its debut with the music video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/01/10 at 6:57 am
August 1st 1981 – The American cable television network MTV, the first dedicated video-based outlet for music, made its debut with the music video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
and next year will make it 30 years.MTV has come a long way since The Buggles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/10 at 7:03 am
and next year will make it 30 years.MTV has come a long way since The Buggles.
..and no music is played on that channel!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/01/10 at 7:05 am
..and no music is played on that channel!
no more,all reality shows.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/10 at 7:07 am
no more,all reality shows.
...and not the best of shows!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/10 at 7:07 am
no more,all reality shows.
Should now be called RTV?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/01/10 at 7:09 am
Should now be called RTV?
Yeah,that's what it should be called.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/10 at 7:14 am
Yeah,that's what it should be called.
Also the R could stand for something else?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/01/10 at 12:42 pm
Also the R could stand for something else?
Rated R? ???
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/10 at 12:47 pm
Rated R? ???
R, think fly tipping?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/02/10 at 6:45 am
R, think fly tipping?
refuse?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:48 pm
August 4th 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:49 pm
August 4th 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:50 pm
August 4th 1265 – Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:50 pm
August 4th 1532 – the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:50 pm
August 4th 1578 – Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:51 pm
August 4th 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:51 pm
August 4th 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:52 pm
August 4th 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:52 pm
August 4th 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:52 pm
August 4th 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:53 pm
August 4th 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:53 pm
August 4th 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:53 pm
August 4th 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:53 pm
August 4th 1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:54 pm
August 4th 1873 – Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:54 pm
August 4th 1892 – The parents of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:54 pm
August 4th 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:55 pm
August 4th 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
That is one thing I still have not done yet!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:55 pm
August 4th 1906 – Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 12:55 pm
August 4th 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:01 pm
August 4th 1916 – World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:01 pm
August 4th 1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:02 pm
August 4th 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:02 pm
August 4th 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:02 pm
August 4th 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:02 pm
August 4th 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:03 pm
August 4th 1954 – The Government of Pakistan approves Qaumi Tarana, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla, as the national anthem.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:03 pm
August 4th 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:03 pm
August 4th 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:03 pm
August 4th 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:03 pm
August 4th 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:04 pm
August 4th 1969 – Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
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August 4th 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:04 pm
August 4th 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:06 pm
August 4th 1977 – US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:07 pm
August 4th 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:07 pm
August 4th 1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:07 pm
August 4th 1991 – The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:08 pm
August 4th 1993 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:09 pm
August 4th 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
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August 4th 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:10 pm
August 4th 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:10 pm
August 4th 2006 – A massacre, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:10 pm
August 4th 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/10 at 1:10 pm
August 4th 2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US$800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:42 pm
August 5th 642 – Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:43 pm
August 5th 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:43 pm
August 5th 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:43 pm
August 5th 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:43 pm
August 5th 1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:44 pm
August 5th 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:44 pm
August 5th 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:44 pm
August 5th 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:45 pm
August 5th 1689 – 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:46 pm
August 5th 1716 – The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:46 pm
August 5th 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:46 pm
August 5th 1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:46 pm
August 5th 1772 – The First Partition of Poland begins.
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August 5th 1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:47 pm
August 5th 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:47 pm
August 5th 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:47 pm
August 5th 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:47 pm
August 5th 1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:47 pm
August 5th 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:47 pm
August 5th 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:48 pm
August 5th 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:49 pm
August 5th 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:49 pm
August 5th 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:49 pm
August 5th 1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:49 pm
August 5th 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:49 pm
August 5th 1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:50 pm
August 5th 1914 – World War I: the German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles of the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:50 pm
August 5th 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:51 pm
August 5th 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that was at the time in danger of dying out.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:51 pm
August 5th 1940 – World War II: the Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:51 pm
August 5th 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:51 pm
August 5th 1944 – Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:52 pm
August 5th 1949 – In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:52 pm
August 5th 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:54 pm
August 5th 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:55 pm
August 5th 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:55 pm
August 5th 1963 – The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:55 pm
August 5th 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:55 pm
August 5th 1969 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:56 pm
August 5th 1974 – Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:56 pm
August 5th 1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:56 pm
August 5th 1981 – Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:56 pm
August 5th 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:56 pm
August 5th 1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/10 at 12:57 pm
August 5th 2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:27 pm
August 6th 1284 – The Italian Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:27 pm
August 6th 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:27 pm
August 6th 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:28 pm
August 6th 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:28 pm
August 6th 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:28 pm
August 6th 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:28 pm
August 6th 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:28 pm
August 6th 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:29 pm
August 6th 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:29 pm
August 6th 1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:29 pm
August 6th 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:29 pm
August 6th 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:31 pm
August 6th 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:32 pm
August 6th 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:32 pm
August 6th 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:32 pm
August 6th 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:32 pm
August 6th 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:33 pm
August 6th 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:33 pm
August 6th 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:33 pm
August 6th 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:33 pm
August 6th 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:33 pm
August 6th 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:34 pm
August 6th 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears to be never seen again.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:34 pm
August 6th 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:34 pm
August 6th 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:37 pm
August 6th 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:37 pm
August 6th 1960 – Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:38 pm
August 6th 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:38 pm
August 6th 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:38 pm
August 6th 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:38 pm
August 6th 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:39 pm
August 6th 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:39 pm
August 6th 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:41 pm
August 6th 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.August 6th 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:41 pm
August 6th 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:41 pm
August 6th 1991 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:41 pm
August 6th 1993 – Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyūshū, Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:41 pm
August 6th 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:42 pm
August 6th 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:42 pm
August 6th 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:43 pm
August 6th 1965 - Beatles release "Help" album in UK
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:43 pm
August 6th 1984 - Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/10 at 12:44 pm
August 6th 1801 - The Great Religious Revival of the American West began at a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:17 am
August 7th 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:18 am
August 7th 1679 – Le Griffon, a brigantine built by René-Robert de LaSalle (pictured), became the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:18 am
August 7th 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invoked the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:19 am
August 7th 1927 – The official opening ceremony of the Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York, at the east end of Lake Erie was held two months after it opened to the public.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:19 am
August 7th 1933 – Many of an estimated 3,000 Assyrians were slaughtered by Iraqi troops during the Simele massacre in the Dahuk and Mosul districts.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:19 am
August 7th 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:20 am
August 7th 1947 – An expedition led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on his raft, the Kon-Tiki, completed a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:20 am
August 7th 1998 – Car bombs simultaneously exploded at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing over 200 people and injuring over 4,500 others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/10 at 2:21 am
August 7th 1947 – An expedition led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on his raft, the Kon-Tiki, completed a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.poliza.de/starship/sciencenew/images/Kon_Tiki_md.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/10 at 1:36 am
August 8th 1870 – Liberal radicals in Ploieşti, Romania, revolted against Romanian Domnitor Carol I, only to be arrested the next day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/10 at 1:36 am
August 8th 1876 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph machine, a printing device that was one of the forerunners to the photocopier.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/10 at 1:36 am
August 8th 1918 – The Battle of Amiens began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/10 at 1:37 am
August 8th 1963 – In one of the largest robberies in British history, a gang of 15 train robbers stole £2.6 million in bank notes at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/10 at 1:37 am
August 8th 1988 – The 8888 Uprising, a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party in Burma, began.
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Written By: Howard on 08/08/10 at 7:21 am
August 8th,1974 Nixon announces his resignation.
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Written By: nally on 08/09/10 at 4:39 pm
August 8th,1974 Nixon announces his resignation.
...which was effective the very next day, August 9, 1974. :D As Nixon resigned from the presidency, Gerald Ford succeeded him, becoming the first president to have never been elected to the Presidency or the Vice Presidency! (That's because he had been appointed VP after Spiro Agnew resigned from the position.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/10 at 3:43 pm
August 13th 2004 – Hurricane Charley struck Florida, just 22 hours after Tropical Storm Bonnie inflicted its own damage to the U.S. state.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 3:46 am
August 14th 1842 – American Indian Wars: United States general William Jenkins Worth declared the Second Seminole War to be over.