08-05-2010, 07:57 PM
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Location: Maryland
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August 6th
1809 ~ Birthday of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet.
1881 ~ Birthday of Alexander Fleming, awarded he Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.
1943 ~ Birthday of Jon Postel, creator of DNS.
1945 ~ A nuclear bomb codenamed Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima.
1961 ~ Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov spent a day in orbit.
1965 ~ U.S. release of the Beatles’ album "Help!".
1972 ~ Birthday of Geri Halliwell, British Pop Singer (Spice Girls).
1990 ~ The UN Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee released his idea for the "World Wide Web".
2002 ~ Death of Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist.
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