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Old 08-24-2010, 08:24 PM
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August 25th

1835 ~ The New York Sun printed The Great Moon Hoax.

1875 ~ Matthew Webb became the first man to swim the English Channel.

1894 ~ Shibasaburo Kitasato discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and published his findings in The Lancet.

1900 ~ Birthday of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953.

1900 ~ Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.

1918 ~ Birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Conductor & Composer.

1944 ~ Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.

1982 ~ Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune.

1987 ~ Birthday of Whitney Stevens, Porn actress.

1991 ~ Linus Torvalds sent the email announcing his project to create the Linux operating system.
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