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08-30-2010, 07:02 PM
jseal
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August 31st
1879
~
Birthday of
Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel
. This woman knew how to live!
1888
~
Mary Ann Nichols murdered. She was perhaps the first of
Jack the Ripper
's victims.
1918
~
Birthday of Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (
Brigadoon
,
Paint Your Wagon
,
My Fair Lady
).
1945
~
Birthday of Itzhak Perlman, Violinist.
1945
~
Birthday of
Van Morrison
, Irish musician (“Brown-Eyed Girl", "Moondance" and "Domino").
1962
~
Trinidad and Tobago became independent.
1980
~
Solidarity labor union formed
in Poland.
1997
~
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
, in a car crash in Paris.
1998
~
North Korea reportedly launched its first satellite.
2006
~
Edvard Munch
's famous
painting
The Scream is recovered.
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