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August 28th
430 ~ Death of Augustine of Hippo, Philosopher, Theologian.
1749 ~ Birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philosopher, Scientist.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Author. His “The Law of Love and the Law of Violence” influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
1845 ~ First issue of Scientific American magazine published.
1850 ~ Richard Wagner's opera “Lohengrin” premiered, from which comes the Bridal Chorus, traditionally played at Western weddings, and commonly known as "Here Comes the Bride".
1897 ~ Birthday of Charles Boyer, Actor.
1963 ~ During a civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech.
Do yourself a favor; take a quarter of an hour out of your busy day and listen to it. This was the real deal.
1972 ~ During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz won his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
1990 ~ Iraq declared Kuwait to be a province of Iraq.
1996 ~ Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales were divorced.
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August 30th
1797 ~ Birthday of Mary Shelley, Author (Frankenstein).
1862 ~ Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va..
1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908.
1918 ~ Birthday of Baseball hall-of-famer Ted Williams.
1935 ~ Birthday of John Phillips, American singer (The Mamas and the Papas).
1940 ~ Death of J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. Prof. Thomson identified the electron as a subatomic particle, the first one to be discovered. In one of the greatest ironies of modern physics his son, G.P. Thomson later received the prize for proving that the electron was also, in fact, a wave.
1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.
1987 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.
2003 ~ Death of Charles Bronson, Actor.
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08-31-2007, 05:03 AM
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August 31st
1834 ~ Birthday of Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda - It contains "The Dance of the Hours").
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).
1935 ~ Birthday of Frank Robinson, Baseball Player, Manager.
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.
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Alma lived.
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09-01-2007, 04:22 AM
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09-02-2007, 05:13 AM
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September 2nd
31 B.C. ~ Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. This date is often used for the beginning of the Roman Empire.
1666 ~ The Great Fire of London started in Pudding Lane at the house of Thomas Farrinor near London Bridge. Samuel Pepys, a neighbor, was woken by the fire at around 1 AM. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1752 ~ The UK adopted the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1898 ~ The Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1901 ~ Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”.
1924 ~ Birthday of Daniel arap Moi, former president of Kenya.
1945 ~ The official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz from a delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bringing World War II to an end.
1964 ~ Death of Alvin York, Hero. He was the most decorated American soldier of World War I.
1969 ~ Death of Ho Chi Minh, Vietmamese Revolutionary, President & Prime Minister.
1973 ~ Death of J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer.
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09-03-2007, 07:23 AM
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Last edited by jseal : 09-03-2007 at 07:59 AM.
Reason: 1935 <> 1995 ~ Oops! ~ Thank you :)
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09-03-2007, 07:57 AM
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You're trying to trick us.
eBay, according to the absolutely trustable wiki, was founded 1995.
You're messing with my head, young fella.
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09-03-2007, 10:00 AM
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1875 : Ferdinand Porsche, father of the Porsche brand, is born
1937 : Orson Welles produces Les Miserables
1914 : Pope Benedict XV named to papacy
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09-04-2007, 12:33 PM
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September 4th
476 ~ Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.
1781 ~ Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula).
1824 ~ Birthday of Anton Bruckner, Composer.
1888 ~ George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak.
1891 ~ Birthday of Fritz Todt, developer of the German autobahn, the archtype for the limited access highway.
1907 ~ Death of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.
1957 ~ The Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Great Britain came to the conclusion that outlawing homosexuality impinged upon civil liberties.
1965 ~ Death of Albert Schweitzer, Physician, J.S. Bach interpreter, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1972 ~ Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1995 ~ Death of William Kunstler, Attorney.
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September 6th
1620 ~ The Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England, to settle in North America.
1766 ~ Birthday of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist. He was one of the earlier proponents of the atomic theory.
1847 ~ Henry Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1928 ~ Birthday of Robert Pirsig, Author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).
1941 ~ The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, was extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
1965 ~ India invaded West Pakistan.
1986 ~ In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization killed 22 and wounded six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Sabbath services.
1995 ~ Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2,131 consecutive baseball games.
1996 ~ Eddie Murray became the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.
2005 ~ The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the U.S. to approve same-sex marriages.
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September 7th
1776 ~ World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a bomb to the hull of the British flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
1908 ~ Birthday of Dr. Michael DeBakey, Heart Surgeon and inventor of the MASH.
1912 ~ Birthday of David Packard, Electrical Engineer.
1940 ~ The Blitz – Under orders from Adolf Hitler, the Luftwaffe began to bomb London. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
1977 ~ The U.S. agreed to transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1986 ~ Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1992 ~ Ciskei soldiers kill 24 at political rally.
1994 ~ Death of James Clavell, Author (Shogun) & Screenwriter (To Sir, with Love; The Great Escape).
1997 ~ Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire.
1998 ~ Google Inc. was founded.
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