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July 31st
1556 ~ Death of Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits.
1886 ~ Death of Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Milton Friedman, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, 1976.
1917 ~ The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) started in Flanders. With casualties from both sides exceeding 550,000, the name Passcheddaele has come to be used as a synonym for pointless slaughter.
"...I died in Hell
(they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight
and I was hobbling back; and then a shell
burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell
into the bottomless mud, and lost the light"
Siegfried Sassoon
1941 ~ Hermann Göring ordered 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."
1964 ~ Ranger program: Ranger 7 sent back the first close-up photographs of the moon.
1965 ~ Birthday of J. K. Rowling, Author.
1970 ~ The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1991 ~ Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed in Moscow.
1999 ~ NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
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August 2nd
216 B.C. ~ Hannibal destroyed the double Consular Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Publius Terentius Varro in the Battle of Cannae.
1776 ~ Delegates to the Continental Congress began to sign the Declaration of Independence.
1876 ~ Death of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Gunfighter.
1921 ~ Death of Enrico Caruso, Italian Tenor.
1932 ~ Birthday of Peter O'Toole, Actor. (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter).
1934 ~ Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1939 ~ Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1943 ~ PT-109, commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy rammed and sunk.
1976 ~ Death of Fritz Lang, Film Director (Metropolis, M, Frau im Mond).
1990 ~ Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War.
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Sure doesn't seem like 20 years have passed since the first Gulf War started as a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, does it?
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Too true!
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August 3rd
1900 ~ Birthday of John T. Scopes, defendant in the “Monkey Trial”.
1924 ~ Death of Joseph Conrad, Author. (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim)
1924 ~ Birthday of Leon Uris, American Writer. (Exodus, QB VII)
1941 ~ Birthday of Martha Stewart, Media personality.
1943 ~ Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948 ~ Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground.
1958 ~ The USS Nautilus traveled beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1972 ~ U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2003 ~ The U.S. Anglican Church approved the appointment of an openly homosexual bishop.
2008 ~ Death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer.
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Far too many of these listing are 'events' for me rather than 'history'. 
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No, PF, anything before 1850 is definitely "history".
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I find them interesting.
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I just remember we had to memorize facts like these when I took history classes.  |
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Understanding what happened and why gives context to today's "history in the making".
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Everyone is invited to prepare their own posts to this thread. 
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