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Lustig Andrei
 
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Fri 17 Aug, 2012 02:47 pm
@Lustig Andrei,
August 17

1987 -- Rudolph Hess, the last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau Prison, aged 93.
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saab
 
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Sat 18 Aug, 2012 09:42 am
18th of August
1201 Latvia`s capital Riga was founded.

Lustig Andrei
 
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Sun 19 Aug, 2012 04:15 pm
@saab,
Y'know, saab, I was born in Riga and I didn't know that!!!
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saab
 
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Sun 19 Aug, 2012 11:43 pm
1991 20th of August Estonia declares independence from UdSSR

1153 Bernhard of Clairvaux died. a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order. Patron saint of candle makers, wax melters and beekeepers.
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Mon 20 Aug, 2012 09:51 pm
August 20

1974 -- Gerald Ford officially assumes role of US President, following resignation of Richard M. Nixon.
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saab
 
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Mon 20 Aug, 2012 11:18 pm
21 of August

1911 – the painting Mona Lisa was stolen from Louvren in Paris.
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fbaezer
 
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Tue 21 Aug, 2012 01:23 pm
August 21

1940- Leon Trotsky was assasinated.
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Tue 21 Aug, 2012 02:34 pm
August 21

1609 -- Galileo Galilei demonstrates his new telescope atop the Campanille in Venice.

1831 -- Nat Turner leads a slavde rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people.

1959 -- President Dwight D. Eienhower signs an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state.
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Thu 23 Aug, 2012 05:38 pm
August 23

1305 -- Scots whae' high where Wallace bled . . .
Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace executedd by the English for treason.

1912 -- "I'm singin' and dancin' in the rain . . ."
Gene Kelly born Eugene Curran Kelly in Pittsburgh, PA.
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saab
 
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Fri 24 Aug, 2012 09:55 am
24th
1572 Bartholomew night, when French hugenottes were massacred in Paris

Bartholomew is the patron saint of people with nervous conditions.
Lustig Andrei
 
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Fri 24 Aug, 2012 02:49 pm
@saab,
Good one. I was going to post that also, saab.
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fbaezer
 
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Fri 24 Aug, 2012 06:18 pm
August 24.

1899. Jorge Luis Borges is born.
saab
 
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Sat 25 Aug, 2012 04:20 am
@fbaezer,
Good I learned about an author I did not know about

25th of August
1718 New Orleans was founded - the city in case there are other New Orleans
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Sat 25 Aug, 2012 01:25 pm
August 25

1825 -- Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.

1944 -- Paris liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
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saab
 
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Sun 26 Aug, 2012 12:21 am
August 26th
1946
Swedish schools changed the first foreign language to be taught from German to English. German became 2nd language and French stayed 3rd.
Lustig Andrei
 
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Mon 27 Aug, 2012 03:27 pm
@saab,
August 27

Two important birthdays today:
1770 -- German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born in Stuttgart.

1908 -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US President, born near Stonewall, Texas

Also on this date:
1883 -- Krakatoa, the island volcano, blows its top, resulting in tsunamis in the Sunda Strait, claiming some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra
saab
 
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Tue 28 Aug, 2012 12:13 am
@Lustig Andrei,
August 28th
Another birthday, - Tarzan - and still going strong in the djungel even though it is less than a few decades ago.
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saab
 
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Sat 1 Sep, 2012 02:05 am
1st
September
It is 40 years ago since Interail was introduced. Has been used by 8 million people over the years.

And it is the first day where normal lightbulbs cannot be sold any more and we have to use the rather dangerous energy saving bulbs.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Sat 1 Sep, 2012 04:35 am
@saab,
60 years ago, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Strauss
 
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Sat 1 Sep, 2012 06:47 am
Today, it's "Knowledge day" in Russia..
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