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July 31st
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.
2001 ~ Death of Poul Anderson, Science Fiction author (Tau Zero).
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Tau Zero.
It should be required reading.
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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.
1964 ~ Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on U.S. destroyers.
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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August 3rd
1900 ~ Birthday of John T. Scopes, defendant in the “Monkey Trial”.
1904 ~ Birthday of Clifford D. Simak, Science Fiction Author.
1924 ~ Death of Joseph Conrad, Author. (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim)
1924 ~ Birthday of Leon Uris, American Writer. (Exodus, QB VII)
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, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1970.
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August 6th
1809 ~ Birthday of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet.
1881 ~ Birthday of Alexander Fleming, awarded he Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.
1911 ~ Birthday of Lucille Ball, Actress, Comedienne.
1943 ~ Birthday of Jon Postel, creator of DNS.
1945 ~ A nuclear bomb codenamed Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima.
1961 ~ Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov spent a day in orbit.
1965 ~ U.S. release of the Beatles’ album "Help!".
1972 ~ Birthday of Geri Halliwell, British Pop Singer (Spice Girls).
1990 ~ The UN Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee released his idea for the "World Wide Web".
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August 7th
1560 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Bathory, serial killer.
1867 ~ Birthday of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle), spy.
1942 ~ Birthday of Garrison Keillor, radio host.
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft "Kon-Tiki", arrived at the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1957 ~ Death of Oliver Hardy, Comedian & Actor.
1964 ~ U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers to deal with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1966 ~ Birthday of Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.
1974 ~ French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1978 ~ President Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1998 ~ Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya that killed 224 people and injured over 4,500.
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August 10th
1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1675 ~ Foundation stone set of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
1846 ~ The Smithsonian Institution was chartered following a $500,000 donation by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1896 ~ Death of Otto Lilienthal, Aviation Pioneer.
1945 ~ Death of Robert Goddard, Rocket Scientist.
1988 ~ A distressing reminder of my mortality.
1990 ~ The Magellan space probe arrived at Venus.
1995 ~ Norma McCorvey, '”Jane Roe” in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
2003 ~ Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first man to marry in space.
2008 ~ Death of Isaac Hayes, Musician & Actor.
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Two Magellan items in sharing the same day. Wow! What are the odds. 1519 and 1990.  |
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1519 and 1990.
Does that put the odds at one in 3509?
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