08-31-2004, 05:34 AM
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August 31st
1834 ~ Birthday of Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda - It contains "The Dance of the Hours")
1888 ~ Mary Ann Nichols murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
1897 ~ Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie camera.
1920 ~ First radio news program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.
1935 ~ Birthday of Frank Robinson, Baseball Player, Manager.
1945 ~ Birthday of Itzhak Perlman, Violinist.
1980 ~ Solidarity labor union formed in Poland.
1879 ~ Birthday of Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. This woman knew how to live!
1994 ~ Irish Republican Army declares a “complete” cease-fire.
1997 ~ Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris.
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