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July 31st
1498 ~ Discovery of Trinidad by Christopher Columbus.
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.
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.
1922 ~ Death of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor.
1932 ~ Birthday of Peter O'Toole, Actor. (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter).
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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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney
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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!".
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".
1991 ~ Death of Harry Reasoner, Reporter.
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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 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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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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