THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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i remember the summer and all the stories. this guy had NY in an uproar until he was finally caught.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 10



1977
American serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested after murdering six people in New York City and plunging the city into a panic; he later confessed and was sentenced to 365 years in prison.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 11



American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 11


American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

That's HED-ley

[weimy froob]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 11


American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

That's HED-ley

reason number one why this was the post today.

[RC3]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 11


American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

That's HED-ley

reason number one why this was the post today.

[SHARTMAN]

That's HED-ley

reason number one why this was the post today.

"I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, In**an agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykess, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and METHODISTS!"

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 11


American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

That's HED-ley

reason number one why this was the post today.

[weimy froob]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 12



1877
Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison
On this day in 1877, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison made perhaps his most original discovery, the phonograph, and his early recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 13



1521
Fall of the Aztec empire
On this day in 1521, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) after a 93-day siege, thereby ending the Aztec empire and winning Mexico for the crown of Spain.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 14



1880
Cologne Cathedral completed
Originally started in 1248, construction of the cathedral (Kölner Dom) in Cologne, Germany—the largest Gothic church in northern Europe and the city's major landmark—was finally completed on this day in 1880.

Birthdays
1966
Halle Berry
American actress
1959
Magic Johnson
American basketball player
1954
Stanley McChrystal
United States general

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 15



1979
After a troubled production, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now was released in theatres, and it became a film classic, noted for performances by Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, whose character famously says that he loves “the smell of napalm in the morning.”

Birthdays
1990
Jennifer Lawrence
American actress
1972
Ben Affleck
American actor, writer, and director
1964
Melinda Gates
American businesswoman and philanthropist

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 16



1948
American baseball legend Babe Ruth died at age 53.

Birthdays
1962
Steve Carell
American comedian and actor
1958
Madonna
American singer and actress
1954
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 17

gold fever's about to heat up the yukon.



1896
George Washington Carmack unearthed gold in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River now in Yukon, Canada, setting off a gold rush into the Klondike valley.

Birthdays
1977
Thierry Henry
French football player
1960
Sean Penn
American actor
1944
Larry Ellison
American business executive
1943
Robert De Niro
American actor

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 18



1896
According to lore, more than 200 outlaws from regional gangs gathered at Brown's Hole in the American West, where Butch Cassidy proposed to organize a Train Robbers' Syndicate, which became familiarly known as the Wild Bunch.

Birthdays
1969
Edward Norton
American actor
1952
Patrick Swayze
American actor and dancer
1936
Robert Redford
American actor and director

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 18


According to lore, more than 200 outlaws from regional gangs gathered at Brown's Hole

I think I saw a movie about that recently that starred Angela White

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 19



2004
The search engine company Google Inc. raised $1.66 billion in its initial public offering; in an unusual move, the shares were sold in a public auction intended to put the average investor on an equal footing with financial industry professionals.

Birthdays
1946
Bill Clinton
president of United States
1942
Fred Thompson
American politician and actor
1921
Gene Roddenberry
American writer and producer

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 20



1975
Viking 1 launched
The robotic U.S. spacecraft Viking 1, built to explore the surface of Mars, was launched this day in 1975 and nearly one year later landed on Chryse Planitia, a flat lowland region in the northern hemisphere of the planet.

Birthdays
1974
Amy Adams
American actress
1958
David O. Russell
American director and screenwriter
1944
Ron Paul
American politician
1931
Don King
American boxing promoter

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Birthdays
1986
Usain Bolt
Jamaican athlete
1973
Sergey Brin
American entrepreneur
1938
Kenny Rogers
American singer-songwriter
1936
Wilt Chamberlain
American basketball player

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 22



1989
In a game against the Oakland Athletics, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out Rickey Henderson to become the first MLB pitcher to register 5,000 strikeouts; he ended his career with a record-setting 5,714.

Birthdays
1941
Bill Parcells
American football coach and executive
1934
Norman Schwarzkopf
United States general
1920
Ray Bradbury
American writer

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 23



1305
William Wallace executed
On this day in London, William Wallace was executed for treason, condemned for leading Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle to free Scotland from English rule.

Birthdays
1988
Jeremy Lin
American basketball player
1978
Kobe Bryant
American basketball player
1951
Queen Noor
queen of Jordan
1912
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 24



79 CE
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted on this day in 79 ce, destroying the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the excavations of these sites in the mid-18th century precipitated the modern science of archaeology.

Birthdays
1973
Dave Chappelle
American comedian and actor
1957
Stephen Fry
British actor, writer, and director
1955
Mike Huckabee
American politician
1945
Vince McMahon
American businessman

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 25



1944
Paris liberated
On this day in 1944, some two months after the Allied invasion of Normandy, Paris was liberated from German occupiers as the Free French 2nd Armoured Division under General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc entered the city.

Birthdays
1958
Tim Burton
American director
1954
Elvis Costello
British singer-songwriter
1934
Regis Philbin
American television personality
1930
Sean Connery
British actor

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 26



1939
On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 27



2011
After causing extensive damage to various Caribbean islands, Hurricane Irene made landfall in the United States, striking North Carolina's Outer Banks before moving along the Eastern Seaboard; property damage in the United States exceeded $7 billion, making Irene one of the most expensive Atlantic hurricanes in the country's history.

Birthdays
1908
Lyndon B. Johnson
president of United States
1906
Ed Gein
American serial killer

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 28



1963
Civil rights march on Washington
On this day in 1963, some 200,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., an event that became a high point of the civil rights movement, especially remembered for the famous “I Have a Dream” speech of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Birthdays
1982
LeAnn Rimes
American singer
1965
Shania Twain
Canadian musician

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 29



2005
New Orleans hit by Hurricane Katrina
On this day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast and devastated the area, especially New Orleans, which experienced catastrophic flooding after its levees were breached the following day.

Birthdays
1958
Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, and dancer
1936
John McCain
United States senator
1923
Richard Attenborough
British actor, director, and producer
1920
Charlie Parker
American musician
1915
Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 30



1862
During the American Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) ended with a decisive Confederate victory.

Birthdays
1930
Warren Buffett
American businessman and philanthropist
1908
Fred MacMurray
American actor
1893
Huey Long
American politician

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 31



1888
The mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols was discovered in the Whitechapel district of London's East End, and many believe she was the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

Birthdays
1949
Richard Gere
American actor and humanitarian
1945
Van Morrison
Irish singer-songwriter
161
Commodus
Roman emperor

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This Day in History September 1



1939
German invasion of Poland
The lethal combination of German blitzkrieg tactics, French and British inactivity, and Soviet perfidy doomed Poland to swift defeat after Adolf Hitler invaded the country this day in 1939 and sparked World War II.

Birthdays
1950
Phil McGraw
American psychologist
1938
Alan Dershowitz
American lawyer
1935
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese American conductor
1923
Rocky Marciano
American athlete
1902
Carlo Gambino
American crime boss