08-04-2006, 05:23 AM
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August 4th
1704 ~ An Anglo-Dutch force seized the rock of Gibraltar.
1792 ~ Birthday of Percy Shelley, Poet.
1840 ~ Birthday of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sexologist.
1875 ~ Death of Hans Christian Andersen, Writer.
1901 ~ Birthday of Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician.
1914 ~ The UK declared war on Germany.
1944 ~ Anne Frank and her family were betrayed to the Gestapo.
1964 ~ The bodies of three missing civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.
1983 ~ New York Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals".
1984 ~ The African republic Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso.
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