08-31-2006, 07:00 PM
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August 31st
1834 ~ Birthday of Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda - It contains "The Dance of the Hours").
1879 ~ Birthday of Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. This woman knew how to live!
1888 ~ Mary Ann Nichols murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
1918 ~ Birthday of Alan Jay Lerner, American composer ( Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady).
1935 ~ Birthday of Frank Robinson, Baseball Player, Manager.
1945 ~ Birthday of Itzhak Perlman, Violinist.
1945 ~ Birthday of Van Morrison, Irish musician (“Brown-Eyed Girl", "Moondance" and "Domino").
1962 ~ Trinidad and Tobago became independent.
1980 ~ Solidarity labor union formed in Poland.
1997 ~ Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris.
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