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August 21st
1858 ~ The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held.
1872 ~ Birthday of Aubrey Beardsley, English Illustrator.
1904 ~ Birthday of Count Basie, Bandleader.
1923 ~ Birthday of Shimon Peres, former Prime Minister of Israel.
1936 ~ Birthday of Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer.
1959 ~ Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
1983 ~ Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. was murdered moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
1986 ~ Suffocating gas erupted from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing more than 1,700.
1991 ~ A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
2007 ~ Death of Haley Paige, Porn actress.
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1991 ~ A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
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The vision of the military directing tank fire into the "white house' is still a surreal image.
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August 22nd
1770 ~ James Cook 's expedition arrived on the east coast of Australia.
1862 ~ Birthday of Claude Debussy, Composer.
1893 ~ Birthday of Dorothy Parker, Writer & Wit .
1902 ~ Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile.
1920 ~ Birthday of Ray Bradbury, science fiction author and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451).
1962 ~ The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completed its maiden voyage.
1978 ~ Death of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding father.
1996 ~ Preident Clinton signed welfare reform into law.
2001 ~ For the Geeks among us, a sad day. The Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
2007 ~ On a day that will live in MLB infamy, the Baltimore Orioles were whomped by the Texas Rangers, 30 – 3! 
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August 25th
1835 ~ The New York Sun printed The Great Moon Hoax.
1875 ~ Matthew Webb became the first man to swim the English Channel.
1894 ~ Shibasaburo Kitasato discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and published his findings in The Lancet.
1900 ~ Birthday of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953.
1900 ~ Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.
1918 ~ Birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Conductor & Composer.
1944 ~ Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1982 ~ Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune.
1987 ~ Birthday of Whitney Stevens, Porn actress.
1991 ~ Linus Torvalds sent the email announcing his project to create the Linux operating system.
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Did you know that today would have been Mother Teresa's 100th Birthday!
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August 27th
1776 ~ British forces under General William Howe defeated the Americans under General George Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
1813 ~ Napoleon defeated the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 ~ Krakatoa erupted; approximately 36,000 people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra drowned.
1896 ~ Anglo-Zanzibar War. With a duration of only 45 minutes, it holds the record of being the shortest war in recorded history.
1908 ~ Birthday of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president.
1939 ~ First jet aircraft flight; a Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz.
1945 ~ American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1947 ~ Birthday of Harry Reems, Porn Star.
1962 ~ The Mariner 2 space probe launched to Venus.
1967 ~ Death of Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles.
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August 28th
430 ~ Death of Augustine of Hippo, Philosopher, Theologian.
1749 ~ Birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philosopher, Scientist.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Author. His “The Law of Love and the Law of Violence” influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
1845 ~ First issue of Scientific American magazine published.
1850 ~ Richard Wagner's opera “Lohengrin” premiered, from which comes the Bridal Chorus, traditionally played at Western weddings, and commonly known as "Here Comes the Bride".
1897 ~ Birthday of Charles Boyer, Actor.
1963 ~ During a civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech.
1988 ~ Ramstein airshow disaster: 75 people were killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 ~ Iraq declared Kuwait to be a province of Iraq.
1996 ~ Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales were divorced.
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August 30th
1797 ~ Birthday of Mary Shelley, Author (Frankenstein).
1862 ~ Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va..
1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908.
1918 ~ Birthday of Baseball hall-of-famer Ted Williams.
1940 ~ Death of J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. Prof. Thomson identified the electron as a subatomic particle, the first one to be discovered. In one of the greatest ironies of modern physics his son, G.P. Thomson later received the prize for proving that the electron was also, in fact, a wave.
1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.
1963 ~ Death of Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy.
1987 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.
2006 ~ Death of Glenn Ford, Canadian-born actor.
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