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Aug. 24, 2006 - Pluto officially demoted to dwarf planet status.
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Aug. 24, 1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95, and revolutionizes the PC world, with the introduction of the Start Menu
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On August 25, 1964, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer was born...
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On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of
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On August 25, 1910 – Yellow Cab is founded.
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On August 26, 1935, Geraldine Ferraro was born...
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On August 26, 1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
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August 26
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August 27
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http://content.answers.com/main/cont...ell_IND072.jpg Oil. Black gold. It can be nearly colorless or jet black (not to mention the many shades in between). It can be thinner than water or thicker than molasses. It can come in a form as light as gas or as heavy as asphalt. Much of the world's crude oil comes from wells drilled from underground or under the ocean floor. The most important primary fossil fuel, petroleum has been used for centuries, with the first wells known to have been drilled in 8th-century China. On this date, 150 years ago, Edwin Drake drilled the first successful US oil well, near Titusville, Pennsylvania. "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil." — Jean Paul Getty |
On August 27 , 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
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http://img2.allposters.com/images/IMPO/ST4691.jpg Radio broadcasting began at the beginning of the 20th century. Could commercials be far behind? On this date in 1922, WEAF broadcast the first radio commercial. It was a ten-minute live spot for the Queensboro real estate corporation, read by a representative of Queensboro. The commercial cost $100 for 10 minutes. The broadcasting world has never been the same. Now, radio advertising is done in 10-second to two-minute spots; prices vary according to the size of the expected audience and the time of day the ad will be presented. "Seeing a murder on television can... help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." — Alfred Hitchcock |
August 28 is the 240th day of the year
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On August 29, 1959, Rebecca DeMornay was born...
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On August 30 , 1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
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Also On August 30, 1963, the hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.
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On Aug. 31, 1997, Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at age 36.
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On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
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On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.
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On Sept. 3, 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
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Also on September 3, 1943, Valerie Perrine was born...
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on September 3, 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera :)
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On September 4, 1981, Beyonce Knowles was born...
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Also on Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
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Also on Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.
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on 5 sept , 1800 – Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
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On September 7th, 1927- TV pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using a device called an image dissector.
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Also on September 7, 1951, Chrissie Hynde was born...
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On September 8th, 1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.
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