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Here is where you can post random facts about anything that happened on the day that you post. It can be anything from Cheese Cake day (07/30) to the begging/ battle of any war.
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Iraq invades Kuwait
August 2, 1990
At about 2 a.m. local time, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq's tiny, oil-rich neighbor. Kuwait's defense forces were rapidly overwhelmed,
From August 1990 to February 1991, Iraq, in defiance of the UN Security Council, annexed and occupied Kuwait as Iraq's 19th province. During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Kuwait aided Iraq
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August 2
1776 Members of the Continental Congress began signing the Declaration of Independence.
1876 Frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, S.D.
1907 Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1921 Opera singer Enrico Caruso died in Naples, Italy.
1921 A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series.
1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.
1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1943 PT-109, a Navy patrol torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. Kennedy was credited with saving members of the crew.
1945 President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.
1964 The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1979 New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane in Canton, Ohio.
1985 A Delta Air Lines jumbo jet crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 137 people.
1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate.
2000 Republicans nominated Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
2003 Liberian President Charles Taylor agreed to cede power.
2007 Mattel recalled nearly a million Chinese-made toys from its Fisher-Price division that were found to have excessive amounts of lead.
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Nothing like good ol' lead to make toys that much more interesting.
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August 3
1492 Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that would take him to the present-day Americas.
1778 The opera house La Scala opened in Milan, Italy, with a performance of Antonio Salieri's "Europa riconosciuta."
1852 America's first intercollegiate athletic event was held as Yale and Harvard met for a crew race on Lake Winnipesaukee in Center Harbor, N.H.
1914 Germany declared war on France.
1914 At the outbreak of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey remarked: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
1923 Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.
1943 Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948 Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.
1949 The National Basketball Association was formed.
1981 U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired.
1987 The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
1993 The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.
1994 Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
2003 Golfer Annika Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam by winning the Women's British Open.
2004 The Statue of Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
2007 A jury at Camp Pendleton, Calif., sentenced Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III to 15 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi civilian during a fruitless search for an insurgent.
2008 Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn died at age 89.
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August 4
1735 A jury acquitted John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal of seditious libel.
1790 The Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.
1792 Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Field Place, England.
1830 Plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.
1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, though she was later acquitted.
1916 The United States reached agreement with Denmark to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million.
1929 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa in either Cairo or Gaza.
1944 Anne Frank, 15, was arrested along with her sister, parents and four other people, after they had spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a building in Amsterdam. Her diary became a famous account of the Holocaust.
1964 The bodies of three missing civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.
1977 President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.
1987 The Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and TV stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.
1990 My Friend Noah was born
1994 Serb-dominated Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs, sealing the 300-mile border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia.
2002 A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in northern Israel during rush hour, killing nine passengers.
2005 A mini-submarine carrying seven Russians became caught on an underwater antenna 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean; the men were rescued three days later with help from a British vessel.
2007 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants tied Hank Aaron's 755 career home runs in a 3-2 loss to the Padres in San Diego.
2007 Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees became at age 32 the youngest player in major league history to hit his 500th career home run, during a home game against Kansas City.
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August 8
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, to spend the remainder of his days in exile.
1844 Brigham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons following the killing of Joseph Smith.
1876 Thomas A. Edison received a patent for the mimeograph.
1942 Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who had landed in the United States were executed in Washington, D.C.
1945 President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations Charter.
1945 The Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II.
1953 The United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact.
1963 Britain's "Great Train Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.
1968 Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach and chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate.
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and vowed not to resign.
1978 The United States launched Pioneer Venus II, which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.
1988 U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq.
2005 Iran resumed work at a uranium conversion facility after suspending activities for nine months to avoid U.N. sanctions.
2006 Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic primary to political newcomer Ned Lamont. (Lieberman won re-election to the Senate by running as an independent).
2008 The Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing.
2008 Former Democratic presidential candidate and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards admitted having an extramarital affair.
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August 15
1777 American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.
1812 Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
1829 Chang and Eng, a pair of conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world. (The term Siamese twins became a common phrase for conjoined twins.)
1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1888 T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
1913 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus.
1948 Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth died at age 53.
1954 Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1960 Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport, killing 156 people; the sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.
1987 Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
2003 Rep. Bill Janklow, R-S.D., was involved in an accident that killed a motorcyclist in South Dakota. (He was convicted of manslaughter and resigned from Congress.)
2003 Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Saudi Arabia.
2006 A man was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. However, his confession was later discredited.
2007 Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks. (He was sentenced to 17 years, four months in prison.)
2008 Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second for his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, tying Mark Spitz's 1972 record.
2008 Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi were married at their Beverly Hills, Calif., home.
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Woodstock 69'!!!!
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August 20
1833 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
1914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
1918 Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1992 The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1998 Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
2006 Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who had taken the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.
2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed a deal to put a U.S. missile defense base in Poland.
2008 Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, died at age 63.
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August 22
1485 England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.
1846 The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851 The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
1893 Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J.
1904 Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province.
1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1986 Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989 Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
2003 Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.
2005 The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.
2008 The U.S. carried out airstrikes in western Herat province in Afghanistan; according to a later U.S. estimate, the raid resulted in the deaths of 33 civilians and 22 militants. (The Afghan government and U.N. investigators said that 90 civilians had died.)
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August 30,
1797 "Frankenstein" author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London.
1862 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.
1893 Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was born in Winn Parish, La.
1905 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1918 Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams was born in San Diego.
1941 Nazi forces began a siege of Leningrad during World War II that lasted nearly two and a half years.
1945 Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1965 The album "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan was released.
1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court.
1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African-American astronaut to travel in space when he blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1989 A federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.
1990 Brett Fox was born
1990 President George H.W. Bush told a news conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis.
1993 "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered on CBS.
1999 Residents of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot.
2005 A day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floodwaters covered 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.
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1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury.
1814 An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
1850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.
1885 Author D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England.
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator.
1941 Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1962 The Beatles recorded their first single, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI studios in London.
1971 Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.
1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.
1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.
1987 CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime.
1997 Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
1998 Congress released Kenneth Starr's report, which offered graphic details of President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2001 Suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse. Another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
2002 Football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas died at age 69.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.
2007 China signed an agreement to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the United States.
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