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What Happened On This Day – July 23
1995 Comet Hale–Bopp discovered
Also known as C/1995 O1 by the scientific community, this well known comet was discovered independently by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1992 Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia
The Republic of Abkhazia, is a disputed territory of Georgia and is recognized as an independent state by only a handful of counties including Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu.
1982 International Whaling Commission bans commercial whale hunting
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed a resolution to restrict commercial whaling and ban it completely after 1986. 25 countries voted to put the restrictions and ban in place.
1972 Landsat 1 launched
The first satellite in the US's LANDSAT program, the Landsat discovered an uninhabited island off the eastern coast of Canada in 1976. The island is now called Landsat Island.
1962 First live transatlantic television signal
Telstar 1, a communications satellite relayed the world's first transatlantic television signal in the form of a show that featured Walter Cronkite.


Births On This Day – July 23
1989 Daniel Radcliffe
English actor
1980 Michelle Williams
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress
1976 Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player
1957 Theo van Gogh
Dutch director
1892 Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian emperor


Deaths On This Day – July 23
2013 Emile Griffith
Virgin Islander boxer
2011 Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker
American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
1951 Philippe Pétain
French general, politician, 119th Prime Minister of France
1885 Ulysses S. Grant
American general, politician, 18th President of the United States

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1962 MATAGULAY ROQUE S. RICHMOND CA 12/24/62 RELEASED RIP 12/29/99
1966 NEWSOM BENJAMIN BYRD MADISON VI 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1966 PEMBERTON GENE THOMAS CAMERON MO 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1966 SMITH WILLIAM W. SEARCY AR
1968 GOSEN LAWRENCE D. BINGHAM LAKE MN
1972 SHANK GARY LESLIE PRAIRIE VILLAGE KS DEAD REM RET 07/01/84

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Oman : National Day (1952)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Thought for the day :
" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 24
2013 Santiago de Compostela derailment
A high speed train travelling from Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed on a curve killing 79 people and injuring over 100.
1977 The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end
The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt's borders.
1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev
A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War
Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.
1911 Rediscovery of Machu Picchu
The 15th century, largely forgotten Inca site in Peru was rediscovered by American Hiram Bingham III.


Births On This Day – July 24
1969 Jennifer Lopez
American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman
1900 Zelda Fitzgerald
American author
1897 Amelia Earhart
American pilot, author
1802 Alexandre Dumas
French writer
1783 Simón Bolívar
Venezuelan commander


Deaths On This Day – July 24
2012 Robert Ledley
American scientist, invented the full-body CT scanner
2012 John Atta Mills
Ghanaian politician, 3rd President of Ghana
2010 Alex Higgins
Irish snooker player
1980 Peter Sellers
English film actor, comedian, singer
1862 Martin Van Buren
American politician, 8th President of the United States

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1965 FOBAIR ROSCOE H. OXNARD CA TOLD DEAD BY VIETNAMESE
1965 KEIRN RICHARD P. LORAIN OH 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV RIP 05/25/00
1968 BUSH JOHN R. FORT WALTON BEACH FL
1968 GREILING DAVID S. HILLSDALE MI
1968 HACKETT HARLEY B. FLORENCE SC
1970 BLOODWORTH DONALD B. SAN DIEGO CA REMAINS RETURNED ID 02/04/98
1970 REED JAMES W. CAMBRIDGE OH
1971 ANTUNANO GREGORY A. SAN FRANCISCO CA
1971 DALTON RANDALL D. COLLINSVILLE IL

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Denmark : Midsummer Day
Ecuador, Venezuala : Bolivar Day (1783)
Idaho, Utah : Pioneer Day (1847)
Spain : Valencia Fair Day-Battle of the Flowers
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Thought for the day :
" We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 25
2007 India gets its first female president
Pratibha Patil, a politician stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.
1984 Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space
The Soviet cosmonaut was part of the Soyuz T-12 mission, which docked at the Salyut 7 Space station. As part of the mission, she spent 3.5 hours in space testing tools. Savitskaya was also the second woman to go into space and the first to go to space twice.
1978 World's first test tube baby is born
Louise Joy Brown was the first person to be conceived using in-vitro fertilization or IVF technology, pioneered by doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
1976 The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.
1956 Tunisia gains its independence from France
The northernmost African country, became a French protectorate in 1881, under the Treaty of Bardo. The path to independence in the country was marred by civil unrest and conflict and was led by Habib Bourguiba, who became the first president of the independent country.


Births On This Day – July 25
1985 Nelson Piquet, Jr.
Brazilian race car driver
1951 Jack Thompson
American lawyer, activist
1941 Emmett Till
American murder victim
1920 Rosalind Franklin
English scientist
1750 Henry Knox
American general


Deaths On This Day – July 25
2009 Harry Patch
British super-centenarian, last survivor of the WWI trenches
1997 Ben Hogan
American golfer
1980 Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian singer-songwriter, actor, poet
1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, philosopher
306 Constantius Chlorus
Roman emperor

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1967 DAVIS DONALD V. SALISBURY NC REMAINS RETURNED 1997 IDENTIFIED 04/01/98
1967 JARVIS JEREMY M. WARREN MI
1967 LUNSFORD HERBERT L. LAUDERDALE MS
1968 BROWN PAUL G. NEWTON MA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 FANT ROBERT ANDERSON SC 03/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 PARISH CHARLES C. LEXINGTON VA PROB DIED IN ACFT WRECKAGE
1970 GREGORY PAUL ANTHONY VIRGINIA BEACH VA

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Costa Rica : Annexation of Guanacaste Day/Anexi¢n de Guanacaste
Luiza Puerto Rico : Fiest of Santiago Ap¢stal
Netherlands : Independence Day
Puerto Rico : Constitution Day (1952)
Tunisia : Republic Day (1957)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Thought for the day :
" Don't need a new religion, haven't used the old one up yet. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 26
1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is signed into law
The law banned discrimination based on disability.
1965 Independence of Maldives
The Indian Ocean Island nation gained independence after 78 years of British rule.
1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite is launched
Part of NASA's Syncom program, it was responsible for transmitting the first TV signal from a geosynchronous satellite, a man made satellite whose orbital period around the Earth matches the Earth's rotation.
1945 Potsdam Declaration is signed
Also known as the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, the declaration signed by the US, UK and China, detailed the terms of surrender for Japan after World War II.
1847 The country of Liberia is founded
This west African state was founded primarily by freed slaves from the United States. The Liberian constitution was based on the US's constitution and the capital, Monrovia, is named after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States.


Births On This Day – July 26
1943 Mick Jagger
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor
1928 Stanley Kubrick
American director
1894 Aldous Huxley
English author
1875 Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
1856 George Bernard Shaw
Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate


Deaths On This Day – July 26
1995 George W. Romney
American businessman, politician
1952 Eva Perón
Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina
1925 William Jennings Bryan
American politician, 41st United States Secretary of State
1863 Sam Houston
American soldier, politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas
796 Offa of Mercia

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1967 BRAZIK RICHARD BAY VILLAGE OH SURVIVAL UNLIKELY
1967 CLAFLIN RICHARD AMES KANSAS CITY KS SURVIVAL UNLIKELY
1969 BRENNING RICHARD D. LINCOLN NE

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Athens, Texas : Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree starts (07181986)
Cuba : Anniversary of Moncada Barricks attack (1953)
Liberia : Independence Day (1847)
Maldives : National Day (1965)
New York : Ratification Day (1788)
Sweden : Bellman Day- honoring Carl Michael Bellman
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" There are two sides to every question, politicians take both. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 27
2012 Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
It was the 3rd time London had hosted the multi-event international sports event. The ceremony was called Isles of Wonder and was directed by Danny Boyle.
1985 Coup in Uganda
Tito Lutwa Okello, an Ugandan military officer successfully staged a coup against president Milton Obote. He was ousted by current president Yoweri Museveni 6 months later.
1955 Austrian State Treaty came to force
The treaty re-established Austria as a democratic and sovereign country after World War II. It also ended the allied occupation of the country.
1940 Bugs Bunny's official debut
Bugs Bunny made his official debut in A Wild Hare.
1890 Vincent Van Gogh shoots himeself
The famed painter, shot himself in the chest. He died of his wounds two days later.


Births On This Day – July 27
1980 Dolph Ziggler
American wrestler
1975 Alex Rodriguez
American baseball player
1969 Triple H
American wrestler, actor
1870 Hilaire Belloc
English writer
1824 Alexandre Dumas, fils
French author


Deaths On This Day – July 27
2015 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist, politician, 11th President of India
2003 Bob Hope
English/American actor, singer, producer
1980 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah of Iran
1948 Joe Tinker
American baseball player
1946 Gertrude Stein
American poet, art collector

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1965 BERG KILE D. SEATTLE WA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 96
1965 KOSKO WALTER COLUMBIA VA EJECT NO BEEP SEARCH NEG
1965 PURCELL ROBERT B. LOUISVILLE KY 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 BARE WILLIAM ORLAN OKLAHOMA CITY OK RADIO CONTACT LOST
1967 CORBITT GILLAND W. DENVER CO RADIO CONTACT LOST
1967 HARDIE CHARLES D. HOUSTON TX
1967 PATTERSON BRUCE M. PORTLAND OR
1968 FULLERTON FRANK E. JONESBORO GA
1968 PATTON WARD K. FONTANA KS

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Puerto Rico : Jos‚ Celso Barbosa Birthday (1857)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" Politics is either passing the buck or passing the dough. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 28
2005 IRA Army Council Announces End to Armed Campaign
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, also known as IRA, announced an end to its armed campaign in the group's effort to free Northern Ireland from United Kingdom's rule.
1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act is passed by the US Congress
The act established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1928 IX Summer Olympics open
The IX Summer Olympics opened in Amsterdam
1928 IX Summer Olympics open
The IX Summer Olympics opened in Amsterdam
1821 Peru declares independence
The Peruvian War of Independence against Spain began in 1811 and ended with a declaration of independence under the ladership of José de San Martín.


Births On This Day – July 28
1990 Soulja Boy
American rapper, producer, actor
1954 Hugo Chávez
Venezuelan military officer, politician, President of Venezuela
1938 Alberto Fujimori
Peruvian politician
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
American book editor, 37th First Lady of the United States
1902 Karl Popper
Austrian/English philosopher


Deaths On This Day – July 28
2004 Francis Crick
English biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1968 Otto Hahn
German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1750 Johann Sebastian Bach
German organist, composer
1741 Antonio Vivaldi
Italian violinist, composer
1540 Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1966 MC SWAIN GEORGE P. MONTROSE CA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Bermuda : Adm George Somers Day (1609)
San Marino : Fall of Facism Day (1943)
US : Joseph Lee Day-honors playgrounds (1937)
US : Volunteers of America founders day (1859)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )
Peru : Independence Day (1824)

Thought for the day :
" To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 29
2008 United States Congress apologizes for slavery
The U.S. House of Representatives publicly apologized for the institution of slavery and Jim Crow laws that discriminated against African Americans.
1981 Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer
The most talked about wedding of the year was watched on television by millions of people worldwide. The couple were married in St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom, and divorced 15 years later in 1996.
1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency is established
The independent agency aims to ban the use of nuclear energy for military purposes. American W. Sterling Cole served as the agency's first director general.
1948 The XIV Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom after a 12 year hiatus due to the Second World War
The last Summer Olympics before this were held in Berlin in 1936.
1836 The Arc de Triomphe is inaugurated in Paris, France
The famous monument honors those to dies while fighting for France during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It was designed by Jean Chalgrin.


Births On This Day – July 29
1981 Fernando Alonso
Spanish race car driver
1938 Peter Jennings
Canadian/American journalist
1905 Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate
1883 Benito Mussolini
Italian politician, Dictator of Italy
1805 Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian, scientist


Deaths On This Day – July 29
1983 Luis Buñuel
Spanish director, producer
1974 Erich Kästner
German author, poet
1970 John Barbirolli
English cellist, conductor
1890 Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
1833 William Wilberforce
English politician, philanthropist

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1965 BROWN EDWARD D. JR. CHARLOTTE NC KIA IN CRASH REMAINS DESTROYED
1965 WEATHERBY JACK WILTON FORT WORTH TX REMAINS RETURNED BY HANOI (NOT HIM???) REMAINS RETURNED 08/23/78
1966 BOSSIO GALILEO F. DEER PARK WA DEAD
1966 CAMERON VIRGIL KING MC ALLEN TX SURVIVAL UNLIKELY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 08/06/99
1966 CHIARELLO VINCENT A. NEW YORK NY POSS DIED IN CRASH REMAINS RETURNED 03/02/88
1966 CONKLIN BERNARD STONEY POINT NY DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 03/02/88
1966 DI TOMMASO ROBERT J. BUFFALO NY DEAD
1966 HALL JAMES S. GREENSBORO NC DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 03/02/88
1966 HOSKINSON ROBERT E. MORO OR DEAD
1966 LAWS DELMER L. MINERAL POINT MO
1966 MAMIYA JOHN II WAHIAWA HI DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 03/02/88
1966 SMITH HERBERT E. APPALACHICOLA FL DEAD / RETURNED 03/88
1967 BENNEFELD STEVEN HENRY GIRARD KS
1967 JOHNSON RICHARD HERMAN WOLCOTT NY
1968 AUXIER JERRY E. DIXIE WV
1972 KULA JAMES D. MANCHESTER NH 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 MATSUI MELVIN K. HILO HI 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Norway : Olsok Eve Festival (1030)
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" Never despair. If you do, you work on in despair. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – July 30
2002 Pretoria Accord signed
The Pretoria Accord was signed between the between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda as an attempt to end the Second Congo War
1980 The Israeli Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law and adds it to Israel's Basic Law
The law declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel.
1980 Vanuatu gains independence
The Republic of Vanuatu gained independence from France and UK.
1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles
The tenth Summer Olympics was officially opened by President Ronald Reagan. This was the second time that the city of Los Angeles was hosting the multi-event international sports meet.


Births On This Day – July 30
1974 Hilary Swank
American actress
1970 Christopher Nolan
English/American director, screenwriter, producer
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian/American bodybuilder, actor, politician, 38th Governor of California
1863 Henry Ford
American businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company
1818 Emily Brontë
English novelist


Deaths On This Day – July 30
2007 Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director
1996 Claudette Colbert
American actress
1912 Emperor Meiji
of Japan
1898 Otto von Bismarck
German politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire
1718 William Penn
English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1967 BISCAILUZ ROBERT LYNN MIDWAY CITY CA REMS RET 6/11/93
1967 BYARS EARNEST RAY HOUSTON TX REM RET 6/11/93
1967 FREDERICK DAVID A. COLUMBUS OH REM RET 06/08/93
1967 WATERMAN CRAIG H. REHOBOTH MA REMAINS RETURNED 06/08/93
1968 BEYER THOMAS J. FARGO ND
1970 BROWN DONALD A. PHOENIX AZ
1970 CHAVEZ GARY A. NEW YORK NY
1972 BRECKNER WILLIAM J. JR. SEBRING OH 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 1998
1972 PRICE LARRY D. ORLANDO FL 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Cuba : Day of Martyrs of the Revolution
France : Marseillaise Day (1792)
Thailand : Asalha Puja
Virginia : Crater Day (1864)
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" Too many pray for peace with their fists clenched. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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What Happened On This Day – August 1
1981 Music Television is launched
The channel, popularly known as MTV was mostly known for showing music videos and for being hosted by Video Jockeys.
1980 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir takes office in Iceland
The Icelandic politician was the fourth president of Iceland and the world's first democratically elected female head of state. Her 16 years of Presidency also makes her the longest serving female head of state in the world.
1951 Japan Airlines (JAL) is founded
The flagship airlines of Japan, JAL started operating on October 25, 1951
1936 The XI Summer Olympics are opened in Berlin by Adolf Hitler
Initially, Jews and people of African descent were to be barred from the games, however, a boycott was threatened by several countries and the German organizers relented. 18 African-American athletes, including James "Jesse" Owens and Matthew "Mack" Robinson, placed well in the track and field events, winning several medals.
1834 Slavery abolished in British Empire
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force a year after it was passed by the British Parliament. The act was repealed in 1998.


Births On This Day – August 1
1942 Jerry Garcia
American singer-songwriter, guitarist
1932 Meena Kumari
Indian actress
1930 Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist
1929 Hafizullah Amin
Afghan politician
1819 Herman Melville
American writer


Deaths On This Day – August 1
2009 Corazon Aquino
Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines
1970 Frances Farmer
American actress
1944 Manuel L. Quezon
Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines
1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Indian lawyer, social reformer
1714 Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1966 FINNEY ARTHUR THOMAS MIAMI FL DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85
1966 KWORTNIK JOHN CHARLES DOWNINGTOWN PA REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85 CACCF/CRASH/PILOT
1966 NORTH KENNETH W. CHAPPAQUA NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98 BORN 1940
1967 PREWITT WILLIAM ROLAND FLORIEN LA
1967 WINSTON CHARLES C. III SCARSDALE NY 09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1968 KERNAN WILLIAM SEATTLE WA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST MAY BE REMAINS RETURNED
1968 BROMS EDWARD J. MEADVILLE PA RADIO CONTACT LOST
1968 FOWLER DONALD R. ATHENS GA
1968 FERNAN WILLIAM SEATTLE WA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST REMAINS RETURNED 08/06/71
1968 HASTINGS STEVEN M. BALDWIN CREEK CA
1968 ROSS JOSEPH S. FORT THOMAS KY
1968 RUSSELL PETER J. NEW YORK NY EGRESS-HAD IRISH BROGUE - DIED ON OR BEFORE THANKSGIVING 1968 - GRAVE MARKED MAP MADE.
1968 THOMPSON WILLIAM J. HOUSTON TX
1969 BURD DOUGLAS G. HAMPTON VA
1969 CALLIES TOMMY L. HOWARD SD

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Botswana : August Holiday
China PR : Army Day
Dahomey/Benin : Independence Day (1960)
Dominica : Queen's Birthday
Ghana : Homowo
Guyana : Commonwealth Day
Iran : 12th Imam's Birthday
Nicaragua : Fiesta Day
Scotland : Lammas Day, term day
Switzerland : Confederation Day (1291)
Trinidad & Tobago, St Lucia : Emancipation Day/Caribbean Day
US : Sports Day-good sportsmanship
Zaire : Parents Day
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Gilroy, Calif : Start of Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" The hardest thing to do is to disguise your feelings when sending a large crowd of visiting relatives home. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 2
216 BC Hannibal Barca wins his greatest victory over the Romans at Cannae. After avidly studying the tactics of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus eventually bested his Carthaginian adversary.
47 BC Caesar defeats Pharnaces at Zela in Syria and declares, "veni, vidi, vici," (I came, I saw, I conquered).
1552 The treaty of Passau gives religious freedom to Protestants living in Germany.
1553 An invading French army is destroyed at the Battle of Marciano in Italy by an imperial army.
1589 During France's religious war, a fanatical monk stabs King Henry II to death.
1776 The Continental Congress, having decided unanimously to make the Declaration of Independence, affixes the signatures of the other delegates to the document.
1790 The first US census begins enumerating the population.
1802 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed "Consul for Life" by the French Senate after a plebiscite from the French people.
1819 The first parachute jump from a balloon is made by Charles Guille in New York City.
1832 Troops under General Henry Atkinson massacre Sauk Indian men, women and children who are followers of Black Hawk at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin. Black Hawk himself finally surrenders three weeks later, bringing the Black Hawk War to an end.
1847 William A. Leidesdorff launches the first steam boat in San Francisco Bay.
1862 Union General John Pope captures Orange Court House, Virginia.
1862 The Army Ambulance Corps is established by Maj. Gen. George McClellan.
1876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot while playing poker.
1914 Germany invades Luxembourg.
1918 A British force lands in Archangel, Russia, to support White Russian opposition to the Bolsheviks.
1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president upon the death of Warren G. Harding.
1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.
1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy, towing an injured sailor, swims to a small island in the Solomon Islands. The night before, his boat, PT-109, had been split in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.
1950 The U.S. First Provisional Marine Brigade arrives in Korea from the United States.
1964 U.S. destroyer Maddox is reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats.
1965 Newsman Morley Safer films the destruction of a Vietnamese village by U.S. Marines.
1990 Iraqi forces invade neighboring Kuwait.
1997 Author William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), considered the godfather of the "Beat Generation" in American literature, dies at age 83.

Born on August 2
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French engineer who designed the layout of Washington, D.C.
1820 John Tyndall, British physicist and the first scientist to show why the sky is blue.
1865 Irving Babbitt, scholar and founder of the modern humanistic movement.
1924 James Baldwin, writer whose works include Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son.
1932 Peter O'Toole, Irish actor.
1942 Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits.
1949 James Fallows, writer and editor of U.S. News and World Report.


Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1965 DAUGHTREY ROBERT NORLAN DEL RIO TX 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV INJURED ALIVE AND WELL 98
1965 HAIL WILLIAM WARREN LOS ANGELES CA
1967 CUNNINGHAM CAREY A. COLLINGSVILLE AL REMAINS RETURNED 1989 IDENTIFIED 04/01/98
1967 HYNDS WALLACE G. JR. SUMTER SC
1969 TALKEN GEORGE FRANCIS CHICO CA

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Costa Rica : Virgin of Angels feast
Grenada : Emancipation Day
Lesotho : National Tree Planting Day
Malawi : Bank Holiday
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 3
1347 Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.
1492 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.
1546 French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.
1553 Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London.
1610 Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself.
1692 French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands.
1805 Muhammad Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt.
1807 The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England.
1864 Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
1882 Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years.
1908 Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California.
1911 Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.
1914 Germany declares war on France.
1916 Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England.
1945 Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.
1958 The first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, passes under the North Pole.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
1972 Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings.
1975 The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.
1977 Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the "1977 Trinity." Its price and Radio Shack's established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years.
1990 The US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
2004 Statue of Liberty's pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Born on August 3
1867 Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926.
1887 Rupert Brooke, English poet who mainly wrote about World War I.
1900 Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent who wrote about the common soldier.
1905 Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers."
1909 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident.
1920 P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), British mystery writer.
1924 Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus.
1926 Tony Bennett, singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco").
1941 Martha Stewart, business magnate and television personality.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1965 BOWER JOSEPH E. ELY NV
1967 GOPP THOMAS ALAN NEW LONDON OH SURVIVORS EXTRACTED SAY SUBJ DEAD
1967 MC GRATH JAMES P. CHICAGO IL SURVIVORS EXTRACTED SAY SUBJ DEAD
1967 NEWCOMB WALLACE G. PAINTED POST NY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 NAHAN JOHN B. III ALLEGAN MI SURVIVORS EXTRACTED SAID SUBJ DEAD
1967 WOLPE JACK NEWBURGH NY SURVIVORS EXTRACTED SAY SUBJ DEAD
1970 ANSON ROBERT 08/23/70 RELEASED

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
New Zealand : Arbor Day (1872)
Niger : Independence Day (1960)
Tunisia : Bourguiba's Birthday (1902)
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" The best prophet of the future is the past. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 4
1265 King Henry III puts down a revolt of English barons lead by Simon de Montfort.
1578 A crusade against the Moors of Morocco is routed at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian of Portugal and 8,000 of his soldiers are killed.
1717 A friendship treaty is signed between France and Russia.
1789 The Constituent Assembly in France abolishes the privileges of nobility.
1790 The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, is organized.
1864 Federal troops fail to capture Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, one of the Confederate forts defending Mobile Bay.
1875 The first Convention of Colored Newspapermen is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1879 A law is passed in Germany making Alsace Lorraine a territory of the empire.
1914 Germany invades Belgium causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany.
1942 The British government charges that Mohandas Gandhi and his All-Indian Congress Party favor "appeasement" with Japan.
1944 RAF pilot T. D. Dean becomes the first pilot to destroy a V-1 buzz bomb when he tips the pilotless craft's wing, sending it off course.
1952 Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time.
1964 The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.
1964 The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats.
1971 The U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15).
1972 Arthur Bremer is sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace, later reduced to 53 years.
1979 President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy.
1988 The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology.
2007 NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a mission to Mars.

Born on August 4
1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and author.
1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish scientist.
1901 Louis Armstrong, legendary jazz trumpeter.
1912 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat credited with saving nearly 100,000 Budapest Jews during World War II.
1958 Mary Decker Slaney, American athlete, winner of seven track and field records.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1966 BURNS JOHN R. MEMPHIS TN REMAINS IDENTIFIED 05 FEB 93
1967 BISZ RALPH C. MIAMI FL POSS DEAD
1971 WALDHAUS RICHARD PITTSBURG CA 02/73 RELEASED BY PRG

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Norway : Peer Gynt Festival Days
Trinidad & Tobago : Discovery Day (1498)
US : Coast Guard Day (1790)
Virgin Islands : Nicole Robin Day
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 5
1391 Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews.
1763 Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac's rebellion.
1762 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland.
1815 A peace treaty with Tripoli--which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis--brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
1858 The first transatlantic cable is completed.
1861 Congress adopts the nation's first income tax to finance the Civil War.
1864 The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama.
1892 Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.
1914 The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I.
1914 The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1915 The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front.
1916 The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.
1921 Mustafa Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
1941 The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union.
1951 The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam.
1974 President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons.
1981 President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.
1992 Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King.
1995 Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during Operation Storm.
1997 The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial.
2012 A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide.


Born on August 5
1850 Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and author of "The Necklace."
1876 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and writer.
1906 John Houston, film director of such movies as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon.
1908 Miriam Rothschild, English scientist and writer.
1923 Richard G. Kleindienst, one of the key officials who helped elect Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1969.
1930 Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.
1975 Ami Foster, television actress (Punky Brewster); nominated eight times for Young Actress Award.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1964 ALVAREZ EVERETT SANTA CLARA CA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1964 SATHER RICHARD C. POMONA CA CRASH NO PARA/BEEPER REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Iran : Constitution Day
Upper Volta : Independence Day/Burkina Faso (1960)
World : Test Ban Day (Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War)
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 6
1497 John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast.
1863 The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope.
1888 Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England.
1890 William Kemmler becomes the first man to be executed by the electric chair.
1904 The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria.
1914 Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Bright's disease.
1927 A Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder.
1942 The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army.
1945 Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender.
1962 Jamaica becomes independent, after 300 years of British rule.
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South.
1972 Atlanta Braves' right fielder Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs, setting the Major League record for most home runs by a player for a single franchise.
1973 Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is in an automobile accident and goes into a four-day coma.
1979 Twelve-year-old Marcus Hooper becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
1981 Argentina's ex-president Isabel Peron is freed from house arrest.
1988 A melee that became known as the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City leads to NYPD reforms.
1991 Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first-ever website, Info.cern.ch.
1993 Pope John Paul II publishes "Veritatis splendor encyclical," regarding fundamentals of the Catholic Church's role in moral teachings.
1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in troubled rival Apple Computer, Inc.
2012 New Zealand's Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time since 1897.


Born on August 6
1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (1850), wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
1881 Alexander Flemming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928.
1889 Major General George Kenney, commander of the U.S. Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the Solomons during World War II.
1911 Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian.
1916 Richard Hofstadter, historian who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
1927 Andy Warhol, American pop artist.
1934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, science fiction and fantasy author (Xanth series).
1950 Winston E. Scott, US Navy commander and astronaut.
1970 M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American screenwriter, director and producer (The Sixth Sense, The Village).

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1964 CUTRER FRED C. JR. OSYKA MS AC CRASH EXPLODE VC
1964 KASTER LEONARD L. HOLYOKE MA AC CRASH EXPLODE
1967 KEMMERER DONALD R. QUAKERTOWN PA
1967 PAGE ALBERT L. DERRY NH
1972 PENN MICHAEL G. JR. FORT WORTH TX 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Australia : Bank Holiday
Bolivia : Independence Day (1825)
Hiroshima, Japan : Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park (1945)
Iceland : Bank Holiday
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962)
Malawi, Ireland : August Holiday
UAE : Accession of H.H. Sheik Zayed Ben Sultan Al-Nahayan
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man can see better than he can think. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 7
1782 General George Washington authorizes the award of the Purple Heart for soldiers wounded in combat.
1864 Union troops capture part of Confederate General Jubal Early's army at Moorefield, West Virginia.
1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for the revolving door.
1906 In North Carolina, a mob defies a court order and lynches three African Americans which becomes known as "The Lyerly Murders."
1916 Persia forms an alliance with Britain and Russia.
1922 The Irish Republican Army cuts the cable link between the United States and Europe at Waterville landing station.
1934 In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the government can neither confiscate nor ban James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
1936 The United States declares non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War.
1942 The U.S. 1st Marine Division under General A. A. Vandegrift lands on the islands of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon islands. This is the first American amphibious landing of the war.
1944 German forces launch a major counter attack against U.S. forces near Mortain, France.
1964 Congress overwhelmingly passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the president to use unlimited military force to prevent attacks on U.S. forces.
1966 The United States loses seven planes over North Vietnam, the most in the war up to this point.
1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth. The mission to the moon had marked the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1973 A U.S. plane accidentally bombs a Cambodian village, killing 400 civilians.
1976 The US Viking 2 spacecraft goes into orbit around Mars.
1981 The Washington (D.C.) Star ceases publication after 128 years.
1984 Japan defeats the United States to win the Olympic Gold in baseball.
1987 Presidents of five Central American nations sign a peace accord in Guatemala.
1990 Operation Desert Shield begins as US troops deploy to Saudi Arabia to discourage Iraq's Saddam Hussein from invading that country as he had Kuwait.
2007 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks Hank Aaron's record with his 756th home run. Bonds' accomplishments were clouded by allegations of illegal steroid use and lying to a grand jury.
Born on August 7
1876 Mata Hari, [Margaretha G. Macleod] who passed secrets to the Germans in World War I.
1903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist, archeologist and paleontologist; believed Africa was the cradle of mankind.
1904 Ralph Bunche, U.S. diplomat and the first African-American Nobel Prize winner.

1918 Joseph Lee Beaugh, U.S. navy veteran, served aboard the USS GUAM..WW II

1927 Edwin Edwards, governor of Louisiana.
1932 Abebe Bikila, barefoot runner from Ethiopia, winner of the 1960 Olympic marathon.
1942 Garrison Keillor, American humorist and writer, creator of the long-running PBS program A Prairie Home Companion.
1950 Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight," "Ain't Living Long Like This") and author (Chinaberry Sidewalks) Rodney Crowell.
1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy; dies 39 hours later.
1966 Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.
1975 Charlize Theron, model and Academy Award-winning actress (Monster).

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1965 GRAY HAROLD EDWIN JR. NEW YORK NY
1966 BRAZELTON MICHAEL L. INGLEWOOD CA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 FRYER CHARLES WIGGER OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1966 GIDEON WILLARD S. SILVER SPRINGS MD 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1966 MORAN RICHARD ALLAN FORT SMITH AR
1966 PYLE THOMAS S. NEW CASTLE DE 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 SANDVICK ROBERT J. GLASGOW MT 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1966 WENDELL JOHN H. HOUSTON TX 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 CHAMBERS CARL D. SANTA MONICA CA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 WILSON GLENN H. ST. ALBANS WV 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED
1971 BERG BRUCE A. OLYMPIA WA

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Columbia : Battle of Boyac (1819)
Ivory Coast/C“te d'Ivoire : Independence Day (1760)
Trinidad & Tobago : Discovery Day (1498)
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 8
1306 King Wenceslas of Poland is murdered.
1570 Charles IX of France signs the Treaty of St. Germain, ending the third war of religion and giving religious freedom to the Huguenots.
1636 The invading armies of Spain, Austria and Bavaria are stopped at the village of St.-Jean-de-Losne, only 50 miles from France.
1648 Ibrahim, the sultan of Istanbul, is thrown into prison, then assassinated.
1786 Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard become the first men to climb Mont Blanc in France.
1844 Brigham Young is chosen to head the Mormon Church, succeeding Joseph Smith.
1863 Confederate President Jefferson Davis refuses General Robert E. Lee's resignation.
1876 Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph.
1899 The first household refrigerating machine is patented.
1925 The first national congress of the Ku Klux Klan opens.
1937 The Japanese Army occupies Beijing.
1940 The German Luftwaffe attacks Great Britain for the first time, beginning the Battle of Britain.
1942 U.S. Marines capture the Japanese airstrip on Guadalcanal.
1944 U.S. forces complete the capture of the Marianas Islands.
1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
1950 U.S. troops repel the first North Korean attempt to overrun them at the Battle of Naktong Bulge, which continued for 10 days.
1963 England's "Great Train Robbery;" 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million) is stolen
1974 President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal.
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 is launched to probe the atmosphere of Venus.
1979 Iraq's president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents.
1983 Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt is deposed as president of Guatemala in the country's second military coup in 17 months.
1988 Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign a cease-fire treaty in the border war that began in 1966.
1989 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia begins its eighth flight, NASA's 30th shuttle mission.
1990 Iraq annexes the state of Kuwait as its 19th province, six days after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait.
2000 The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to surface, 136 years after it sank following its successful attack on USS Housatonic in the outer harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
2007 An EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn, New York, the first in that borough since 1889.
2008 Georgia invades South Ossetia, touching off a five-day war between Georgia and Russia.


Born on August 8
1865 Matthew A. Henson, explorer with Robert Peary who first reached the North Pole (though some recent scholarship disputes this claim).
1883 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader.
1896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling.
1901 Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for physics.
1908 Arthur J. Goldberg, labor lawyer instrumental in the merger of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1937 Dustin Hoffman, American actor.
1948 Svetlana Y Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (July 25, 1984).
1964 M. Ashman, author, co-editor of Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, and a founding member of TED Global, the international organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1964 GRAINGER JOSEPH W. WEST HARTFORD CT 01/25/65 DIED ON PRG DIC LIST PER WIDOW 1965
1966 FLOM FREDRIC R. MENASHA WI 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 GOLBERG LAWRENCE CLOQUET MN 09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED SRV
1966 KOMMENDANT AADO LAKEWOOD NJ
1966 KASLER JAMES H. ZANESVILLE OH 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 WALLING CHARLES M PHOENIX AZ
1966 WYNNE PATRICK EDWARD EAU GALLIE FL 03/18/77 SRV RETURNED REMAINS TO PCOM

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Afghanistan : Independence Day (1919)
Ivory Coast : Independence Day (1960)
Nepal : Tij Day- Woman's holiday
Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Thought for the day :
" Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 9
480 BC The Persian army defeats Leonidas and his Spartan army at the Battle Thermopylae, Persia.
48 BC Julius Caesar defeats Gnaius Pompey at Pharsalus.
1483 Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor.
1549 England declares war on France.
1645 Settlers in New Amsterdam gain peace with the Indians after conducting talks with the Mohawks.
1805 Austria joins Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the third coalition against France.
1814 Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23 million acres of Creek territory.
1842 The Webster-Ashburton treaty fixes the border between Maine and Canada's New Brunswick.
1859 The escalator is patented. However, the first working escalator appeared in 1900. Manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company for the Paris Exposition, it was installed in a Philadelphia office building the following year.
1862 At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson repels an attack by Union forces.
1910 The first complete, self-contained electric washing machine is patented.
1930 First appearance of the animated character Betty Boop ("Dizzy Dishes").
1936 Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in track and field events at the Berlin Olympics.
1941 President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The meeting produces the Atlantic Charter, an agreement between the two countries on war aims, even though the United States is still a neutral country.
1944 Fictional character Smokey Bear ("Only you can prevent forest fires") created by US Forest Service and the Ad Council.
1945 The B-29 bomber Bock's Car drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
1965 Singapore expelled from Malaysia following economic disagreements and racial tensions; becomes independent republic.
1969 Charles Manson's followers kill actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home.
1971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
1974 Gerald Ford is sworn in as president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
1975 First NFL game in Louisiana Superdome; Houston Oilers defeat New Orleans Saints 13-7.
1979 England's first major nude beach established, at the seaside resort of Brighton.
1992 Twenty-fifth Olympic Summer Games closes in Barcelona, Spain.
1999 Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister and, for the fourth time, fires the entire cabinet.
1999 The Diet of Japan establishes the country's official national flag, the Hinomaru, and national anthem, "Kimi Ga Yo.".


Born on August 9
1387 Henry V, British king famous for his victory at Agincourt, France.
1631 John Dryden, the first official Poet Laureate of Great Britain (1668 to 1700).
1633 Isaak Walton, author of the classic The Compleat Angler.
1896 Jean Piaget, psychologist who did pioneering work on the development of children's intellectual faculties.
1899 P.L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books.
1927 Robert Shaw, actor and writer.
1928 Bob Cousey, Hall of Fame basketball player and coach of the Boston Celtics.
1933 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress and bestselling children's author (Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window); established Japan's first TV talk show, Tetsuko no Heya (Tetsuko's Room), breaking with traditional subservient depiction of Japanese women.
1945 Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ.
1945 Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds, award-winning British newspaper cartoonist (The Silent Three, Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe) and author / illustrator of children's books (Fred, The Chocolate Wedding).
1957 Melanie Griffith, film and TV actress (Working Girl, Milk Money).
1958 Amanda Bearse, film and TV actress (Married with Children).
1961 Amy Stiller, stand-up comedian, film and TV actress (Little Fokkers, The King of Queens).
1963 Whitney Houston, model, singer ("Saving All My Love for You"), actress (The Bodyguard); listed in 2009 Guinness World Records as most awarded female act of all time.
1964 Hoda Kotb, Daytime Emmy-winning TV news anchor and host.
1968 Gillian Anderson, film and TV actress (The X-Files).
1970 Chris Cuomo, TV journalist and anchor.
1983 Ashley Johnson, film (The Help) and TV actress (Growing Pains), video game voice-overs (The Last of Us).

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1967 CHERRY ALLEN SHELDON UNIVERSITY CITY MO REMAINS IDENTIFIED 15 JULY 1999
1967 LENGYEL LAUREN ROBERT LYNNFIELD MA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 MYERS GLENN L. PENN HILLS PA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 WOLFKEIL WAYNE B. WILKES BARRE PA
1968 WINN DAVID W. AUSTIN MN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1969 BECK EDWARD EUGENE JR. NORTH CANTON OH
1969 DOTSON JEFFERSON S. POUND VA
1969 GOURLEY LAURENT L. VILLISCA IA
1969 JANOUSEK RONALD J. POSEN IL
1969 KANE BRUCE E. DEER PARK NY

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Japan : Nagasaki Memorial Day (1945)
Libya : Sanusi Army Day
Rhode Island : Victory Day
Singapore : National Day (1965)
Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Thought for the day :
" Someone is speaking well of you. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 10
955 Otto organizes his nobles and defeats the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in Germany.
1539 King Francis of France declares that all official documents are to be written in French, not Latin.
1557 French troops are defeated by Emmanuel Philibert's Spanish army at St. Quentin, France.
1582 Russia ends its 25-year war with Poland.
1628 The Swedish warship Vasa capsizes and sinks in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage.
1779 Louis XVI of France frees the last remaining serfs on royal land.
1831 William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts, is the first to use the term "Old Glory" in connection with the American flag, when he gives that name to a large flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett.
1846 The Smithsonian Institution is established in Washington through the bequest of James Smithson.
1864 Confederate Commander John Bell Hood sends his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union General William Sherman's supply lines.
1911 The House of Lords in Great Britain gives up its veto power, making the House of Commons the more powerful House.
1913 The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War.
1941 Great Britain and the Soviet Union promise aid to Turkey if it is attacked by the Axis Powers.
1949 National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense.
1950 President Harry S. Truman calls the National Guard to active duty to fight in the Korean War.
1954 English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires with a world-record total of 4,870 victories, later broken by Johnny Longden of the United States. Richards was the first jockey ever to be knighted.
1954 The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held at Massena, New York.
1960 NASA launches Discoverer 13 satellite; it would become the first object ever recovered from orbit.
1970 Rocker Jim Morrison tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior." Although convicted and sentenced to jail, he was free on bond while his case was being appealed when he dies in Paris, July 3, 1971.
1975 David Frost purchases the exclusive rights to interview Richard Nixon.
1977 US and Panama sign Panama Canal Zone accord, guaranteeing Panama would have control of the canal after 1999.
1997 The last British troops leave Hong Kong. After 156 years of British rule, the island is returned to China.
2003 For the first time ever, temperatures exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit when thermometers hit 101.3 F (38.5 Celsius) at Kent.
2006 All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes after Scotland Yard disrupts a a major terrorist plot involving liquid explosives. After a few weeks, the toiletries ban was modified.

Born on August 10
1753 Edmund Jennings Randolph, governor of Virginia and first U.S. attorney general.
1810 Camillo di Cavour, helped bring about the unification of Italy under the House of Saxony.
1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929-1933).
1909 George W. Crockett, first African-American lawyer with the U.S. Department of Labor.
1909 Leo Fender, inventor of the first mass-produced electric guitar.
1928 Eddie Fisher, American singer.
1928 Jimmy Dean, singer, actor, TV host and businessman.
1933 Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer whose Cosworth DFV (Double Four Valve) engine revolutionized Formula One racing.
1945 Harriet Miers, White House counsel.
1948 Patti Austin, Grammy Award-winning singer and actress ("Real Me").
1952 Daniel Hugh Kelly, film and TV actor (The Good Son).

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1965 MAILHES LAWRENCE SCOTT HOT SPRINGS AR
1969 MICKELSEN WILLIAM E. JR. MINNEAPOLIS MN
1970 CROWLEY JOHN E. WILLIAMSON NY REMAINS ID'D 04/22/00
1971 BATES PAUL J. JR. MESA AZ
1971 DOLAN THOMAS A. BALTIMORE MD
1972 SANSONE JAMES J. NORWOOD MA


Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Ecuador : Independence Day (1809)
Missouri : Admission Day (1821)
Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Thought for the day :
" Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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August 11
991 Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Byrhtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon.
1492 Rodrigo Borgia is elected to the papacy as Pope Alexander VI.
1792 A revolutionary commune is formed in Paris, France.
1856 A band of rampaging settlers in California kill four Yokut Indians. The settlers had heard unproven rumors of Yokut atrocities.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army.
1904 German General Lothar von Trotha defeats the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa.
1906 In France, Eugene Lauste receives the first patent for a talking film.
1908 Britain's King Edward VII meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy.
1912 Moroccan Sultan Mulai Hafid abdicates his throne in the face of internal dissent.
1916 The Russia army takes Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans.
1929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians.
1941 Soviet bombers raid Berlin but cause little damage.
1942 The German submarine U-73 attacks a Malta-bound British convoy and sinks HMS Eagle, one of the world's first aircraft carriers.
1944 German troops abandon Florence, Italy, as Allied troops close in on the historic city.
1965 A small clash between the California Highway Patrol and two black youths sets off six days of rioting in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
1972 The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam.
1975 US vetoes admission of North and South Vietnam to UN.
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI.
1984 Carl Lewis wins four Olympic gold medals, tying the record Jesse Owens set in 1936.
1988 Al Qaeda formed at a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan.
1989 Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings around Neptune.
1990 Troops from Egypt and Morocco arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the international operation to prevent Iraq from invading.
1999 A tornado in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, kills one person.
2003 Temperatures rise to 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius); over 140 people die in the heat wave.
2003 NATO assumes command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, its first major operation outside Europe.


Born on August 11
1833 Robert G. Ingersoll, advocate of scientific realism and humanistic philosophy.
1862 Carrie James Bond, songwriter who wrote "I Love You Truly" and "A Perfect Day."
1861 James Bryan Herrick, physician who first described sickle-cell anemia.
1892 Hugh MacDiarmid, poet and founder of the Scottish Nationalist Party.
1921 Alex Haley, genealogist and author of Roots.
1933 Jerry Falwell, founder of the conservative political lobbying organization, the Moral Majority.
1943 Kenny Gamble, songwriter, record producer; a pioneer of the "Philadelphia Sound" ("Ain't Gonna Love Nobody," "Me and Mrs. Jones").
1946 Marilyn Vos Savant, author, columnist, playwright; "Highest IQ (Women)" Guinness Book of World Records, 1986-1989 (category retired in 1990).
1950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer.
1950 Gennady Nikonov, inventor of AN-94 assault rifle.
1953 Hulk Hogan, wrestler, actor (Assault on Devil's Island); World Wrestling Federation heavyweight champion, 1984-89.


Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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1967 BERUBE KENNETH ALLEN MONSON MA

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Central African Republic, Chad : Independence Day (1960)
Jordan : Coronation Day/Accession of King Hussein
Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Yukon : Klondike Gold Day (1896) - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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Today in History August 21
1129 The warrior Yoritomo is made Shogun without equal in Japan.
1525 Estevao Gomes returns to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia.
1794 France surrenders the island of Corsica to the British.
1808 Napoleon Bonaparte's General Junot is defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimeiro, Portugal.
1831 Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites.
1858 The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time.
1863 Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead.
1864 Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties.
1915 Italy declares war on Turkey.
1942 U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru.
1944 The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C.
1945 President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act.
1959 Hawaii is admitted into the Union.
1963 The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon.
1968 Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country's experiments with a more liberal government.
1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched.
1976 Mary Langdon in Battle, East Sussex, becomes Britain's first firewoman.
1976 Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree.
1986 In Cameroon 2,000 die from poison gas from a volcanic eruption.
1988 Ceasefire in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq.
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune.
1991 Communist hardliners' coup is crushed in USSR after just 2 days; Latvia declares independence from USSR.
1994 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexico's presidential election.
1996 The new Globe theater opens in England.
2000 Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953.
2001 NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2017 Total or partial eclipse of the sun will be seen throughout the United States of America


Born on August 21
1798 Jules Michelet, French historian who wrote the 24-volume Historie de France.
1904 William "Count" Basie, American band leader and composer.
1936 Wilt Chamberlin, four-time MVP for the National Basketball Association and only player to score 100 points in a professional basketball game.
1938 Kenny Rogers, singer, actor; one of top-selling artists of all time; voted Favorite Singer of All Time in 1986 poll.
1944 Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Lee Meyers), singer/songwriter ("Lonely Girl," "What the World Needs Now"); toured as The Beatles opening act in 1964; inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2010.
1944 Peter Weir, film director; among the leaders of Australian New Wave cinema (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli); Academy Award nominee (Dead Poets Society, Master and Commander).
1950 Arthur Bremer, attempted assassin who shot segregationist Alabama governor George C. Wallace in May 1972.
1951 Harry Smith, TV co-anchor (The Early Show and its predecessor CBS Morning Show, 1987–96, 2002–10).
1952 Joe Strummer, lead singer of British punk band The Clash ("Rock the Casbah").
1953 Ivan Stang (Douglass St. Clair Smith), writer, Church of the SubGenius.
1954 Archie Griffin, NFL running back; only college player to win two Heisman trophies (Ohio State) and first player to start in four Rose Bowls; member, College Football Hall of Fame.
1956 Kim Cattrall, actress (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Sex in the City TV series).
1961 Stephen Hillenburg, animator and cartoonist; created character of Spongebob Squarepants.
1973 Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.

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1966 JOHNSON JAMES R. INDIANAPOLIS IN
1967 BUDD LEONARD R. JR. ROWLEY MA 03/05/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 BUCKLEY JIMMY L. SAC CITY IA 12/16/75 PRG RETURNED ASHES
1967 EBY ROBERT G.
1967 FLYNN ROBERT J. HOUSTON MN 03/15/73 RELEASED BY CHINA ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 GUENTHER HARRY GERMANY
1967 HARDMAN WILLIAM M. ST ALBANS WV 03/15/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 MORRILL MERWIN L. SAN CARLOS CA POSS DEAD REMAINS RECOVERED 06/03/83
1967 PROFILET LEO T. CAIRO IL 03/15/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 POWELL LYNN K. PROVO UT REMAINS RECOVERED 06/03/83
1967 SCOTT DAIN V. GIBSONIA PA
1967 TREMBLEY JAY F. SPOKANE WA

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - - - - - ( Friday )
Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Thought for the day :
" Home to a young boy is merely a filling station. "
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"

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