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On this day ......

April 13th, 1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American actor to win an Academy Award, for his performance in Lilies of the Field.

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August 2, 1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
 
August 3, 1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.

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Seventeen years later, a grateful Republican Congress renames Washington National Airport, "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport", delivering a symbolically hateful kick in the teeth to organized labor.
 
August 4, 1873 - Indian Wars: Whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
 
August 5, 1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes on attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
 
August 6, 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
 
August 7, 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
 
August 8, 1974 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
 
Aug. 9, 1998

On this day I had my last drink of alcohol, and drugs. I entered detox, then rehab and now live a clean & sober life.

Happy 27th Anniversary to me.
 
dynk said:
Aug. 9, 1998

On this day I had my last drink of alcohol, and drugs. I entered detox, then rehab and now live a clean & sober life.

Happy 27th Anniversary to me.
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Happy, happy anniversary to you, for this is quite the accomplishment ! :wave:

Jerr
 
August 9, 1945 - World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly.
 
August 10, 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
 
August 12, 1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is released.


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Type Personal computer
Release date August 12, 1981
Discontinued April 2, 1987
Operating system IBM BASIC / PC-DOS 1.0
CP/M-86
UCSD p-System
CPU Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
Memory 16 kB ~ 640 kB

( At introduction a PC with 64 kB of RAM and a single 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and monitor sold for US $3,005.00 )
 
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August 13, 1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
 
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