On this day ......

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4 August 1721 – Birth of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_1st_Marquess_of_Stafford

 

[MassRuss]

August 4, 1914. Germany invades Belgium, the UK declares war on Germany, the US declares it's neutrality. World War I

 

[MassRuss]

August 5, 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England

 

[MassRuss]

August 6, 1945 - A Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

 

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6 August 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

 

[MassRuss]

August 7, 1560 - birth of Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian Countess & serial killer

 

[MassRuss]

August 8, 1963 - Great Train Robbery in England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)

 

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9 August 1872 – Birth of Archduke Joseph August of Austria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Joseph_August_of_Austria

 

[Triple G]

On this day, August 10th in:

1909 My father was born
1963 I was married

 

[mbamike]

2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps won the first of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics by smashing his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley

Actress Angie Harmon turns 41 years old today. Actor Antonio Banderas turns 53 years old today.

 

[MassRuss]

August 10, 1792 - Storming of the Tuileries Palace, arrest of Louis XVI. End of French monarchy until 1814.

 

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12 August 1762 – Birth of King George IV of the United Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom

 

[MassRuss]

August 13, 1792 - Birth of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, future wife & queen of William IV. (& sister in law of George IV)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Saxe-Meiningen

 

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14 August 1867 – Birth of John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy

 

[MassRuss]

August 15, 1769 - Birth of Napoleon

 

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15 August 1858 – Birth of Edith Nesbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nesbit

 

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20 August 1914 – Death of Pope Pius X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_X

 

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21 August 1765 – Birth of King William IV of the United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom

 

[MassRuss]

August 21, 1918 - 2nd Battle of the Somme begins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Somme_(1918)

 

[MassRuss]

August 22, 1893 - Birth of Dorothy Parker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker