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Today in history

pornoboy said:




During the night of 12 to 13 August 1961,
some thousand members of German Democratic Republic (GDR) armed forces blocked the roads and railways leading to the western sectors of Berlin
and began putting up fencing and barbed wire around West Berlin.
The building of the Berlin Wall, separating the eastern and western sectors of the city, became a symbol of the division of Germany and of Europe.​
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I actually own a piece of the wall from when it came down; got it from an airborne guy who'd been stationed there.
 
Kulindahr said:
I actually own a piece of the wall from when it came down; got it from an airborne guy who'd been stationed there.
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Every tourist shop in Berlin sells concrete fragments supposedly from the wall. Sounds like yours might have more provenance.
 
15 August 1771 - Birth of Sir Walter Scott.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott
 
1914 - the Panama Canal officially opened
1935 - humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed in a plane crash in the Alaska Territory
1947 - India became independent after some 200 years of British rule
1969 - the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair opened on a dairy farm in upstate New York
 
1777 - American forces won the Battle of Bennington in what is considered a turning point in the Revolutionary War
1948 - the Sultan of Swat, baseball legend Babe Ruth, dies in New York at age 53
1962 - the Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr
 
unloadonme said:
19 August 14 - Death of Emperor Augustus.
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I loved the "revelation" in I Claudius that his (Octavius') wife poisoned him by painting his fruit ON THE TREE with poison in the dark of night.

Such delicious maliciousness. And much of what Robert Graves wrote as fiction was based on other historical tales and events, just bundled into the Julian dynasty.
 
1831 - Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites; scores of Blacks were killed in retribution in the aftermath of the rebellion. Turner was later captured and executed.
1858 - the first of 7 debates between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place
1911 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting was recovered in Italy 2 years later.
1944 - the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for the establishment of the United Nations
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state
 
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