On this day in history.

[AdmiralAdama]

August 13, 1899 suspense film maker / director Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone - London, England.
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[AdmiralAdama]

August 13, 1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.

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[scifan5751]

On this day in 1860, Annie Oakley was born. She toured for 15 years with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a sharpshooter. Chief Sitting Bull gave her the name Little Sure Shot.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

August 13, 1977 - Randy Bachman quits Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO). The group disband.

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[AdmiralAdama]

August 14, 1941, Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt meet on board at battleship in Argentia Bay Newfoundland. There, they sign the eight-point Atlantic Charter of war and postwar aims.

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[AdmiralAdama]

August 14, 1953 - The whiffle ball was invented.

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[scifan5751]

On this day in 1945,the surrender of Japan was made public.

 

[scifan5751]

On this day in 1948 the 14th Olympic Games closed in London,England.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

August 14, 1958 - The Canadian Football League
(CFL) plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)

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[AdmiralAdama]

August 14, 1457 - The first book ever printed is published by a German astrologer named Faust. He is thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil.

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[Richard Brown]

15th August. Today is VJ Day, the day on which, in 1945, World War 2 was declared to have ended.
Long may we remember this day, and look forward in hope of a peaceful world.

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[KevinJS]

Peace will come when mankind finds something as exciting as warfare. Arthur C Clarke said that. Maybe I should have put in the SF thread.

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[AdmiralAdama]

Peace will come when mankind finds something as exciting as warfare. Arthur C Clarke said that. Maybe I should have put in the SF thread.

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You still can.

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[AdmiralAdama]

August 15, 1965 - The Beatles played before a capacity crowd of 55,000 at Shea Stadium in New York, setting a record, at the time, for the largest concert audience.

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[AdmiralAdama]

August 15, 2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.

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