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August 1 1981 |
MTV premiers at 12:01 AM
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August 2 1876 |
Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
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August 3 1961 |
Tommy Douglas was elected leader of the New Democratic Party at its founding convention in Ottawa
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August 4 1900 |
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born
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August 5 1924 |
Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
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August 6 1945 |
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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August 7 1927 |
The official opening ceremony of the Peace Bridge which connects
Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Ontario
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August 8 1961 |
Birth of Dave Evans (The Edge - U2)
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August 9 1854 |
Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
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August 10 1960 |
The Canadian Bill of Rights became law
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August 11 1934 |
The first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay
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August 12 1851 |
American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine
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August 13 1535 |
Jacques Cartier, the French explorer, discovered the St. Lawrence River
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August 14 1903 |
Birth of John Ringling North, circus director
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August 15 1969 |
Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York
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August 16 1977 |
Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42
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August 17 1886 |
George Washington Carmack staked his claim after striking gold the previous day marking the beginning of the Klondike gold rush
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August 18 1227 |
Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died
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August 19 1942 |
Canadians paid a heavy toll during the Second World War when units of the Second Division raided the French town of Dieppe
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August 20 1895 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder"
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August 21 1680 |
Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe, N.M., after driving out the Spanish
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August 22 1485 |
England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses
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August 23 1793 |
Louis XVI Versailles, king of France (1774-92);
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August 24 79 |
Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash
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August 25 1932 |
Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
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August 26 1961 |
The official International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto
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August 27 1912 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan
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August 28 1789 |
Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
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August 29 1896 |
Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
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August 30 30 BC |
Cleopatra VII the most famous queen of Egypt, commits suicide
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August 31 1888 |
Mary Ann Nicholls was found murdered in London's East End in what is generally regarded as the first slaying committed by Jack the Ripper
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