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Re: This Day in History

August 3 1958:

The U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.

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August 3rd 1914

The British Government sent an ultimatum to that of Germany, "Get out of Belgium, or else."

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August 1st 1914 - WWI begins

The Germans did not get out of Belgium, so today in 1914 Britain started to prepare for "else."

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August 5 1944:

Polish insurgents liberate a German forced-labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners,
who join in a general uprising against the German occupiers of the city.

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1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead

Film actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bed with an empty bottle of sleeping tablets by her side.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stor...ewsid_2657000/2657289.stm

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1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb is dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stor...ewsid_3602000/3602189.stm

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1998: US embassies in Africa bombed

At least 200 people are killed and many more injured when US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed within minutes of each other.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stor...ewsid_3131000/3131709.stm

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August 7 1964:

The United States Congress overwhelming approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose "communist aggression" in Southeast Asia.
The resolution marked the beginning of an expanded military role for the United States
in the Cold War battlefields of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

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On Aug 8:

1942 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs (Operation Pastorius) are executed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pastorius

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9th Agust 1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki

- the second such attack on Japan in the past three days.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stor...ewsid_3580000/3580143.stm

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