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13th August, 1961: Berliners wake to divided city
----------------------------------------Troops in East Germany seal off the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stor...ewsid_3054000/3054060.stm [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 13, 2008 1:18:08 PM] |
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1985:
Heart-lung transplant makes history A three-year-old boy from Dublin becomes the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient. |
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August 14 1980:
Workers in Gdansk, Poland, seize the Lenin Shipyard and demand pay raises and the right to form a union free from communist control. The massive strike also saw the rise to prominence of labor leader Lech Walesa, who would be a key figure in bringing an end to communist rule in Poland. |
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Augusr 14th 1969: British troops sent into Northern Ireland
The British Government sends troops into Northern Ireland in what it says is a "limited operation" to restore law and order. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stor...ewsid_4075000/4075437.stm |
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On Aug 14:
1945 - Japan announced its unconditional surrender in World War II. President Harry Truman announced that World War II was over. |
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August 15 1914:
The American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. vessel Ancon, a cargo and passenger ship. |
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August 24, 79
After centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands. The cities, buried under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud, were never rebuilt and largely forgotten in the course of history. In the 18th century, Pompeii and Herculaneum were rediscovered and excavated, providing an unprecedented archaeological record of the everyday life of an ancient civilization, startlingly preserved in sudden death. |
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On Aug 25:
1944 - Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. |
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On Aug 26:
1883 - The volcano Krakatoa erupted in the largest recorded explosion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa |
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On Aug 27:
2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,002 kilometers) from Earth. |
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