08-07-2004, 04:56 AM
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August 7th
1516 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Bathory, serial killer.
1742 ~ Birthday of Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary War general.
1782 ~ George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic "Purple Heart".
1816 ~ Simón Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1876 ~ Birthday of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle), spy.
1942 ~ Birthday of Garrison Keillor, radio host.
1944 ~ IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, grounded on the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1957 ~ Death of Oliver Hardy, Comedian, & Actor
1998 ~ Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya killed 224 people and injures over 4,500.
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