08-07-2005, 05:30 AM
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Location: Maryland
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August 7th
1560 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Bathory, serial killer.
1876 ~ Birthday of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle), spy.
1927 ~ Peace Bridge opened between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1942 ~ Birthday of Garrison Keillor, radio host.
1945 ~ President Harry Truman announced the successful nuclear bombing of Hiroshima while returning from the Potsdam Conference.
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, arrived at 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.
1960 ~ Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
1998 ~ Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya that killed 224 people and injured over 4,500.
2004 ~ Death of Red Adair, American oil well firefighter.
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