08-21-2005, 12:05 AM
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Location: Maryland
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August 21st
1872 ~ Birthday of Aubrey Beardsley, Illustrator.
1904 ~ Birthday of Count Basie, Bandleader.
1923 ~ Birthday of Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel.
1936 ~ Birthday of Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer.
1940 ~ Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary.
1944 ~ Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations.
1959 ~ Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
1968 ~ 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring of political liberalization.
1983 ~ Assassination of Benigno S. Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader.
1986 ~ Toxic gas erupted from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing more than 1,700.
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