08-14-2007, 04:59 AM
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August 14th
1862 ~ Birthday of Ernest Thayer, Poet (Casey at the Bat).
1880 ~ After 632 years, Cologne Cathedral was completed.
1945 ~ Japan surrendered, ending World War II.
1947 ~ Pakistan & India gained independence from Britain at midnight, Pakistan commemorating the event on August 14 and India on August 15.
1951 ~ Death of William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate.
1971 ~ Rod Stewart released "Maggie May".
1980 ~ Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1988 ~ Death of Enzo Ferrari, Automobile Designer.
1994 ~ Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, was captured.
2003 ~ A blackout hit the northeastern U.S. and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.
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