08-03-2009, 06:01 AM
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August 3rd
1900 ~ Birthday of John T. Scopes, defendant in the “Monkey Trial”.
1904 ~ Birthday of Clifford D. Simak, Science Fiction Author.
1924 ~ Death of Joseph Conrad, Author. (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim)
1924 ~ Birthday of Leon Uris, American Writer. (Exodus, QB VII)
1943 ~ Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948 ~ Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground.
1958 ~ The USS Nautilus traveled beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1972 ~ U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2003 ~ The U.S. Anglican Church approved the appointment of an openly homosexual bishop.
2008 ~ Death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1970.
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