08-11-2009, 09:10 PM
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Location: Maryland
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August 12th
1859 ~ Birthday of Katherine Lee Bates, Poet (America the Beautiful [arranged & performed by Ray Charles]).
1887 ~ Birthday of Erwin Schrödinger, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
1927 ~ Birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist.
1953 ~ The Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 ~ The first communications satellite, “Echo I”, was launched.
1964 ~ Death of Ian Fleming, Novelist.
1981 ~ The IBM PC was introduced.
1982 ~ Death of Henry Fonda, Actor.
2002 ~ The Russian submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea.
2004 ~ New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey came out of the closet at the press conference when he announced his resignation from the office.
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