08-03-2004, 02:57 AM
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August 3rd
1492 ~ Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1887 ~ Birthday of Rupert Brooke, Poet.
1900 ~ Birthday of John T. Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial.
1904 ~ Birthday of Clifford D. Simak, Science Fiction Author.
1914 ~ First World War: Germany declared war against France.
1924 ~ Death of Joseph Conrad, Writer.
1941 ~ Birthday of Martha Stewart, Home Economist.
1948 ~ Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1958 ~ Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus traveled beneath the Arctic ice cap.
2000 ~ George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
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