08-06-2004, 05:49 AM
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Location: Maryland
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August 6th
1776 ~ Birthday of Amedeo Avogadro, Chemist.
1806 ~ Francis I, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicated, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1809 ~ Birthday of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet.
1881 ~ Birthday of Alexander Fleming, scientist.
1911 ~ Birthday of Lucille Ball, Actress, Comedienne.
1926 ~ Gertrude Ederle became first woman to swim the English Channel.
1945 ~ World War II: An nuclear bomb codenamed Little Boy was dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000.
1943 ~ Birthday of Jon Postel, creator of DNS.
1962 ~ Jamaica became independent.
1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee released his idea for the "World Wide Web"
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