08-25-2004, 05:39 AM
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August 25th
1635 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Morgan, Privateer.
1825 ~ Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1830 ~ Belgium seceded from the Netherlands.
1867 ~ Death of Michael Faraday, Scientist.
1875 ~ Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel.
1900 ~ Birthday of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist. Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
1900 ~ Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.
1918 ~ Birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Conductor, Composer.
1944 ~ World War II: Paris was liberated by the Allies.
1989 ~ Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune.
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