08-30-2004, 06:00 AM
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Location: Maryland
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August 30th
1797 ~ Birthday of Mary Shelley, Writer.
1850 ~ Honolulu, Hawaii became a city.
1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist.
1930 ~ Birthday of Warren Buffett, Entrepreneur.
1941 ~ Siege of Leningrad began.
1943 ~ Birthday of Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier.
1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.
1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.
2003 ~ Death of Charles Bronson, Actor.
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