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Tuesday, monday... they all seem the same lately. Just days. So I've named them all "Saturday".... I like saturday. :D
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1754 France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
1914 Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1926 Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died at age 31.
On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. They were vindicated in 1977 by Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.
1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1960 Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died at age 65.
1972 The Republican National Convention, meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., nominated Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for a second term.
1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
1989 Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
2000 An estimated 51 million viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' reality series ''Survivor,'' in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.
2002 New York publicist Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that injured 16 people outside a Hamptons nightclub.
2003 Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
Birthdays:
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant turns 27 years old today.
71 Barbara Eden
Actress (''I Dream of Jeannie'')
56 Shelley Long
Actress (''Cheers'')
56 Rick Springfield
Actor-singer
Have a great day everyone..... I know I will. :D
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