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Up late,
had one too many,
head not so good today
thank you,
that is all.
oh, and....
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
79 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. An estimated 20,000 people died.
1572 The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.
1814 British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
1954 The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1959 Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator, while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1970 A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.
1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of rock musician John Lennon.
1989 Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for gambling.
On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm.
2004 An independent commission said the blame for abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison lay mainly with the American soldiers who ran the jail, but said senior commanders and top-level Pentagon officials could also be faulted for failed leadership and oversight.
2004 Chechen separatists set off bombs aboard two Russian airliners that crashed after taking off from the same Moscow airport, killing 90 people.
Actress Marlee Matlin turns 40 years old today.
71 Kenny Baker
Actor (R2D2 in ''Star Wars'')
60 Ken Hensley
Rock musician (Uriah Heep)
47 Steve Guttenberg
Actor
35 Kristyn Osborn
Singer (SheDaisy)
32 Dave Chappelle
Actor-comedian (''Chappelle's Show'')
32 Carmine Giovinazzo
Actor (''CSI: NY'')
Have a great day all. :D
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