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On This Day in Space! Aug. 23, 1961: Ranger 1's Botched Space Launch (archive.is)
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August 23, 1939: German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact signed, setting the stage for World War II. (encyclopedia.ushmm.org)
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On This Day in Space! Aug. 22, 1963: X-15 Sets World Altitude Record (archive.is)
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Away until next Tuesday
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August 22, 1711: Walker Expedition to Quebec; Almost 900 Die At Sea Crashing into Reef/Rocks (minerdescent.com)
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August 21, 1961: Motown Releases its First #1 Hit, The Marvelettes - Please, Mr. Postman (www.youtube.com)
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August 20, 1866: Andrew Johnson Formally Declares the Civil War Over (www.thisdayinworldhistory.com)
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August 19, 1934: The First All-American Soap Box Derby (www.soapboxderby.org)
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August 18, 1587: Virginia Dare Becomes the First English Child Born in the Americas (www.ncpedia.org)
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August 17 1942: Raid on Makin Island (en.wikipedia.org)
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August 17,1798: Our Lady of La Vang: Vietnamese Believe They See The Ghost of the Virgin Mary (boomcalifornia.com)
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August 16, 1841: Whig Party Riots After President Tyler Refuses To Reinstate Second National Bank (constitutioncenter.org)
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August 15, 1057: King MacBeth is Killed at the Battle of Lumphanan (www.historic-uk.com)
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August 14, 1791: The Bois Caiman Ceremony Marks the Beginning of the Haitian Revolution (library.brown.edu)
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August 13, 1906: Brownsville Incident; All Black Infantry Dishonorably Discharged After Murder Accusation (owlcation.com)
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August 12, 1865: Joseph Lister Performs the First Antiseptic Surgery (broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk)
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August 11, 1929: Babe Ruth Becomes the First Player to Hit 500 Home Runs (sabr.org)
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August 8, 1793: The Louvre in Paris Opens (www.history.com)
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August 8, 870: The Treaty of Meerssan Divides the Frankish (Holy Roman) Empire Into East and West Francia (paulbuddehistory.com)
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August 7, 1947: Thor Heyerdahl's Balsa Raft Crashes into Reef After 101 Day Voyage Across Pacific (www.bradshawfoundation.com)
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August 6, 1945: The Atom Bomb is Dropped on Hiroshima (www.history.com)
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August 5, 1926: Houdini Spends 91 Minutes Underwaer in a Sealed Tank (mentalfloss.com)
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August 4, 1950: Batle of the Pusan Perimeter, the First Major Battle of the Korean War (www.warhistoryonline.com)
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August 3, 1870: Woodward Patents the Electric Light (torontoist.com)
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August 2, 1923: Calvin Coolidge Is Awakened By His Father Who Gives Him the Oath of Office (Harding Died That Night Making Coolidge President) (www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
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