On this day in history.

[squib]

If you follow my link, you'll see it's the third one there. I like it a lot more than the other two!

I totally agree!, you are right on as usual!

 

[skeirn24]

this thread was a great idea! very cool & interesting.

 

[squib]

We had school vacations, I was a pupil then. I certainly saw it on TV at home.

I was on holidays from school and was in a shop looking for clothes for the coming fall!

 

[Richard Brown]

I was on holidays from school and was in a shop looking for clothes for the coming fall!

Was this on the day on which Elvis Presley died?

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[squib]

I am almost 199% it was the 16th of August!? always hedge your bets!, Squib

 

[J. A.]

August 20, 1977: Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.





Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2

 

[squib]

Was this on the day on which Elvis Presley died?

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YES!! What was the date of the month of August? Thanks, Richard!

 

[J. A.]

August 21, 1770: James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook

 

[J. A.]

August 22, 1862: French composer Claude Debussy is born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.





Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy

 

[rjkgr]

on august 22, 2007 the

• The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.

 

[J. A.]

August 23, 79: Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.





Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius

 

[Richard Brown]

August 23, 79: Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius

I must get to see the Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum.

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[J. A.]

I must get to see the Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum.

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Must be very interesting.
I was in Carnuntum today.

 

[J. A.]

August 24, 1962: Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.





Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter

 

[J. A.]

August 25, 1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei