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2009 – Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. 2014 – The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic , which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern .
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pérignon's invention of Champagne; 1719 - Birth of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767); 1805 - Birth of William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
August 27 is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) ... Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people. 1895 – Japanese invasion of Taiwan: ...
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 4-10: Aug. 4: Actor Tina Cole (“My Three Sons”) is 81. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is 69. Actor Kym Karath (“The Sound of Music”) is 66.
August 12, 2024 at 9:36 AM. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 18-24: Aug. 18: Actor Robert Redford is 88. ... People. How a 24-year-old surfer rode a wave the size of 10-story building ...
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August 4 is the 216th day of the year ... 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, ...
August 7 is the 219th day of the year ... 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; ...