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1988 – Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park ravaged more than 150,000 acres (610 km 2), the single-worst day of the conflagration. 1989 – The final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide , South Australia , was completed, at the time the world's longest and fastest guided busway with buses travelling a total of 12 km (7.5 ...
Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. [1] (born August 20, 1954) [1] is an American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the weather anchor on NBC's Today, [2] and occasionally co-hosts 3rd Hour Today. He has a lapsed American Meteorological Society (AMS) Television Seal of Approval (#238). [3]
Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash. 2012 – A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people. 2014 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
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August 12, 2024 at 9:36 AM. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 18-24: ... Guitarist Brad Avery of Third Day is 53. Actor Misha Collins (“Supernatural”) is 50. Singer Monique Powell of ...
In 2019, it had 20 million unique visitors each month. The same year, journalist Taylor Lorenz of The Atlantic described a Famous Birthdays page as a "status symbol" or "badge of honor" for internet personalities, noting its teenage and Generation Z demographic [7] and Lorenz for The New York Times calling it a "a milestone in any influencer's ...
20 – Henry de Montherlant (1895–1972), French essayist and novelist; 20 – Toller Cranston (1949–2015), Canadian figure skater and artist, 1976 Olympic Bronze Medalist; 21 – Jessica Clark (1985–), English actress, model, and video blog host; 22 – John Waters (1946–), American director, writer, visual artist, and media personality
August 1: Dahomey (now Benin) independent August 3: Niger independent August 15: Former French Congo independent August 5: Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) independent August 16: Cyprus independent from the UK August 7: Ivory Coast (now Cote d'Ivoire) independent August 17: Gabon independent August 11: Chad independent August 20: Senegal independent August 13: Central African Republic ...