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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 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; ...
August 12, 2024 at 9:36 AM. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 18-24: Aug. 18: Actor Robert Redford is 88. Actor Henry G. Sanders (“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”) is 82. Drummer Dennis ...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 25-31: Aug. 25: Actor Tom Skerritt is 91. Director John Badham (“Saturday Night Fever”) is 85. Singer Walter Williams of The O’Jays is 81.
August 13 is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) ... 2015 – At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland. 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by The Buggles . 1984 – Commercial peat -cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man , at Lindow Moss , Cheshire , England.