On August 9th these people were born ...
1593 Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler)
1757 Thomas Telford, civil engineer.
1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist (6.022 x 10 ^ 23)
1869 Leonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer.
1871 Leonid Nikoleyevitch Andreyev, Russian author.
1922 Philip Larkin, English poet.
1927 Robert Shaw, actor
1930 Betty Boop, koo-koo-chee-koo
1938 Rod Laver, Australian tennis player.
1944 Sam Elliott, cowboy actor.
1957 Melanie Griffith, actress.
1963 Whitney Houston, US singer.
1968 Gillian Anderson, actress.
1975 Rhona Mitra, actress.
1976 Jessica Capshaw, actress.
... and these people died ...
1653 Maarten Harpertzoon Tromp, Dutch admiral.
1919 Ruggiero Leoncavello, Italian composer.
1962 Hermann Hesse, German author.
1967 Joe Orton, English playwright.
1975 Dmitri Shostakovitch, Russian composer.
1995 Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia, Grateful Dead guitarist. (53)
1999 Helen Rollason, sports presenter.
2004 Red Adair, oil well firefighter (film Hellfighters).
... and these things happened - On August 9th
Singapore, Independence Day. ( 1965 )
1842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
1870 The Married Women's Property Act passed.
1901 American Indian land in Oklahoma was sold to settlers .
1902 King Edward VII was crowned at Westminster Abbey following the
death of his mother, Queen Victoria. He and his wife, Queen
Alexandria, a member of the Danish royal family, have six children.
1912 Earthquake struck Istanbul, Turkey, 6000 dead, 40000 homeless.
1942 Leaders of the Indian National Congress(Ghandi,Nehru)jailed
1945 The 2nd Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
1965 Singapore gained independence from Britain.
1969 Bodies of Sharon Tate and 4 others found, Charles Manson victims
1974 Gerald Ford sworn in as 38th president of the USA.
1974 Tricky Dicky Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment, 'high crimes'.
1979 First official nudist beach in UK, 200 yards of Brighton Beach.
1992 Olympic games end in Barcelona.
2000 Earthquake in Mexico (R7.1), no injuries.
2000 Latest Cambridge guess at age of the universe - 14 billion years.
2000 Powerful explosion near Moscow's Kremlin, 8 killed 50 injured.
2000 US tyre maker Firestone recalls 20 million defective tyres.
2000 Vauxhall unveiled the VX220, their first sports car for 90 years.
2001 Computers now beat humans as trading agents in City dealings.
2001 Europe's biggest hot-air balloon festival opened in Bristol.
2001 Robot explorer Genesis launched to gather particles of the sun.
2002 NY diplomatic cars owe $21bn in unpaid fines.
2002 Worldcom found a further $3 bil in false accounting (total $7bn).
2003 Annual Scottish Highland Games attended by Prince of Wales.
2003 In Australia about 3,000 females in a colony of koala bears were
given contraceptive drugs after eating most of their habitat.
2004 Japan won football Asian Cup in China, game was followed by riots
2004 UK bank regulators accept first Islamic bank (interest forbidden)
2005 Photographer Brad Diaz was shot with an air pellet outside Britney Spears baby shower.
2005 Shuttle Discovery landed safely after the first flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
2006 About 10k hopefuls arrived at the Pasadena Rose Bowl for the 1st of 7 American Idol VI auditions.
2006 The royal editor of The News of the World was arrested for tapping the phones of the Royal Household
2007 Hobsons Mild brewed in Shropshire was voted overall winner at the Campaign for Real Ale British Beer Festival at Earls Court.
2007 Timo Kaukonen of Finland won the world championship sauna-sitting contest staying 12m 26s in a 110C sauna.
2008 Russia and Georgia were on the brink of war after a Georgian offensive was countered by Moscow sending in tanks.
2008 The credit crunch was claiming more than 100 home repossessions a day, the highest level for 12 years.
2009 Baitullah Mehsud, the militant Taleban leader and Pakistan’s most wanted man, was killed by a US remote controlled drone aircraft.
2009 Chinese authorities evacuated almost a million people living on their south-eastern coast ahead of Typhoon Morakot.
2009 US Pumped an extra $2bn into New Car Programme 'cash-for-clunkers' giving them $4k for their old gas-guzzler if they buy a new car.
2010 A giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km (100 sq miles) broke off a glacier in Greenland, the largest piece since 1962.
2010 The annual World Sauna Championships in Finland ended in tragedy with the death of one of the finalists while in 110C of heat.
2011 A 3rd night of rioting, loooting, cars and building set alight in 9 boroughs in central London spread to Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham and Liverpool.
2011 China evacuated more than 200,000 people from its east coast as Typhoon Muifa came close, its most powerful in years.
2012 Gu Kailai, the wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai, pleaded guilty and sentenced to life for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, a scandal that rocked China's political system.
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If your country does not do any thing for you,
is there any point having one.
Anon
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