Tuesday, August 7, 2007, #149 (1416)

Today in history

1819 - Simon Bolivar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyaca
1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands
1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan
1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet
1998 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500

Birthdays

1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress

Georgian Words of the Day

birth - dabadeba

day - dghe

year - tzeli

age - asaki

I was born on January 4, 1980

me davibade atas tskhraas otkhmotsi tzlis otkh ianvars

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