Wednesday, August 8, 2007, #150 (1417)

Today in history
1786 - Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard
1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight
1942 - Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join
1966 - The Beatles landmark album Revolver is released in the United States
1974 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day
1990 - Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward
1991 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
1991 - John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released

Birthdays
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

Georgian Words of the Day
heat - sitskhe

summer - zapkhuli

temperature - temperatura

weather - amindi

I can't stand the heat this summer.
am zapkhulis sitskheebs ver vudzleb.

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