Monday, August 13, 2007, #153 (1420)

Today in history
1521 - Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Cortes
1918 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations
1960 - The Central African Republic declares independence from France
1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West

Birthdays
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1967 - Amelie Nothomb, Belgian writer
1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer

Georgian Words of the Day
bus - avtobusi

car - mankana

bus stop - avtobusis gachereba

route - marshruti

Stop here, please.
ak gaacheret, tu sheidzleba

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