Tuesday, August 14, 2007, #154 (1421)

Today in history
1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China
1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England
1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender
1947 - Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth
1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards

Birthdays
1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler (d. 1887)
1867 - John Galsworthy, English novelist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian
1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
1947 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
1966 - Halle Berry, American actress

Georgian Words of the Day
call - zari

phone - teleponi

later - mogvianebit

busy - dakaveba

Please call me back later.
mogvianebit damireke tu shegidzlia.

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