Monday, August 20, 2007, #158 (1425)

Today in history
1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary
1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice axe. He dies the next day
1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization
1988 - Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev

Birthdays
1847 - Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
1941 - Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)

Georgian Words of the Day

breakfast - sauzme

dinner - sadili

snack - tsakhemseba

hungry - mshieri

food - satchmeli

I'm so hungry, let's go somewhere and get a snack.

iseti mshieri var, sadme tsavidet da tsavikhemsot.


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