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| August 3 is the 216th day of the year. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah). Don’t mess with it. |
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| 1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne. One question – Why hasn’t this man been made a saint? |
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| 1844 YMCA forms |
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| 1862 US government collects its 1st income tax |
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| 1914 US declares neutrality in WW I |
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| 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers |
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| 1922 Femalien 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team. Pussies. |
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| 1956 Wilhelm Herz rides a motorcycle at 210 mph/338 kph (~ 0.000000005MHz) |
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| 1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam |
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| 1984 Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks |
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| 1985 "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances |
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| 1994 Truck carrying 25 million bees overturns on New York parkway |
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| 2010 California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger. |
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| 1952 Kristoffer Tabori [Christopher Donald Siegel], US actor |
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| 1955 Billy Bob Thornton, US actor/writer |
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| 1967 Timothy Adams, US actor |
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| 1968 Marcus Schenkenberg [Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop], Swedish/Dutch model/actor |
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| 1981 Marques Houston, US singer/actor |
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| 1981 Frederick Bousquet, French swimmer |
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| 1982 Jean-Philippe Grandclaude, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model |
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| 1982 Blake Aldridge, English synchronized diver |
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| 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, bisexual Danish fairy tale writer, is sorry he put a finger in the dyke |
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| 1999 Victor Mature, actor (Samson and Delilah), gets a robe |
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| 2009 Blake Snyder, maybe gay US screenwriter (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot), saves the cat. |
