Today in History

Aug 31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
Aug 31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
Aug 31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
Aug 31 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957
Aug 31 Independence Day (Merdeka) in Malaysia
Aug 31 Independence Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Aug 31 Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
Aug 31 Delegados de 9 provincias suscriben el Pacto o Liga Unitaria, 1830
Aug 31 Prinses Wilhelmina (1880 - 1962)
Aug 31 N'oubliez pas les Aristide !
Aug 31 Bonne fête aux Raymond !
Aug 31 Hitler stellt Frankfurter Zeitung ein, 1943
Aug 31 Erika, Bella
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Many critics, no defenders,
translators have but two regrets:
when we hit, no one remembers,
when we miss, no one forgets.

Anonymous

#translation #translators

Monarch on Buddleia

@Photo Shooters @gardens
#monarch #butterfly #photography #photo

Today in History

Aug 30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
Aug 30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
Aug 30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
Aug 30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
Aug 30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
Aug 30 Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana
Aug 30 Victory Day in Turkey
Aug 30 Bonne fête aux Fiacre !
Aug 30 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Rose.
Aug 30 Rózsa
Aug 30 Конституция күні
Aug 30 День пожарной охраны
Aug 30 День памяти жертв политических репрессий
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Today in History

Aug 29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician and father of the jurist
Aug 29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
Nova Cygni 1975.
Aug 29 Saruman enters the Shire
Aug 29 Nace en Tucumán Juan Bautista Alberdi, 1810
Aug 29 Viaje inaugural de la locomotora "La Porteña", 1857
Aug 29 N'oubliez pas les Sabine !
Aug 29 Quand les hirondelles voient la saint Michel,
L'hiver ne vient qu'à Noël.
Aug 29 Beatrix, Erna
Aug 29 День Кащея
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Today in History

Aug 28 Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
Aug 28 Heroes Day in Philippines
Aug 28 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Augustin.
Aug 28 Fine pluie à la saint Augustin,
C'est comme s'il pleuvait du vin.
Aug 28 Ágoston
Aug 28 День пограничника
Aug 28 Воздвижение Креста Господня
Aug 28 Успение Пресвятой Богородицы
Aug 28 Успение Златогорки
Aug 28 Успення Пресвятої Богородиці
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Today in History

Aug 27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
Aug 27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
Aug 27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
Aug 27* Bank Holiday in England and Wales
Aug 27 Liberation Day in Hong Kong
Aug 27 Primera transmisión radiofónica, 1920
Aug 27 N'oubliez pas les Edwige !
Aug 27 Bonne fête aux Joseph !
Aug 27 Gáspár
Aug 27 Steven Baldwin, born in New London, CT, Aug. 27, 1967
Aug 27 Международный день театра
Aug 27 День внутренних войск
Aug 27 Общероссийский день библиотек
Aug 27 День молодежи
Aug 27 День кино
Aug 27 День спасателя
Aug 27 День снятия блокады города Ленинграда (1944 год)
Aug 27 Отбор жертв Перуну, русалии
Aug 27 Воздвиження Чесного Хреста
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Today in History

Aug 26 19th amendment of US constitution gives women the vote, 1920
Aug 26 Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachusetts
Aug 26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
Aug 26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
Aug 26 Open Hardware Certification Program started, 1997
Aug 26 Nace en Bruselas el escritor Julio Cortázar, 1914
Aug 26 Día Nacional de la Solidaridad
Aug 26 N'oubliez pas les Natacha !
Aug 26 Bonne fête aux Zéphirin !
Aug 26 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Eulade.
Aug 26 Schlacht bei Tannenberg, 1914
Aug 26 Izsó
Aug 26 День памяти погибших в радиационных авариях и катастрофах
Aug 26* День шахтера
Aug 26 Всемирный день информации
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Today in History

Aug 25 Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
Aug 25 Constitution Day in Paraguay
Aug 25 Independence Day in Uruguay
Aug 25 Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918
Aug 25 The opera "La muette de Portici" starts the belgian revolution, 1830
Aug 25 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Louis.
Aug 25 Lajos, Patrícia
Aug 25 Татьянин день. Студенческий праздник
Aug 25 День таможенника
Aug 25 Коляда (сдвинутое зимнее солнцестояние)
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Today in History

Aug 24 St Bartholomew
Aug 24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
Aug 24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
Aug 24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
Aug 24 National Flag Day in Liberia
Aug 24 Nace en Buenos Aires Jorge Luis Borges, 1899
Aug 24 Bonne fête aux Barthélémy !
Aug 24 À la saint Barthélémy,
Paie to dû.
Aug 24 Bertalan
Aug 24 День славянской письменности и культуры
Aug 24 Международный день ООН
Aug 24 День взятия турецкой крепости Измаил русскими войсками под командованием А.В. Суворова (1790 год)
Aug 24 День Велеса
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Today in History

Aug 23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
Aug 23 DEC founded, 1957
Aug 23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
Aug 23 Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
Aug 23 Keith Moon is born in London, England, 1946
Aug 23 El general Manuel Belgrano inicia la retirada hacia Tucumán, 1812
Aug 23 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Rose.
Aug 23 N'oubliez pas les Philippe !
Aug 23 Abschluß des Hitler-Stalin-Paktes, 1939
Aug 23 Bence
Aug 23 День защитника Отечества
Aug 23 День победы Красной Армии над кайзеровскими войсками Германии (1918 год)
Aug 23 День разгрома советскими войсками немецко-фашистских войск в Курской битве (1943 год)
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Today in History

Aug 22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
Aug 22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
Aug 22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
Aug 22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
Aug 22 Día del Folklore Argentino
Aug 22 Regency of the Prince Charles, 1944
Aug 22 N'oubliez pas les Fabrice !
Aug 22 Bonne fête aux Symphorien !
Aug 22 Jamais d'août la sécheresse
N'amènera la richesse.
Aug 22 Menyhért, Mirjam
Aug 22 День памяти и скорби (Начало Великой Отечественной Войны, 1941 год)
Aug 22 День государственного флага
Aug 22 День энергетика
Aug 22 Ярилин День
Aug 22* Поворот к зиме (осеннее равноденствие)
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Today in History

Aug 21 Christopher Robin Milne born, 1920
Aug 21 Winnie-the-Pooh (Edward Bear) born (given to Christopher Robin
Milne), 1921
Aug 21 Joe Strummer (The Clash), born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, 1952
Aug 21 Bonne fête aux Christophe !
Aug 21 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Jeanne.
Aug 21 Einmarsch des Warschauer Pakts in die Tschechoslowakei, 1968
Aug 21 Sámuel, Hajna
Aug 21 День инженерных войск
Aug 21 День работников налоговых органов
Aug 21 День победы русских полков во главе с великим князем Дмитрием Донским над монголо-татарскими войсками в Куликовской битве (1380 год)
Aug 21 Рождество Пресвятой Богородицы
Aug 21* Зимнее солнцестояние
Aug 21* Летнее солнцестояние
Aug 21 День Стрибога
Aug 21 День Сварога и Семаргла
Aug 21 Різдво Пресвятої Богородиці
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Today in History

Aug 20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
Aug 20 Constitution Day in Hungary
Aug 20 N'oubliez pas les Bernard !
Aug 20 Brumes d'août font passer les châtaignes.
Aug 20 Szent István nap, Államalapítás ünnepe
Aug 20 István
Aug 20 День работника органов безопасности
Aug 20* Весенние равноденствие
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Today in History

Aug 19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
Aug 19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
Aug 19 Independence Day in Afghanistan
Aug 19 Bonne fête aux Jean-Eudes !
Aug 19 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Louis.
Aug 19 Huba
Aug 19* День Воздушного Флота
Aug 19 Богоявление или Крещение Господне
Aug 19 Преображение Господне
Aug 19 Богоявлення або Хрещення Господнє
Aug 19 Преображення Господнє
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Today in History

Aug 18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774
Aug 18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
Aug 18 N'oubliez pas les Hélène !
Aug 18 Temps trop beau en août
Annonce hiver en courroux.
Aug 18 Ilona
Aug 18 День налоговой полиции
Aug 18 Международный день музеев
Aug 18 День победы русских воинов князя Александра Невского над немецкими рыцарями на Чудском озере (Ледовое побоище, 1242 год)
Aug 18 National Science Day (วันวิทยาศาสตร์แห่งชาติ) in Thailand
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Debian is the most influential gnu/linux distro, ever.

Debian is the most influential [gnu/]Linux distribution ever. Of the 305 active distributions listed on Distrowatch, 147 are derived from Debian, and 87 from Ubuntu, Debian's most famous off-shoot. In other words, 77% of the distributions being used today wouldn't exist without Debian.

source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Debian-and-I

#debian #gnu #linux
@Linux-Group @GNU @Debian

Today in History

Aug 17 Mae West born, 1892
Aug 17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
Aug 17 Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina
Aug 17 Independence Day in Indonesia
Aug 17* Admission Day in Hawaii, 1984 (3rd Friday)
Aug 17 Paso a la inmortalidad de José Francisco de San Martín, 1850
Aug 17 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Hyacinthe.
Aug 17 Jácint
Aug 17 Международный день телекоммуникаций
Aug 17 Международный день студентов
Aug 17 День ракетных войск стратегического назначения
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looks like my office, only cleaner...

#translator #translation

Today in History

Aug 16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
Aug 16 Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
Aug 16 Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
Aug 16 Restoration Day in Dominican Republic
Aug 16 Elvis Presley dies, 1977
Aug 16 Madonna Louise Ciccone born in Bay City, Michigan, 1958
Aug 16 Ian Murdock founded Debian, 1993
Aug 16 N'oubliez pas les Armel !
Aug 16 Bonne fête aux Roch !
Aug 16 De saint Roch la grande chaleur
Prépare du vin la couleur.
Aug 16 Ábrahám
Aug 16 День морской пехоты
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Today in History

Aug 15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
Aug 15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
Aug 15 Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
Aug 15 Independence Day in India
Aug 15 Liberation Day in South Korea
Aug 15 National Day in Congo
Aug 15 Santa Maria in Malta
Aug 15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962
Aug 15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
Aug 15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969
Aug 15 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias ``potato'' relased, 2000
Aug 15 Velika Gospa
Aug 15 Assomption
Aug 15 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Marie.
Aug 15 Pluie de l'Assomption,
Huit jours de mouillon.
Aug 15 Mariä Himmelfahrt
Aug 15 Mária
Aug 15 Сретение Господне
Aug 15 День Триглава
Aug 15 Стрітення Господнє
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Today in History

Aug 14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
Aug 14 IBM PC announced, 1981
Aug 14 Social Security begins in US, 1935
Aug 14 Independence Day in Pakistan
Aug 14 VJ Day, 1945
Aug 14 Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
Aug 14 RNA Show Day (Brisbane metro)
Aug 14 N'oubliez pas les Évrard !
Aug 14 Bonne fête aux Maximilien !
Aug 14 Wahl zum ersten deutschen Bundestag, 1949
Aug 14 Marcell
Aug 14 Старый Новый год
Aug 14 Международный день стандартизации
Aug 14 Покров Пресвятой Богородицы
Aug 14 Новый Год, Овсень малый
Aug 14 День Волха Змеевича
Aug 14 Покрова Пресвятої Богородиці
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Today in History

Aug 13 Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899
Aug 13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
Aug 13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
Aug 13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
Aug 13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
Aug 13 Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
Aug 13 Women's Day in Tunisia
Aug 13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
Aug 13 Dutroux Marc arrested (paedophiliac), 1996
Aug 13 Bonne fête aux Hyppolite !
Aug 13 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Radegonde.
Aug 13 S'il pleut à la sainte Radegonde,
Misère abonde sur le monde.
Aug 13 Bau der Berliner Mauer, 1961
Aug 13 Ipoly
Aug 13 День российской печати
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Today in History

Aug 12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
Aug 12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
Aug 12 Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
Aug 12 Queen's Birthday in Thailand
Aug 12 Leos Janacek dies in Ostrava, Czech republic, 1928
Aug 12 Zaraday (5th of the Season of Bureaucracy) Festival of Zarathud the Staunch
Aug 12 Día de la Reconquista de Buenos Aires
Aug 12 N'oubliez pas les Clarisse !
Aug 12* En août et vendanges, il n'y a ni fêtes ni dimanches.
Aug 12 Deutsch-sowjetischer Gewaltverzichtsvertrag, Moskau 1970
Aug 12 Klára
Aug 12* День строителя
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Today in History

Aug 11 Dog days end
Aug 11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
Aug 11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
Aug 11 Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
Aug 11 Independence Day in Chad
Aug 11 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan
Aug 11 Oath of Baudouin, son of Leopold III, 1950
Aug 11 Bonne fête aux Claire !
Aug 11 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Philomène.
Aug 11 Zsuzsanna, Tiborc
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Today in History

Aug 10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
Aug 10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
Aug 10 Independence Day in Ecuador
Aug 10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
Aug 10 N'oubliez pas les Laurent !
Aug 10 Qui sème à la saint Laurent
Y perd la graine et puis le temps.
Aug 10 Lõrinc
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Today in History

Aug 09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
Aug 09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
Aug 09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
Aug 09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
Aug 09 Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965
Aug 09 National Day in Singapore
Aug 09 National Women's Day in South Africa
Aug 09 Leopold III meets Hitler which grants freedom to the flemish POW, 1940
Aug 09 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Amour.
Aug 09 Emõd
Aug 09 National Women's Day in South Africa
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Today in History

Aug 08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
Aug 08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
Aug 08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
Aug 08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
Aug 08 Fire in the mine 'Le bois du Casier', 263 deaths, 1956
Aug 08 Belgian parliament in exile comes back to Bruxelles, 1944
Aug 08 N'oubliez pas les Dominique !
Aug 08 Bonne fête aux Cyriaque !
Aug 08 Friedensfest (Augsburg)
Aug 08 Atombombenabwurf auf Nagasaki, 1945
Aug 08 László
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Romney is so good at flipping, he should be an Olympic gymnast!

liar

New Haven sunset.

@Photo Shooters

Today in History

Aug 07 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
Aug 07 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Gaëtan.
Aug 07 Gründung der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei in Eisenach
unter der Führung von August Bebel und Wilhelm Liebknecht, 1869
Aug 07 Ibolya
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Today in History

Aug 06 Jonathan B. Postel is born in Altadena, California, 1943
Aug 06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
Aug 06 Caricom in Barbados
Aug 06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
Aug 06 Bank Holiday in British Columbia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland, Ontario
Aug 06 Emancipation Day in Bahamas
Aug 06 Independence Day in Bolivia
Aug 06* Bank Holiday (ACT, NSW)
Aug 06* Picnic Day (NT)
Aug 06 Soleil rouge en août,
C'est de la pluie partout.
Aug 06 Erster Atombombenabwurf auf Hiroshima, 1945
Aug 06 Berta, Bettina
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Today in History

Aug 05* Bank Holiday in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Aug 05 Homeland thankfulness day in Croatia
Aug 05 3rd Cross-Quarter Day
Aug 05 European Monetary Agreement signed, 1955
Aug 05 Dan domovinske zahvalnosti
Aug 05 Prinses Irene (1939)
Aug 05 N'oubliez pas les Abel !
Aug 05 Bonne fête aux Oswald !
Aug 05 Krisztina
Aug 05* День железнодорожника
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Today in History

Aug 04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
Aug 04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
Aug 04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
Aug 04 Freedom Day in Guyana
Aug 04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966
Aug 04 Germany violates the neutrality of Belgium, 1914
Aug 04 Bonne fête aux Jean-Marie !
Aug 04 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Dominique.
Aug 04 Août donne goût.
Aug 04 Kriegserklärung Großbritanniens an Deutschland, 1914
Aug 04 Bewilligung der Kriegskredite im Reichstag, 1914
Aug 04 Domonkos, Dominika
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Linux is Sexy.

#linux #sexy #photography #photos

Today in History

Aug 03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
Aug 03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
Aug 03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
Aug 03 Funeral of King Theoden
Aug 03 Independence Day in Jamaica and Niger
Aug 03 Massacre of the Pidjiguiti in Guinea-Bissau
Aug 03 Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
Aug 03 Bruxelles liberated from Nazi forces, 1944
Aug 03 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Lydie.
Aug 03 N'oubliez pas les Pierre-Julien !
Aug 03 Deutsche Kriegserklärung an Frankreich, 1914
Aug 03 Hermina
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Today in History

Aug 02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
Aug 02 Belgium refuses the German ultimatum, 1914
Aug 02 Bonne fête aux Julien !
Aug 02 S'il pleut au mois d'août,
Les truffes sont au bout.
Aug 02 Lehel
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Today in History

Aug 01 Herman Melville born, 1819
Aug 01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
this day
Aug 01 Discovery Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Aug 01 Emancipation Day in Granada
Aug 01 Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
Aug 01 Freedom Day in Guyana
Aug 01 National Day in Switzerland
Aug 01 National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
Aug 01 Parent's Day in Zaire
Aug 01 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
Aug 01 Lugnasad / Lughnasada / Lunasa - Gaelic summer "games of Lug" (sun-god)
Aug 01 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Alphonse.
Aug 01 N'oubliez pas les Pierre !
Aug 01 Deutsche Mobilmachung und Kriegserklärung an Rußland, 1914
Aug 01 Boglárka
Aug 01 День российской науки
Aug 01 День социального работника
Aug 01 Международный женский день
Aug 01 День Бородинского сражения русской армии под командованием М.И. Кутузова с французской армией (1812 год)
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