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#: Monthly stuff
8:National Water Quality Month
#: Events depending on weekdays
S(8/14):Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA) (2nd Saturday).
#: Normal events
8/1/1981 :MTV debuted.
8/2/1861 :A national income tax bill was passed to aid the Union war effort.
8/3/1975 :Superdome (New Orleans) opened.
8/4/1892 :Borden murders (Fall River, MA).
8/5      :National Mustard Day.
8/6/1890 :Cy Young pitched 1st game.
8/7/1959 :First photograph of Earth taken from space (Explorer 6).
8/8/1876 :Mimeograph patented (Edison - Menlo Park, NJ).
8/9/1859 :Escalator patented.
8/10/1833:Chicago incorporated (pop. 200).
8/11/1909:SOS distress signal 1st used by an American ship (Arapahoe).
8/12/1658:1st police in America (New Amsterdam).
8/13/1935:Roller Derby began.
8/14/1925:Mount Rushmore figures proposed.
8/15/1846:CA's 1st newspaper began publication.
8/16/1898:Roller coaster patented.
8/17/-10429:1st goat domesticated (Armenia).
8/18/1872:First mail-order house catalog issued (A.M. Ward).
8/19/1951:Browns used a midget as leadoff batter (vs. Detroit).
8/20/1955:First airline to fly faster than 800 mph (H.A. Hanes).
8/21/1858:Lincoln-Douglas debates began.
8/22/1831:Nat Turner led an uprising of blacks.
8/23/1957:Digital Equipment Corporation founded.
8/24/1932:1st woman to fly non-stop across US (Amelia Earhart).
8/25/1718:City of New Orleans founded.
8/26/1957:The Soviet Union announced it had successfully tested an ICBM.
8/27/1912:"Tarzan of the Apes" published.
8/28/1896:Chop Suey first concocted (NYC).
8/29/1893:"Clasp-locker" patented (developed into the zipper) (Whitcomb L.
         :Judson).
8/30/1780:Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
8/31/1888:Jack the Ripper killed 1st victim (Mary Ann Nichols).