Today is Wednesday, August 6, the 218th day of 2014. It is 70 degrees, cloudy , and rain in the forecast. On this date In 1813, during the Venezuelan War of Independence, forces led by Simon Bolivar recaptured Caracas; In 1825, Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia; In 1862, the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas was scuttled by its crew on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to prevent capture by the Union; In 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia and Serbia declared war against Germany; In 1930, New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater went missing after leaving a Manhattan restaurant; his disappearance remains a mystery; In 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths; In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act; and in 2013U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan went on trial at Fort Hood, Texas, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 attack. (Hasan, who admitted carrying out the attack, was convicted and sentenced to death.) Today: Actor Dorian Harewood is 64. Country musician Mark DuFresne (Confederate Railroad) is 61. Actress Stepfanie Kramer is 58. A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth. — Dag Hammarskjold. Have a good day.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:19:26 +0000
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