AUGUST 8th - BACK IN THE DAY - 199 years ago . . . In 1815, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of their days in exile. 138 years ago . . . In 1876, THOMAS EDISON received a patent for his mimeograph. (Todays spoiled brats dont remember getting mimeographed homework assignments (we called em dittos), the ones with the purple ink that you usually couldnt read. But they smelled like HEAVEN. (The two PERFECT moments in an old-school public education were smelling fresh ditto papers and having the nurse run those sticks through your hair for the lice check. Assuming you didnt HAVE lice. If you did, then it sucked.) 51 years ago . . . In 1963, the classic movie The Great Escape, starring STEVE MCQUEEN, JAMES GARNER and CHARLES BRONSON, was released. 40 years ago . . . In 1974, PRESIDENT TRICKY DICK NIXON announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. 28 years ago . . . In 1986, STEPHEN KINGS Stand By Me was released. It starred RIVER PHOENIX . . . COREY FELDMAN . . . Star Trek: The Next Generations WIL WHEATON . . . and JERRY OCONNELL. 22 years ago . . . In 1992, METALLICA singer JAMES HETFIELD was badly burned by a pyro explosion at a Montreal concert. At the same show, AXL ROSE claimed he lost his voice and cut GUNS N ROSES set short. Fans were pissed. They rioted, and caused $300,000 in damage. 10 years ago . . . In 2004, FAY WRAY, star of the original King Kong, died at the tender young age of 96. Six years ago . . . In 2008, the SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES, very impressively, opened in Beijing.
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