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100 years anniversary | ||||
05 Aug 1924 | Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie, " by Harold Gray, debuts | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
05 Aug 1949 | 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die | |||
05 Aug 1949 | In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000. | |||
05 Aug 1949 | The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana. | |||
05 Aug 1949
Ambato earthquake |
Ambato earthquake (earth sciences) Ambato earthquake in Ecuador, measuring 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. |
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05 Aug 1949
Ernest Fourneau |
death Ernest Fourneau Ernest Fourneau (born 1872), French medicinal chemist. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
05 Aug 1974 | Frankie Hejduk: La Mesa, California -- Soccer defender (1996 Olympics - Gold Medalist) | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Jamie Lynn Bolding: Lakeland, Florida -- Miss America - Florida (1997) | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Jason Shelley: WLAF wide receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy) | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways | |||
05 Aug 1974 | President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Alvin Ceccoli, Australian footballer | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Julio César Enciso, Paraguayan footballer | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Olle Kullinger, Swedish footballer | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Antoine Sibierski, French footballer | |||
05 Aug 1974 | Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
05 Aug 2009 | Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1914) | |||
05 Aug 2009 | A 53-year-old who claimed he was secretly engaged to Miley Cyrus was charged with trying to stalk the US singer. Mark McLeod was arrested after trying to contact the Hannah Montana actress on a film set near Savannah, Georgia. McLeod claimed he had met Cyrus 18 months earlier and that she had accepted his marriage proposal. He told police that Cyrus' father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, approved of their relationship and that Cyrus had sent him "secret messages" through her TV show. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
05 Aug 2014 | Diann Blakely, American poet and academic (b. 1957) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Marilyn Burns, American actress (b. 1949) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Scott Ciencin, American author (b. 1962) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Rodrigo de Triano, English race horse (b. 1989) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Harold J. Greene, American general (b. 1962) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (b. 1936) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1914) | |||
05 Aug 2014 | Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927) |