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the wikipedia birthday thingawhatzit:
Births:
1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
(also, Summer Glau, several porn stars, and BARRY BONDS. jeez.)
Deaths:
1862 - Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States (b. 1782) (who?)
1996 - Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934) (eat shit and die)
Random Events:
1929 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers). (haha)
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. (pwn3d!)
