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AUGUST 29
Beatle hit Klan-land
1966 The Beatles ended their controversial tour of the States with a concert for thousands of screaming fans in San Francisco's Candlestick Park tonight. John Lennon's widely reported comment about the group being more popular that Jesus Christ reached the States shortly before the group touched down to begin the tour. Lennon's apology at their first press conference in Chicago ...
— Sep 26, 2026 03:30PM
Beatle hit Klan-land
1966 The Beatles ended their controversial tour of the States with a concert for thousands of screaming fans in San Francisco's Candlestick Park tonight. John Lennon's widely reported comment about the group being more popular that Jesus Christ reached the States shortly before the group touched down to begin the tour. Lennon's apology at their first press conference in Chicago ...
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SEPTEMBER 2
1865 Boundary disputes end between the British settlers and the Maori Kingitanga in New Zealand.
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1865 Boundary disputes end between the British settlers and the Maori Kingitanga in New Zealand.
Judi
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SEPTEMBER 1
Fischer reels in Title
1972 Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion today. The temperamental 29-year-old boy wonder from Brooklyn finally triumphed over defending champion Boris Spassky of the USSR after a marathon two-month struggle, which also established Fischer as one of the work's unreasonable people. Fischer, who was US champion at 14 and an international grandmaster at ...
— 7 hours, 48 min ago
Fischer reels in Title
1972 Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion today. The temperamental 29-year-old boy wonder from Brooklyn finally triumphed over defending champion Boris Spassky of the USSR after a marathon two-month struggle, which also established Fischer as one of the work's unreasonable people. Fischer, who was US champion at 14 and an international grandmaster at ...
Judi
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AUGUST 31
Spleen machine
1867 The French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire died in his mother's arms today in Paris. He was 46. Born into a well-off middle-class family, Baudelaire determined from an early age to live as an artist and embraced eccentricity, affectation and immorality. By his early twenties he was an opium addict and had acquired the venereal disease that owl eventually kill him. He won plaudits
— Sep 30, 2026 06:46AM
Spleen machine
1867 The French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire died in his mother's arms today in Paris. He was 46. Born into a well-off middle-class family, Baudelaire determined from an early age to live as an artist and embraced eccentricity, affectation and immorality. By his early twenties he was an opium addict and had acquired the venereal disease that owl eventually kill him. He won plaudits
Judi
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AUGUST 30
1860 The first trains in Britain begin running.
— Sep 27, 2026 01:55PM
1860 The first trains in Britain begin running.
Judi
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AUGUST 28
1862 Garibaldi's army land at Calabria in their march to Rome.
— Sep 22, 2026 05:54AM
1862 Garibaldi's army land at Calabria in their march to Rome.
Judi
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Fab Four's guiding light
1967 Brian Epstein, the man who made the Beatles, died of a drugs overdose today at his elegant home in London's Belgravia. He was 33. Epstein "discovered" the Beatles in Liverpool's Cavern Club in the autumn of 1961 and determined to make them into stars. He succeeded beyond his, and their, wildest dreams. Lately Epstein had been chronically depressed and afflicted by insomnia by ...
— Sep 21, 2026 05:44PM
1967 Brian Epstein, the man who made the Beatles, died of a drugs overdose today at his elegant home in London's Belgravia. He was 33. Epstein "discovered" the Beatles in Liverpool's Cavern Club in the autumn of 1961 and determined to make them into stars. He succeeded beyond his, and their, wildest dreams. Lately Epstein had been chronically depressed and afflicted by insomnia by ...
Judi
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AUGUST 26
1789 The French Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
— Sep 20, 2026 03:29PM
1789 The French Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Judi
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AUGUST 25
WEBB CRACKS THE CHANNEL CHALLENGE
1875 Englishman Matthew Webb made history today by becoming the first person to swim the English Channel. The 2S-year-old master mariner from Srhopshire set off from Admiralt pier, Dover, yesterday. Swimming breaststroke, he covered the 21-mile (34 km) stretch to Calais in 21 hours 45 minutes, emerging on the French side tired but triumphant, This feat would be ...
— Sep 19, 2026 09:51PM
WEBB CRACKS THE CHANNEL CHALLENGE
1875 Englishman Matthew Webb made history today by becoming the first person to swim the English Channel. The 2S-year-old master mariner from Srhopshire set off from Admiralt pier, Dover, yesterday. Swimming breaststroke, he covered the 21-mile (34 km) stretch to Calais in 21 hours 45 minutes, emerging on the French side tired but triumphant, This feat would be ...
Judi
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AUGUST 24
1906 Kidney transplants are carried out on dogs at a medical conference in Toronto, Canada.
— Sep 19, 2026 05:58AM
1906 Kidney transplants are carried out on dogs at a medical conference in Toronto, Canada.
Judi
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AUGUST 23
Love at first flight
1988 British Airways showed off its first husband and wife team of pilot recruits today. The couple, Anna and Danish-born Marten Riis, begin the intensive pilots' course with BA tomorrow. After training, then will be assigned to separate aircraft as co-pilots. The couple met on a commercial pilot's course at Perth in Scotland and married precisely tow years and five days later.
— Sep 18, 2026 06:26AM
Love at first flight
1988 British Airways showed off its first husband and wife team of pilot recruits today. The couple, Anna and Danish-born Marten Riis, begin the intensive pilots' course with BA tomorrow. After training, then will be assigned to separate aircraft as co-pilots. The couple met on a commercial pilot's course at Perth in Scotland and married precisely tow years and five days later.