Today in History for August 2004
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 11 of 11
1st - A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
3rd - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
12th - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
13th - 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
13th - Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
13th - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
15th - Bay of Plenty win Rugby Union's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges. They defeated Auckland. 33-26
17th - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
17th - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
22nd - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
24th - 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 37 of 37
1st - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2nd - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
2nd - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
3rd - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
6th - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
7th - Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
7th - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
8th - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
8th - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
9th - Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
9th - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
9th - David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
12th - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
12th - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
13th - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
14th - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
14th - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
15th - Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
15th - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
15th - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
16th - Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
16th - Carl Mydans, American photographer (b. 1907)
16th - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
17th - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
17th - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
18th - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
18th - Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
22nd - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
22nd - Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
22nd - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
24th - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
26th - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
27th - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
29th - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
30th - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
30th - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
31st - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
