CROSSROADS

August 1st 2009

Crates of Buddhist relics are dug up from the sands of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, near the Khamaryn monastery, about 500km (310 miles) south of the capital Ulan Bator

August 2nd 1776

Formal signing of American Declaration of Independence

August 3rd 1970

Hurricane “Celia” becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history

August 4th 2009

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment

August 5th 1997

Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing goes on trial

August 6th 2009

A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

August 7th 1940

Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)

August 8th 1925

1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.

August 9th 1942

Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a “quit India” campaign by the All-India Congress

August 10th 1985

Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles

August 11th 1978

Pope Paul VI’s funeral

August 12th 1983

General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army

August 13th 1961

Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany

August 14th 1947

India granted independence within British Commonwealth

August 15th 1998

Bill Clinton confesses to Hilary about the Monica Lewinsky affair

August 16th 1985

Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday

August 17th 2008

Michael Phelps wins 8 Gold Medals in 2008 Olympics

August 18th 2008

Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan

August 19th 1934

Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters)

August 20th 1741

Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering

August 21st 1985

New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)

August 22nd 1911

Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from the Louvre (Recovered in 1913)

August 23rd 1987

15 year old Adalgiso Scioni hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion

August 24th 1853

1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs New York)

August 25th 1989

After 12 year, 4 billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps

August 26th 1580

The Chinese invent toilet paper

August 27th 1939

Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion

August 28th 1963

Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream speech” at Lincoln Memorial

August 29th 1990

Saddam Hussein declares America can’t beat Iraq

August 30th 1979

American President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga

August 31st 1751

English troops under Sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India