Historic events on August 3 and beyond
On Aug 3 1958 USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. Columbus sailed from Paris in 1492 toward the Americas. In 1914 Germany declared war on France, starting World War I. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of Communist ties. In 1949 the NBA formed from a merger. In 1981 U S air traffic controllers went on strike leading to mass firings.
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Christopher Columbus
Paris
Spain
Americas
Germany
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Ball Association
Basketball Association of America
National Basketball League
U.S
Reagan
Rooftop fall spares girl after 14 story chimney plunge
Grace Bergere, a 12 year old rock drummer, fell into a chimney at the Westbeth Artists Housing complex in Manhattan and landed in furnace soot, emerging with an injured hip after a 14 story drop. Fire officials credited a two foot deep ash pile with cushioning the impact. Fire Chief Austin Haran called it a miracle.
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Manhattan
Grace Bergere
Austin Haran
Westbeth
West Village
Grace
Steve Berger
New Islands Could Aid Everglades Economy
Pahokee and Palm Beach County back a dredging plan to create eco islands from Lake Okeechobee silt. The project aims to boost tourism and provide a buffer for the aging dike while the state weighs a 1.75 billion buyout of U S Sugar that could affect jobs in Everglades cities.
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Lake Okeechobee
Atlantis
Florida
Pahokee
U.S. Sugar
Everglades
Palm Beach County
Taliban deny al Zawahri hit by missile in Pakistan
Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar told AP there was no information about a missile strike injuring al Zawahri. CBS News had reported an intercepted July 29 letter claiming Zawahri suffered severe pain and infected injuries, but the Taliban deny the claim.
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Pakistan
U.S
al-Qaida No. 2
Ayman al-Zawahri
CBS News
Osama bin Laden
Baitullah Mehsud
al-Zawahri
Mehsud
Maulvi Umar
Associated Press
Pakistan Army
Navy reports minor radioactive water leak from submarine
The U S Navy said a Los Angeles class nuclear powered submarine leaked minimally radioactive water earlier this year. A gallon spilled from a valve during dry dock maintenance at Pearl Harbor on July 17. Investigators found the leak may have been ongoing since March as the submarine operated around the Pacific.
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Japan
U.S
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Pacific
Beijing Olympics image film delayed by riots and quake
China's promotional film designed to project a positive image for the Beijing Games has been repeatedly delayed and now nears airing after Tibetan riots and a devastating earthquake. Officials hoped the event would boost national glory and global acceptance, but protests and security concerns temper expectations.
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Beijing
China
Xu Guoyi
Kalamazoo College
Michigan
Team China
Xi Jinping
Communist Party
Beijing Offi
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Thevernment
CNN
BBC
Shanghai
Robert F. Bukaty
National Stadium
Study backs six degrees of separation in a small world
Washington report summarizes a massive study of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people across the globe. Researchers Horvitz and Leskovec found average social distance at 6.6 degrees, based on Microsoft Messenger data in June 2006. The result supports the long standing idea of a tightly connected humanity and extends Milgram’s earlier work.
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Washington
Microsoft Messenger
Eric Horvitz
Microsoft
Jure Leskovec
Kevin Bacon
John Guare
Stanley Milgram
Jeffrey Travers
Nebraska
Boston
Journal-World Contacts and newsroom staff list
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