History’s highlighted events August nine through ninteen sixty five
On August 9 1945 the United States detonated a nuclear device over Nagasaki killing about 74000 people. Thoreau’s Walden was published in 1854. Jesse Owens earned his fourth Olympic gold in 1936. In 1969 Sharon Tate and four others were murdered in Los Angeles. Nixon’s resignation took effect in 1974 and Ford became president. Jerry Garcia died in 1995 in San Francisco at 53.
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Hiroshima
Japan
United States
Nagasaki
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Walden Pond
Massachusetts
Jesse Owens
U.S
Sharon Tate
Tate
Los Angeles
Charles Manson
Richard Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Jerry Garcia
The
Grateful Dead
San Francisco
Pakistan considers emergency rule amid threats and turmoil
The Musharraf government signals a possible state of emergency over external and internal threats as political troubles mount after a failed bid to oust the chief justice. Bush’s Lyme disease history is noted as resolved. Divers search debris at the I 35W bridge site while a Big Dig epoxy firm faces involuntary manslaughter charges tied to the tunnel collapse.
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Pervez Musharraf
Tariq Azim
United States
Barak Obama
U.S
al-Qaida
Pakistan
Musharraf
Navy
Dave Nagle
FBI
Powers Fasteners Inc
Martha Coakley
Brewster
N.Y
New Orleans Population Rebounds From Katrina Loss
New Orleans now counts about 273,600 residents, roughly 60 percent of the pre Katrina total. Demographer Greg Rigamer and a prior estimate by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center note a slow rebound and caution it may take many years to reach the 455,000 July 2005 level.
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New Orleans
Greg Rigamer
Greater
Rigamer
Britain lifts movement ban on livestock after outbreak
Britain eased a nationwide ban on moving livestock after officials isolated foot-and-mouth virus near a government lab and a private vaccine firm. Chief veterinarian Debby Reynolds said farmers outside a six mile surveillance zone could send animals to slaughterhouses from midnight Wednesday as authorities investigate whether the outbreak came from the lab or the private site and if its spread was accidental or deliberate.
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Britain
Debby Reynolds
Fossils challenge timeline of human evolution in Kenya
Meave Leakey and colleagues report in Nature that two early human ancestors Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived side by side about 1.5 million years ago near in Kenya for at least half a million years. The find suggests these species did not evolve directly from one another and complicates the classic ascent from knuckle walker to modern human.
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Washington
Meave Leakey
Kenya
Leakey
Nature
Fred Spoor
University College In London
Spoor
Bill Kimbel
Institute of Human Origins
Arizona State University
Susan Anton
New York University
Anton
Freak storm paralyzes NYC transit system
A rare and intense storm drenched New York City flooding subway pumps, tunnels, and airports. Three inches of rain halted most transit during rush hour, with a rare tornado in Brooklyn causing extensive damage and sparking urgent calls to overhaul city drainage.
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New York
Bedlam
Ruby Russell
Brooklyn
Manhattan
National Weather Service
New York City
Jeffrey Tongue
Weather Service
Newspaper staff and contact directory notables
A compiled contact list for editors and departments appears with names, roles, phone numbers, and emails. It includes Dennis Anderson, Caroline Trowbridge, Ann Gardner, Tom Keegan, Mindie Paget, Jon Niccum, Mark Fagan, Cody Howard, Joel Mathis, Chris Bell, Al Bonner, plus classifieds and subscription contacts with daily delivery guidance and redelivery guarantees.
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Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Jworld
Caroline Trowbridge
Drowbridge
Ljworld
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
Mindie Paget
Lawrence Poll Questions City Decisions Tuesday Night
Today s poll asks which issue concerns residents most among Wal Mart plans tax hike for ridership funding city employee pay raise or defense of funding for Bert Nash WRAP program It notes Wednesday poll on aggressive panhandling enforcement and invites readers to vote online at ljworld com for more responses.
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Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
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Journal-World
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Lawrence
Kansas University
News Partners
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Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediapharmedia LLC
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Ljworld.com
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Cbell
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Today’s Poll
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Lawrence City Commission
Www
Kansas
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