Thursday, August 2, 2007, #146 (1413)

Today in history
1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London
1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians in the region of Macedonia from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany
1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes
1990 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces

Birthdays
1834 - Frederic Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1970 - Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter

Georgian Words of the Day
money - puli

change - dakhurdaveba

coin - khurda

price - pasi

banknote - banknoti

Do have change for ten lari?
at larians khom ar damikhurdavebt?

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