Friday, August 17, 2007, #157 (1424)

Today in history
1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily
1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming the first victim of the wall
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship

Birthdays
1913 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer
1960 - Sean Penn, American actor and director

Georgian Words of the Day

wine - ghvino

grapes - qurdzeni

taste - gemo

red - tziteli

white - tetri

Which wine do you prefer-red or white?
romel ghvinos anichebt upiratesobas-tzitels tu tetrs?


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