Anorak
1893 Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany
Jim Morrison's Trial
1970 Jim Morrison's trial for "lewd and lascivious behavior" begins in Miami, Florida
1983 1st World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
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On the 11 August
On the 11th of August 1973
American Graffiti opens in
the U.S
Rasta Ratskins
The caption says it all…
Only a Rat can win a Rat Race!
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In 1895-Child-carer Minnie Dean
is hanged for the murders
of two babies. She is the only
woman to have been hanged
in New Zealand.
Geriatric hoon
The BBC news today informed me that this is the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of hip hop. Who knew?
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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On 15th August
120 years ago today in 1903
The All Blacks play their first
match against Australia's Wallabies
at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
New Zealand wins 22-3.
54 years ago today in 1969 Woodstock music
Festival starts.
1939-The Wizard of Oz premiers in
Hollywood.
1945-News of the Japanese
surrender in World War ll
reaches New Zealand, leading
to huge celebrations.
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1969
On the 17th of August 1969
Woodstock music festival
closes with Jimi Hendrix being
the final act.
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On the 18th August 1969-Mick Jagger
is shot in the hand while filming
Ned Kelly when a gun back fires
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On 20th August, 1976
On the 20th August, 1976,KISS
did a concert at the Anaheim California
show, for their The Destroyer Tour.
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On August 22nd in history
1956-Elvis Presley begins
filming the movie Love Me Tender, it
premiered in New York on
November 15
1969-Gary Frazer from Swannanoa, near
Christchurch, wins the first New Zealand
Young Farmer Of The Year Contest.
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On the 23rd August
On the 23rd of August 1920
Violet Walrond was the first
New Zealand female
Olympian when she swam at
the Antwerp Games. She was 14
when selected and 15 when
she swam.
Anorak
2006
Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines “planet.
1991
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Ukraine declares its independence from USSR.
1981
Mark David Chapman sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon.
1869
Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, patents the waffle iron.
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
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1944 Paris is Liberated
2012 Neil Armstrong dies
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