This date in history

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1812-British commander the Duke of Wellington occupies Madrid, Spain, forcing out Joseph Bonaparte.

1908-Henry Ford’s first Model T rolls off the assembly line.

1941- French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain announces full French collaboration with Nazi Germany.

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1851 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine.

1981 - IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0).

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2015: Fifteen professional baseball games played on Tuesday 8/11/2015 (last night) are all won by their respective home teams. This is the first time in American baseball history this has happened! the closest the home teams have come was 12 wins more than a century ago, on May 23, 1914. The chances of this occurring are 1: 32,786! The 15 host teams -- the Blue Jays, Rays, Marlins, Mets, Indians, Cubs, Royals, White Sox, Twins, Cardinals, D-backs, Mariners, Padres, Dodgers and Giants -- outscored their visitors by an 80-32 margin, including four shutouts. Not to be outdone on the mound, Madison "Madbum" Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants, and the leagues MVP, did it with grand style; pitching all nine innings-complete game-!!!, giving his weary bullpen the night off..they need it and in the process, a club record: seven strike outs in a row (out of twelve) with no walks. That is the definition of 'living up to billing': In 2014, Bumgarner set a career high number of wins with 18 and won his third World Series as a Giant. Following one of the most dominant postseason and World Series pitching performances in modern MLB history, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2014 World Series, the 2014 Babe Ruth Award winner, the 2014 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, and the 2014 Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. And his season ain't over yet!

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1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap.

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1960: the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite takes place with the help of ECHO I. Echo 1, launched on August 12, 1960, inflated to a diameter of 100 feet (30 metres). The satellite was placed in an almost circular orbit at an altitude of approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres). At this height it circled Earth every two hours. The first transmissions reflected off its surface were conducted between a terminal built by Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, and another terminal built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Goldstone, California. Echo 1 was used for experimental telephone, data, and facsimile transmissions. Signals were detected in Europe, although no messages were transmitted across the ocean. The satellite remained in orbit for almost eight years and was visible as a rapidly moving “star” in the evening skies. As per 'Lucky Jack' Aubrey in Master and Commander: " “That’s the future! What a fascinating modern age we live in.”)

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1945 - V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone).

1947 - Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain.

1969 - The British Army deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner.

1980 - In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike, beginning of the Solidarity movement.

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1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims.

1947 - India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950.

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1743 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton).

2012 - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador.

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1960: Britain cedes control of the crown colony of Cyprus. Chaos and civil war for two decades between Greek majority and Turkish minority Cypriots will be the result...http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cyprus/history Nobody minds a British Empire...it's when there ain't a British empire the 'troubles' really start: Ireland; India-Pakistan; Iraq-Arabia/Iran; Palestine-Israel; Hong Kong-China etc

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1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University & begins Pulitzer Prizes.

1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area.

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.

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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.

Monica has since gone on to greater things ... "...result of the scandal, Lewinsky gained worldwide celebrity status; she subsequently engaged in a variety of ventures including designing a line of handbags under her name, being an advertising spokesperson for a diet plan, working as a television personality, and then leaving the public spotlight to pursue a master's degree in psychology in London. In 2014 she returned to public view, discussing the scandal and speaking out against cyberbullying." YOU GO GAL IMHO: We love scandalous women From Anne Boleyn to Camilla to Marilyn Monroe; they keep it....interesting: Apologies: They left out Lady Hamilton ( Horatio Nelson) and Maria Countess Walewska(Napoleon Bonaparte) both of whom were patriots!

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1870-Prussian forces defeat the French at the Battle of Gravelotte during the Franco-Prussian War.

1914- Germany declares war on Russia while President Woodrow Wilson issues his Proclamation of Neutrality.

1939-The film The Wizard of Oz opens in New York City.

1942- Japan sends a crack army to Guadalcanal to repulse the U.S. Marines fighting there.

1943-The Royal Air Force Bomber Command completes the first major strike against the German missile development facility at Peenemunde.

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1940 - Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day": Luftwaffe attacks the RAF in largest ever air battle. 71 German aircraft shot down above England.

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1812-The USS Constitution earns the nickname "Old Ironsides" during the battle off Nova Scotia that saw her defeat the HMS Guerriere.

1914-The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) lands in France.

1934-38 million Germans vote to make Adolf Hitler the official successor to President von Hindenburg.

1942-A raid on Dieppe, France by British and Canadian commandos is repulsed by the German Army.

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1915 - British liner "SS Arabic" sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident.

1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK.

1942 - WWII: General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad.

2010 - Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.