Anniversaries in History
August 14

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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 14

  • 250th: 1774 - Birth of Meriwether Lewis Charlottsville Virginia, captain of Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  • 150th: 1874 - Horse Gloster trots the mile in harness in 2:17 minutes, a record.
  • 100th: 1924 - Birth of Georges Prêtre in Waziers, France; conductor (New York Metropolitan).
  • 60th: 1964 - Death of Johnny Burnette at age 30 in a fishing accident; rockabilly pioneer ("Dreamin'", "You're 16", The Rock and Roll Trio).
  • 50th: 1974 - US President Gerald Ford signs legislation giving him the authority to legalize private ownership of gold.
  • 50th: 1974 - Birth of Christopher Gorham; actor (Ugly Betty).
  • 40th: 1984 - IBM releases the IBM PC/AT, with 6 MHz 80286 processor, MS-DOS 3.0, 256 kB RAM, and 1.2 MB floppy drive, for prices starting at US$4000.
  • 40th: 1984 - IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0.
  • 20th: 2004 - Death of Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911).
  • 5th: 2019 - The Dow Jones plunges more than 500 points, due to concerns over the yield curve inversion.

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