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August 4In 2007, NASA launches Phoenix, a robotic spacecraft designed to explore Mars. In 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time. |
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August 5See veteran pop duo Air Supply live at Air Supply Live in Bangkok 2014: The Greatest Hits Concert. Sing along with all their classic hits at 8 pm at Impact Exhibition Hall 3. Tickets are 1,500 to 4,500 baht at Thai Ticketmajor. For more information, call 02 565 3456. In 1100, Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. |
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August 6In 1962, Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. In 2010, flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir, India, damage 71 towns and kill at least 255 people. |
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August 7Happy Birthday to Academy Award-winning South African actress Charlize Theron (1975). In 1944, IBM releases the first programme-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, also known as the Harvard Mark I. |
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August 8In 1876, Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph, a low-cost printing press that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. In 1973, in Tokyo, South Korean dissident Kim Dae-jung is kidnapped by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in a failed assassination plot. Kim later becomes president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. |
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August 9In 1930, the famous cartoon character Betty Boop makes her debut in the animated short, Dizzy Dishes. Tomorrow is the last day at Toot Yung Gallery on Ekamai Soi 2 to see The Moonshine Hunter, an exhibition of new works by local artist Montri Toemsombat made with coloured fabrics from Kanchanaburi. The gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm. For more details, call 02 714 3766. |
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August 10Today is the last day at 100 Tonson Gallery on Ploenchit Road to see GENTLE WAR, an exhibition by Belgium artist Peggy Wauters and Israeli artist Nir Segal. The gallery is open Thursday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm. For more details, call 02 684 1527. In 1948, in the US, the pioneering practical joke show Candid Camera makes its television debut. |
