214th day in the 31st week of the year.
Welcome to the August GT.
Anniversaries for August 1:
- I was born (1988)
Other Anniversaries for August 1, 2016:
- Charles Whitman shoots 14 dead from a tower at the University of Texas (1966)
- end of First Indochina War (1954)
- start of Warsaw Uprising (1944)
- Slavery abolished in British Empire (1834)
- Battle of the Nile (1798)
- Anne Frank's last diary entry (1944)
- US Atomic Energy Commission is established (1946)
- Shredded wheat machine patented (1893)
- Benin gains independence from France (1960)
- Soviets reach Vistula River (1944)
- MTV debut (1981)
- founding of Fulbright Program (1946)
- Vitamin K first produced (1939)
- first cable street car in US (1873)
- Priestley identifies oxygen (1774)
- Columbus reaches South America (1498)
- Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, falls (902)
Stay tuned for this month's monthly meet too as we're trying to make it a bit more exciting by discovering new places and catering to as many people geographically.
Record GT attempt for 2016?