August 31 1939

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Thats a stretch.

seems you could find a random assortment of bad news on just about any day in history

Touche...

NOT

There are only 366 possible dates.

There are millions of stories.


February 29

1704 – Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children.

1864 – American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails – plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.

1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.

1960 – An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.

1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.

1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.

1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people.

Birth AND death of Sir James Wilson (1812–1880), Premier of Tasmania.

1908 – Death of Pat Garrett, U.S. gunslinger (b. 1850)

Last Edited by Halcyon Dayz, FCD on 08/31/2011 06:51 PM

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that wasnt tragic
that was good!!