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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48813)	8/4/2005 8:10:44 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

August 4 British declaration of war on Germany Alfred Schlieffen. 1914: On this day, in response to the German invasion of Belgium, Great Britain entered World War I, declaring war on Germany. The Germans initially hoped that Austria-Hungary's war against Serbia could be “localized” to the Balkans but soon faced pressures from France in the west and Russia in the east. Fearing a two-front war, Germany instituted a plan of attack outlined years earlier by officer Alfred Schlieffen. 1921: The eight Chicago White Sox baseball players involved in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal were banned from the game for life by the baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. 1892: Lizzie Borden's parents were murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts. 1879: Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Aeterni Patris, making Thomism the dominant philosophical viewpoint in Roman Catholicism. 1790: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton established the Revenue Marine Service, which became the U.S. Coast Guard. 1578: The Portuguese armies of King Sebastian invaded Morocco but were defeated by the country's Sa'di sultan, 'Abd al-Malik, in the Battle of the Three Kings.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48813)	8/5/2005 6:52:10 AM
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August 5: * 642 - Penda of Mercia defeated and killed Oswald of Northumbria in the Battle of Maserfield, becoming the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon rulers of the time. * 1100 - Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. * 1858 - Cyrus West Field and colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable. * 1861 - The U.S. government issued its first income tax: 3% of all incomes over 800 dollars (later rescinded in 1872). * 1995 - Operation Storm: Croatian forces recovered the town of Knin from the Republic of Serbian Krajina.