Talk:August 8

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August 8: Ghost Festival in the Chinese calendar (2006); Father's Day in Taiwan; birthday of Ali and Father's Day in Iran (2006).

1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph machine.
1938 - Holocaust: Construction of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-occupied Europe, began.
1946 - The first prototype of the B-36 Peacemaker, the first nuclear weapon delivery vehicle to be mass-produced, flew for the first time.
1967 - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
1991 - The Warsaw radio mast (pictured), the tallest structure ever built, collapsed.

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