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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011

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Today is Thursday, August 4, the 216th day of 2011. There are 149 days left in the year.

1181 ― Supernova seen in Cassiopeia

1693 ― Dom Perignon invents champagne

1753 ― George Washington becomes a master mason

1914 ― Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

1916 ― U.S. agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million

1944 ― Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis

1945 ― Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season

1948 ― Five-day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax

1964 ― Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi

1984 ― Prince's ``Purple Rain," album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 24 weeks