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On This Day:
Monday August 11, 2014

This is the 223rd day of the year, with 142 days remaining in 2014.

Fact of the Day: art museums

An art museum is an accumulation of works of art by a private individual. Most of the world's art museums grew out of great private collections formed by royalty, the aristocracy, or the wealthy.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Attracta or Araght, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Tiburtius, St. Susanna, St. Equitius, St. Alexander of Comana, St. Lelia, St. Blane, St. Gerard of Gallinaro, and St. Gery or Gaugericus.
Chad: Independence Day.
Zimbabwe: Heroes' Day.

Events

1874 - Henry S. Parmalee of New Haven, Connecticut, received a patent for the sprinkler head.
1934 - The first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1952 - Prince Hussein was proclaimed the king of Jordan after his father, King Talal, was declared unfit to rule by the Jordanian Parliament on grounds of mental illness.
1954 - Vietnam was partitioned under the terms of the Geneva Accords.
1960 - Chad gained its independence from France.
1965 - The Watts Riots began; in the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, racial tension reached a breaking point after two white policemen scuffle with a black motorist suspected of drunken driving.
1992 - The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1997 - President Bill Clinton made the first use of the historic line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills.

Births

1807 - David Atchison, American politician, organizer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company.
1861 - James Bryan Herrick, American physician who isolated sickle-cell anemia.
1921 - Alex Haley, American Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Deaths

1919 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist.
1956 - Jackson Pollock, American painter.
2006 - Mike Douglas, American actor and talk show host, on his 81st birthday.

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