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•  Today's Highlight in History:
•  On August 12, 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
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•  On this date:
•  In 1813, Austria declared war on France.
•  In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
•  In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end.
•  In 1902, International Harvester Co. was formed by a merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Deering Harvester Co. and several other manufacturers.
•  In 1912, comedy producer Mack Sennett founded the Keystone Pictures Studio in Edendale, Calif.
•  In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court.
•  In 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.
•  In 1960, the first balloon communications satellite - the Echo 1 - was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral.
•  In 1962, one day after launching Andrian Nikolayev into orbit, the Soviet Union also sent up cosmonaut Pavel Popovich; both men landed safely August 15.
•  In 1978, Pope Paul VI, who had died August 6 at age 80, was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.
•  In 1985, the world's worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. (Four people survived.)
•  In 1988, the controversial movie "The Last Temptation of Christ," directed by Martin Scorsese (skohr-SEH'-see), opened in nine cities despite objections by some who felt the film was sacrilegious.
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•  Ten years ago: Liberia's leading rebel movement agreed to lift its siege of the capital and vital port, allowing food to flow to hundreds of thousands of hungry people.
•  Five years ago: Declaring "the aggressor has been punished," the Kremlin ordered a halt to Russia's devastating assault on Georgia - five days of air and ground attacks that had left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people. Mi

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