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August 5
What happened on this day
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Transatlantic cable laid
168 years ago
The first transatlantic telegraph cable is completed between Ireland and Newfoundland in 1858.
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Marilyn Monroe dies
64 years ago
The Hollywood icon is found dead in Los Angeles in 1962.
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Neil Armstrong born
96 years ago
The test pilot who becomes the first person to walk on the Moon is born in Washington Township, Ohio, in 1930.
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Chile mine collapse
16 years ago
A cave-in traps 33 miners 700 metres under the Atacama in 2010; every one of them is brought up alive 69 days later.
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Sheikh Hasina flees Bangladesh
2 years ago
A student uprising ends fifteen years of rule in 2024, and Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister leaves for India.
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