Don't You Grieve

Days Like This

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• 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
• 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
• 1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
• 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
• 1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
• 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

• 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
• 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
• 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
• 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
• 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
• 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist

Starflyer 79

'star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. over'

'I am in orbit around the third planet from the star called the sun. over' 

'you mean it's the earth? over.' 

Positive. it is know to have some form of intelligent species. over' 

'I think we should take a look...'