Not much cool happenedmanycoloredAugust 15 2008, 23:36:31 UTC
* 1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States. * 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. * 1948 - The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory. * 2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. * 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. * 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
* 1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971) * 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
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* 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
* 1948 - The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
* 2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
* 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
* 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
* 1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
* 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
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