[Final installment of trivia for August. . NO GOOGLE, PLEASE. Answers
tomorrow. Give it your best guess.]
August 25, 1918, and now considered the finest conductors in American music
history, who was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, not the west side of New
York City?
August 26, 1883, the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in recorded
history occurred in what country?
August 27, 1910, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia. In
her life’s work she was known by what name?
August 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his now-famous ‘I
Have a Dream’ speech at what Civil Rights rally?
August 29, 1632, what British philosopher, pioneer in modern political
thinking, whose ideas greatly influenced American colonists in their
revolution against England, was born?
August 30, 2005, a hurricane and subsequent flooding due to failed levee
system devastated New Orleans. What was the hurricane’s name?
August 31, 1997, at age 36, what world-famous woman died from massive
internal injuries suffered in a high-speed car crash?
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Dr Bob Griffin
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