++This Tweet in History: August 13, 2009++

WRLD: 1961 – Good walls make good neighbors? E. Germans erect wall to plug the brain-drain

SPRT: 2008 – Phelps butterflies to another record: 8x Gold in a single Olympics.

OTHR: 1918 – Opha Mae Johnson brings new meaning to “dress uniform” as Corps goes coed

BDAY: Fidel Castro; George Shearing; Alfred Hitchcock; Annie Oakley

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