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  Fela Kuti’s 25th Death Anniversary († August 2, 1997)

  Fela Kuti was one of the most important musicians on the African continent as well as one of its most important political voices in the 1970s. With… More…

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  125 Years of Aspirin (August 10, 1897)

  August 10, 1897 marks the „birth“ of the world's best-known drug: chemist Felix Hoffmann was the first to successfully synthesize acetylsalicylic… More…

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  50th anniversary of the mass production of compact discs (August 17, 1982)

  On August 17, 1982, the first compact disc goes off the production line at the Philips subsidiary Polygram's plant in Langenhagen near Hanover. This… More…