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• ... that the Gothic Collegiate church in Wislica, Poland (pictured), was built in 1350 on foundations of two earlier Romanesque churches?
• ... that when one of the rare recordings of "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps, a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
• ... that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause?
• ... that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?
• ... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
• ... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
• ... that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore, with Dante da Maiano?
• ... that apricitabine, a new antiretroviral drug, was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer, which was bought by Shire plc, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian pharmaceutical company?
  
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• On the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Governor General MichaĂŤlle Jean dissolves the 39th Canadian Parliament (House of Commons pictured) and calls early elections to be held October 14.
• The 2008 Summer Paralympics open in Beijing, China.
• The Nuclear Suppliers Group grants India a waiver to carry out civilian nuclear commerce with the rest of the world.
• The Parliament of Pakistan elects Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan People's Party as the next President of Pakistan.
• Tropical Storm Hanna moves towards the U.S. South Atlantic coast after causing at least 529 deaths in Haiti.
• U.S. Special Forces raid a village in Waziristan, Pakistan using three helicopter gunships, the first such ground incursion to take place in Pakistan in the War on Terrorism.
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September 8: Independence Day in the Republic of Macedonia (1991); Victory Day in Malta; Our Lady of Meritxell Day in Andorra; International Literacy Day

• 1331 – Stefan UroĹĄ IV DuĹĄan (pictured) of the House of Nemanjić was crowned King of Serbia.
• 1541 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the larger army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in Orsha, present-day Belarus.
• 1941 – World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to Leningrad, beginning the Siege of Leningrad. Over 1 million of the city's civilians died from starvation before the siege ended on January 27, 1944, becoming one of the most lethal battles in world history.
• 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford gave recently-resigned U.S. President Richard Nixon a full and unconditional, but controversial, pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
• 1978 – Iranian Revolution: After the government of the Iranian Shah declared martial law in response to protests, about eighty-eight demonstrators in Tehran were killed on Black Friday.

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