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Today is Friday,
Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2013. There are 144 days left in the year.
On this date
* In 1854, Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," which described Thoreau's experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, was first published.
* In 1942, Britain arrested Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi.
* In 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate's Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later...