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August 26

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In 55 B.C., Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.

In 1874, Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of offic in his own right at the Democratic national convention in Atlantic City, N.J.  Johnson appeared before the delegates to announce he had chosen as his running-mate Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who was also nominated that night, by acclamation.

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Former attorney General William French Smith  (1917)

Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee  
(1921)

Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro  (1935)

Singer Valerie Simpson  (1948)

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"Spiritually a woman is better off if she cannot be taken for granted."
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Germaine Greer, Australian feminist author (1939-)