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On This Day In History August 4th

Down and dirty, baseball fun, murder and death, and really really old ladies. Murder death 130 years ago – In 1892, Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden murdered her father and…

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Down and dirty, baseball fun, murder and death, and really really old ladies.

Murder death

130 years ago - In 1892, Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden murdered her father and stepmother with a hatchet. She was arrested but later acquitted

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Baseball fun

15 years ago - In 2007, Barry Bonds hit his 755th home run to tie Hank Aaron's home run record. He broke the record 3 days later . . . and it's his 756th ball that's in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Bonds retired with 762 career home runs.

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Old Lady

25 years ago - In 1997, The World's Oldest Person, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment, died in a retirement home in Arles, France.

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Down and dirty

35 years ago - In 1987, the soundtrack to "Dirty Dancing" was released.

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