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Aug. 4, 2010: A great day for the press

I am wondering when the moving vans will be called for at Wrigley Field. After Monday's performance, I think a fire sale would be good. If Lou Piniella would walk away now, no one would notice because it is just a big party at Wrigley with the fans.

Aug. 4, 1735, printer John Peter Zenger, defended by Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of libel in a case that helped foster freedom of the press.

Aug. 4, 1884, Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.


Aug. 4, 1964, the bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson.

Thanks to infoplease.com.

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Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

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Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI