August 15 photo

Mon., Aug. 16: A youth cries as he waits for a sack of rice being distributed to residents in Les Cayes, Haiti. Joseph Odelyn/AP A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the coast off of Haiti on Saturday morning. The strength of that earthquake compares to the one that devastated the nation in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people and demolished much of the capital.

Articles, Photos and Quiz • First Faltering Steps of Jane Eyre With hope, pride – and some subterfuge – Charlotte Brontë sent her hefty manuscript of Jane Eyre to publishers in London on this day, then crossed her fingers. August 15, 1847 • A Kiss For Adolf Hitler A woman spectator leaned over and kissed Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympic Games on this day. Hitler pretended to be amused, but his guards were to suffer. August 15, 1936 • The Wizard of Oz Publicity still of the Wizard of Oz, showing the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Dorothy and Cowardly Lion August 15, 1939 • Woodstock Music and Art Fair Swami Satchidananda addressing the opening ceremony at Woodstock August 15, 1969 • Omagh Bombing A man and a child (who both survived) stand next to the car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, that exploded shortly after, killing 29 people. The photographer did not survive. August 15, 1998 • Weekly Quiz for August 12-18 Test your knowledge of historical events and famous people in our multi-choice, weekly history quiz for August 12-18. Then challenge your friends!

• • • • 1900 The Boxer Rebellion: In China, the Empress, her family and court retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to quell the rebellion • • 1901 Great Britain issues a proclamation calling on the Boers to surrender by 15 September or face banishment and confiscation of their property • • • 1939 13 Nazi Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers crash into the ground during a disastrous practice-demonstration at Neuhammer-am-Queis, Silesia, Germany (now Świętoszów, Poland) . No survivors. • 1939 First night game at baseball's Comiskey Park in Chicago, White Sox beat Cleveland Browns 5-2 • • 1940 Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircraft damaged • • • • • 1944 Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence • 1944 US 12 Army corps enters Le Mans through Orleans • 1944 US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres • • 1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually • 1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends • 1954 WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins • • 1955 WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins • • 1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter • • 1958 Marshal Nikolai Bulganin resigns as Chairman of the Board of the State Bank of the USSR • • 1960 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) • 1960 Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France • 1960...