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On this day August 11-17 (week 33)
August 11, 2024 - August 17, 2024 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries on each day for the week. This week features internet shopping, Hollywood star Lauren Bacall, tennis star Steffi Graf, the Genoa bridge collapse, Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz, former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Berlin Wall.
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August 11, 1994: The era of internet shopping began when a CD version of an album by Sting became the first item sold online in a secure purchase
August 12, 2014: Hollywood star Lauren Bacall, best known for her husky voice and smouldering looks in movies such as To Have and Have Not, died at age 89
August 13, 1999: German tennis star Steffi Graf retired, ending a 17-year career that included 22 Grand Slam titles. She won each of the four Grand Slams at least four times
August 14, 2018: A 200m section of a motorway bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, plunging vehicles on to rail tracks and warehouses below. Over 40 people were killed
August 15, 1939: The Wizard of Oz, MGM’s version of L. Frank Baum’s fantasy, premiered in Hollywood, catapulting a young Judy Garland to stardom
August 16, 2018: Former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who played a key role in transforming India into a global nuclear power, died at the age of 93
August 17, 1962: Peter Fechter, 18, was shot by East German guards as he tried to flee across the Berlin Wall. He bled to death in the most notorious case in the history of the wall