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 SUNDAY, AUGUST 24    ON THIS DAY IN... 
                                        
 1995 Computer users queued for the     
 midnight launch of Windows 95, whose   
 £200m campaign was the most expensive  
 the computer industry had seen.        
                                        
 1875 Matthew Webb became the first man 
 to swim the English Channel.           
                                        
 79AD The Italian city of Pompeii was   
 buried by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius. 
                                        
 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to: Comic actor and     
 writer Stephen Fry (40), and top       
 Scottish golfer Sam Torrance (43).     
                                        
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