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[SPEAKER_01]: On this day, August 8, 1942, six German saboteurs were executed in Washington, DC after

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had arrived by submarine as part of a Nazi sabotage plan called Operation Pistories.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the mission fell apart after one of the men turned himself in and exposed the plot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The case led to a secret military trial and became one of the most unusual homefront security stories of the war.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on this day, August 8, 1969, the Beatles walked across Abbey Road for the photograph that became the cover of their famous album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on this day, August 8, 1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for the Mymographs, an early copying machine that helped offices and schools reproduce documents.