On this day: August 15
POSTED: 09:13 PM PDT Aug 12, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 14, 2012
The Panama Canal opens for business, "The Wizard of Oz" comes to Hollywood, World War II comes to an end and "3 days of peace & music" starts up in Bethel, N.Y., all on this day.
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1958: Buddy Holly and Maria Elena Santiago are married in a private ceremony at his parents' home in Lubbock, Texas. The couple got married less than two months after their first date -- during which Holly proposed -- and were married for less than six months before Holly's death in a plane crash.
