Today is Wednesday, August 1, the 214th day of 2012. There are 152 days left in the year.
1619 ― First black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
1774 ― Priestly discovers oxygen
1790 ― First U.S. census (population of 3,939,214)
1914 ― Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1936 ― Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
1950 ― First Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
1957 ― First commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque, N.M.)
1969 ― 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
1972 ― First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1976 ― Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)