FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2007

Today is Friday, August 10, the 221th day of 2007. There are 144 days left in the year.

654 _ St. Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1519 _ Magellan's five ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth

1809 _ Ecuador declares independence from Spain

1821 _ Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state

1893 _ Chinese deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act

1913 _ The second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

1944 _ Race riots in Athens Alabama

1945 _ Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

1981 _ The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes

1985 _ Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million

1988 _ U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion

1990 _ U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus