SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009

Today is Saturday, August 8, the 220th day of 2009. There are 145 days left in the year.

1815 _ Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena

1876 _ Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

1942 _ Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington, D.C.

1945 _ President Harry S. Truman signs U.N. Charter

1945 _ USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea

1953 _ U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact

1955 _ Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy

1974 _ President Richard M. Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12 p.m.

1988 _ Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9-year war

1990 _ Iraq annexes Kuwait