FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009

Today is Friday, August 14, the 226th day of 2009. There are 139 days left in the year.

410 _ Alaric sacks Rome

1248 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun

1457 _ Oldest known exactly dated printed book (three years after Gutenberg)

1862 _ Lincoln receives first group of blacks to confer with U.S. president

1880 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed

1917 _ China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I

1945 _ V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II

1947 _ India granted independence within British Commonwealth

1947 _ Pakistan gains independence from Britain

1978 _ French TV announced a rating of ``0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama ― 67 percent, Knockout ― 33 percent)