FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2010

Today is Friday, August 6, the 218th day of 2010. There are 147 days left in the year.

1181 ― Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers

1806 ― Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire

1890 ― First use of electric chair in U.S., John Hart, in N.Y. for murder

1890 ― Cy Young pitches and wins first game

1914 ― Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia

1944 ― Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins

1945 ― Hiroshima Peace Day _ atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by ``Enola Gay"

1951 ― Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria

1965 ― Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

1990 ― U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions, Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq