WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

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)