MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

Today is Monday, August 5, the 217th day of 2013. There are 148 days left in the year.

1772 ― First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia

1945 ― Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6 in Japan)

1953 ― Operation “Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjeom

1962 ― Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illegally leaving S. Africa

1963 ― Britain, U.S. and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty

1964 ― U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam

1966 ― Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march

1966 ― Beatles release “Yellow Submarine" & “Eleanor Rigby" in U.K.

1972 ― Moody Blues release “Nights in White Satin"

1981 ― President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago