WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2020

1264-Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany

1861-U.S. Army abolishes flogging

1914-1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland)

1924-Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts

1945-Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6. in Japan)

1953-Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjeom

1962-Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illegally leaving South Africa

1963-Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty

1964-Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"

1964-U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam

1966-Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march

1969-Mariner 7 flies past Mars

1973-USSR launches Mars 6

1974-Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways

1981-President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago