Today is Monday, August 6, the 217th day of 2007. There are 148 days left in the year.
258 _ St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1806 _ The Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1825 _ Bolivia gains independence from Peru
1890 _ Cy Young pitches and wins the first game
1914 _ Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
1914 _ Serbia declares war against Germany
1945 _ Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by ``Enola Gay"
1951 _ Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1990 _ U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq