Today is Friday, August 10, the 221th day of 2007. There are 144 days left in the year.
654 _ St. Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1519 _ Magellan's five ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1809 _ Ecuador declares independence from Spain
1821 _ Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state
1893 _ Chinese deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act
1913 _ The second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1944 _ Race riots in Athens Alabama
1945 _ Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1981 _ The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1985 _ Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million
1988 _ U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
1990 _ U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus