Today is Tuesday, August 21, the 232nd day of 2007. There are 133 days left in the year.
1680 _ Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe from Spanish
1931 _ Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run (Yanks beat Browns 11-7)
1959 _ Hawaii becomes the 50th U.S. state
1968 _ Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 a.m. announces a Soviet-led invasion. Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1972 _ The first hot air balloon flight over the Alps
1982 _ Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
1988 _ A ceasefire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after eight years of war
1989 _ Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune
1991 _ A Communist coup is crushed in USSR in two days
2017 _ Next total solar eclipse visible from North America