Today is Friday, August 1, the 214th day of 2008. There are 152 days left in the year.
1291 _ Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day)
1774 _ Priestly discovers oxygen
1831 _ London Bridge opens
1896 _ George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (N.Y. to England)
1914 _ Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1936 _ Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
1960 _ Chubby Checker releases ``The Twist"
1971 _ George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
1972 _ First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1976 _ Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)