Today is Saturday, August 1, the 213th day of 2009. There are 152 days left in the year.
1291 _ Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day)
1619 _ First black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Va.
1774 _ Priestly discovers oxygen
1896 _ George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (N.Y. to England)
1903 _ First coast-to-coast automobile trip (S.F.-N.Y.) completed
1936 _ Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
1950 _ First Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
1960 _ Chubby Checker releases ``The Twist"
1972 _ First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1976 _ Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)