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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1-2, 2009

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  • Published Jul 31, 2009 3:40 pm KST
  • Updated Jul 31, 2009 3:40 pm KST

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)