Today is Wednesday, August 5, the 217th day of 2009. There are 148 days left in the year.
1772 _ First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1945 _ Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6 in Japan)
1953 _ Operation ``Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1963 _ Britain, U.S. and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
1964 _ U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam
1966 _ Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march
1966 _ Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
1981 _ President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago
1984 _ Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins first Olympic marathon for women
1991 _ Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record Sweden