Today is Monday, August 10, the 222nd day of 2009. There are 143 days left in the year.
1519 _ Magellan's five ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1792 _ Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI
1809 _ Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1913 _ Second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1921 _ FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Island of Campobello
1945 _ Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1966 _ First lunar orbiter launched by U.S.
1975 _ David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1988 _ U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
1990 _ U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus