Today is Friday, August 14, the 226th day of 2009. There are 139 days left in the year.
410 _ Alaric sacks Rome
1248 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1457 _ Oldest known exactly dated printed book (three years after Gutenberg)
1862 _ Lincoln receives first group of blacks to confer with U.S. president
1880 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed
1917 _ China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I
1945 _ V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
1947 _ India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947 _ Pakistan gains independence from Britain
1978 _ French TV announced a rating of ``0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama ― 67 percent, Knockout ― 33 percent)