Today is Tuesday, August 3, the 215th day of 2010. There are 150 days left in the year.
1492 _ Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for ``Indies"
1882 _ Congress passes first law restricting immigration
1914 _ Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I
1940 _ Lithuanian SSR is accepted into the USSR
1949 _ Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merge to form the National Basketball Association
1952 _ 15th Olympic Games close in Helsinki Finland
1954 _ First VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
1963 _ Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
1975 _ 500 drown when two river boats collide and sink in China's West River
1990 _ Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion