Today is Wednesday, August 4, the 216th day of 2010. There are 149 days left in the year.
1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia
1693 - Dom Perignon invents champagne
1753 - George Washington becomes a master mason
1881 - 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius ), Seville, Spain (European record)
1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1944 - Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis
1945 - Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
1964 - Three civil rights workers found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi
1984 - Prince’s “Purple Rain,” album goes to No. 1 and stays No.
1 for 24 weeks 1990 - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq