Today is Thursday, August 5, the 217th day of 2010. There are 148 days left in the year.
1772 _ First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1936 _ At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his third Olympic medal
1945 _ Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6 in Japan)
1953 _ Operation ``Big Switch"; Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1962 _ Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illegally leaving S. Africa
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 U.K.
1981 _ President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago