Today is Monday, August 1, the 213th day of 2011. There are 152 days left in the year.
1291 ― Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day)
1619 ― First black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Va.
1774 ― Priestly discovers oxygen
1794 ― Whiskey Rebellion begins
1834 ― Slavery abolished in British empire
1914 ― Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1936 ― Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
1963 ― The Beatles Book is sold out on its first day of sale
1972 ― First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1976 ― Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)