FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Friday, August 5, the 217th day of 2011. There are 148 days left in the year.

1583 ― Gilbert claims Newfoundland (first English colony in North America)

1772 ― First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia

1861 ― U.S. Army abolishes flogging

1914 ― First traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. and E. 105th St., Cleveland)

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

1966 ― Beatles release ``Yellow Submarine" and ``Eleanor Rigby" in U.K.

1981 ― President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago