Today is Saturday, August 6, the 218th day of 2011. There are 147 days left in the year.
1806 ― Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1870 ― White conservatives suppressed black vote and captured Tennessee legislature
1890 ― First use of electric chair in U.S., John Hart, in N.Y. for murder
1890 ― Cy Young pitches and wins first game
1926 ― N.Y.'s Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim the English Channel
1945 ― Hiroshima Peace Day; atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by ``Enola Gay"
1951 ― Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1965 ― Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1984 ― Carl Lewis wins second (long jump) of four gold medals in Summer Olympics
1990 ― U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions, Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq