Today is Monday, August 6, the 219th day of 2012. There are 147 days left in the year.
1181 ― Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers
1806 ― Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1870 ― White conservatives suppressed black vote and captured Tennessee legislature
1890 ― Cy Young pitches and wins first game
1890 ― First use of electric chair in U.S., John Hart, in N.Y. for murder
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"
1946 ― U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1951 ― Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1990 ― U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions, Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq