Today is Thursday, August 1, the 213th day of 2013. 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
1790 ― First U.S. census (population of 3,939,214)
1936 ― Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
1950 ― First Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
1971 ― George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
1972 ― First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1976 ― Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)
1982 ― Greg Louganis, U.S., becomes first diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives