Today is Tuesday, August 6, the 218th day of 2013. 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
1890 ― First use of electric chair in U.S., John Hart, in N.Y. for murder
1890 ― Cy Young pitches and wins first game
1944 ― Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1945 ― Hiroshima Peace Day; atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by “Enola Gay”
1951 ― Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1984 ― Carl Lewis wins second (long jump) of four gold medals in Summer Olympics
1988 ― Oakland A’s Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1990 ― U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions, Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq