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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013

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 game1944 ― 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 

Aug 5, 2013

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

Today is Monday, August 5, the 217th day of 2013. There are 148 days left in the year. 1772 ― First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1945 ― Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6 in Japan) 1953 ― Operation “Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjeom 1962 ― Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illegally leaving S. Africa 1963 ― Britain, U.S. and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty 1964 ― U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam 1966 ― Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march 1966 ― Beatles release “Yellow Submarine" & “Eleanor Rigby" in U.K. 1972 ― Moody Blues release “Nights in White Satin" 1981 ― President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago 

Aug 4, 2013

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013

Today is Friday, August 2, the 214th day of 2013. There are 151 days left in the year.1375 ― First roller-skating rink opens (London) 1776 ― Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence 1961 ― Beatles’ first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club 1964 ― North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin 1989 ― NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of three more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N241903 ― Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey1962 ― NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m1987 ― Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) 1990 ― Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait 1991 ― Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges 

Aug 1, 2013

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013

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

Jul 31, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013

Today is Wednesday, July 31, the 212th day of 2013. There are 153 days left in the year. 1498 ― Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad 1777 ― Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army 1912 ― U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 1922 ― 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn.) 1949 ― Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida., kills the SS and third baseman1960 ― Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state 1964 ― U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon 1966 ― Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark 1981 ― 42-day old, second major league baseball strike ends 1990 ― Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games

Jul 30, 2013

TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013

Today is Tuesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2013. There are 154 days left in the year.1733 ― Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston 1792 ― 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for first time 1913 ― Conclusion of the Second Balkan War1928 ― George Eastman demonstrates first color movie 1930 ― Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo 1942 ― German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1948 ― Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont) 1956 ― U.S. motto “In God We Trust” authorized 1971 ― Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 1974 ― House of Representatives recommends three articles of impeachment of Nixon

Jul 29, 2013

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013

Today is Saturday, July 27, the 208th day of 2013. There are 157 days left in the year. 1501 ― Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral 1586 ― Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia 1694 ― Bank of England chartered 1940 ― Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts 1941 ― Japanese forces land in Indochina 1944 ― U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese 1947 ― Yogi Berra starts record 148-game errorless streak 1953 ― Armistice signed ending Korean War 1954 ― Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 1976 ― 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese

Jul 26, 2013

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

Today is Friday, July 26, the 207th day of 2013. There are 158 days left in the year. 1848 ― First Woman’s Rights Convention (Senecca Falls, N.Y.) 1887 ― First Esperanto book published 1908 ― Federal Bureau of Investigation established 1945 ― Winston Churchill resigns as Britain’s P.M. 1953 ― Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution 1956 ― Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1957 ― USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile 1981 ― Two climbers rappel 550 meters down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela 1990 ― General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode 1991 ― Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater

Jul 25, 2013

THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2013

Today is Thursday, July 25, the 206th day of 2013. There are 159 days left in the year.1799 ― French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at “Battle of Abukir”1940 ― John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River 1943 ― Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1944 ― First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) 1946 ― First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show 1963 ― U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear test ban treaty 1975 ― “A Chorus Line,” longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers 1981 ― Voyager 2 encounters Saturn 1984 ― Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space 1985 ― Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS

Jul 24, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013

Today is Wednesday, July 24, the 205th day of 2013. There are 160 days left in the year. 1704 ― Great Britain takes Gibraltar from Spain 1783 ― Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia 1847 ― Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah 1847 ― Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC 1877 ― First time federal troops are used to combat strikers 1948 ― Soviets blockades Berlin from the West 1959 ― V.P. Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate” 1965 ― Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone” 1967 ― Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana 1991 ― University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system

Jul 23, 2013

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