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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011

Today is Wednesday, August 10, the 222nd day of 2011. There are 143 days left in the year. 1519 ― Magellan's five ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth 1792 ― Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI 1893 ― Chinese deported from S.F. under Exclusion Act 1913 ― Second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses 1921 ― FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Island of Campobello 1945 ― Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged 1948 ― Allen Funt's ``Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC 1961 ― England applies for membership in the European Common Market 1981 ― Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits 1988 ― U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion

Aug 9, 2011

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011

Today is Tuesday, August 9, the 221st day of 2011. There are 144 days left in the year. 480 B.C. ― Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae 378 ― Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army 1786 ― First ascent of Mt. Blanc 1854 ― Henry David Thoreau publishes ``Walden" 1936 ― Jesse Owens wins fourth gold medal of Berlin Olympics 1942 ― British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi 1945 ― U.S. drops second atomic bomb ``Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1969 ― Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders 1974 ― Richard Nixon resigns presidency, V.P. Gerald Ford becomes 38th president 1990 ― Twelve Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia

Aug 8, 2011

MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011

Today is Monday, August 8, the 220th day of 2011. There are 145 days left in the year. 1609 ― Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope 1709 ― First known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors) 1815 ― Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena 1876 ― Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 1900 ― First Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston 1945 ― President Harry S. Truman signs U.N. Charter 1945 ― USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea 1953 ― U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact 1974 ― President Richard M. Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12 p.m. 08/09 1990 ― Iraq annexes Kuwait

Aug 7, 2011

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011

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

Aug 5, 2011

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Friday, August 5, the 217th day of 2011. There are 148 days left in the year. 1583 ― Gilbert claims Newfoundland (first English colony in North America) 1772 ― First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1861 ― U.S. Army abolishes flogging 1914 ― First traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. and E. 105th St., Cleveland) 1945 ― Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6 in Japan) 1953 ― Operation ``Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom 1962 ― Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illegally leaving S. Africa 1963 ― Britain, U.S. and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty 1966 ― Beatles release ``Yellow Submarine" and ``Eleanor Rigby" in U.K. 1981 ― President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago

Aug 4, 2011

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011

Today is Thursday, August 4, the 216th day of 2011. There are 149 days left in the year. 1181 ― Supernova seen in Cassiopeia 1693 ― Dom Perignon invents champagne 1753 ― George Washington becomes a master mason 1914 ― Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1916 ― U.S. agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million 1944 ― Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis 1945 ― Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season 1948 ― Five-day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax 1964 ― Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi 1984 ― Prince's ``Purple Rain," album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 24 weeks

Aug 3, 2011

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011

Today is Wednesday, August 3, the 215th day of 2011. There are 150 days left in the year. 1492 ― Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for ``Indies" 1882 ― Congress passes first law restricting immigration 1914 ― Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I 1954 ― First VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown 1958 ― USS Nautilus begins first crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap 1974 ― Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan and joins Doobie Brothers 1975 ― 500 drown when two river boats collide and sink in China's West River 1983 ― John Sain of South Bend, Ind., builds 3.91-meter house of cards 1989 ― Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in nine seasons 1990 ― Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion

Aug 2, 2011

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011

Today is Tuesday, August 2, the 214th day of 2011. There are 151 days left in the year. 1375 ― First roller skating rink opens (London) 1492 ― Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 1776 ― Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence 1819 ― First parachute jump in U.S. 1909 ― Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers 1939 ― Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers 1961 ― Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club 1965 ― Morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing 1986 ― TODAY/PC born today 1990 ― Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait

Aug 1, 2011

MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011

Today is Monday, August 1, the 213th day of 2011. 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 1794 ― Whiskey Rebellion begins 1834 ― Slavery abolished in British empire 1914 ― Germany declares war on Russia in WW I 1936 ― Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games 1963 ― The Beatles Book is sold out on its first day of sale 1972 ― First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) 1976 ― Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)

Jul 31, 2011

SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011

Today is Saturday, July 30, the 211th day of 2011. 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 1863 ― President Lincoln issues ``eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot 1913 ― Conclusion of the Second Balkan War 1928 ― George Eastman demonstrates first color movie 1942 ― German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1943 ― Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (``Girl Crazy”) 1948 ― Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont) 1966 ― Beatles' ``Yesterday... & Today," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks 1974 ― House of Representatives recommends three articles of impeachment of Nixon

Jul 29, 2011

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