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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2010

Today is Wednesday, August 11, the 223rd day of 2010. There are 142 days left in the year. 1772 ― Explosive eruption blows 4,000 off Papandayan, Java, kills 3,000 1866 ― World's first roller rink opens (Newport, R.I.) 1909 ― SOS first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, N.C. 1929 ― Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 500 homers 1945 ― Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito 1948 ― Summer Olympics opens in London 1956 ― Elvis Presley releases ``Don't Be Cruel" 1968 ― The Beatles launch the ``Apple Records" label 1975 ― U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. 1984 ― Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins four Olympic track golds

Aug 10, 2010

TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2010

Today is Tuesday, August 10, the 222nd day of 2010. 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 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 1961 ― England applies for membership in the European Common Market 1966 ― First lunar orbiter launched by U.S. 1981 ― Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits 1988 ― U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion 1990 ― U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus

Aug 9, 2010

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010

Today is Monday, August 9, the 221st day of 2010. There are 144 days left in the year. 480 B.C. _ Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae 1786 _ First ascent of Mt Blanc 1849 _ Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia 1854 _ Henry David Thoreau publishes ``Walden" 1942 _ British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi 1945 _ U.S. drops second atomic bomb ``Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1965 _ Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day) 1974 _ Richard Nixon resigns presidency, V.P. Gerald Ford becomes 38th president 1988 _ Just one day after 8/8/88 N.Y.'s daily number is 888 1990 _ 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia

Aug 8, 2010

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2010

Today is Saturday, August 7, the 219th day of 2010. There are 146 days left in the year. 1498 _ Columbus arrives in Caribbean 1620 _ Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft 1934 _ U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel ``Ulysses" 1942 _ First American offensive in Pacific in WW II, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 1964 _ U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution 1970 _ First computer chess tournament 1976 _ Scientists in Pasadena, Calif., announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars 1983 _ First World Track & Field Championships 1988 _ Writers guild end their six-month strike 1990 _ Saudi Arabia allows U.S. troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion

Aug 6, 2010

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2010

Today is Friday, August 6, the 218th day of 2010. 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 1914 ― Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia 1944 ― Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 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 1990 ― U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions, Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

Aug 5, 2010

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2010

Today is Thursday, August 5, the 217th day of 2010. There are 148 days left in the year. 1772 _ First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1936 _ At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his third Olympic medal 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 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. 1981 _ President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago

Aug 4, 2010

Today in History

Today is Wednesday, August 4, the 216th day of 2010. There are 149 days left in the year. 1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia 1693 - Dom Perignon invents champagne 1753 - George Washington becomes a master mason 1881 - 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius ), Seville, Spain (European record) 1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1944 - Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis 1945 - Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season 1964 - Three civil rights workers 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 1990 - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq

Aug 3, 2010

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010

Today is Tuesday, August 3, the 215th day of 2010. 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 1940 _ Lithuanian SSR is accepted into the USSR 1949 _ Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merge to form the National Basketball Association 1952 _ 15th Olympic Games close in Helsinki Finland 1954 _ First VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown 1963 _ Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool 1975 _ 500 drown when two river boats collide and sink in China's West River 1990 _ Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion

Aug 2, 2010

MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010

Today is Monday, August 2, the 214th day of 2010. 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. 1858 _ First street mailboxes _ Boston, Mass. 1903 _ Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey 1961 _ Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club 1965 _ Morley Safers ends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing 1989 _ NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of three more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 1990 _ Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait

Aug 1, 2010

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010

Today is Saturday, July 31, the 212th day of 2010. There are 153 days left in the year. 1498 ― Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad 1912 ― U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 1922 ― Eighteen-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn.) 1925 ― Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England 1938 ― NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd ``hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club" 1942 ― German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1949 ― Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the SS and third baseman 1962 ― Federation of Malaysia formed 1981 ― Forty two- day-old, second major league baseball strike ends 1990 ― Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th Major League pitcher to win 300 games

Jul 30, 2010
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