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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2009

Today is Saturday, August 22, the 234th day of 2009. There are 131 days left in the year. 565 _ St. Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness 1762 _ First female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport, R.I., Mercury 1846 _ U.S. annexes New Mexico 1864 _ Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations 1911 _ Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre 1987 _ Madonna's ``Who's "That Girl," single goes No. 1 1988 _ Australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala) 1989 _ First complete ring around Neptune discovered 1989 _ Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter 1990 _ President Bush calls up military reserves

Aug 21, 2009

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2009

Today is Friday, August 21, the 233rd day of 2009. There are 132 days left in the year. 1680 _ Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe from Spanish 1841 _ John Hampson patents venetian blind 1959 _ Hawaii becomes 50th U.S. state 1963 _ Martial law declared in S. Vietnam 1972 _ First hot air balloon flight over the Alps 1986 _ Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746 1988 _ Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after eight years of war 1989 _ Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune 1991 _ Communist coup is crushed in USSR in two days 2017 _ Next total solar eclipse visible from North America

Aug 20, 2009

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2009

Today is Thursday, August 20, the 232nd day of 2009. There are 133 days left in the year. 1866 _ President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over 1896 _ Dial telephone patented 1920 _ First U.S. commercial radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit, began daily broadcasting 1940 _ Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 1949 _ Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution 1953 _ Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation 1965 _ Rolling Stones release ``Satisfaction" (their first No. 1 U.S. hit) 1968 _ 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia 1974 _ Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) 1980 _ U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital

Aug 19, 2009

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2009

Today is Wednesday, August 19, the 231st day of 2009. There are 134 days left in the year. 1099 _ Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon 1787 _ W. Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn 1888 _ First beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18-year-old West Indian wins 1909 _ First race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway 1934 _ Plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler 1960 _ Sputnik 5 carries two dogs, three mice into orbit (later recovered alive) 1978 _ 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran 1985 _ Japan launches its second probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei 1988 _ Iran-Iraq begin a ceasefire in their 8-year-old war (11 p.m. EDT) 1991 _ Coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev

Aug 18, 2009

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009

Today is Tuesday, August 18, the 230th day of 2009. There are 135 days left in the year. 1587 _ First English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare) 1686 _ Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus 1834 _ Mt. Vesuvius erupts 1868 _ Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse 1894 _ Congress creates Bureau of Immigration 1914 _ President Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality 1958 _ Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published 1960 _ First photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1961 _ Construction on Berlin Wall completed 1973 _ Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record

Aug 17, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2009

Today is Monday, August 17, the 229th day of 2009. There are 136 days left in the year. 1846 _ The U.S. takes Los Angeles 1877 _ Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos 1939 _ ``Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in N.Y. 1948 _ Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 1950 _ Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands 1958 _ World's first Moon probe, U.S.'s Thor-Able, explodes at T+77 seconds 1960 _ Gabon gains independence from France (National Day) 1962 _ Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr 1962 _ East German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector 1978 _ First manned balloon crosses the Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)

Aug 16, 2009

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2009

Today is Saturday, August 15, the 227th day of 2009. There are 138 days left in the year. 1057 _ Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan 1620 _ Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims 1914 _ Panama Canal opens (under cost) 1918 _ U.S. and Russia sever diplomatic ties 1945 _ Korea liberated from Japanese rule 1948 _ Republic of Korea proclaimed (National Day) 1960 _ UFO is sighted by three California patrolmen 1966 _ Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission 1969 _ Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in N.Y. State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) 1974 _ South Korean President Park Chung-hee escapes assassination

Aug 14, 2009

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009

Today is Friday, August 14, the 226th day of 2009. There are 139 days left in the year. 410 _ Alaric sacks Rome 1248 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun 1457 _ Oldest known exactly dated printed book (three years after Gutenberg) 1862 _ Lincoln receives first group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1880 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed 1917 _ China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I 1945 _ V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II 1947 _ India granted independence within British Commonwealth 1947 _ Pakistan gains independence from Britain 1978 _ French TV announced a rating of ``0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama ― 67 percent, Knockout ― 33 percent)

Aug 13, 2009

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009

Today is Thursday, August 13, the 225th day of 2009. There are 140 days left in the year. 1521 _ Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs 1642 _ Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap 1868 - Quakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages on Peru and Ecuador 1907 _ First taxicab (NYC) 1923 _ Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey 1928 _ Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins 1945 _ 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia 1946 _ Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus 1960 _ Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France 1961 _ Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)

Aug 12, 2009

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009

Today is Wednesday, August 12, the 224th day of 2009. There are 141 days left in the year. 1553 _ Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of the Talmud 1851 _ Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine 1877 _ Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device 1915 _ ``Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published 1936 _ Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medallist (13 years and 268 days) 1953 _ Soviet Union conducts secret test of its first hydrogen bomb 1955 _ President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from $0.75 to $1 an hour 1981 _ IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0 1985 _ Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll) 1988 _ Movie ``Last Temptation of Christ" is released

Aug 11, 2009

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