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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009

Today is Tuesday, August 11, the 223rd day of 2009. There are 142 days left in the year. 1866 _ World's first roller rink opens (Newport, R.I.) 1877 _ Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos 1929 _ Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 500 homers 1933 _ Temp reaches 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius) at San Luis Potosi in Mexico (world record) 1945 _ Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito 1956 _ Elvis Presley releases ``Don't Be Cruel" 1960 _ Chad declares independence 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 1984 _ During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he ``signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes"

Aug 10, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009

Today is Monday, August 10, the 222nd day of 2009. There are 143 days left in the year. 1519 _ Magellan's five ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth 1792 _ Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI 1809 _ Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) 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 1966 _ First lunar orbiter launched by U.S. 1975 _ David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon 1988 _ U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion 1990 _ U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus

Aug 9, 2009

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009

Today is Saturday, August 8, the 220th day of 2009. There are 145 days left in the year. 1815 _ Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena 1876 _ Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 1942 _ Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington, D.C. 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 1955 _ Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy 1974 _ President Richard M. Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12 p.m. 1988 _ Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9-year war 1990 _ Iraq annexes Kuwait

Aug 7, 2009

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2009

Today is Friday, August 7, the 219th day of 2009. There are 146 days left in the year. 1498 _ Columbus arrives in Caribbean 1620 _ Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft 1789 _ U.S. War Department established 1934 _ U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel ``Ulysses" 1940 _ Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for one 1856 British Guiana) 1960 _ Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) gains independence from France 1964 _ U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution 1970 _ First computer chess tournament 1983 _ First World Track & Field Championships 1988 _ Writers' guild end their six-month strike

Aug 6, 2009

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2009

Today is Thursday, August 6, the 218th day of 2009. There are 147 days left in the year. 1181 _ Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers 1787 _ Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begins debate 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 _ Serbia declares war against Germany 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 1990 _ U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions, Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

Aug 5, 2009

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009

Today is Wednesday, August 5, the 217th day of 2009. There are 148 days left in the year. 1772 _ First partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1945 _ Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6 in Japan) 1953 _ Operation ``Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom 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 UK 1981 _ President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck two days ago 1984 _ Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins first Olympic marathon for women 1991 _ Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record Sweden

Aug 4, 2009

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009

Today is Tuesday, August 4, the 216th day of 2009. 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 1944 _ Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis 1948 _ Five-day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax 1971 _ U.S. launches first satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft 1984 _ Prince's ``Purple Rain," album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 24 weeks 1987 _ FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters 1988 _ Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II 1990 _ European community proposes a boycott of Iraq

Aug 3, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009

Today is Monday, August 3, the 215th day of 2009. 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 1914 _ Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out three would-be stealers in one inning 1960 _ Niger gains independence from France 1963 _ Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool 1963 _ Great Train Robbery _ $2.5 million ($3.25 million) robbed 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 1990 _ Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion

Aug 2, 2009

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1-2, 2009

Today is Saturday, August 1, the 213th day of 2009. 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 1896 _ George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (N.Y. to England) 1903 _ First coast-to-coast automobile trip (S.F.-N.Y.) completed 1936 _ Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games 1950 _ First Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) 1960 _ Chubby Checker releases ``The Twist" 1972 _ First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) 1976 _ Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)

Jul 31, 2009

FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2009

Today is Friday, July 31, the 212th day of 2009. 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 1790 _ First U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process 1922 _ 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn.) 1925 _ Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England 1942 _ German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1949 _ Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida kills the SS and 3rd baseman 1962 _ Federation of Malaysia formed 1966 _ Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark 1990 _ Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games

Jul 30, 2009

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