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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2008

Today is Wednesday, August 6, the 219th day of 2008. There are 147 days left in the year. 1181 _ Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers 1890 _ Cy Young pitches and wins first game 1914 _ Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia 1914 _ Serbia declares war against Germany 1945 _ Hiroshima Peace Day - atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by ``Enola Gay" 1946 _ U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court 1951 _ Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria 1962 _ Jamaica gains independence from Britain 1965 _ Beatles release 11Help" album in U.K. 1990 _ U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

Aug 5, 2008

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2008

Today is Tuesday, August 5, the 218th day of 2008. 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 1926 _ Houdini stays in a coffin under water for one hour 1945 _ Atom 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 1964 _ U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam 1966 _ Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march 1969 _ Mariner 7 flies past Mars 1972 _ Moody Blues release ``Nights in White Satin"

Aug 4, 2008

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2008

Today is Monday, August 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year. 1181 _ Supernova seen in Cassiopia 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 1964 _ Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi 1977 _ U.S. President Carter establishes Dept of Energy 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 1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer games close in Atlanta, Ga.

Aug 3, 2008

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2008

Today is Saturday, August 2, the 215th day of 2008. There are 151 days left in the year. 1375 _ First roller skating rink opens (London) 1492 _ Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella 1776 _ Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence 1819 _ First parachute jump in U.S. 1903 _ Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey 1909 _ Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers 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 1986 _ TODAY/PC born today 1990 _ Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait

Aug 1, 2008

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008

Today is Friday, August 1, the 214th day of 2008. There are 152 days left in the year. 1291 _ Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day) 1774 _ Priestly discovers oxygen 1831 _ London Bridge opens 1896 _ George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (N.Y. to England) 1914 _ Germany declares war on Russia in WW I 1936 _ Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games 1960 _ Chubby Checker releases ``The Twist" 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)

Jul 31, 2008

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2008

Today is Thursday, July 31, the 213th day of 2008. There are 154 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.) 1942 _ German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1960 _ Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state 1962 _ Federation of Malaysia formed 1964 _ Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor 1966 _ Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark 1988 _ Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame

Jul 30, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2008

Today is Wednesday, July 30, the 212th day of 2008. 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 1908 _ Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris 1913 _ Conclusion of the second Balkan War 1930 _ Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo 1956 _ U.S. motto ``In God We Trust" authorized 1966 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday & Today," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks 1968 _ Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes first unassisted triple-play in 41 years 1975 _ Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit

Jul 29, 2008

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008

Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2008. There are 155 days left in the year. 1588 _ Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders 1858 _ First commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed 1957 _ International Atomic Energy Agency established by U.N. 1965 _ Beatles movie ``Help" premiers, Queen Elizabeth attends 1968 _ Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control 1974 _ Second impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee 1975 _ Ford became first U.S. president to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1988 _ FDIC bails out first Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion 1988 _ Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1988 _ Last U.S. Playboy Club (Lansing, Mich.) closes

Jul 28, 2008

MONDAY, JULY 28, 2008

Today is Monday, July 28, the 210th day of 2008. There are 156 days left in the year. 1586 _ Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe 1588 _ Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I 1821 _ Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1830 _ Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe 1866 _ Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S. 1882 _ The opera ``Parsifal" is produced (Bayreuth) 1900 _ Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 1913 _ U.S. wins its first Davis Cup since 1902, beating England, 3-2 1914 _ Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia ― WW I begins 1945 _ U.S. Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg., 14 die

Jul 27, 2008

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008

Today is Saturday, July 26, the 208th day of 2008. There are 158 days left in the year. 1775 _ Benjamin Franklin becomes first Postmaster General 1847 _ Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society 1848 _ First Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls, N.Y.) 1865 _ Patrick Francis Healy is first black awarded Ph. D (Louvain, Belgium) 1887 _ First Esperanto book published 1908 _ Federal Bureau of Investigation established 1945 _ Churchill resigns as Britain's P.M. 1947 _ National Security Act establishes the CIA 1981 _ Two climbers rappel 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela 1990 _ General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode

Jul 25, 2008

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