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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2007

Today is Tuesday, August 14, the 225th day of 2007. There are 140 days left in the year. 410 _ Alaric sacks Rome 1248 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun 1385 _ Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence 1756 _ French capture Fort Oswego, N.Y. 1846 _ Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance 1862 _ Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1880 _ Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed 1893 _ France issues first driving licenses, included required test 1900 _ Intl forces including U.S. Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners 1908 _ Race riot in Springfield Illinois 1912 _ 2,500 U.S. marines invade Nicaragua; U.S. remains until 1925 1917 _ China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I 1935 _ The Social Security Act became law 1936 _ The first Olympic basketball game (Berlin) 1937 _ Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs. St. Louis Browns 1941 _ Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchi

Aug 13, 2007

Monday, August 13, 2007

Today is Monday, August 13, the 224th day of 2007. There are 141 days left in the year. 523 _ St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1521 _ Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs 1642 _ Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap 1704 _ English defeat French at the Battle of Blenheim 1868 _ Quakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages in Peru and Ecuador 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 _ The Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France 1961 _ Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany 1989 _ U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands

Aug 12, 2007

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2007

Today is Saturday, August 11, the 222nd day of 2007. There are 143 days left in the year. 1877 _ Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos 1914 _ Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland 1918 _ Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allies beat Germans 1945 _ Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito 1948 _ Summer Olympics opens in London 1952 _ Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan 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. 1978 _ Funeral of Pope Paul VI 1989 _ Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune 1990 _ Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion 1991 _ Shiite Muslims release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy 1991 _ Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands

Aug 10, 2007

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2007

Today is Friday, August 10, the 221th day of 2007. There are 144 days left in the year. 654 _ St. Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1519 _ Magellan's five ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth 1809 _ Ecuador declares independence from Spain 1821 _ Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state 1893 _ Chinese deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act 1913 _ The second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses 1944 _ Race riots in Athens Alabama 1945 _ Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged 1981 _ The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes 1985 _ Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million 1988 _ U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion 1990 _ U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus

Aug 9, 2007

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2007

Today is Thursday, August 9, the 220th day of 2007. There are 145 days left in the year. 378 _ The Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army 1778 _ Capt. Cook passes through the Bering Straits 1786 _ The first ascent of Mt. Blanc 1803 _ First horses arrive in Hawaii 1842 _ U.S.-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1849 _ Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia 1854 _ Henry David Thoreau publishes ``Walden" 1902 _ Edward VII of England crowned after the death of his mother Victoria 1936 _ Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics 1942 _ Britain arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi 1945 _ The U.S. drops second atomic bomb ``Fat Man" on Japan, destroying part of Nagasaki 1965 _ Singapore gains independence from Malaysia 1973 _ USSR launches Mars 7 1974 _ Richard Nixon resigns, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th U.S. president 1990 _ 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia

Aug 8, 2007

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2007

Today is Wednesday, August 8, the 219th day of 2007. There are 146 days left in the year. 1609 _ Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope 1815 _ Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena 1876 _ Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 1890 _ Daughters of the American Revolution organizes 1900 _ 1st Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston 1919 _ Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence 1929 _ The first airship flight around the Earth flying eastward begins 1929 _ German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight 1940 _ Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks 1945 _ President Harry S. Truman signs U.N. Charter 1945 _ USSR declares war against Japan in WW II 1945 _ USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea 1953 _ The U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact 1974 _ Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office on Aug. 09 1985 _ Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet 1988 _ Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanista

Aug 7, 2007

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2007

Today is Tuesday, August 7, the 218th day of 2007. There are 147 days left in the year. 768 _ Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic pope 1498 _ Columbus arrives in Caribbean 1782 _ George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart 1789 _ The U.S. War Department established 1934 _ The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government’s attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel ``Ulysses" 1941 _ 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania 1942 _ The first American offensive in Pacific in WWII, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 1960 _ Ivory Coast gains independence from France 1964 _ U.S. Congress approves a Gulf of Tonkin resolution 1976 _ U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth 1990 _ Desert Shield begin; the U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia 1991 _ A court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents

Aug 6, 2007

MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2007

Today is Monday, August 6, the 217th day of 2007. There are 148 days left in the year. 258 _ St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1806 _ The Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire 1825 _ Bolivia gains independence from Peru 1890 _ Cy Young pitches and wins the 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" 1951 _ Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria 1990 _ U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq

Aug 6, 2007

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Today is Saturday, August 4, the 215th day of 2007. There are 150 days left in the year. 1181 _ Supernova seen in Cassiopia 1578 _ Battle of Alcazarquivir, Morrocans defeat Portugeese 1693 _ Dom Perignon invents champagne 1753 _ George Washington becomes a master mason 1914 _ Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1916 _ The U.S. agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million 1925 _ U.S. marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation 1927 _ Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opened 1971 _ The U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft 1984 _ Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics 1988 _ U.S. Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II 1988 _ Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case 1990 _ European community proposes a boycott of Iraq 1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer Games close in Atlanta, Georgia

Aug 3, 2007

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2007

Today is Friday, August 3, the 214th day of 2007. There are 151 days left in the year. 1492 _ Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for ``Indies" 1882 _ Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration 1914 _ Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WWI 1952 _ 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland 1960 _ Niger gains independence from France 1963 _ Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool 1970 _ Hurricane ``Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history 1971 _ Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings 1975 _ 500 drown when two river boats collide & sink in China's West River 1990 _ Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion 1990 _ The U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions 1991 _ Pan Am games open in Havana

Aug 2, 2007

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