Today in History - Aug. 8
Today is Friday, Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2008. There are 145 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 8, 1974, President Nixon announced he would resign following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal.
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In 1876, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph.
In 1908, American statesman and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg was born in Chicago.
In 1942, six convicted Nazi saboteurs who'd landed in the U.S. were executed in Washington, D.C.; two others were spared.
In 1945, President Truman...
Today is Thursday, Aug. 7, the 220th day of 2008. There are 146 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 7, 1942, U.S. and allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
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In 1782, George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.
In 1789, the U.S. War Department was established by Congress.
In 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and...
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 6, the 219th day of 2008. There are 147 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
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In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
In 1825, Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia.
In 1890, convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in...
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 5, the 218th day of 2008. There are 148 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 5, 1858, the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, the dreamchild of American businessman Cyrus Field, was laid between Newfoundland and Ireland. (However, after several weeks of use, the cable burned out.)
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In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Adm. David G. Farragut led his fleet to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala.
In 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal was laid on Bedloe's Island in New Yor...
Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some seven months later.)
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In 1735, a jury acquitted John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal of seditious libel.
In 1790, the Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter...
Today is Sunday, Aug. 3, the 216th day of 2008. There are 150 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 3, 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.
In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with treason. (He was acquitted less than a month later.)
In 1914, Germany declared war on...
Today is Saturday, Aug. 2, the 215th day of 2008. There are 151 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 2, 1776, members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
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In 1790, the enumeration for the first United States census began; the final total was 3,929,214.
In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco.
In 1876, frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloo...
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McCain seeks to define himself and Obama By Mary Altaffer (AP)
John McCain's efforts to define Barack Obama have been well cataloged in recent days, from the substantive (calling Obama a tax raiser slow to offer an energy plan) to the silly (comparing the Illinois senator to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.)
What's less apparent are McCain's efforts to define himself.
The GOP presidential hopeful has adopted a new campaign slogan, "Country First," a paean to his years in the military and decades in Congress. He's begun speaking more openly about his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. And despite his wealth and elite legacy as the scion of admirals, McCain has tried to cast himself the embodiment of middle-class, middle-American values. Read More...
American deaths in Afghanistan war reach 500 By (AP)
The deadliest three months for American forces in Afghanistan have pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 500, forcing a war long overshadowed by Iraq back into the headlines.
Larger, more sophisticated militant attacks have also caused a sharp rise in Afghan civilian deaths _ at least 472 in the first seven months of the year, most in suicide bombings, according to an Associated Press count. Read More...
Oil dips to near $119 on stronger dollar By Craig Ruttle (AP)
Oil prices dropped to near $119 a barrel Friday in Asia as a strengthening dollar and worries about economic growth offset supply concerns over Turkish pipeline sabotage that was claimed by Kurdish rebels. Read More...
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