Monday, August 5
by The Associated Press, Associated Press - 29 July 2013 20:50-04:00
Today is Monday, August 5, the 217th day of 2013. There are 148 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1716 - Savoy's Prince Eugene defeats Turks at Peterwardein, now part of Serbia.
1772 - In St. Petersburg, rulers of Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the first of three partitions ending Poland's sovereign rule until 1918.
1810 - Napoleon Bonaparte imposes tax on all colonial imports into France.
1861 - The U.S. federal government levies an income tax for the first time.
1884 - Cornerstone of Statue of Liberty is laid at entrance to New York harbor.
1943 - Capture of Catania gives Allied forces command of Sicilian Straits off Italy during World War II.
1944 - More than 1,000 Japanese, taken as prisoners of war by Australia, unsuccessfully attempt to escape from a camp in Cowra, New South Wales; 234 are killed and 108 wounded.
1949 - U.S. aid to Nationalist China ceases; Earthquake in Ecuador takes about 6,000 lives.
1954 - Iran and eight Western oil companies agree to reactivate Iran's frozen oil industry, ending a three-year battle that bankrupted Iran and its relations with Britain.
1962 - Anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela is arrested at a police roadblock; U.S. movie star Marilyn Monroe is found dead in bedroom of her Los Angeles home.
1963 - United States, Britain and Soviet Union sign a treaty outlawing nuclear tests in atmosphere, in space and under water.
1965 - Cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand.
1969 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flies by Mars, sending back unprecedented photographs and scientific data.
1973 - Palestinian "Black September" guerrillas attack a line of travelers at Greece's Athens airport with grenades and machine guns, killing three and wounding 55.
1977 - Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There are reprisals against Selassie's family and political associates since his overthrow in 1974.
1990 - U.S. troops intervene in Liberia's civil war to rescue about 70 Americans in Monrovia following hostage threat by rebels.
1991 - Iraq admits to U.N. inspection team that it carried out germ warfare research for four years, but claims it abandoned research shortly after 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
1992 - Nelson Mandela leads 100,000 blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end white rule.
1994 - NATO jets attack Serbs near Sarajevo after they seized a tank and other weapons from a U.N. depot and fire on a U.N. helicopter.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a bill to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran and Libya.
1997 - Korean Air jumbo jet carrying 254 people slams into a mountain in Guam while trying to land during a nighttime thunderstorm. Only 26 people survive.
1999 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak expands his Cabinet from 17 to 23 members and appoints Israel's first Arab deputy foreign minister.
2000 - Police in eastern Germany detain dozens of neo-Nazi supporters trying to hold a rally, while hundreds of Germans protest the recent rise in racist attacks.
2001 - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban jail eight foreign aid workers for allegedly preaching Christianity in the Muslim nation.
2002 - Four masked gunmen attack a Christian school for the children of Protestant missionaries in Murree, 55 kilometers (35 miles) north of Islamabad, killing six and wounding three others, all Pakistanis.
2006 - The Taiwanese government breaks off diplomatic relations with Chad, saying the African nation was under pressure from China to end its relations with Taiwan, so the island's leaders made the break before Chad could move on its own.
2007 - Lebanon's opposition captures one of two parliament seats up for election to replace assassinated ruling party lawmakers in a tense showdown between the U.S.-backed government and opponents supported by Syria and Iran.
2008 - An American woman receives five puppies cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's first successful commercial canine cloning service.
2009 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wins support from key nations for his appeal to Myanmar's government to free detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and release all political prisoners.
2010 - The U.S. government announces that it has charged 14 people as participants in "a deadly pipeline" to Somalia that routed money and fighters from the United States to the terrorist group al-Shabab.
2011 - Italy pledges to work swiftly for a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget, as Rome feverishly tries to assure domestic and foreign investors its finances are sound and calm nervous markets in Europe.
2012 - Iranian state television broadcasts purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.
Today's Birthdays:
Ilya Repin, Russian painter (1844-1930); Guy de Maupassant, French writer (1850-1893); John Huston, U.S. film director (1906-1987); Neil Armstrong, U.S. astronaut and first man to set foot on Moon (1930--2012); Loni Anderson, U.S. actress (1946--); Tawny Kitaen, U.S. actress (1961--); Maureen McCormick, U.S. actress (1956--).
Thought For Today:
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty — Ellen Sturgis Hooper, American poet (1816-1841).
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