August 8 is the 221st day of the year. There are 145 days remaining until the end of the year.
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors). Over-hyped.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St. Helena
1854 Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
1864 Red Cross forms in Geneva
1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C. I love a parade!
1963 16 men pull off the Great Train Robbery in England stealing more than £2.6 million (~£26 million in 2008) in bank notes on their way to be destroyed.
1973 US Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vows not to resign (Right!)
2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 304 days remaining until the end of time.
1431 England begins trial against cross-dresser Joan of Arc. I wonder how this will turn out. . .
1848 Lovers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. You've got to fight for your right to party.
1885 A life-size monument of George Washington’s thin and pointy penis is dedicated in Washington D.C.
1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale in anticipation of the repeal of Prohibition.
1937 Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1953 Francis Crick (r) and James Watson (l) discover structure of DNA-molecule while trading blow jobs
1958 The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on American Bandstand
1988 Jimmy Swaggart confesses about getting caught with his dick in a "female sex worker" without admitting that he had his dick in a "female sex worker"
