On This Day:
Friday August 8, 2014 This is the 220th day of the year, with 145 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: sunlight The amount of sunlight reaching the ground is measured in oktas (eighths) with one okta meaning one-eighth of the sky is covered in cloud (etc.).
Holidays Feast day of St. Dominic, Saints Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus, St. Hormidas the Martyr, and the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Tanzania: Farmers' Day.
Events 117 - Hadrian became emperor of Rome following the death of his father Trajan.
1844 - Brigham Young was chosen to head The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, succeeding Joseph Smith.
1876 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph.
1899 - The first household refrigerating machine was patented.
1940 - The Battle of Britain, or "The Blitz," began when the German air force waged a sustained series of daytime air attacks on Britain.
1942 - During World War II, six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure were executed by the United States for spying; two others were imprisoned.
1945 - President Harry Truman signed the United Nations Charter.
1963 - Britain's "Great Train Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds.
1974 - President Richard M. Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
1994 - Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two countries.
Births 1865 - Matthew A. Henson, American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary to North Pole.
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader.
1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American journalist, short story writer, novelist.
1919 - Dino DeLaurentis, American film producer.
1923 - Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress.
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