What Happened Today in History??

August 7
  Today in History, in 1930, The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.*
There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year.*

Citation:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7

What Happened Today in History??

August 6
  Today in History, in 1930, Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears to be never seen again.*
There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.*

Citation:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_6

What Happened Today in History??

August 5
  Today in History,in 1914, In Cleaveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.*
There are 148 days remaining until the end of the year.*

Citation:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_5

What Happened Today in History??

August 4
       Today in History,1944, The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.*
There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year.*

Citation:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_4

What Happened Today in History??

August 3
 Today in History, in 1492, Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos do la Frontera, Spain.*
There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year.*

Citation:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_3