IT HAPPENED ON AUGUST 5
1962 Marilyn Monroe
found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose
1936 Berlin Olympics
Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
1967 Bobby Gentry
releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
1966 Beatles
release "Revolver" album in US
1861 US
levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
1926 Houdini
stays in a coffin under water for 1 hr
1972 Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
1962 Nelson Mandelaarrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
1964 US
begin bombing North Vietnam
1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
1984 Richard Burton dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage
1570 Spanish Jesuits
led by Fray Batista Segura arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, for the purpose of converting the American Indians to Christianity.
(Unfortunately, six months later, the entire group was massacred by the very Indians they had come to evangelize.)
