TODAY is Tuesday, August 8, the 220th day of 2017. There are 145 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials. 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train

robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes. 1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road. 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later

president of South Korea, is kidnapped. 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. 1988 – The “8888 Uprising” occurs in Burma. 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq.

This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest

construction ever built, collapses. 1993 – The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people. 2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. 2008 – Official ceremony of 2008 Summer Olympic Games in

Bird’s Nest. 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County,

Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. 2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of

Quetta kills at least 31 people. 2015 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County,

Texas.