Daily Chat 08/10/09

San Marino adopted their constitution in 1600, making it the oldest constitutional republic in the world.  The Great Chicago Fire began around 9:00 pm on this day in 1871.  It died out on its own in the early hours of 10 October, having burnt an area of about 4 square miles and having killed up to 300 people.  Germany annexed western Poland in 1939 and Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia in 1967.

Born today:  Juan Perón (1895-1974), Fred Stolle (1938), Jesse Jackson (1941), Johnny Ramone (1948-2004), Sigourney Weaver (1949), Ardal O'Hanlon (1965) and Matt Damon (1970).

It is Independence Day in Croatia.