Aug. 8 (UPI) — On this date in history: In 1911, newsreels became a standard part of U.S. movie screenings when the French film company Pathe began releasing weekly black-and-white features to theaters. In 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Britain. In 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, two days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and several days before Tokyo surrendered. In 1956, a fire in a Belgian coal mine trapped and killed 262 workers in the worst mining disaster in the country’s history. In 1968, Richard Nixon won…
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