On Sunday, August 9, the 1998 Nike World Masters windsurfer games are scheduled to begin in Portland, Oregon. On Monday, August 10, a trial for Whitewater figure Susan McDougal is to begin in Santa Monica, California. You can take a virtual tour by clicking here . Today is Festival Wednesday in the British Virgin Islands. It is Independence Day in Burkina Faso.
Today is a national holiday in Croatia.
It is San Salvador Feast in El Salvador. Today is Youth Day in Kiribati. Former astronaut Neil A. Armstrong is 68. Basketball player Patrick Ewing is 36. In 1305, Sir William Wallace, Scottish hero and champion of Scottish independence who beat Edward I at the battle of Stirling Bridge, was captured by the English and later executed as a traitor.