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& breakfast. Next to what's available elsewhere in English in Cuba, however, it might as well be the Library of Congress.
• "I know how hard it is to get English-language sources here," said New York City native Conner Gorry, 43, a journalist living in Cuba since 2002. "So I started cooking this idea."
• Cuba Libro is a play on "libro," the Spanish word for "book," and "Cuba libre," the rum-cola cocktail that, legend has it, was invented in 1900 to celebrate the island's independence from Spain.
• The concept was hatched two years ago when a friend called Gorry to say she had a sack of about 35 books she didn't know what do with. More donations have come in since.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2013. There are 143 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On August 10, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who'd been interned by their government during World War II.
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• On this date:
• In 1680, Pueblo Indians launched a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico.
• In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries (TWEE'-luh-reez) Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)
• In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.
• In 1846, President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.
• In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
• In 1913, the Treaty of Bucharest was signed, ending the Second Balkan War.
• In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on (Continued on page 30)
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