Today is the 218th day of 2020. There are 148 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: Anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela is arrested at a police roadblock.�OTHER EVENTS1772: In St Petersburg, rulers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria sign the first of three partitions ending Poland's sovereign rule until 1918.1810: Napoleon Bonaparte imposes tax on all colonial imports into France.
