Today is: August 10

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Proverbs 27:1

August is:

Children's Vision and Learning Month National Back-to-School Month National Inventors' Month Science / Medicine / Technology Book Month Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month

Herbert Clark Hoover's Birthday - The 31st president was born on this day in 1874, in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first president born west of the Mississippi River.

Missouri Admission Day - Missouri became the 24th U.S. state on this day in 1821.

Saint Lawrence Feast Day - Patron saint of cook, brewers, confectioners, cutlers, armorers, schoolboys, students, washerwomen and glaziers.

Born on this Day

• 1296: John, King of Bohemia
  
  

• 1397: Albert II, King of Germany
  
  

• 1556: Lutherian clergyman and song writer Philipp Nicolai. (O morning star! how fair and bright, Wake, awake for night is flying)
  
  

• 1674: Anglican Clergyman William Vesey. Vessy street in New York City is named for him.
  
  

• 1753: Edmund Jennings Randolph, the first U.S. attorney general
  
  

• 1794: German Jewish scholar Leopold Zunz. Founder of the science of Judiasm.
  
  

• 1827: Theologian and author George P. Fisher. Professor of Yale Divinity School !1854-1901)
  
  

• 1841: Birth of Mary A. Lathbury, American Sunday School leader and poet. Daughter of a Methodist preacher, two of Lathbury's poems later became popular hymns: "Break Thou the Bread of Life" and "Day is Dying in the West."
  
  

• 1855: Anglican theologian, author and teacher Frederick J. F. Jackson.
  
  

• 1873: Philosopher and author William E. Hocking. He emphasized the religious aspects of philosophy. (The Meaning of God in Human Experience)
  
  

• 1874: Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. TODAY's BONUS HISTORY FACT
  
  

• 1890: Paul Hutchinson, religious writer an editor. He was managing editor of Christian Century from 1924 - 1956.
  
  

• 1893: The American composer Douglas Moore was born.
  
  

• 1899: Actor Jack Haley
  
  

• 1900: Actress Norma Shearer
  
  

• 1911: Actress Jane Wyatt
  
  

• 1914: Actor Jeff Corey
  
  

• 1916: Actor Noah Beery, Jr. (Walking Tall, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Fastest Gun Alive, Million Dollar Kid)
  
  

• 1923: Actress Rhonda Fleming (Marilyn Louis) (Stage Door, The Best of Broadway, Little Egypt, Inferno)
  
  

• 1926: Junior Samples (comedian: Hee Haw)
  
  

• 1927: Bluegrass singer-songwriter Jimmy Martin
  
  

• 1928: Singer Jimmy Dean
  
  

• 1928: Singer Eddie Fisher
  
  

• 1933: Baseball player Rocky (Rocco) Colavito (Cleveland Indians: 4 home runs in a row [6/10/1959])
  
  

• 1940: Singer Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers)
  
  

• 1943: Singer Ronnie Spector
  
  

• 1947: Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
  
  

• 1948: Singer Patti Austin
  
  

• 1949: Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio)
  
  

• 1952: Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly
  
  

• 1954: Actress Rene Russo
  
  

• 1959: Actress Rosanna Arquette
  
  

• 1960: Actor Antonio Banderas
  
  

• 1961: Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS)
  
  

• 1962: Singer Julia Fordham
  
  

• 1964: Singer Neneh Cherry
  
  

• 1964: Singer Aaron Hall
  
  

• 1967: Rhythm-and-blues singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star)
  
  

• 1967: Rock musician Todd Nichols (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
  
  

• 1968: Singer-producer Michael Bivins
  
  

• 1972: Actress Angie Harmon ("Law & Order")
  
  

• 1980: Rhythm-and-blues singer Nikki Bratcher (Divine)        
         
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0258: Death of St. Laurence, famous Roman martyrs. A deacon of Pope Sixtus II, whom he followed to death.
  
  

• 0654: St. Eugenius was consecrated as pope. He served to 0657.
  
  

• 1303: Hugh de Pairaud, Treasurer of the Templars, signs a private agreement of mutual support with Philip IV ("the Fair") King of France
  
  

• 1460: Coronation of James III as King of Scots
  
  

• 1471: Election of Sixtus IV as Pope
  
  

• 1492: Election of Alexander VI as Pope
  
  

• 1498: Henry VII of England rewards John Cabot for the discovery of Canada with 10 Pounds
  
  

• 1519: Magellan leaves Spain to circle the world
  
  

• 1536: Cartier enters the Gulf of St. Laurence, Canada
  
  

• 1582: Russia makes peace with Poland and gives up claims to Livonia
  
  

• 1620: Richelieu persuades Marie de Medici into peace
  
  

• 1776: A committee of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson suggested the United States adopt "E pluribus unum" - `Out of many, one' - as the motto for its Great Seal.
  
  

• 1792: During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the palace of Louis XVI. The king was taken into custody, put on trial for treason later that year, and executed the following January.
  
  

• 1809: Ecuador gains it's independence.
  
  

• 1821: Missouri became the 24th state.
  
  

• 1833: Chicago, Illinois was incorporated on this day, not as a village with a population of less than 200.
  
  

• 1846: Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of half a million dollars had made it possible.
  
  

• 1859: The first milk inspectors in the U.S. were appointed for duty in Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  

• 1869: O.B. Brown of Malden, Massachusetts, patented the motion picture projector.
  
  

• 1885: Leo Daft opened America's first commercially operated electric streetcar, in Baltimore, Maryland
  
  

• 1895: Do you know what the "Proms" are? Everyone in London knows the "Promenade Concerts," a summer series launched on this day by Henry Wood and Robert Newman.
  
  

• 1915: Pope Benedict XV issued a constitution which allowed priests to offer 3 masses of requium on All Saints Day.
  
  

• 1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
  
  

• 1944: during World War Two, American forces overcame remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
  
  

• 1945: On the day after the second atomic bombing, Japan announced its willingness to surrender to the Allies, provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged.
  
  

• 1947: William Odom set a solo record by completing a round-the-world flight in 73 hours and five minutes, landing at Chicago's Douglas Airport.
  
  

• 1948: Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" made its TV debut on ABC with the title "Candid Microphone," which was also the name of a radio program produced by Funt.
  
  

• 1949: The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
  
  

• 1954: Workers at the Studebaker plant in South Bend, Indiana, agreed to take pay cuts of from $12 to $20 weekly in an attempt to help the faltering automaker. The plan didn't help and the automaker was soon out of business.
  
  

• 1954: Elvis Presley made one of his first professional appearances at Overton Park in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. He used the occasion to debut his new record, "That's All Right (Mama)." He was a big crowd pleaser.
  
  

• 1969: Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
  
  

• 1970: The composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann committed suicide in Konigsdorf. Zimmermann was 52 and despondent over learning that he was going blind.
  
  

• 1973: For the first time in his golfing career, Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the final two rounds of the PGA Golf Championship. This one was in Cleveland, Ohio.
  
  

• 1977: Postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam," the gunman responsible for six slayings and seven woundings.
  
  

• 1977: The United States and Panama reached agreement in principle to transfer the Panama Canal to Panama by the year 2000.
  
  

• 1981: Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
  
  

• 1983: In Lebanon, leftist Druse gunmen kidnapped three Cabinet ministers, demanding the resignation of the entire Cabinet. The ministers were released unharmed the next day.
  
  

• 1984: Nevada's chief U.S. district judge, Harry Claiborne, was convicted on tax evasion charges. It was the first conviction of a sitting federal judge.
  
  

• 1984: The women's 3,000-meter race at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics ended for Mary Decker of the U.S. when she fell after colliding with South African-born Zola Budd. The race was won by Romanian Maricica Puica.
  
  

• 1985: Madonna's album,"Like A Virgin", became the first solo album by a female artist to be certified for sales of five million copies.
  
  

• 1985: In South Africa, relative calm returned to Durban's black and Indian townships, where days of rioting had claimed dozens of lives.
  
  

• 1985: Michael Jackson paid $47.5 million for ATV Music, the Northern Songs Catalogue of the Beatles' copyrights, which includes 251 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
  
  

• 1986: A team of U.S. arms control experts arrived in Moscow for special talks aimed at preparing for a new U.S.-Soviet summit.
  
  

• 1986: Billy Martin's uniform number, "1," was retired by the New York Yankees. He was the 13th Yankee great to receive the honor.
  
  

• 1987: President Reagan said he would nominate C. William Verity Junior, a retired steel company executive, to replace the late Malcolm Baldrige as commerce secretary.
  
  

• 1987: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 2600 for the first time.
  
  

• 1987: A Chorus Line celebrated its 5,000th performance. An estimated that 25 million theatre goers had seen the musical since it opened in 1975. A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on The Great White Way on September 29, 1983 and ended its Broadway run in 1990.
  
  

• 1988: President Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interned by the US government during World War Two.
  
  

• 1989: Poland's Roman Catholic church suspended an agreement to move nuns from a convent on the edge of Auschwitz, blaming Jewish groups for creating what it called an "atmosphere of aggressive demands.""
  
  

• 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was convicted of a single misdemeanor drug charge and acquitted on another; the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other counts.
  
  

• 1991: The Revolutionary Justice Organization, one of the groups holding hostages in Lebanon, announced it would release an American within 72 hours. (the next day, Edwards Tracy was freed.)
  
  

• 1991: Nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. Two teenagers were later arrested in the killings; one pleaded guilty to murder, the other was convicted of murder.
  
  

• 1991: China agreed in principle to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
  
  

• 1992: President Bush met at his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace talks would resume in two weeks in Washington.
  
  

• 1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  

• 1993: President Clinton signed a massive deficit-reduction bill into law.
  
  

• 1994: President Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
  
  

• 1994: Three men were arrested in Germany after undercover police confiscated 13 ounces of plutonium smuggled into the country aboard a flight from Moscow.
  
  

• 1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (they later pleaded innocent).
  
  

• 1995: Michael Fortier, who'd been implicated in the April bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty in a plea-bargain agreement that required him to testify for the prosecution.
  
  

• 1995: Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
  
  

• 1996: Bob Dole completed the Republican ticket by announcing former housing secretary Jack Kemp as his running mate. Cascading power outages hit parts of nine western states.
  
  

• 1996: Cascading power outages hit parts of nine western states.
  
  

• 1997: US envoy Dennis Ross met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an attempt to restart the Mideast peace process.
  
  

• 1998: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a $2 million reward for information leading to the conviction of the terrorists who bombed US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans.
  

• 1999: A gunman opened fire at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, wounding three boys, a teen-age girl and a woman; hours later, a gunman shot and killed letter carrier Joseph Ileto; a suspect, white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, faces charges in both shootings.
  

• 2000: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, defying the United States by being the first head of state to visit Iraq since the Gulf War
  
  

Send Mail to pbower@neo.rr.com

Looking for more quotations?
Past quotes from the Daily Miscellany can be found here!

I hope you are viewing this page with IE

My favorite Browser