Today is: August  25

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

007 Day - On the birthday of Sean Connery, the first of the actors in the James Bond movie series, do a little spying of your own. Connery was born in 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.

Gas Mask Day - In 291 B.C. China, poison gas was first used in warfare, hundreds of years before the first gas mask was invented. Sponsor: A Pilgrim's Almanac.

Healthy Lifestyle Day - This day began in Singapore in 1995. On that day more than 30,000 people set a record for the world's largest exercise workout as they celebrated Healthy Lifestyle Day.

Kiss and Make Up Day - This is a day to mend broken relationships. Sponsor: Jay Inc, Rochester, N. Y.

Born on this Day

• 1530: Birth of Ivan IV "the Terrible," Czar of Russia
  
  

• 1664: Leids regent Johan van de Bergh
  
  

• 1718: ComposerJohann Jacob Rowalt
  
  

• 1724: English painter of animals George Stubbs (House Frightened by Lion)
  
  

• 1744: German philosopher, theologist and poet Johann G von Herder
  
  

• 1758: Composer Franz Teyber
  
  

• 1786: [Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria
  
  

• 1819: Allan Pinkerton, founder of the private detective agency See today's History Focus
  
  

• 1823: Major General John Newton (Union volunteers), died in 1895
  
  

• 1836: Author Bret (Francis) Harte (The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar)
  
  

• 1841: Swiss surgeon Theodor Kocher, Thyroid specialist and winner of Nobel Prize in 1909.
  
  

• 1845: Ludwig II, Known as the Mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
  
  

• 1846: French poetess Louise J Gautier
  
  

• 1860: US actor George Fawcett (Intolerance)
  
  

• 1910: Dancer-actress Ruby Keeler
  
  

• 1913: Former US arms control director Eugene V. Rostow
  
  

• 1916: Actor Van Johnson
  
  

• 1917: Actor-producer Mel Ferrer
  
  

• 1919: Former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace
  
  

• 1923: Game show host Monty Hall
  
  

• 1927: Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event)
  
  

• 1930: Actor Sean Connery
  
  

• 1930: Actor Page Johnson
  
  

• 1931: Talk show host Regis Philbin
  
  

• 1933: Actor Tom Skerritt
  
  

• 1933: Jazz musician Wayne Shorter
  
  

• 1936: Movie director Hugh Hudson
  
  

• 1938: Actor David Canary
  
  

• 1939: Movie director John Badham
  
  

• 1941: Filmmaker Marshall Brickman
  
  

• 1942: Rhythm-and-blues singer Walter Williams (The O'Jays)
  
  

• 1944: Actor Anthony Heald
  
  

• 1947: Actress Anne Archer
  
  

• 1949: Rock singer-actor Gene Simmons
  
  

• 1949: Actor John Savage
  
  

• 1949: Country singer-musician Henry Paul (Blackhawk)
  
  

• 1951: Rock singer Rob Halford
  
  

• 1954: Rock singer Eyvis Costello
  
  

• 1958: Movie director Tim Burton
  
  

• 1961: Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus
  
  

• 1961: Actress Ally Walker ("Profiler")
  
  

• 1962: Rock musician Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard)
  
  

• 1964: Actress Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
  
  

• 1964: Actor Blair Underwood
  
  

• 1966: Rap DJ Terminator X (Public Enemy)
  
  

• 1969: Country singer Jo Dee Messina
  

• 1978: Actor Kel Mitchell
         
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0291 B.C. Poison gas was used in warfare by the Chinese.
  
  

• 0383: Gratian, Roman Emperor, slain at Lugdunum
  
  

• 0608: Boniface IV became Pope
  
  

• 0716: Siege of Constantinople begins
  
  

• 1213: Archbishop Langton meets with the Barons and prelates of England and thus sets in motion the Magna Charta
  
  

• 1218: The fleet of the 5th Crusade finally breaks thru to Damietta
  
  

• 1248: King Louis IX of France and the 7th Crusade set out
  
  

• 1282: Death of St. Thomas de Cantilupe
  
  

• 1282: Death of St. Thomas of Hereford
  
  

• 1284: Birth of Edward II, King of England
  
  

• 1330: Death of Douglas, " The Good Sir James," in Spain
  
  

• 1346: Death of John "the Blind", King of Bohemia, at Crecy
  
  

• 1482: Death of Margaret, Queen to Henry VI of England
  
  

• 1537: The Honourable Artillery Company chartered in England
  
  

• 1539: The Abbey of Glastonbury, England dissolved as Catholic institution
  
  

• 1558: Marriage of Francis II, King of France, to Mary, Queen of Scots
  
  

• 1560: Protestantism formally effected in Scotland
  
  

• 1580 :Antonio, claimant to the Portuguese throne, routed by the Spanish
  
  

• 1609: Galileo presents his 30X telescope to the Venetian Senate
  
  

• 1635: Great Colonial Hurricane strikes New England
  
  

• 1718: Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
  
  

• 1814: British forces destroyed the U.S. Library of Congress this day and all of the 3,000 books held there.
  
  

• 1825: Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
  
  

• 1830: An opera inspired a revolt when a Belgian crowd rioted against Dutch rule. They had just finished attending a performance of an opera by Auber about the revolution in Neopolitan times past.
  
  

• 1840: Joseph Gibbons of Albion, Michigan patented the seeding machine.
  
  

• 1870: Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt were married in Lucerne, Switzerland. They had been living together for years and already had children. The marriage took place on the birthday of King Ludwig, the Bavarian monarch who had a crush on Wagner.
  
  

• 1875: Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
  
  

• 1916: The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
  
  

• 1920: The first airplane flight from New York to Alaska arrived in Nome.
  
  

• 1921: The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
  
  

• 1925: Sleeping Car Porters Union founded and organized by A. Phillip Randolph.
  
  

• 1929: Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
  
  

• 1943: US forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War Two.
  
  

• 1944: During World War Two, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
  
  

• 1950: President Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
  
  

• 1964: The Beatles received a gold record for their hit single, A Hard Day's Night. It was the third gold record of the total of 18 they would receive.
  
  

• 1965: The Society for Investigation of Unexplained was founded.
  
  

• 1981: The US spacecraft "Voyager Two" came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet.
  
  

• 1985: Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, was killed with her father in an airliner crash in Maine.
  
  

• 1987: Saudi Arabia denounced Iran's government as a "group of terrorists," and said its forces would deal firmly with any Iranian attempts to attack the Saudis' Muslim holy places or vast oil fields.
  
  

• 1988: In his sharpest attack yet on the Reagan administration's drug policies, Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis criticized US dealings with Panama's military leader, General Manuel Noriega, saying they were "criminal."
  
  

• 1989: Congressman Barney Frank, (D-Massachusetts), acknowledged hiring a male prostitute as a personal employee, then firing him after suspecting the aide was selling sex from Frank's apartment.
  
  

• 1990: The United Nations authorized military action to enforce a trade embargo imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait.
  
  

• 1991: Thousands of abortion foes rallied at a stadium in Wichita, Kansas, where six weeks of anti-abortion protests led by Operation Rescue resulted in more than 2,600 arrests.
  
  

• 1991: The Soviet republic of Byelorussia declared independence.
  
  

• 1991: Norway and Denmark formally recognized the independent Baltic republics.
  
  

• 1991: Carl Lewis ran a world-record 9.86 seconds in the 100-meter dash in Tokyo. That beat the previous record, 9.90, set by Leroy Burrell at the U.S. Championships two months earlier in New York City.
  
  

• 1992: Hurricane "Andrew" thrashed the Louisiana coast.
  
  

• 1992: Researchers reported that cigarette smoking significantly boosts the risk of developing cataracts, a leading cause of blindness.
  
  

• 1992: Right-wing extremists, egged on by Berlin residents, set fire to a hostel for Vietnamese asylum seekers during a third night of violence against foreigners.
  
  

• 1992: President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton appeared separately before the American Legion in Chicago; Bush cited his World War Two military service while Clinton sought to bury the controversy over his Vietnam-era draft status.
  
  

• 1993: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York in connection with a number of terrorists activities, including the bombing of the World Trade Center.
  
  

• 1993: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at an all-time high of 3,652.09.
  
  

• 1993: The United States applied limited sanctions against China and Pakistan after concluding the Chinese had sold missile technology to the Pakistanis.
  
  

• 1993: Amy Biehl, a Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, California, was slain by a mob in South Africa.
  
  

• 1994: The Senate passed a $30 billion crime bill, 61-38, handing a major victory to President Clinton, who praised what he called a bipartisan spirit among both Democrats and Republicans.
  
  

• 1995: Chinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu, safely back on U.S. soil after two months in Chinese detention, said the spying case against him was "all lies" and vowed to seek compensation from China.
  
  

• 1995: Senator Bob Packwood, R-Oregon, reversed his position and called for public hearings in the sexual harassment allegations against him.
  
  

• 1996: President Clinton began a whistlestop train trip in Huntington, West Virginia, that would take him to the Democratic national convention in Chicago.
  
  

• 1997: The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
  
  

• 1997: Dow Corning Corporation offered $2.4 billion to settle claims from more than 200,000 women with illnesses related to silicone breast implants.
  
  

• 1998: Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died in Richmond, Virginia, at age 90.
  

• 1999: The FBI, reversing itself after six years, admitted that its agents might have fired some potentially flammable tear gas canisters on the final day of the 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, but said it continued to believe law enforcement agents did not start the fire which engulfed the cult's compound.
  
  

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