Today is: August  28

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

Saint Augustine of Hippo Feast Day - Patron saint of printers, theologians and brewers.

Dream Day - Celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King's "I-Have-A-Dream" speech made in 1963. Sponsor: Global Committee Commemorating Kingdom Respect Days.

Born on this Day

• 0865: Persian physician Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi]
  
  

• 1476: Japanese painter Motonoboe (Kano-school)
  
  

• 1592: George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
  
  

• 1673: Composer Conrad Michael Schneider
  
  

• 1700: Composer Carolomannus Pachschmidt
  
  

• 1749: German poet, novelist and dramatist, social philosopher Johann von Goethe (Faust)
  
  

• 1774: Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975)
  
  

• 1775: Composer Sophie Gail
  
  

• 1794: Archbishop Johannes Zwijsen, (Utrecht Netherlands)
  
  

• 1795: Belgian Bishop of Roermond Joannes A Paredis
  
  

• 1801: French philosopher and mathematician, Antoine A Cournot (rule of Cournot)
  
  

• 1826: Composer Walter Cecil Macfarren
  
  

• 1827: Composer Teresa Milanollo
  
  

• 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and social reformer whose works emphasize Christian love and the teachings of Jesus.
  
  

• 1829: Composer Albert Dietrich
  
  

• 1831: Composer Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman
  
  

• 1831: Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
  
  

• 1833: Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer Edward Burne-Jones
  
  

• 1840: Ira D. Sankey, Dwight Moody's song evangelist. During their revival crusades (from 1870), Sankey penned many hymn tunes; among the most enduring today are HIDING IN THEE ("O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I") and SANKEY ("Faith is the Victory").
  
  

• 1842: Flemish painter and graphic artist Willem Linnig jr.
  
  

• 1878: U.S. astrophysicist George Hoyt Whipple (Nobel prize winner 1934)
  
  

• 1889: Actor Charles Boyer (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
  
  

• 1899: Actor Charles Boyer (Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale, The Mad Woman of Chaillot, Algiers)
  
  

• 19??: Paul Alan (Nouveaux)
  
  

• 1903: Elizabeth Ann Seton
  
  

• 1903: First U.S psychologist Bruno Bettelheim
  
  

• 1905: Actor Sam Levene ( A Dream of Kings, Three Men on a Horse)
  
  

• 1921: Actress Nancy Kulp (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bob Cummings Show, The Brian Keith Show, The Three Faces of Eve)
  
  

• 1924: Actress Peggy Ryan (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
  
  

• 1925: Actor-dancer Donald O'Connor
  
  

• 1925: Country singer Billy Grammer
  
  

• 1930: Actor Ben Gazzara
  
  

• 1940: Defense Secretary William S. Cohen
  
  

• 1943: Actor David Soul
  
  

• 1943: Baseball manager Lou Piniella
  
  

• 1947: Actress Alice Playten
  
  

• 1951: Singer Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds)
  
  

• 1957: Actor Daniel Stern
  
  

• 1958: Figure skater Scott Hamilton
  
  

• 1960: Actress Emma Samms
  
  

• 1965: Country singer Shania Twain
  
  

• 1969: Actor Jason Priestley (Beverly Hills 90210, Sister Kate, Calendar Girl, Tombstone, The Boy Who Could Fly)
  
  

• 1971: Olympic swimmer Janet Evans
  
  

• 1978: Rock singer-musician Max Collins (Eve 6)
  
  

• 1982: Country singer LeAnn Rimes
  
  

• 1984: Actor Michael Galeota      
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0388: Magnus Maximus, usurping Roman Emperor, executed by Theodosius
  
  

• 0430: Death of St. Augustine of Hippo. The greatest of the Latin church fathers, his City of God was one of the pillars upon which the church of the Middle Ages was built.
  
  

• 0876: Death of King Louis the German
  
  

• 1378: The Ciompi march on the government of Florence, Italy
  
  

• 1413: St. Andrew's University, Scotland, chartered
  
  

• 1448: Francs-Archers, regular French infantry, created
  
  

• 1534: Founding of San Fransisco de Quito, Ecuador
  
  

• 1540: Death of Francesco Mazzola
  
  

• 1565: Pedro Menendez de Aviles arrives at Fort Caroline, which he re-names St. Augustine, Florida
  
  

• 1609: Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
  
  

• 1619: Election of Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
  
  

• 1630: Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts colony holds his first court session
  
  

• 1645: In Poland, King Vladislav IV convened the Conference of Thorn. Through it he sought to bring reunion among the 26 Catholic, 28 Lutheran and 24 Calvinist theologians in attendance. Discussions continued through November, but no satisfying theological fusion was achieved.
  
  

• 1648: Colchester surrenders to Fairfax
  
  

• 1654: Death of Count Axel Oxenstjerna of Sweden
  
  

• 1733: Pergolesi's comic opera "La serva padrona" ("The Maid Mistress") was premiered in Naples. Pergolesi staged a more serious opera the same night, and put the lighter work between the acts of the more somber work. Pergolesi's music would later inspire Stravinsky's "Pulcinella."
  
  

• 1749: German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt.
  
  

• 1774: Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint, was born in New York City.
  
  

• 1811: Poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, eloped with Harriet Westbrook this day.
  
  

• 1830: The passenger-carrying, train locomotive, The Tom Thumb, was demonstrated for the first time at Baltimore, MD. It was the first locomotive of its kind built in America.
  
  

• 1850: Wagner's opera, Lohengrin, was performed for the first time.
  
  

• 1907: Two teens from Seattle, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan, start a local delivery service. They called it the American Messenger Company. Years later, the name was changed to United Parcel Service.
  
  

• 1916: Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War One.
  
  

• 1917: Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.
  
  

• 1922: The first-ever radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City (the ten-minute advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Company, which had paid a fee of 100 dollars).  See today's History Focus
  
  

• 1947: Legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day at age 30.
  
  

• 1953: Campus Crusade for Christ was incorporated in Los Angeles by founder Bill Bright. Today, CCC is an evangelical organization training Christian leaders in over 90 countries around the world.
  
  

• 1959: Bohuslav Martinu died in Switzerland. He was 69 years old and suffering from stomach cancer. Martinu was a prolific Czech composer whose best music is very good. His Double Concerto is an interesting piece for piano and two string orchestras.
  
  

• 1963: 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington DC, where Dr. Martin Luther King Junior delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
  
  

• 1968: The Democratic party nominated Hubert Humphrey for president as thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators battled police in the streets and parks of Chicago.
  
  

• 1973: More than 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
  
  

• 1981: John W. Hinckley Junior pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan (he was later acquitted by reason of insanity).
  
  

• 1984: Former Wall Street Journal reporter R. Foster Winans Jr. and two others were indicted in New York in an alleged stock fraud scheme based on insider trading. (Winans was later convicted of conspiracy and fraud and sentenced to 18 months in prison
  
  

• 1985: About 1,000 people gathered in Augusta, Maine, to attend a memorial service for Samantha Smith, the young peace advocate who had died with her father in a plane crash.
  
  

• 1986: Soviet spy Jerry Whitworth was sentenced in San Francisco to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.
  
  

• 1987: A fire damaged the Arcadia, Florida, home of Ricky, Robert and Randy Ray, three hemophiliac brothers infected with the AIDS virus whose court-ordered school attendance sparked a local uproar. (The Ray family moved to Sarasota.)
  
  

• 1987: Movie director John Huston died in Middletown, Rhode Island, at age 81.
  
  

• 1988: Seventy people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the US Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany, sending flaming debris into the crowd of spectators.
  
  

• 1988: More than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino.
  
  

• 1989: Jim Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial opened in Charlotte, North Carolina, with opening arguments from the prosecution and defense.
  
  

• 1990: Iraq declared Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq, renamed Kuwait City Kadhima and created a new district named after Saddam Hussein.
  
  

• 1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, saying he sympathized with his foreign captives, pledged to free detained women and children.
  
  

• 1990: Twenty seven people were killed and more than 350 injured when a tornado struck Will County, southwest of Chicago.
  
  

• 1990: A fourth and fifth college student victims of an apparent serial killer were found near the University of Florida at Gainesville.
  
  

• 1991: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev ordered a shake-up of the KGB and had his cabinet sacked in the wake of the failed hard-liners' coup attempt.
  
  

• 1991: A New York subway operator was charged with manslaughter after his train derailed, killing 5 people and injuring 133.
  
  

• 1992: The US government mounted two huge relief operations, rushing food and drinking water to hurricane-ravaged Florida while US cargo planes landed in Somalia with tons of food for African famine victims.
  
  

• 1992: Veteran Representative Nicholas Mavroules, D-MA, pleaded innocent to federal charges of racketeering, tax evasion and accepting bribes.
  
  

• 1993: The Bosnian Parliament ordered President Alija Izetbegovic back to talks on ending 17 months of war with demands to squeeze out more territory for the Muslim-led government.
  
  

• 1994: A Drug Enforcement Administration plane crashed in a remote area of Peru's cocaine-producing jungle, killing five U.S. agents.
  
  

• 1995: Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announced a $10 billion deal creating the biggest bank in the nation.
  
  

• 1995: A mortar shell tore through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing 38 people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.
  
  

• 1995: California Gov. Pete Wilson formally entered the GOP presidential race.
  
  

• 1996: Democrats nominated President Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
  
  

• 1996: The troubled 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.
  
  

• 1997: After nearly a year of legal challenges, California's affirmative action ban, Proposition 209, became law.
  
  

• 1997: US troops became more deeply embroiled in a violent power struggle among Bosnian Serbs, firing tear gas and warning shots to fend off rock-hurling Serb mobs.
  
  

• 1998: President Clinton, speaking in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, said he'd become such an expert in asking forgiveness in recent days that it was now "burned in my bones." But he still stopped short of offering a direct apology for the Monica Lewinsky affair.
  

• 1999: Three crewmen aboard the Mir space station returned safely to Earth after bidding farewell to the 13-year-old Russian orbiter. (The Russian government had planned to abandon Mir this year because of a shortage of funds, but has since extended its mission.)
  
  

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