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Saint Fiacre Feast Day - A gardener himself, he is patron saint of gardeners; also
patron saint of cab drivers and hosiers.
Saint Rose of Lima Feast Day - The first saint of the Western Hemisphere is patron saint
of the Americas. Because of her name she is also the patron saint of florists and
gardeners. She is also patron saint of Peru, the Philippines, and India.
International Red Phone Day - The hot line telephone was installed between Russia and the
U.S. on this day in 1963. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
0580: Arabic prophet Mohammed founder (Islam)
1334: Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon
1609: Flemish sculptor Artus I Quellinus "the Old"
1687: Composer Francesco Maria Vallara
1632: The creator of "Frankenstein," Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.
1693: Dutch composer and organist Jacobus Nozeman
1748: Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David(Death of Marat)
1767: Composer Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke
1820: George F. Root, American sacred music editor and composer. Root
helped edit 75 musical collections, as well as composing several hundred original sacred
melodies. One of these, JEWELS, is the tune to which is commonly sung the hymn, "When
He Cometh."
1870: Educator Maria Montessori.
1896: Character actor Raymond Massey was born in London, England. (The
President's Plane is Missing, McKenna's Gold, How the West was Won. The Great Impostor,
Battle Cry, The Naked and the Dead, East of Eden, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Dr.Kildare)
19??: Jenny Gullen (Hoi Polloi)
1901: Civil rights leader Roy Wilkins (Executive Director of NAACP)
1901: Journalist-author John Gunther
1907: Actress Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford) (Come Back Little Sheba,
Hot Spell, The Matchmaker; Emmy Award-winner [1962]: Hazel; A Touch of Grace)
1908: Actor Fred MacMurray My Three Sons, The Caine Mutiny, Egg and I,
Above Suspicion, The Apartment, The Happiest Millionaire, The Shaggy Dog, The
Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber,The Miracle of the Bells)
1912: Actress Joan Blondell (The Baron, The Champ, A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn, Public Enemy)
1918: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams
1919: Country singer Kitty Wells
1922: Opera singer Regina Resnik
1928: Actor Bill Daily
1935: Singer John Phillips
1939: Actress Elizabeth Ashley
1941: Actor Ben Jones ("The Dukes of Hazzard")
1943: Cartoonist Robert Crumb
1943: Skier Jean-Claude Killy
1947: Actress Peggy Lipton
1951: Actor Timothy Bottoms
1954: Actor David Paymer
1963: Actor Michael Chiklis ("The Commish")
1966: Actress Michael Michele
1971: Country singer Sherrie Austin
1972: Actress Cameron Diaz
1973: TV personality Lisa Ling ("The View")
1980: Rock singer-musician Aaron Barrett (Reel Big Fish)
1987: Actor Cameron Finley
30 B.C. (on August 30th, by some estimates), the seventh
and most famous queen of ancient Egypt known as "Cleopatra" committed suicide.
0070: 2nd Temple in Jerusalem is set aflame (approximate)
0257: Election of Sixtus III as Pope
0410: Death of St. Pammachius
0526: Death of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths
0670: Death of St. Fiacre of Ireland
1125: Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of
Germany
1146: European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending
war for all time
1181: Death of Pope Alexander III
1462: Election of Paul II as Pope
1464: Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul
II)
1481: 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish
king Kazimierz IV
1483: Death of Louis XI, King of France
1540: Death of Guillaume Bude
1563: Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1617: Canonization of St. Rosa de Lima (Peru), first
American Saint
1637: 1st Congregational Church synod held, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
1637: Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts, and
banished. See today's History Focus
1645: Treaty of peace between Dutch & Indians.
1835: Felix Mendelssohn took his post as music director of
Leipzig. He was then 26. It was in Leipzig that the composer produced his Second Piano
Concerto and started work on the Violin Concerto.
1856: Wilberforce University was established in Xenia,
Ohio under auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1863, the university was
transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
1682: William Penn sailed from England on this day. He
later established the colony of Pennsylvania
1862: The Union Army commanded by Maj. Gen. John Pope was
defeated by Confederate troops in the second Battle of Bull Run.
1905: Ty Cobb appeared in his first major-league baseball
game. He played for the Detroit Tigers.
1922: The New Orleans Rhythm Kings recorded "Tiger
Rag", one of the most familiar ragtime jazz tunes ever. It was released on General
Records.
1941: The World War Two siege of Leningrad began as Nazi
forces took Mga. It was the start of a 900-day siege of Leningrad. When it ended, the
Russian city lay in ruins and hundreds of thousands of people had died.
1945: General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan, and set
up Allied occupation headquarters.
1963: The "Hot Line" communications link between
Washington and Moscow went into operation.
1965: After 40 years in baseball, Casey Stengel announced
his retirement.
1967: The US Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood
Marshall as the first black justice on the US Supreme Court.
1979: Hurricane "David" devastated the tiny
Caribbean island of Dominica as it began a rampage through the Caribbean and up the
eastern US seaboard that claimed some 1,100 lives.
1982: PLO leader Yasir Arafat bid an emotional farewell to
Beirut and left for Greece. Carrying a large olive branch, Arafat began his last day in
Beirut with a farewell courtesy call on the headquarters of the People's Socialist Party.
1983: Guion S. Bluford Junior became the first black
American astronaut to travel in space, blasting off aboard the "Challenger."
1984: President Ronald Reagan, along with Red Barber, Bill
Stern, Graham McNamee, Don Dunphy and Ted Husing were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall
of Fame, in ceremonies at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1984: Following 3 postponements over 2 months, the space
shuttle Discovery finally blasted off on its maiden voyage, deploying the first of 3
communications satellites from its cargo bay after several hours in orbit.
1985: Residents of Florida and Louisiana continued to
prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Elena, which was packing winds of 100 mph as it
approached the Gulf Coast.
1986: Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, the
Moscow correspondent for "US News and World Report," after he was handed a
package by a Russian acquaintance. (He was later released.)
1986: Franco Zefferelli's movie, "Otello," a
presentation of Verdi's opera, was itself first presented at the Vienna Opera.
1987: A redesigned.space shuttle booster, created in the
wake of the "Challenger" disaster, roared into life in its first full-scale
test-firing near Brigham City, Utah.
1988: Top aides to Republican presidential nominee George
Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis met in Washington without reaching agreement on a
schedule for debates in the fall.
1989: A federal jury in New York found so-called hotel
queen Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion. Helmsley served her sentence at a
federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, and was released in January 1994.
1990: U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar
arrived in Jordan to try to mediate the Persian Gulf crisis. President Bush told a news
conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Gulf crisis.
1991: Azerbaijan declared its independence, joining the
stampede of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.
1992: The television series "Northern Exposure"
won six Emmy Awards, including best drama series, while "Murphy Brown" received
three Emmys, including best comedy series, in a ceremony marked by satirical jabs directed
at Vice President Dan Quayle.
1992: 15 or more people were killed and 31 wounded when an
artillery shell exploded in a crowded Sarajevo market.
1993: Israel's Cabinet approved a framework for
Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories.
1993: Robert Malval was installed as prime minister of
Haiti during a ceremony at the Haitian Embassy in Washington.
1993: "The Late Show with David Letterman"
premiered on CBS TV.
1994: Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a
Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955 helped touch off the civil rights movement, was robbed
and beaten in her Detroit apartment by Joseph Skipper.(Joseph Skipper later pleaded guilty
to assault and robbery and was sentenced to prison.)
1994: The Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed
to a merger that would create the largest U.S. defense contractor.
1995: The West pounded the Bosnian Serbs with artillery
and air attacks in hopes of bludgeoning them into serious peace talks.
1995: At a lavish opening ceremony in Beijing, organizers
of the largest women's conference ever vowed to fight to fight for empowerment and
equality.
1996: President Clinton and Vice President Gore, following
their renominations at the just-concluded Democratic national convention in Chicago, set
out with their wives on a bus caravan through America's heartland.
1996: A commercial expedition to raise part of the sunken
British luxury liner "Titanic" ended in failure. Nylon lines being used to lift
a 21-ton section of the hull snapped, sending the section back to the bottom of the North
Atlantic.
1997: Philip Noel Johnson, an armored car driver believed
to have stolen $22 million, was arrested at the Texas border. Johnson later pleaded guilty
to charges of kidnapping, money laundering and interfering with interstate commerce.
1997: Americans (and others in the Western Hemisphere)
learned of the deaths of Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver,
Henri Paul, in a car crash in a Paris traffic tunnel. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones
survived. (Because of the time difference, it was the morning of August 31st in Paris when
Diana was pronounced dead.)
1998: The largest union of U S West, the regional telphone
service, ended a 15-day strike with a tentative agreement on a three-year contract.
1999: Residents of East Timor voted for independence from
Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot. (Afterward, pro-Indonesia militiamen reacted by
going on a violent rampage that ended when international forces were sent in.)
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