Today is: August  27

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

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder Day - Celebrates the birthday of Margaret Hungerford who, in one of her popular novels gave us the saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. She was born in Ireland on this day in 1850. Sponsor: The Dutchess Who Wasn't Day.

Saint Monica Feast Day - The mother of Saint Augustine, she is patron saint of married women and mothers, especially difficult children.

Tarzan's Birthday - In 1912, the first Tarzan story by Edgar Rice Burroughs appeared in a magazine.

Sacrifice Our Wants for Others Needs Sunday - Do just like it says. This day is always celebrated on the Sunday of the last 7 days in August. Part of the Be Kind to Humankind Week. Sponsor: Lorraine Jara.

Born on this Day

• 1545: Duke of Parma, general and diplomat Alessandro Farnese
  
  

• 1562: Composer Hans Leo Hassler
  
  

• 1583: Composer Simon Besler
  
  

• 1630: Dutch flower painter Maria van Oosterwijck
  
  

• 1650: Composer Johann Samuel Welter
  
  

• 1752: Dutch theologist Herman Muntinghe, (History of Mankind)
  
  

• 1770: German philosopher Georg Hegel (dialectic)
  
  

• 1809: Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th Vice President of the U. S. (1861-65)
  
  

• 1847: Flemish theologist and bishop of Bridge, Gustave J Waffelaert
  
  

• 1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo
  
  

• 1865: Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th Vice President of the U. S. (1925-29, Nobel Prize winner in 1925)
  
  

• 1871: Novelist Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
  
  

• 1874: German chemist Karl Bosch (BASF, Nobel Prize winner of 1931)
  
  

• 1877: English auto maker Charles Rolls
  
  

• 1882: Movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn
  
  

• 1884: Actor Harry Antrim, (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway)
  
  

• 1899: Actor Byron Foulger (River's Edge, Up in Smoke)
  
  

• 1899: English historical novelist Cecil Scott Forester (Horatio Hornblower)
  
  

• 1908: Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States
  
  

• 1910: Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa
  
  

• 1927: Cajun-country singer Jimmy C. Newman
  
  

• 1937: Actor Tommy Sands
  
  

• 1937: Bluegrass singer-musician J.D. Crowe
  
  

• 1942: Musician Daryl Dragon (The Captain and Tennille)
  
  

• 1943: Actress Tuesday Weld
  
  

• 1944: Rock singer-musician Tim Bogert
  
  

• 1945: Actress Marianne Sagebrecht
  
  

• 1947: Actress Barbara Bach
  
  

• 1947: Ex-porn star Harry Reems ("Deep Throat")
  
  

• 1949: Country musician Jeff Cook (Alabama)
  
  

• 1952: Actor Paul Reubens
  
  

• 1953: Singer Willy DeVille
  
  

• 1953: Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush)
  
  

• 1955: Actress Diana Scarwid
  
  

• 1962: Writer-producer Dean Devlin ("Independence Day")
  
  

• 1965: Rock musician Mike Johnson (Dinosaur Jr.)
  
  

• 1968: Rap musician Bobo (Cypress Hill)
  
  

• 1970: Rock musician Tony Kanal (No Doubt)
  
  

• 1976: Actress Sarah Chalke ("Roseanne")
  
  

• 1979: Rock musician Jon Siebels (Eve 6)        
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0055 BC: Julius Cësar lands in Britain
  
  

• 0413: Athenian army besieging Syracuse fails to retreat because of an eclipse; later trapped & destroyed
  
  

• 0543: Death of St. Caesarius of Arles
  
  

• 0824: Death of Pope Eugenius II
  
  

• 1172: Marguerite, wife of Henry Plantagenet, "the Young King," crowned Queen of England
  
  

• 1189: King Guy of Jerusalem lays siege to Acre
  
  

• 1270: Death of King Louis IX (St.) of France
  
  

• 1310: Coronation of Charles I, King of Hungary
  
  

• 1521: Josquin des Prez died. Josquins compositions were known all over Europe. Everyone from Rabelais to Martin Luther wrote favorably of him. Almost a hundred motets by Josquin have survived. They show a stronger sense of harmony than is apparent in older music.
  
  

• 1529: Henry VIII, King of England, accedes to the Peace of Cambrai
  
  

• 1549: Defeat of Kett's Rebellion
  
  

• 1576: Death of Tiziano Vecelli, known as "Titian," painter
  
  

• 1587: John White sails for England from Roanoke Island
  
  

• 1590: Death of Pope Sixtus V
  
  

• 1635: Death of Lope de Vega
  
  

• 1648: Death of St. Joseph Calasanz
  
  

• 1650: 1st English expedition to cross the Alleghenies leaves Ft. Henry, Va.
  
  

• 1660: John Milton's books were burned in London because of the author's attacks on King Charles II.
  
  

• 1748: An opera on the story of Pygmalion, composed by Rameau, was premiered in Paris on this date. It's a Greek tale about a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has made of a beautiful young woman. Aphrodite brings the statue to life for him.
  
  

• 1770: The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart.
  
  

• 1789: The French National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
  
  

• 1828: Uruguay was formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks between Brazil and Argentina.
  
  

• 1858: The first cabled news dispatch was sent to - and published by - "The New York Sun" newspaper. The story was about China meeting the peace demands of England and France.
  
  

• 1859: Colonel Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The drilling had reached 69 feet, 6 inches when a dark film floating on the water below the derrick floor was noticed.
  
  

• 1883: The island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. See today's History Focus
  

• 1889: Boxer Jack Dempsey was defeated for the first time in his career as George LaBlanche used the "pivot" punch to knock out Dempsey. The punch was later banned from boxing.
  
  

• 1889: Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, Indiana, received a patent for the metal clarinet.
  
  

• 1892: Fire seriously damaged New York's original Metropolitan Opera House, located at Broadway and 39th Street.
  
  

• 1894: Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  

• 1912: The book "Tarzan of the Apes" was first published by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs.
  
  

• 1921: J.E. Clair, who owned the Acme Packing Company, bought a pro football franchise for Green Bay, Wisconsin. He decided to pay tribute to those who packed the meat at his processing plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers.
  
  

• 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes, was signed by 15 nations in Paris. World War II began scarcely 11 years later.
  
  

• 1938: At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, another poet, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers in order to disrupt the recital. That jealous poet, incidentally, was Robert Frost.
  
  

• 1939: Adolf Hitler served notice on England and France that Germany wanted Danzig and the Polish Corridor.
  
  

• 1945: American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War Two.
  
  

• 1962: The United States launched the "Mariner Two" space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
  
  

• 1967: Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
  
  

• 1972: U.S. warplanes began bombing Haiphong, North Vietnam's major port.
  
  

• 1975: Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at the age of 83 almost a year after he was overthrown in a military coup.
  
  

• 1976: Phillip Bower weds Karen Sosinski !!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  

• 1979: British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Arms
  
  

• 1981: Divers off Massachusetts began work to recover a safe found aboard the remains of the luxury liner Andrea Doria which sank in 1956.
  
  

• 1984: President Ronald Reagan announced that a schoolteacher would be the first "citizen astronaut" to fly aboard the space shuttle. (The eventual choice, Christa McAuliffe, died in the Challenger disaster in January 1986.)
  
  

• 1984: "The Menetta Lane Theater" in Greenwich Village opened. It was the first new off-Broadway theater to be built in 50 years in New York City. The ribbon cutting was done by "America's First Lady of the Stage," Helen Hayes.
  
  

• 1984: A new face joined the group of journalists on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" program. Diane Sawyer became the fifth reporter on the always top-rated TV newsmagazine. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner and Ed Bradley welcomed Sawyer to the show.
  
  

• 1985: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a seven-day mission that included the launch of three satellites, and the retrieval, repair and redeployment of another.
  
  

• 1985: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger canceled the Army's $1.8 billion "Sergeant York" weapon system as ineffective.
  
  

• 1986: President Reagan's chief spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the administration was worried about new terrorists plots by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but refused to say whether there was evidence to back up that concern.
  
  

• 1986: Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros earned career win number 250 by leading the Astros to a 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
  
  

• 1987: A Soviet Foreign Ministry official said his country was studying a proposal by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to dismantle his country's 72 aging "Pershing One-A" missiles if the superpowers destroyed all their intermediate-range weapons.
  
  

• 1988: Tens of thousands of civil rights marchers gathered in Washington DC on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
  
  

• 1989: The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida -- a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite.
  
  

• 1990: 52 Americans reached freedom in Turkey after they were allowed to leave Iraq; three young men originally in the group, however, were detained by the Iraqis. In Washington, the State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.
  
  

• 1991: Warning of impending "catastrophe," Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev threatened to resign unless the Soviet Union's splintering republics could at least preserve a military and economic alliance.
  
  

• 1991: In a split vote, the American Bar Association gave Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas a "qualified" rating.
  
  

• 1991: The Soviet republic of Moldavia declared its independence. The European Community recognized Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent nations.
  
  

• 1992: President Bush ordered federal troops to Florida for emergency relief in the wake of Hurricane "Andrew."
  
  

• 1992: Serbian leaders at the Yugoslav peace conference pledged to close the prisoner-of-war camps, end "ethnic cleansing" and work toward peace.
  
  

• 1992: Canada's Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a law that would have prevented a man from claiming the Nazi Holocaust was a hoax.
  
  

• 1993: The U.N. Security Council suspended a crippling, 2.5-month-old oil embargo and other economic sanctions against Haiti to spur the country's return to democracy. The sanctions were reimposed the following October.
  
  

• 1994: The State Department said the United States and Cuba had agreed to resume talks on Cuban migration with the hope of stemming the flow of refugees headed toward Florida.
  
  

• 1995: American and Chinese officials agreed to begin planning a fall summit between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
  
  

• 1996: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the Democratic convention in Chicago, forcefully making her husband's case for re-election while rebutting her Republican critics.
  
  

• 1996: California Governor Pete Wilson signed an executive order aimed at halting state benefits to illegal immigrants.
  
  

• 1996: Actor Greg Morris ("Mission: Impossible") was found dead at his Las Vegas home; he was 61.
  
  

• 1997: Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was charged with seeking and accepting more than 35-thousand dollars in trips, sports tickets and favors from companies that did business with his agency. (Espy is scheduled to go to trial 10/1/98.)
  
  

• 1997: Israel lifted a month-long blockade of Bethlehem that was imposed after a suicide bombing July 30th that killed 16 people.
  
  

• 1998: Two suspects in the bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya were sent to the United States to face charges that could carry the death penalty.  
  

• 1999: The Federal Communications Commission announced new government wiretapping rules intended to help law enforcement authorities keep pace with advances in phone technology. (However, a federal appeals court later threw out some of the new rules, citing privacy concerns.)
  
  

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