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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.
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)
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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