Today is: August  29

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

According to Hoyle Day - Edmond Hoyle's "Short Treatise" on the game of Whist was published on this day in 1742.

More Herbs, Less Salt Day - For better health, cut down on salt and flavor with herbs. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.

Pretty Woman Day - On this day in 1964, Roy Orbison released the recording of the song "Pretty Woman."

Born on this Day

• 1387: Henry V, king of England (1413-22) and France (1416-19)
  
  

• 1434: Hungarian poet and translator Janus Pannonius
  
  

• 1476: Kano Motonobu co-founder (Kano school of painting)
  
  

• 1561: German mathematician Bartholomeus Pitiscus (Trigonometry)
  
  

• 1609: Italian painter Sassoferrato (Madonna)
  
  

• 1619: French minister of Naval Jean-Baptiste Colbert
  
  

• 1632: John Locke See today's History Focus He emphasized Reason over the supernatural, and argued that the essence of Christianity is the acknowledgement of Christ as Messiah, who was sent to our world primarily to spread the true knowledge of God.
  
  

• 1792: Charles G. Finney, American revivalist and educator. Originally trained in law, he was converted to Christian faith at age 29, conducted revival services for eight years and, from 1835 until his death, maintained a close affiliation with Oberlin College in Ohio.
  
  

• 1809: Oliver Wendell Holmes
  
  

• 1811: Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  
  

• 1876: Automotive inventor Charles Kettering
  
  

• 19??: Tim Riley (Gold City)
  
  

• 1912: Actor Barry Sullivan (Patrick Barry) (The Bad and the Beautiful, The Road West, Oh, God!, Earthquake, The Bastard)
  
  

• 1915: Actress Ingrid Bergman
  
  

• 1916: Actor George Montgomery
  
  

• 1920: Musician Charlie (Charles Christoper) Parker, Jr. ('The Bird': saxophone: Now's the Time, Yardbird Suite Confirmation, Relaxin' at Camarillo)
  
  

• 1920: Actor Charles White
  
  

• 1921: Auto racer Wendell Scott.
  
  

• 1923: Actor-director Sir Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape; director: Chaplin, Ghandi, A Bridge Too Far)
  
  

• 1924: Singer Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones) ( What A Diff'rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You, Our Love is Here to Stay, For All We Know, Baby Get Lost)
  
  

• 1938: Actor Elliott Gould
  
  

• 1939: Movie director William Friedkin (The French Connection [1971], The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band)
  
  

• 1941: TV personality Robin Leach
  
  

• 1953: Actress Deborah Van Valkenburgh
  
  

• 1958: Singer Michael Jackson
  
  

• 1962: Actress Rebecca De Mornay
  
  

• 1966: Country musician Dan Truman (Diamond Rio)
  
  

• 1969: Singer Me'Shell NdegeOcello
  
  

• 1970: Rhythm-and-blues singer Carl Martin (Shai)
  
  

• 1971: Actress Carla Gugino
  
  

• 1982: Rapper A+       
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0030: Beheading of St. John, the Baptist (Tradition)
  
  

• 0070: Romans burn the gates and enter the Temple courtyards of Jerusalem. The temple is destroyed by fire. Within a month, Jewish resistance ends.
  
  

• 0284: Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
  
  

• 0284: Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
  
  

• 1178: Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
  
  

• 1179: Castle Chastelet falls to Saladin
  
  

• 1261: Election of Pope Urban IV
  
  

• 1475: England again invades France
  
  

• 1475: Treaty of Picquigny
  
  

• 1484: Election of Pope Innocent VIII
  
  

• 1512: Return of the Medici to Florence
  
  

• 1512: Capture of Prato by the Spanish
  
  

• 1526: The defeat of Hungarian army by Ottoman Turks; death of Lajos II, King of Hungary
  
  

• 1533: Atahualpa, last of the Inca rulers, was strangled under orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca empire died with him.
  
  

• 1645: Death of Grotius
  
  

• 1661: Death of Louis Couperin, French Baroque composer.
  
  

• 1828: This day, Robert Turner of Ward, MA, received a patent for his self-regulating, wagon brake.
  
  

• 1833: The Factory Act was passed in England. It was legislation to settle child labor laws.
  
  

• 1852: The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice.
  
  

• 1859: Giuseppina married Giuseppe when a singer named Giuseppina Strepponi became Verdi's wife, after ten years of living with the composer.
  
  

• 1867: The Social Brethren were officially organized in Illinois. Today, there are about 1,000 total members of this small, evangelistic denomination, with most churches located in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Church doctrine is a blend of Methodist and Baptist polity.
  
  

• 1877: The second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  
  

• 1885: The first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, Ohio. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
  
  

• 1896: The Chinese-American dish chop suey was invented in New York City by the chef to visiting Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang.
  
  

• 1908: Death of Lewis H. Redner, 78, American Episcopal organist. Maintaining a keen interest in music all his life, Redner composed ST. LOUIS, the tune to which today is most commonly sung Phillips Brooks' Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
  
  

• 1914: 'Arizonan' is the 1st vessel to arrive in SF via the Panama Canal.
  
  

• 1917: Death of Ernest W. Shurtleff, 55, American Congregational clergyman and author of the hymn, "Lead On, O King Eternal." Shurtleff died during World War I, while doing relief work along with his wife.
  
  

• 1943: Responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark managed to scuttle most of its naval ships.
  
  

• 1944: 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
  
  

• 1952: Today is the anniversary of one of classical music's most unusual and influential compositions. An audience in Woodstock, New York, heard (if that is what you call it) a composition by John Cage called "Four Minutes and Thirty-three Seconds" (4'33").
  
  

• 1954: San Francisco International Airport opens.
  
  

• 1957: South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
  
  

• 1957: Igor Stravinsky began composing "Threni." "Threni" was inspired by the lamentations of Jeremiah. But Stravinsky began making notes for it while sitting at a piano in a nightclub in Venice.
  
  

• 1965: "Gemini Five," carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
  
  

• 1966: The Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
  
  

• 1973: Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.
  
  

• 1975: Irish statesman Eamon de Valera died near Dublin at age 92.
  
  

• 1981: Broadcaster and world traveler Lowell Thomas died in Pawling, New York, at age 89.
  
  

• 1984: Edwin Moses won the 400-meter hurdles in track competition in Europe. It was the track star's 108th consecutive victory.
  
  

• 1985: Elena was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane as it swept toward the Gulf Coast, prompting more than 125,000 people from Florida to Louisiana to flee.
  
  

• 1986: The former "American Bandstand" studio at the original home of WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, PA, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The studio is located at 4548 Market Street.
  
  

• 1986: The Commerce Department reported America's foreign trade deficit had soared to $18 billion the month before, with imports twice as large as exports for the first time ever.
  
  

• 1987: Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Arizona, at age 63.
  
  

• 1988: On the presidential campaign trail, Democrat Michael Dukakis sought to counter Republican George Bush's salvos against the Massachusetts prison furlough program, while Bush continued to charge that Dukakis was soft on defense.
  
  

• 1989: 7 bombs blamed by police on drug traffickers exploded in Medillin and Bogota, Columbia.
  
  

• 1990: A defiant Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared in a television interview that America could not defeat Iraq, saying, "I do not beg before anyone."
  
  

• 1991: In a stunning blow to the Soviet Communist Party, the Supreme Soviet legislature voted to suspend the activities of the organization and freeze its bank accounts because of the party's role in the failed coup.
  
  

• 1991: In Kiev, the republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to remain in the Soviet Union and negotiate a loose federation.
  
  

• 1992: The UN Security Council agreed to send three-thousand more relief troops to Somalia to guard food shipments.
  
  

• 1992: About 13,000 people staged an anti-extremist rally in Rostock, Germany, even as right-wingers continued attacks on foreigners.
  
  

• 1992: The FBI reported the number of violent crimes increased five percent in 1991; people under 25 accounted for nearly half of those arrested.
  
  

• 1993: Negotiations continued between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with Israel reported on the verge of recognizing the PLO.
  
  

• 1994: Bosnian Serb officials announced the results of a weekend referendum in which Bosnian Serbs overwhelmingly rejected what was billed as a last-chance peace plan.
  
  

• 1994: Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a new agreement to shift West Bank administrative functions to the Palestinian National Authority.
  
  

• 1995: Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze survived an assassination attempt when a car exploded near his motorcade in Tbilisi, the capital.
  
  

• 1995: At the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles, without the jury present, tape recordings of police detective Mark Fuhrman were played in which Fuhrman could be heard spouting racial invectives.
  
  

• 1996: A rousing climax to the Democratic convention in Chicago, President Clinton appealed for a second term, declaring, "Hope is back in America." The convention also nominated Al Gore for a second term as vice president.
  
  

• 1996: President Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
  
  

• 1997: Hooded men killed more than 300 people in an Algerian farm village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency began.
  
  

• 1997: Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the country's Education Ministry broke the law by removing mention of a Japanese World War Two atrocity from historian Saburo Ienaga's high school textbook.
  
  

• 1998: A Cuban airliner crashed during takeoff from Quito's international airport in Ecuador, killing 80 people. Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company offer.
  

• 1999: Hurricane Dennis wallowed along the coast toward the Carolinas, prompting evacuation orders for the fragile Outer Banks barrier islands.
  
  

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