August
August is American Art Appreciation Month
August is Pain Awareness Month
August 1
National Mustard Day
-19 BC: Claudius I, was born.
-1498: Italian explorer Christopher Columbus set foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela.
-1744: French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, known for his theory of evolution, was born.
-1770: Explorer William Clark was born.
-1779: Francis Scott Key, Lawyer/poet, was born. After witnessing the British attack on Fort
Henry, Baltimore, in 1814, he wrote a set of verses describing the event that eventually became "The Star Spangled Banner."
-1790: The first U.S. census showed a population of 3,929,214 people in 17 states.
-1815: Lawyer and writer Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of "Two Years Before the Mast," was born.
-1819: Author Herman Melville was born.
-1907: An Aeronautical Division was added to the Army Signals Corps, and this forerunner of the U.S. Air Force bought its first airplane. The aircraft was built by the Wright brothers.
-1922: Actors Arthur Hill was born.
-1930: Geoffrey Holder was born.
-1933: Comic actor Dom DeLuise was born.
-1936: French fashion designer Yves St. Laurent was born.
-1942: Jerry Garcia, co-founder of the Grateful Dead rock group, was born.
-1977: Francis Gary Powers, pilot of a U-2 pilot spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, was killed when his weather helicopter crashed in Los Angeles.
-1973: Actress Tempestt Bledsoe was born.
-1981: MTV premiered at 12:01 a.m. (ET). The first video aired was the Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star.
-1988: The city council of Yonkers, N.Y., rejected a court-ordered housing integration plan, risking heavy fines and municipal bankruptcy.
-1990: Moslem rebels surrendered in Trinidad and Tobago, five days after launching a coup and taking Prime Minister Arthur Robinson and dozens of others hostage.
-1993: The Mississippi River finally crested in St. Louis at 49.4 feet, 2.5 feet below the top of the floodwall protecting the central part of the city.
-1994: Lisa Marie Presley confirmed rumors that she had married pop star Michael Jackson May 26 in the Dominican Republic. The couple divorced less than two years later. Haiti declared a state of siege following passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing an invasion of the Caribbean nation.
-1995: Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced it was buying CBS, one day after Disney announced its purchase of Capital Cities/ABC.
-1996: Two Arkansas bankers prosecuted by the Whitewater special counsel were acquitted on fraud and conspiracy charges while the jury deadlocked on others.
August 2
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
-1892: Jack Warner of the famed Hollywood Warner Brothers was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He was the youngest of twelve children, born to Polish immigrants, and when his peddler father finally settled, young Jack entertained audiences during intermissions at his fami-
ly's nickelodeon in Pennsylvania. In 1912 Jack and three of his brothers began producing films.
-1905: Actress Myrna Loy was born.
-1918: Beatrice Straight wa born.
-1923: President Warren G. Harding, on a tour of Alaska and the West Coast, died of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel at the age of 58 as rumors of a potential corruption scandal swirled in Washington.
-1924: Author James Baldwin and actor Carroll O'Connor were born. Carroll O'Connor, actor, was made famous by his roles as Archie Bunker in "All In the Family" and as sheriff in "In the Heat of the Night."
-1932: Actor Peter O'Toole was born.
-1934: With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler became absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Fuehrer, or "Leader.
-1939: Filmmaker Wes Craven was born.
-1944: Joanna Cassidy was born.
-1950: Kathryn Harrold was born.
-1968: A major earthquake in the Philippines rocked Manila, killing 307 people.
-1974: John Dean, counsel to President Nixon, was sentenced to one-to-four years in prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up.
-1977: Edward Furlong was born.
-1988: U.S. military investigators concluded that crew errors led to the shooting down on July 3 of an Iranian passenger jet by the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf.
-1990: Iraq invaded and overran neighboring Kuwait after weeks of tension over disputed land and oil production quotas
-2000: The Republican Party nominated George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to head its ticket for the Nov. 2000 elections.
August 3
1941: Martha Stewart, lifestyle guru and businesswoman, was born.
August 5
National Sandcastle Day: When a Dragon Moves In: storylineonline.net/books/when-a-dragon-moves-in/
-1861: President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first federal income tax. As a wartime measure, all incomes over $800 were to be taxed at the rate of three percent. It was rescinded in 1872.
-1889: Poet and critic Conrad Aiken was born.
-1906: Film director John Huston was born.
-1911: Actor Robert Taylor was born.
-1912: Swedish architect Raoul Wallenberg, who's credited with saving 100,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, was born.
-1915: Legendary guitarist Les Paul was born.
-1930: Astronaut Neil Armstrong was born.
-1935: Actor John Saxon was born.
-1946: Actress Loni Anderson was born.
-1953: Singer Samantha Sang was born.
-1957: Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" began airing nationally.
-1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose of barbiturates.
-1963: The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty outlawing nuclear tests in the Earth's atmosphere, in space or under the sea.
-1974: President Nixon admitted ordering the Watergate investigation halted six days after the break- in. Nixon said he expected to be impeached.
-1981: President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for months.
-1990: The United States sent a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia's capital, to evacuate U.S. citizens because of a rebel threat to arrest Americans to order to provoke foreign intervention in the civil war.
-1991: The Democrats ordered inquiries into allegations that Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign team delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran until after the election. Iraq admitted it misled U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons and also admitted extracting plutonium from fuel at a nuclear plant.
-1994: Opponents of Fidel Castro clashed with police in Havana as thousands of Cubans took to the high seas trying to reach the United States. U.S. fighter-jets acting under NATO orders attacked Bosnian Serb positions after the Serbs seized weapons from a U.N depot. The weapons were returned. Kenneth Starr, solicitor general under President Bush, was named as independent prosecutor investigating the Whitewater scandal.
-1997: North Korea opened talks with the United States, China and South Korea aimed at negotiating a permanent treaty to replace the armistice agreed to after the Korean War.
-1998: Iraq announced it would no longer cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors and demanded the lifting of the U.N. sanctions imposed in 1991.
-1999: The Senate confirmed Richard C. Holbrooke as ambassador to the U.N. Holbrooke’s confirmation had been held up for 14 months because of ethics allegations against him.
-1966: Actor Jonathan Silverman was born.
August 7
National Twin Day
August 9
-1968: Gillian Anderson, actress was born.
August 10
Worlds Lion Day
-1874: Herbert Hoover, thirty-first U. S. president, was born in West Branch, Iowa. He died in 1964.
August 11
-1953: Terry ""Hulk"" Hogan was born. Professional wrestler; five-time World Wrestling Federation champion famous for his ""Hulkamaniac"" fan following.
August 12
- 1898: The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
August 13
- International Left-Handers Day
- 1961: Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later, work began on the Berlin Wall.
August 14
National Monster Day
World Lizard Day
- 1945: President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.
August 15
National Honeybee Day
August 16
National Tell a Joke Day
August 18
-1963: James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
August 19
National Aviation Day
National Financial Awareness Day
August 21
National Senior Citizens Day
August 23
-1785: American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry was born.
-1869: Poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters was born.
-1883: Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan in World War II was born.
-1884: Humorist Will Cuppy was born.
-1905: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller (creator of "Nancy") was born.
-1912: Dancer/actor Gene Kelly was born.
-1930: Actress Vera Miles was born.
-1932: Political comedian Mark Russell was born.
-1934: Actress Barbara Eden was born.
-1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact. Less than two years later, Germany launched a blitzkrieg attack on Russia.
-1947: Rock drummer Keith Moon of "The Who" was born.
-1949: Actress Shelley Long and singer/actor Rick Springfield ("General Hospital") were born.
-1978: Basketball player Kobe Bryant was born.
-1982: Beirut Christian leader Beshir Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was assassinated less than one month later and was succeeded by his brother, Amin.
-1991: Russian Republic president Boris Yeltsin pressured Soviet President Gorbachev into replacing his cabinet in the wake of a failed coup.
-1992: Three people were killed when their truck was struck at a railroad crossing by an Amtrak passenger train in Wallingford, Conn.
-1996: Tobacco regulation, recommended by the FDA, was approved by President Clinton.
-1998: Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his reformist premier, Sergei Kiriyenko and brought back Viktor Chernomyrdin as acting premier.
- 1999: Berlin once again became the capital of Germany.
August 26
International Dog Day
Women's Equality Day
-1971: The U.S. Congress designated "Women's Equality Day" to honor women's continuing efforts toward equality.
August 28
-1749: German poet, novelist and dramatist Johann von Goethe was born.
-1774: Elizabeth Ann Seton, first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was born.
-1899: Actor Charles Boyer was born.
-1903: Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim was born.
-1922: A New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF.
-1925: Actor/dancer Donald O'Connor was born.
-1930: Actor Ben Gazzara was born.
-1932: Actor "Pat" Morita was born.
-1940: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen was born.
-1943: Singer/actor David Soul was born.
1957: Actor Daniel Stern was born.
-1958: Ice skater Scott Hamilton was born.
-1960: Actor Emma Samms ("Dynasty") was born.
-1963: More than 200,000 civil rights protesters led by Martin Luther King Jr. staged an orderly "Freedom March" in Washington, DC
-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.
-1969: Jason Priestley ("Beverly Hills 90210") was born.
-1965: Country singer Shania Twain was born.
1982: LeAnn Rimes was born.
-1986: Soviet spy Jerry Whitworth was sentenced in San Francisco to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.
-1988: More than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino.
-1990: At least 27 people were killed and more than 350 injured when a tornado struck Will County, Ill., southwest of Chicago. A fourth and fifth college student victims of an apparent serial killer were found near the University of Florida at Gainesville.
-1992: Federal relief got under way for the South Florida victims of Hurricane Andrew with the arrival of the first giant C-5A military transport at devastated Homestead Air Force Base.
-1994: A supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was shot to death in Port-au-Prince.
-1996: President Clinton was renominated as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.
-1997: Proposition 209, California's controversial anti-affirmative action measure approved by the state's voters a year earlier, officially took effect.
August 29
-1533: The last Incan king of Peru, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
-1632: English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset.
-1877: The second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-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.
-1957: South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking for more than 24 hours.
-1965: Gemini 5, 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.
-1975: Irish statesman Eamon de Valera died near Dublin at age 92.
-1981: Broadcaster and world traveler Lowell Thomas died in Pawling at age 89.
-1987: Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz, at age 63.
-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.
-1996: In 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. Earlier in the day, President Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
-2000: President Clinton ended a four-day trip t Africa with a brief visit to Cairo, where he sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak in pursuing a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Pope John Paul II laid down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century, endorsing organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning human cloning and embryo experiments.
August 30
National Beach Day
August 31
National Eat Outside Day
-1870: Italian educator Maria Montessori was born.
-1887: Thomas Edison was awarded a patent for the first movie projector.
-1897: Actor Fredric March was born.
-1903: Entertainer Arthur Godfrey was born. A Packard automobile completed a 52-day journey from San Francisco to New York, becoming the first car to cross the nation under its own power.
-1908: Writer William Saroyan was born.
-1913: Astronomer Sir Alfred Lovell was born.
-1916: Journalist Daniel Schorr was born.
-1918: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner was born.
-1924: Comedian Buddy Hackett was born.
-1928: Actor James Coburn was born.
-1935: Baseball player/manager Frank Robinson, first black to manage a major league team, and black militant Eldridge Cleaver, were born.
-1945: Violinist Itzhak Perlman and rock singer Van Morrison, were born.
-1949: Actor Richard Gere was born.
-1955: Olympian track athlete Edwin Moses was born.
-1970: Singer/actress Debbie Gibson was born.
-1991: The Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Kirghizia declared independence, leaving only five republics with membership in the Soviet Union. Serbia accepted a European Community proposal that included international observers to oversee a cease-fire in Croatia.
-1992: White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered, ending an 11-day siege of his Idaho mountain cabin that cost the lives of his wife, teenage son, and a U.S. marshal.
-1993: The Israeli government agreed in principle a plan for interim Palestinian self-rule of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.
-1994: The Irish Republican Army declared a cease-fire following six months of secret talks with Britain.
-1997: Britain's Princess Diana died of her injuries a few hours after a car accident in Paris that killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their driver. A bodyguard survived, although he was seriously injured.
-1999: One person was killed and 40 more injured in a bomb blast at a Moscow shopping center. The Russian government blamed terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
August is Pain Awareness Month
August 1
National Mustard Day
-19 BC: Claudius I, was born.
-1498: Italian explorer Christopher Columbus set foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela.
-1744: French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, known for his theory of evolution, was born.
-1770: Explorer William Clark was born.
-1779: Francis Scott Key, Lawyer/poet, was born. After witnessing the British attack on Fort
Henry, Baltimore, in 1814, he wrote a set of verses describing the event that eventually became "The Star Spangled Banner."
-1790: The first U.S. census showed a population of 3,929,214 people in 17 states.
-1815: Lawyer and writer Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of "Two Years Before the Mast," was born.
-1819: Author Herman Melville was born.
-1907: An Aeronautical Division was added to the Army Signals Corps, and this forerunner of the U.S. Air Force bought its first airplane. The aircraft was built by the Wright brothers.
-1922: Actors Arthur Hill was born.
-1930: Geoffrey Holder was born.
-1933: Comic actor Dom DeLuise was born.
-1936: French fashion designer Yves St. Laurent was born.
-1942: Jerry Garcia, co-founder of the Grateful Dead rock group, was born.
-1977: Francis Gary Powers, pilot of a U-2 pilot spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, was killed when his weather helicopter crashed in Los Angeles.
-1973: Actress Tempestt Bledsoe was born.
-1981: MTV premiered at 12:01 a.m. (ET). The first video aired was the Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star.
-1988: The city council of Yonkers, N.Y., rejected a court-ordered housing integration plan, risking heavy fines and municipal bankruptcy.
-1990: Moslem rebels surrendered in Trinidad and Tobago, five days after launching a coup and taking Prime Minister Arthur Robinson and dozens of others hostage.
-1993: The Mississippi River finally crested in St. Louis at 49.4 feet, 2.5 feet below the top of the floodwall protecting the central part of the city.
-1994: Lisa Marie Presley confirmed rumors that she had married pop star Michael Jackson May 26 in the Dominican Republic. The couple divorced less than two years later. Haiti declared a state of siege following passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing an invasion of the Caribbean nation.
-1995: Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced it was buying CBS, one day after Disney announced its purchase of Capital Cities/ABC.
-1996: Two Arkansas bankers prosecuted by the Whitewater special counsel were acquitted on fraud and conspiracy charges while the jury deadlocked on others.
August 2
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
-1892: Jack Warner of the famed Hollywood Warner Brothers was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He was the youngest of twelve children, born to Polish immigrants, and when his peddler father finally settled, young Jack entertained audiences during intermissions at his fami-
ly's nickelodeon in Pennsylvania. In 1912 Jack and three of his brothers began producing films.
-1905: Actress Myrna Loy was born.
-1918: Beatrice Straight wa born.
-1923: President Warren G. Harding, on a tour of Alaska and the West Coast, died of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel at the age of 58 as rumors of a potential corruption scandal swirled in Washington.
-1924: Author James Baldwin and actor Carroll O'Connor were born. Carroll O'Connor, actor, was made famous by his roles as Archie Bunker in "All In the Family" and as sheriff in "In the Heat of the Night."
-1932: Actor Peter O'Toole was born.
-1934: With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler became absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Fuehrer, or "Leader.
-1939: Filmmaker Wes Craven was born.
-1944: Joanna Cassidy was born.
-1950: Kathryn Harrold was born.
-1968: A major earthquake in the Philippines rocked Manila, killing 307 people.
-1974: John Dean, counsel to President Nixon, was sentenced to one-to-four years in prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up.
-1977: Edward Furlong was born.
-1988: U.S. military investigators concluded that crew errors led to the shooting down on July 3 of an Iranian passenger jet by the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf.
-1990: Iraq invaded and overran neighboring Kuwait after weeks of tension over disputed land and oil production quotas
-2000: The Republican Party nominated George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to head its ticket for the Nov. 2000 elections.
August 3
1941: Martha Stewart, lifestyle guru and businesswoman, was born.
August 5
National Sandcastle Day: When a Dragon Moves In: storylineonline.net/books/when-a-dragon-moves-in/
-1861: President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first federal income tax. As a wartime measure, all incomes over $800 were to be taxed at the rate of three percent. It was rescinded in 1872.
-1889: Poet and critic Conrad Aiken was born.
-1906: Film director John Huston was born.
-1911: Actor Robert Taylor was born.
-1912: Swedish architect Raoul Wallenberg, who's credited with saving 100,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, was born.
-1915: Legendary guitarist Les Paul was born.
-1930: Astronaut Neil Armstrong was born.
-1935: Actor John Saxon was born.
-1946: Actress Loni Anderson was born.
-1953: Singer Samantha Sang was born.
-1957: Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" began airing nationally.
-1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose of barbiturates.
-1963: The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty outlawing nuclear tests in the Earth's atmosphere, in space or under the sea.
-1974: President Nixon admitted ordering the Watergate investigation halted six days after the break- in. Nixon said he expected to be impeached.
-1981: President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for months.
-1990: The United States sent a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia's capital, to evacuate U.S. citizens because of a rebel threat to arrest Americans to order to provoke foreign intervention in the civil war.
-1991: The Democrats ordered inquiries into allegations that Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign team delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran until after the election. Iraq admitted it misled U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons and also admitted extracting plutonium from fuel at a nuclear plant.
-1994: Opponents of Fidel Castro clashed with police in Havana as thousands of Cubans took to the high seas trying to reach the United States. U.S. fighter-jets acting under NATO orders attacked Bosnian Serb positions after the Serbs seized weapons from a U.N depot. The weapons were returned. Kenneth Starr, solicitor general under President Bush, was named as independent prosecutor investigating the Whitewater scandal.
-1997: North Korea opened talks with the United States, China and South Korea aimed at negotiating a permanent treaty to replace the armistice agreed to after the Korean War.
-1998: Iraq announced it would no longer cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors and demanded the lifting of the U.N. sanctions imposed in 1991.
-1999: The Senate confirmed Richard C. Holbrooke as ambassador to the U.N. Holbrooke’s confirmation had been held up for 14 months because of ethics allegations against him.
-1966: Actor Jonathan Silverman was born.
August 7
National Twin Day
August 9
-1968: Gillian Anderson, actress was born.
August 10
Worlds Lion Day
-1874: Herbert Hoover, thirty-first U. S. president, was born in West Branch, Iowa. He died in 1964.
August 11
-1953: Terry ""Hulk"" Hogan was born. Professional wrestler; five-time World Wrestling Federation champion famous for his ""Hulkamaniac"" fan following.
August 12
- 1898: The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
August 13
- International Left-Handers Day
- 1961: Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later, work began on the Berlin Wall.
August 14
National Monster Day
World Lizard Day
- 1945: President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.
August 15
National Honeybee Day
August 16
National Tell a Joke Day
August 18
-1963: James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
August 19
National Aviation Day
National Financial Awareness Day
August 21
National Senior Citizens Day
August 23
-1785: American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry was born.
-1869: Poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters was born.
-1883: Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan in World War II was born.
-1884: Humorist Will Cuppy was born.
-1905: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller (creator of "Nancy") was born.
-1912: Dancer/actor Gene Kelly was born.
-1930: Actress Vera Miles was born.
-1932: Political comedian Mark Russell was born.
-1934: Actress Barbara Eden was born.
-1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact. Less than two years later, Germany launched a blitzkrieg attack on Russia.
-1947: Rock drummer Keith Moon of "The Who" was born.
-1949: Actress Shelley Long and singer/actor Rick Springfield ("General Hospital") were born.
-1978: Basketball player Kobe Bryant was born.
-1982: Beirut Christian leader Beshir Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was assassinated less than one month later and was succeeded by his brother, Amin.
-1991: Russian Republic president Boris Yeltsin pressured Soviet President Gorbachev into replacing his cabinet in the wake of a failed coup.
-1992: Three people were killed when their truck was struck at a railroad crossing by an Amtrak passenger train in Wallingford, Conn.
-1996: Tobacco regulation, recommended by the FDA, was approved by President Clinton.
-1998: Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his reformist premier, Sergei Kiriyenko and brought back Viktor Chernomyrdin as acting premier.
- 1999: Berlin once again became the capital of Germany.
August 26
International Dog Day
Women's Equality Day
-1971: The U.S. Congress designated "Women's Equality Day" to honor women's continuing efforts toward equality.
August 28
-1749: German poet, novelist and dramatist Johann von Goethe was born.
-1774: Elizabeth Ann Seton, first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was born.
-1899: Actor Charles Boyer was born.
-1903: Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim was born.
-1922: A New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF.
-1925: Actor/dancer Donald O'Connor was born.
-1930: Actor Ben Gazzara was born.
-1932: Actor "Pat" Morita was born.
-1940: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen was born.
-1943: Singer/actor David Soul was born.
1957: Actor Daniel Stern was born.
-1958: Ice skater Scott Hamilton was born.
-1960: Actor Emma Samms ("Dynasty") was born.
-1963: More than 200,000 civil rights protesters led by Martin Luther King Jr. staged an orderly "Freedom March" in Washington, DC
-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.
-1969: Jason Priestley ("Beverly Hills 90210") was born.
-1965: Country singer Shania Twain was born.
1982: LeAnn Rimes was born.
-1986: Soviet spy Jerry Whitworth was sentenced in San Francisco to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.
-1988: More than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino.
-1990: At least 27 people were killed and more than 350 injured when a tornado struck Will County, Ill., southwest of Chicago. A fourth and fifth college student victims of an apparent serial killer were found near the University of Florida at Gainesville.
-1992: Federal relief got under way for the South Florida victims of Hurricane Andrew with the arrival of the first giant C-5A military transport at devastated Homestead Air Force Base.
-1994: A supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was shot to death in Port-au-Prince.
-1996: President Clinton was renominated as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.
-1997: Proposition 209, California's controversial anti-affirmative action measure approved by the state's voters a year earlier, officially took effect.
August 29
-1533: The last Incan king of Peru, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
-1632: English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset.
-1877: The second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-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.
-1957: South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking for more than 24 hours.
-1965: Gemini 5, 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.
-1975: Irish statesman Eamon de Valera died near Dublin at age 92.
-1981: Broadcaster and world traveler Lowell Thomas died in Pawling at age 89.
-1987: Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz, at age 63.
-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.
-1996: In 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. Earlier in the day, President Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
-2000: President Clinton ended a four-day trip t Africa with a brief visit to Cairo, where he sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak in pursuing a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Pope John Paul II laid down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century, endorsing organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning human cloning and embryo experiments.
August 30
National Beach Day
August 31
National Eat Outside Day
-1870: Italian educator Maria Montessori was born.
-1887: Thomas Edison was awarded a patent for the first movie projector.
-1897: Actor Fredric March was born.
-1903: Entertainer Arthur Godfrey was born. A Packard automobile completed a 52-day journey from San Francisco to New York, becoming the first car to cross the nation under its own power.
-1908: Writer William Saroyan was born.
-1913: Astronomer Sir Alfred Lovell was born.
-1916: Journalist Daniel Schorr was born.
-1918: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner was born.
-1924: Comedian Buddy Hackett was born.
-1928: Actor James Coburn was born.
-1935: Baseball player/manager Frank Robinson, first black to manage a major league team, and black militant Eldridge Cleaver, were born.
-1945: Violinist Itzhak Perlman and rock singer Van Morrison, were born.
-1949: Actor Richard Gere was born.
-1955: Olympian track athlete Edwin Moses was born.
-1970: Singer/actress Debbie Gibson was born.
-1991: The Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Kirghizia declared independence, leaving only five republics with membership in the Soviet Union. Serbia accepted a European Community proposal that included international observers to oversee a cease-fire in Croatia.
-1992: White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered, ending an 11-day siege of his Idaho mountain cabin that cost the lives of his wife, teenage son, and a U.S. marshal.
-1993: The Israeli government agreed in principle a plan for interim Palestinian self-rule of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.
-1994: The Irish Republican Army declared a cease-fire following six months of secret talks with Britain.
-1997: Britain's Princess Diana died of her injuries a few hours after a car accident in Paris that killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their driver. A bodyguard survived, although he was seriously injured.
-1999: One person was killed and 40 more injured in a bomb blast at a Moscow shopping center. The Russian government blamed terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.