Births:

1862 Claude Debussy St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
1893 Dorothy Parker US, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award)
1917 John Lee Hooker Mississippi, blues musician (Canned Heat)
1920 Ray Bradbury Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451, Illustrated Man)
1920 Dr Denton Cooley heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)


Deaths:

1977 Sebastian Cabot actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1991 Colleen Dewhurst actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67



Events:

1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
1969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255


Today is Be an Angel Day in the U.S.

August 22, 1902 - Teddy Roosevelt became the first American President to ride in a motor car.

August 22, 1851
U.S. WINS FIRST AMERICA'S CUP

The U.S.-built schooner America bests a fleet of Britain's finest ships in a race around England's Isle of Wight.

August 22nd

1988 - Australia unveils the first ever all platinum coin. It features a Koala.

1914 - In the First World War: The first encounter between British and German troops takes place in Belgium with a major skirmish fought over a bridgehead.

565 AD - St. Columba reported seeing a monster in the waters of Loch Ness. By a strange coincidence Emeraldcitizen was also in the water at Loch Ness that day testing out his newly invented scuba gear. HEY, wait a minute! You don't think... Nah, couldn't be!

August 23rd

   1927: Convicted on the slimmest of circumstantial evidence, self admitted anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for the murders of two men during a robbery in 1920.

   1926: Legendary silent film star Rudolph Valentino died. He was 31.

August 23, 1966
Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the Moon.

Birthdays:

1591 Robert Herrick England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
1899 Jorge Luis Borges Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths)
1924 Louis Teicher pianist (Ferrante & Teicher-Exodus)
1958 Steve Guttenberg Bkln NY, actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1961 Cal Ripken Jr all-star shortstop (Balt Orioles)


Deaths:

1967 Amanda Randolph actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1988 Max Shulman author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1998 E.G. Marshall actor - "The Defenders", "Nixon", "Absolute Power", dies at 88


Events:

79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
1682 DE awarded to William Penn
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1869 Waffle iron invented
1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

August 24, 1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the US non-stop.


History of Amelia Earhart

August 24th

1814: British forces invade Washington DC and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.

1949: The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.

Births:

1530 Ivan IV (the Terrible) 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
1905 Clara Bow silent movie actress (Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships)
1909 Michael Rennie actor (The Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
1909 Ruby Keeler Halifax NS, dancer (Dames)
1916 Van Johnson Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
1917 Don Defore Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
1917 Mel Ferrer Elberon NJ, actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
1918 Leonard Bernstein conductor/composer/pianist/egotist
1918 Richard Greene Plymouth England, actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
1930 Sean Connery actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King)
1933 Tom Skerritt Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)


Deaths:

1835 Ann Rutledge said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
1900 Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher, dies in Weimar, Germany
1979 Stan Kenton orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
1980 Gower Champion dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
1984 Truman Capote author (In Cold Blood), dies


Events:

1875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation

Looking at today’s births, it’s a phenomenal day for the performing arts!!!

August 25, 1920 - The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was formally adopted into the US Constitution.

August 25th

1921: The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
    (To quote the words of an old song -- "What a fool believes..."!)

1916: The National Park Service was established.

1825: Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.

August 26, 1957 - The Ford Motor Company rolled out the first Edsel automobile. 110,847 of the cars were built before Ford pulled the plug due to lack of sales. The car was named Edsel for the company founder's son, Edsel Bryant Ford.

Births:

1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen
1906 Dr Albert B Sabin polio vaccine discoverer
1885 Jules Romains France, novelist/dramatist/poet (Men of Good Will)
1960 Branford Marsalis actor (Bring on the Night)

Deaths:

1978 Charles Boyer actor (The Rogues), dies at 78
1986 Ted Knight actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show), dies at 62

Events:

55 -BC- Roman forces under Julius C‘sar invade Britain
1920 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted
1973 U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing (Now THAT’S important)

August 26, 1883

A violent legendary eruption, creating the loudest known explosion in histoy, takes place on the volcanic island of "Krakatoa".

The island, which laid between Java and Sumatra, exploded with the force of 100 megatons (the 1945 Hiroshima bomb was only 20 kilotons). The explosion was heard as far away as Madagascar (2,200 miles). Tsunami waves caused by the exploding island were raised to 131 ft and destroyed 163 villages along the coasts of both Java and Sumatra. Ash from the explosion rose more than 50 miles into the atmosphere and affected the earth's weather patterns for the next year.

August 26, 1980
A 1,000-pound bomb is discovered in a Nevada casino. Workers at Harvey's Resort and Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, discover a 1,000-pound bomb disguised as a copy machine in an executive suite.

Births:

1871 Theodore Dreiser US, novelist (Sister Carrie, American Tragedy)
1899 C.S. Forester Engl, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
1908 Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1910 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel 1979
1929 Ira Levin author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)


Deaths:

1971 Bennett Cerf (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1978 Robert Shaw actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies at 51
1980 Sam Levenson humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68


Events:

1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan

August 27, 1859 - Retired railroad conductor Edwin L. Drake struck oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, becoming the first person to successfully drill oil from the earth. From Pennsylvania, oil production spread West to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and finally to Texas and California. Drake found the oil at a depth of 69 ft (23 m).

August 27, 1979
Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed when Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists detonate a 50-pound bomb hidden on his fishing vessel Shadow V.

August 28, 1963 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Some 250,000 people witnessed one of the most stirring speeches of the century. The speech was a culmination of the civil rights march from the south.