Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

you could still post it!!

[socalrappy700]

I was up at 6 and out the door shortly after that.  It was a crazy day.  But here is your news.

August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1284 – Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 – The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 – Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 – Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1923 – Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
1942 – Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 – World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 – Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 – Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1993 – According to a Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas, of Kyūshū, Japan.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi

Births

1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1609 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 – Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1656 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1666 – Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, queen of Portugal (d. 1699)
1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1809 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1844 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)
1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
1866 – Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
1874 – Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1881 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1887 – Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1889 – George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 – William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962)
1893 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1900 – Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1902 – Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
1908 – Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1910 – Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999)
1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer
1911 – Constance Fecher Heaven (aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin), British romance writer (d. 1995)
1914 – Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
1918 – Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
1922 – Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006)
1923 – Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 – Frank Finlay, British actor
1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
1932 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
1934 – Piers Anthony, English writer
1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress
1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor
1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan
1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress
1941 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player
1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug felon
1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1945 – Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
1946 – Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician (d. 2009)
1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer
1949 – Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1949 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor
1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1952 – Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss)
1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003)
1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player
1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician
1960 – Dale Ellis, American basketball player
1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
1964 – Moosie Drier, American actor and director
1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
1965 – Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
1965 – Vincent Wells, England cricketer
1967 – Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko), Ukrainian-born theologian
1967 – Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
1967 – Julie Snyder, Quebec talk show host and producer
1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer
1969 – Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director
1970 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
1971 – Merrin Dungey, American actress
1971 – Scott Minto, English footballer
1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 – Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)
1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American author and political figure
1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster
1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1974 – Ever Carradine, American actress
1974 – Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player
1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player
1975 – Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
1975 – Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress
1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer
1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer
1978 – Marisa Miller, American model
1978 – Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist (Dominici)
1980 – Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
1980 – Wilber Pan, American/Taiwanese singer
1982 – Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality
1982 – Karl Davies, British actor
1982 – Justin Germano, American baseball player
1982 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
1982 – Ryan Sypek, American actor
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1984 – Vedad Ibisevic, Bosnian Footballer
1984 – Tim Wallace, American ice hockey player
1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American Olympic swimmer
1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French Footballer
1987 – Rémy Riou, French Footballer
1990 – Jon Benet Ramsey, American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996)

Deaths

258 – Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 – Saint Pope Hormisdas
1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 – Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)
1272 – King Stephen V of Hungary
1414 – King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 – Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)
1628 – Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 – Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1679 – John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 – Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1815 – James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1866 – John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 – James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1925 – Sir Surendranath Banerjea, leader, Indian National Congress (b. 1848)
1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1945 – Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
1945 – Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 – Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1959 – Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
1964 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1966 – Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1969 – Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 – Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
1974 – Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese visionary and leader of Guyana from 1964 to his death (b. 1923)
1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
1987 – Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
1987 – Matt Di Angelo English actor (b. 1987)
1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (b. 1915)
1991 – Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (b. 1923)
1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1998 – Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 – Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 – Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2007 – Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)
2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and script writer (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

Bolivia – Independence Day.
Jamaica – Independence Day.
United Arab Emirates – H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day.
Japan – Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) – Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

[disco]

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

I thought it was Al Gore.     (I know I know, I checked snopes)

I actually read all those, I typically skim it.  Interesting stuff there.  From Bill and Ted:  The world is FULL of history!

[socalrappy700]

August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1284 – Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 – The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 – Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
1942 – Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 – World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 – Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 – Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1993 – According to a Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas, of Kyūshū, Japan.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
2009 – Funeral service held at Wells Cathedral for Harry Patch, the final British serviceman to have fought in the trenches of the First World War.

Births

1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1609 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 – Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1656 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1666 – Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, queen of Portugal (d. 1699)
1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1809 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1844 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)
1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
1866 – Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
1874 – Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1881 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1887 – Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1889 – George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 – William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962)
1893 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1900 – Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1902 – Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
1908 – Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1910 – Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999)
1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer
1911 – Constance Fecher Heaven (aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin), British romance writer (d. 1995)
1914 – Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
1918 – Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
1922 – Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006)
1923 – Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 – Frank Finlay, British actor
1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
1932 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
1934 – Piers Anthony, English writer
1934 – Chris Bonington, British mountaineer
1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress
1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor
1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan
1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress
1941 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player
1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug felon
1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1945 – Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
1946 – Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician (d. 2009)
1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer
1949 – Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1949 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor
1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1952 – Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss)
1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003)
1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player
1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician
1960 – Dale Ellis, American basketball player
1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
1964 – Moosie Drier, American actor and director
1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
1965 – Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
1965 – Vincent Wells, England cricketer
1967 – Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko), Ukrainian-born theologian
1967 – Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
1967 – Julie Snyder, Quebec talk show host and producer
1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer
1969 – Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director
1970 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
1971 – Merrin Dungey, American actress
1971 – Scott Minto, English footballer
1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 – Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)
1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American author and political figure
1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster
1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1974 – Ever Carradine, American actress
1974 – Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player
1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player
1975 – Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
1975 – Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress
1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer
1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer
1978 – Marisa Miller, American model
1978 – Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist (Dominici)
1980 – Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
1980 – Wilber Pan, American/Taiwanese singer
1982 – Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality
1982 – Karl Davies, British actor
1982 – Justin Germano, American baseball player
1982 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
1982 – Ryan Sypek, American actor
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1984 – Vedad Ibisevic, Bosnian Footballer
1984 – Tim Wallace, American ice hockey player
1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American Olympic swimmer
1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French Footballer
1987 – Rémy Riou, French Footballer
1987 – Matt Di Angelo English actor
1990 – Jon Benet Ramsey, American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996)

Deaths

258 – Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 – Saint Pope Hormisdas
1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 – Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)
1272 – King Stephen V of Hungary
1414 – King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 – Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)
1628 – Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 – Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1679 – John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 – Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1815 – James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1866 – John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 – James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1925 – Sir Surendranath Banerjea, leader, Indian National Congress (b. 1848)
1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1945 – Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
1945 – Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 – Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1959 – Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
1964 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1966 – Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1969 – Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 – Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
1974 – Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese visionary and leader of Guyana from 1964 to his death (b. 1923)
1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
1987 – Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (b. 1915)
1991 – Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (b. 1923)
1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1998 – Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 – Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 – Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2007 – Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)
2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and script writer (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

Bolivia – Independence Day.
Jamaica – Independence Day.
United Arab Emirates – H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day.
Japan – Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) – Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

[Peelz]

Oh, Erich......

notice anything weird about your 2 today in history posts?

[Krandall]

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.


Ugh...... 







and it looks like yesterday and today are the same.

[socalrappy700]

Oh, Erich......

notice anything weird about your 2 today in history posts?

Sorry, I posted yesterdays late at night, I guess they already had August 6th's up. 

[Krandall]

fookin ninjas

[socalrappy700]

August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.

Today in history

322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.
626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople
936 – Incoronation of King Otto I of Germany
1420 – the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is begun in Florence
1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River
1461 – the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1606 – The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1714 – The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 – The United States War Department is established.
1791 – United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 – The Whiskey Rebellion begins: farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
1889 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, this for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1933 – The Simele massacre. The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1940 – Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
1942 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
1964 – Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1965 – The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hell's Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
1967 – Vietnam War: the People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1974 – Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 ft (417.0 m) in the air.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1978 – United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1988 – Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1998 – The United States Embassy bombing in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya killing approximately 212 people.
2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
2008 – Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.

Births

317 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
1282 – Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
1533 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
1574 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
1726 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
1742 – Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (d. 1786)
1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
1860 – Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1862 – Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
1885 – Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
1901 – Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
1903 – Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
1904 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
1907 – Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist (d. 1979)
1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (d. 2007)
1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
1921 – Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
1925 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
1925 – Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003)
1926 – Stan Freberg, American voice comedian
1927 – Edwin W. Edwards, American politician
1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1927 – Carl Switzer, American child actor (d. 1959)
1928 – Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)
1928 – James Randi, Canadian magician
1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player
1931 – Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author
1932 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (d. 1973)
1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist
1932 – Edward Hardwicke, British actor
1933 – Eddie Firmani, South African football player and coach
1936 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
1937 – Don Wilson, England cricketer
1939 – Anjanette Comer, American actress
1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician
1942 – Tobin Bell, American actor
1942 – Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
1942 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer
1942 – B.J. Thomas, American singer
1942 – Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1943 – Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1994)
1943 – Alain Corneau, French film director
1944 – Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1944 – David Rasche, American actor
1945 – Alan Page, American football player and Minnesota Supreme Court justice
1946 – Ed Seykota, American commodities and futures trader
1947 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian entertainer
1948 – Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
1948 – Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author
1949 – Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader
1950 – Alan Keyes, American diplomat and political activist
1952 – Alexei Sayle, British comedian
1953 – Anne Fadiman, American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman
1954 – Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
1955 – Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
1955 – Greg Nickels, American politician
1955 – Wayne Knight, American actor
1955 – Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director
1957 – Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1958 – Alberto Salazar, American distance runner
1959 – Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor
1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama)
1961 – Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
1962 – Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (d. 9 August 1963)
1963 – Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
1964 – Michael Weishan, American TV host
1964 – John Birmingham, Australian author
1966 – Kristin Hersh, American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses)
1966 – Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur
1967 – Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
1968 – Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot)
1971 – Sydney Penny, American actress
1971 – Rachel York, American actress and singer
1971 – Dominic Cork, England cricketer
1972 – Greg Serano, American actor
1973 – Danny Graves, American baseball player
1973 – Kevin Muscat, Australian footballer
1974 – Chico Benymon, American actor
1974 – Sek Loso, Thai Singer
1974 – Michael Shannon, American actor
1975 – Edgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player
1975 – David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
1975 – Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian musician
1975 – Koray Candemir, Turkish singer
1976 – Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer
1976 – Shane Lechler, American football player
1977 – Samantha Ronson, British DJ
1977 – Charlotte Ronson, British fashion designer
1978 – Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
1978 – Alexandre Aja, French director
1978 – Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
1978 – Cirroc Lofton, American actor
1978 – Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1979 – Eric Johnson, American actor
1980 – Aurélie Claudel, French model
1980 – Anomie Belle (Toby Campbell), American musician
1982 – Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer
1982 – Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
1981 – Thomas Christian, SEO
1982 – Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
1983 – Tina O'Brien, British actress
1983 – Christian Chavez, Mexican singer and actor (RBD)
1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
1988 – Melody Oliveria, American internet blogger
1996 – Tessa Allen, American actress

Deaths

461 – Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
479 – Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1485 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
1635 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1848 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1855 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1864 – Li Xiucheng, late Taiping's Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)
1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (b. 1854)
1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
1917 – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
1938 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine Boxer (b. 1894)
1969 – Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
1970 – Jonathan Jackson, Brother of George Jackson, Black Panther (b. 1953)
1972 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
1973 – Jack Gregory, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
1974 – Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1984 – Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
1989 – Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)
1991 – Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian, (b. 1944)
1992 – John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
1994 – Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
1995 – Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
2003 – Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 – Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
2007 – Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)
2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent/manager and producer (b. 1931)
2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A. (b. 1957)

Holidays and observances

Dada: International Dadaism Month
Colombia: Battle of Boyacá Day
Côte d'Ivoire: Republic Day
Kiribati: Youth Day

[Krandall]

2008 – Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.



f*ckin rednecks. 

[Peelz]

2008 – Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.



f*ckin rednecks. 

 

[socalrappy700]

Back in town, hope everyone had a good weekend.

August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Colombian Mesoamerican civilations, notably the Mayans, begins.
2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
480 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium – the Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea.
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
1510 – Margaret Palaeologina, Duchess of Mantua is born.
1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria
1858 – First ascent of the Eiger.
1898 – Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1918 – World War I – Battle of Amiens ends.
1919 – Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted.
1920 – The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed.
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 – First civilian prisoners arrive at Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1952 – Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan.
1960 – Chad declares independence.
1965 – Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam.
1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1988 – Al-Qaeda formed
1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
1999 – The "Last eclipse of the millenium" occurs (a total Solar eclipse, visible in Europe, the Middle East and India)
2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2003 – A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.

Births

1467 – Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)
1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)
1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)
1673 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
1718 – Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852)
1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and soldier (d. 1899)
1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
1836 – Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)
1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)
1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1930)
1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Third Republic (d. 1937)
1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)
1870 – Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
1872 – Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954)
1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
1892 – Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957)
1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
1897 – Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)
1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
1907 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)
1909 – Yuji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)
1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
1913 – Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)
1913 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
1913 – Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1914 – José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)
1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)
1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
1920 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1921 – Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)
1923 – Stan Chambers, American television reporter
1925 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)
1925 – Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006)
1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1926 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-born British socialite
1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
1928 – Arlene Dahl, American actress
1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
1932 – Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)
1932 – John Gorrie, English director
1933 – Jerry Falwell, American preacher (d. 2007)
1933 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (d. 1999)
1936 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)
1938 – Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
1939 – Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003)
1940 – Lennie Pond, American NASCAR driver
1942 – Mike Hugg, British musician (Manfred Mann)
1943 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1943 – Stefania Toczyska, Polish mezzo-soprano
1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician
1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
1944 – Fred Smith, American entrepreneur
1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist
1946 – John Conlee, American country music singer
1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician
1948 – Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester (d. 1969)
1949 – Eric Carmen, American musician
1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American politician
1950 – Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)
1950 – Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor (d. 2003)
1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer
1951 – Vincent Bilodeau, Quebec actor and comedian
1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, AKA Bob 1, American musician (Devo)
1953 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer
1954 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer
1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer
1954 – M. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer
1955 – Sylvia Hermon, British politician
1955 – Marc Bureau, French Canadian politician
1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
1957 – Richie Ramone, American musician (Ramones)
1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, British singer (Skrewdriver)
1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)
1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor
1961 – Craig Ehlo, American basketball player
1962 – Shaul Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer
1962 – Ennis Whatley, American basketball player
1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player
1964 – Jim Lee, Korean-born comic book artist
1964 – Nikki Randall, American pornographic actress
1964 – Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor
1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)
1965 – Viola Davis, American actress
1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress
1965 – Duane Martin, American actor
1966 – Nigel Martyn, English footballer
1967 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer
1967 – Eric Maleson, Brazilian Bobsleigh 2002 Olympian
1967 – Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor
1967 – Joe Rogan, American television host,comedian,commentator,and actor
1971 – Tommy Mooney, English football player
1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress
1971 – Julie Clarke, Playboy playmate
1972 – Jonathon Prandi, American model
1973 – Nigel Harman, British actor
1973 – Carolyn Murphy, American model
1974 – Audrey Mestre, French diver
1974 – Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani pop star
1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, French Canadian figure skater
1974 – Anju Jain, Indian cricketer(women's team)
1975 – Davey von Bohlen, American musician, (The Promise Ring, Maritime)
1976 – Will Friedle, American actor
1976 – Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player
1976 – Ivan Ramiro Cordoba Columbian football player
1976 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player
1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish born singer
1978 – Jermain Taylor, American boxer
1978 – Amber Brkich, American reality television personality
1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player
1981 – Sandi Thom, Scottish born singer
1981 – Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress
1982 – Alan Halsall, British actor
1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian Actor
1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1984 – Katie Rees, American beauty pageant contestant
1984 – Lucas Di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
1985 – Grace Adams-Short, British reality television contestant
1986 – Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress
1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress/model/singer/dancer

Deaths

480 BC – Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. c. 540 BC)
353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
449 – Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople
897 – Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
1204 – King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
1253 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
1259 – Möngke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
1456 – John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)
1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)
1494 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)
1519 – Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)
1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. c. 1500)
1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
1656 – Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
1774 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
1851 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1890 – John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1903 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)
1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
1939 – Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
1954 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
1956 – Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
1961 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)
1972 – Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musician.
1974 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
1982 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1938)
1994 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
1995 – Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (b. 1904)
1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)
1996 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
1996 – Baba Vanga, Bulgarian prophet, mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)
2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
2001 – Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
2005 – James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

Chad: Independence Day

[Krandall]

2003 – A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.


Have they heard of water? 

Freakin Europeans

[Colorado700R]

I say crank it up to 125.....Suck it Frenchy

[Krandall]

My company uses Lotus Notes... Hooray for Yellow Day!