TODAY IN HISTORY

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In 1973,the U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

In 2003, a huge blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.

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In 1935,humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow,Alaska.

In 1969,the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.

In 1971,President Richard Nixon,announced a 90-day freeze on wages,prices and rents.

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Birthdates which occurred on August 16:
1860 Jules Laforgue Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintes)
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
1863 Gabriel Piern‚ Metz France, composer (Edith)
1868 Bernard MacFadden publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances)
1874 Arthur Meighen Canada, PM of Canada (1920,1,6)
1884 Hugo Gernsback sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
1892 Harold Foster cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
1894 George Meany NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO)
1895 Lucien Littlefield San Antonio Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
1897 Robert Ringling circus master
1899 Glenn Strange Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
1902 Georgette Heyer England, novelist (Friday's Child)
1904 Wendell Stanley biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel '46)
1906 Franz Josef II prince of Liechtenstein (1938- )
1910 Mae Clarke Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)
1913 Menachem Begin Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978)
1914 Tullio Pandolfini Italy water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1917 Roque Cordero Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
1925 Fess Parker Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller

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In 1777,American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington.

In 1812,Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.

In 1858,a telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.

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Deaths which occurred on August 17:
1850 Jos‚ Francisco de San Martin South American revolutionary hero, dies
1915 Leo Frank lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
1920 Ray Chapman hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
1971 Horace McMahon actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1973 Conrad Aiken Pulitzer winning poet, dies at 74
1975 Sig Arno Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80
1976 William Redfield actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48
1979 Vivian Vance actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72
1982 Barney Phillips actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
1983 Ira Gershwin lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86
1987 Rudolph Hess Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
1988 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 in plane crash
1990 Pearl Bailey broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 from a heart attack

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In 1863, federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War,but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding.

In 1896,a prospecting party discovered gold in Canada,a finding that touched off the Klondike gold rush.

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In 1587,Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil,on what is now Roanoke Island,N.C. (However,the colony she was born into ended up mysteriously disappearing.)

In 1846,U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W.Kearny captured Santa Fe,N.M.

In 1914, President Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

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Deaths which occurred on August 19:
14 -BC- Octavian [Augustus] Roman general, dies at 48
1493 Frederick III Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493)
1929 Sergei P Diaghilev Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1962 Kerstin Hesselgren 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1977 Julius (Groucho) Marx NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
1986 Hermione Baddeley actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79

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Religious History
1553 Protestant reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.'
1745 Birth of Francis Asbury, English Methodist missionary and circuit-riding bishop of the American colonies. During 42 years of labor, Asbury traveled 300,000 miles by horseback, ministering up and down the Eastern seaboard.
1884 Birth of Rudolf Bultmann, German New Testament scholar. He pioneered Form Criticism with his History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921), whereby he sought to identify the devices of Hebrew speech in order to make the central Gospel message meaningful to moderns.
1886 Birth of Paul Tillich, German philosophical theologian. Tillich advocated "myth" as a signpost, participating in the reality to which it points. Evangelicals generally criticize Tillich today for his pantheistic views of God.
1958 A pentecostal sect, formed by Grady R. Kent out of the Church of God of Prophecy, formally adopted as its name "The Church of God of All Nations." The denomination is headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee.

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In 1833, Benjamin Harrison,23rd president of the United States,was born in North Bend,Ohio.

In 1866,President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over,months after fighting had stopped.

In 1920,pioneering American radio station 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcastin.

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Birthdates which occurred on August 21:
1165 Philip II Augustus 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
1660 Hubert Gautier engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
1765 William IV king of England (1830-37)
1789 Augustin-Louis Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
1872 Aubrey Beardsley England, artist (Salome)
1890 Bill Henry SF Calif, newscaster (Who Said That?)
1896 Roark Bradford writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
19-- Callan White actor (Loving)
19-- Steve Nathan Buffalo NY, actor (Allan-Busting Loose)
19-- Tammy Amerson actress (Mari Lynn-One Life to Live)
1906 William "Count" Basie jazz pianist
1906 Friz Freleng animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982)
1907 Dr Roy K Marshall Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
1909 C Dillon Douglas Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
1915 Jack Weston [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
1921 Nancy Kulp Harrisburg Pa, actress (Jane-Beverly Hillbillies)
1923 Chris Schenkel Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1928 Gillian Sheen England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 Princess Margaret England (Sister of Queen Elizabeth)
1931 Nancy Hadley LA Calif, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)

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In 1831, former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection in Virginia. (he was later executed.)

In 1858,the first of the famous debates between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place.

In 1878,the American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.

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In 1787,inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegated of the Continental Congress.

In 1846,Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.

In 1851,the schooner America out raced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup.

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Deaths which occurred on August 23:
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1926 Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina
D'Antonguolla (Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol, dies in NY at 31
1927 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Mass
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1962 Hoot Gibson silent screen cowboy actor, dies at 70
1975 Hank Patterson actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
1989 Yusef Hawkins shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black

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In 1927,Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.(Fifty years later,on this date in 1977,Mass. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis proclaimed that "any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed" from their names.)

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Deaths which occurred on August 24:
1967 Amanda Randolph actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1973 Billy Greene actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
1983 Jack Somack actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
1988 Max Shulman author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1991 Abel Kivlat US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
1991 Bernard Castro patented convertible couch, dies at 87
1998 E.G. Marshall actor - "The Defenders", "Nixon", "Absolute Power", dies at 88

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In 1916, the National Park Service was estabished within the Department of the Interior.

In 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.

In 1943,U.S. forces liberated New Georgia in the Solomon lslands from the Japanese during World War II.

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Deaths which occurred on August 26:
1963 Larry Keating actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
1966 Art Baker TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1974 Charles Lindbergh dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home
1976 Warner Anderson actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65
1977 HA Rey author of popular constellation book, dies at 78
1978 Charles Boyer actor (The Rogues), dies at 78
1981 Roger Nash Baldwin founder of the ACLU, dies
1983 Mike Kellin actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer
1984 Julie Stevens actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67
1986 Jennifer Levin strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park
1986 Ted Knight actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show), dies at 62

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In 1859,Col. Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States,near Titusville.Pa.

In 1892,fire seriously damaged New York's original Metropolitan Opera House.

In 1908,Lyndon B. Johnson,the 36th president of the United States,was born near Stonewall,Texas.

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In 1609,Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.

In 1774,Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton,the first American-born saint,was born in New York City.

In 1907,100 years ago,United Parcel Service had its beginnings as the American Messenger Co.of Seattle.