Today in History (August 28th):
1749: Birthdays: German poet, novelist and dramatist Johann von Goethe;
1774: Birthdays: Elizabeth Ann Seton, first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church;
1899: Birthdays: French actor Charles Boyer;
1903: Birthdays: Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim;
1921: Birthdays: Actor Nancy Kulp;
1922: A New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF.
1925: Birthdays: Actor/dancer Donald O’Connor;
1930: Birthdays: Actor Ben Gazzara;
1940: Birthdays: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen;
1943: Birthdays: Former baseball manager Lou Piniella; Singer/actor David Soul;
1955: While visiting family in Money, Miss., 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African-American from Chicago, was slain for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His alleged killers were acquitted.
1957: Birthdays: Actor Daniel Stern;
1958: Birthdays: Olympic gold medal ice skater Scott Hamilton;
1960: Birthdays: Actor Emma Samms;
1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I have a dream speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before more than 200,000 people gathered for the Freedom March in Washington.
1965: Birthdays: Country singer Shania Twain;
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. Birthdays: Actor Billy Boyd;
1969: Birthdays: Jack Black; Jason Priestley;
1971: Birthdays: Figure skating Hall of Fame member Todd Eldredge; Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans;
1982: Birthdays: Country singer LeAnn Rimes;
1986: Birthdays: Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured in 2006 and held captive by Palestinian militants for more than five years.
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 died and more than 350 were injured when a tornado struck Will County, Ill., southwest of Chicago.
1996: After four years of separation, Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, were formally divorced.
2004: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell canceled plans to attend closing ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in Greece after protests against U.S. foreign policy.
2005: Hurricane Katrina picked up strength as it roared toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, reaching Category 5 status, with winds of almost 150 miles an hour, touching off one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history. The mayor of New Orleans issued a mandatory evacuation order while fleeing residents clogged highways in other parts of Louisiana and in Mississippi and Alabama.
2007: Abdullah Gul was elected president in the third round of parliamentary voting in Turkey, reported to be the nation’s first Islamist chief in modern history. U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, admitted he pleaded guilty without consulting a lawyer to disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men’s room incident in June but insisted he had done nothing wrong.
2008: Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for president, chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.
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2009: The June 27 death of entertainer Michael Jackson was ruled a homicide by drug overdose after his personal physician admitted giving him the powerful anesthetic propofol and the sedative lorazepam on the day of his death.
2010: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged to a group of world economic policymakers that the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed somewhat.
2011: An artillery barrage by Afghan Muslim militants killed at least 40 Pakistani soldiers in an attack on seven military posts guarding the border between the two countries. News reports said militants had heavy casualties. Tony Tan was elected the seventh president of Singapore after more than 83 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots.
Quotes
“The best inheritance a parent can give his/her children is a few minutes of his/her time each day. ” – O.A. Battista
“Literature is theone place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads,we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.” – Salman Rushdie, Author
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world’s champions.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German philosopher:
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
“A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.”
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
“A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
“A person hears only what they understand.”
“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.”
“A purpose you impart is no longer your own.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“A useless life is an early death.”
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
“Age merely shows what children we remain.”
“Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.”
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