Today is Friday, August thirtieth, the 243rd day of the 12 months 2024. There are 123 days left within the 12 months.

Today in history:

On August 30, 2005, sooner or later after Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded, looting continued to extend, and rescue staff had to make use of helicopters and boats to avoid wasting lots of of stranded people.

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In 1916, explorer Ernest Shackelton successfully returned to Antarctica's Elephant Island on his fourth try and rescue 22 of his stranded crew members who had survived 4 and a half months on the barren island after the sinking of their ship Endurance.

In 1945, US General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to establish the headquarters of the Allied occupation forces.

In 1963, the “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow was put into operation.

In 1967, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Thurgood Marshall as the primary black justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2021, the United States accomplished its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war with the Taliban in power, while Air Force transport planes transported a remaining contingent of troops from Kabul airport. After watching the last U.S. planes disappear from the skies over Afghanistan, Taliban fighters fired their weapons within the air and celebrated victory after a 20-year insurgency.

In 2022, Mikhail Gorbachev died on the age of 91. He was the last head of state of the Soviet Union and fought a losing battle to avoid wasting a crumbling empire, but implemented extraordinary reforms that led to the top of the Cold War.

Today's birthdays:

• Investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet is 94.
• Actress Elizabeth Ashley is 85.
• Actor John Kani is 82.
• Cartoonist Robert Crumb is 81.
• Olympic ski champion Jean-Claude Killy (zhahn-KLOHD' kee-LEE') is 81.
• Comedian Lewis Black is 76.
• Robert Parish, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 71.
• U.S. Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., is 64.
• Actor Michael Chiklis is 61.
• Actor Cameron Diaz is 52.
• Television personality and journalist Lisa Ling is 51.
• Former MLB pitcher Adam Wainwright is 43.
• Former skilled tennis player Andy Roddick is 42.
• Singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha is 35.

Today is Thursday, August 29, the 242nd day of the yr 2024. There are 124 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain named Sarah Palin, a conservative outsider who had served as governor of Alaska for lower than two years, as his running mate.

Also on this date:

In 1814, through the War of 1812, Alexandria, Virginia, officially surrendered to British forces, who occupied town until September 3.

In 1862, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing began operations on the U.S. Treasury Department.

In 1944, 15,000 American soldiers of the twenty eighth Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris because the French capital continued to have a good time its liberation from the Nazis.

In 1958, the US Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

In 1966, the Beatles ended their fourth American tour with their last public concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

In 2004, marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima was attacked by a spectator through the Olympic Marathon in Athens. De Lima, who was leading the race on the time, eventually finished third and was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal for Sportsmanship along with his bronze medal.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, breaching levees and triggering flooding that devastated New Orleans. Katrina was the most costly storm in U.S. history, killing nearly 1,400 people and causing an estimated $200 billion in damage.

In a sweeping recent policy statement in 2013, the Justice Department said it will not stand in the way in which of states searching for to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana so long as there have been effective controls in place to maintain marijuana away from children, the black market and federal property.

In 2021, Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana coast as some of the powerful storms to ever hit the United States, knocking out power to all of New Orleans, ripping roofs off buildings, and causing the Mississippi River to reverse its flow.

Today's birthdays:

• Actor Elliott Gould is 86.
• Former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is 86.
• Olympic sprint gold medalist Wyomia Tyus is 79.
• Olympic long jump gold medalist Bob Beamon is 78.
• Animal behaviorist and autism educator Temple Grandin is 77.
• Former US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is 69.
• Dancer and choreographer Mark Morris is 68.
• Actress Rebecca De Mornay is 65.
• Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is 57.
• Singer Me'Shell NdegeOcello (n-DAY'-gay-OH'-chehl-oh) is 56.
• Actress Carla Gugino is 53.
• Actress and singer Lea Michele is 38.
• MLB pitcher Noah Syndergaard (SIHN'-dur-gahrd) is 32.
• Rock singer Liam Payne (One Direction) is 31.

Today is Wednesday, August 28, the 241st day of the 12 months 2024. There are 125 days left within the 12 months.

Today in history:

On August 28, 1963, through the March on Washington, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

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In 1845, the primary issue of the magazine “Scientific American” was published, which stays the oldest repeatedly published magazine within the USA.

In 1898, pharmacist Caleb Bradham of New Bern, North Carolina, modified the name of the carbonated beverage he had created five years earlier from “Brad's Drink” to “Pepsi-Cola.”

In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was kidnapped by two white men from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, 4 days after allegedly whistling at a white woman; he was found brutally murdered three days later.

In 1957, U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (DS.C.) began what stays the longest filibuster in Senate history (24 hours and 18 minutes) to delay passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In 1968, clashes between police and anti-war protesters broke out within the streets of Chicago when the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey as its presidential candidate.

In 1988, 70 people were killed when three Italian Air Force aerobatic planes collided during an air show on the US Ramstein Air Base (RAHM'-shtyn) in West Germany.

In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a compulsory evacuation as Hurricane Katrina approached the town.

In 2013, a military court sentenced Major Nidal Hasan to death for the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, which left 13 people dead and 30 injured.

In 2016, six scientists accomplished a year-long Mars simulation on the Big Island of Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near-isolation on Mauna Loa.

Today's birthdays:

• Former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen is 84.
• Actor Ken Jenkins (TV: “Scrubs”) is 84.
• Former MLB manager and player Lou Piniella (pih-NEHL'-uh) is 81.
• Former MLB pitcher Ron Guidry (GIH'-dree) is 74.
• Former US poet laureate Rita Dove is 72.
• The artist Ai Weiwei is 67.
• Actor Daniel Stern is 67.
• Olympic figure skating champion Scott Hamilton is 66.
• Actress Jennifer Coolidge is 63.
• Film director David Fincher is 62.
• Country singer Shania (shah-NY'-uh) Twain is 59.
• “Pokemon” creator Satoshi Tajiri is 59.
• Actor Billy Boyd is 56.
• Actor Jack Black is 55.
• Pierre Turgeon, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, is 55.
• Actor Jason Priestley is 55.
• Technology manager Sheryl Sandberg is 55.
• Olympic gold medalist in swimming Janet Evans is 53.
• Actress Carly Pope is 43.
• Country singer Jake Owen is 43.
• Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 42.
• Rock singer Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 38.
• Actor Quvenzhane (kwuh-VEHN'-zhah-nay) Wallis is 21.

Today is Tuesday, August 27, the 240th day of the yr 2024. There are 126 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On August 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of devastating explosions. The explosions (which may very well be heard 3,000 miles away) and the resulting tsunamis in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed about 36,000 lives on Java and Sumatra.

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In 1894, Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which included a provision for a progressive income tax that was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a ship explosion for which the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.

In 1982, Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A's stole his 119th base of the season, breaking Lou Brock's record for many stolen bases in a season. (Henderson finished the season with 130 stolen bases, a record that is still unmatched to this present day.)

In 1990, blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughn and 4 others were killed in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin.

In 2001, Israeli helicopters fired two missiles through office windows, killing senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.

In 2005, coastal residents clogged highways and gas stations as they tried to flee Hurricane Katrina, which was heading toward New Orleans.

In 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president on the Democratic Party Convention in Denver, making him the primary black presidential candidate of a serious political party.

In 2011, Hurricane Irene hit the United States. The storm claimed 49 lives and caused over $14 billion in damage.

Today's birthdays:

• The writer William Least Heat-Moon is 85.
• Actor Tuesday Weld is 81.
• Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, Democrat from Nebraska, is 81.
• Actor GW Bailey is 80.
• Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 71.
• Actor Peter Stormare is 71.
• Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 68.
• Golfer Bernhard Langer is 67.
• Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is 63.
• Fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford is 63.
• The director of the US secret service, Avril Haines, is 55.
• Actor Chandra Wilson is 55.
• Jim Thome, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 54.
• Rapper Mase is 49.
• Actress Sarah Chalke is 48.
• Actor Aaron Paul is 45.
• Actor Patrick J. Adams (TV: “Suits”) is 43.
• Singer Mario is 38.
• Actress Alexa PenaVega is 36.
• Singer-songwriter Kim Petras is 32.
• US Olympic and WNBA basketball star Breanna Stewart is 30.
• Rapper/singer-songwriter Rod Wave is 26.

Today is Monday, August 26, the 239th day of the yr 2024. There are 127 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On August 26, 1944, French General Charles de Gaulle defied the specter of German snipers as he led a victory march through Paris, which had just been liberated from Nazi occupation by the Allies.

Also on this date:

In 1939, the primary televised major league baseball games were shown on the experimental station W2XBS: a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The Reds won the primary game 5-2, the Dodgers won the second 6-1.

In 1968, the Democratic Party Convention opened in Chicago. The four-day event, which led to the nomination of Hubert H. Humphrey as presidential candidate, was marked by a bloody police crackdown on anti-war demonstrators within the streets.

In 1972, the Summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.

In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani (al-BEE'-noh loo-CHYAH'-nee) of Venice was elected pope after the death of Paul VI. The latest pontiff, who took the name Pope John Paul I, died just over a month later.

In 1980, the FBI unintentionally detonated a bomb that had been planted on the Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, while attempting to defuse it. (The hotel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.)

In 1985, 13-year-old AIDS patient Ryan White began “attending” classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana, via a telephone connection from home because the varsity administration had prohibited White from attending classes in person as a consequence of his illness.

In 2009, kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was found alive in California after being missing for greater than 18 years.

In 2022, an FBI affidavit showed that 14 of the 15 boxes seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate contained classified documents, a lot of them top secret, mixed in with various newspapers, magazines and private correspondence.

Today's birthdays:

• John Tinniswood, the oldest known living man on the planet, is 112 years old.
• Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is 79.
• R&B singer Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) is 78.
• Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is 73.
• Puzzle creator/editor Will Shortz is 72.
• Jazz musician Branford Marsalis is 64.
• Actress and singer Shirley Manson (Garbage) is 58.
• Actress Melissa McCarthy is 54.
• Latin pop singer Thalia is 53.
• Actor Macaulay Culkin is 44.
• Actor Chris Pine is 44.
• Comedian/actor/author John Mulaney is 42.
• Country musician Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line) is 39.
• NBA guard James Harden is 35.
• Actor Dylan O'Brien is 33.
• Actor Keke Palmer is 31.

Today is Saturday, August twenty fourth, the 237th day of the yr 2024. There are 129 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On August 24, 1932, Amelia Earhart launched into a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, becoming the primary woman to fly solo and nonstop from coast to coast.

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In 1814, through the War of 1812, British troops invaded Washington, DC and set fire to the Capitol and White House, which were still under construction, in addition to other public buildings.

In 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty got here into force.

In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act, which banned the Communist Party within the United States.

In 1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced to twenty years to life imprisonment in New York for the murder of John Lennon.

In 1989, Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett banned Giamatti (juh-MAH'-tee). Peter Rose was disqualified from the sport because he had bet on his own team, the Cincinnati Reds.

In response to an attempted coup by radical communist leaders searching for to regain control of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian parliamentarians voted in 1991 to adopt a declaration of independence for the state of Ukraine.

1992 Hurricane Andrew hit in Florida; the storm claimed 65 lives and caused over $26 billion in damage in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stated: Pluto was not a full-fledged planet and was subsequently downgraded to the status of a “dwarf planet”.

In 2012, a Norwegian court found Anders Behring Breivik guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder. Double attacks on July 22, 2011, through which 77 people were killed; he received a 21-year prison sentence, which could be prolonged if he is taken into account a danger to society.

In 2018, the family of the Arizona Senator was … John McCain announced that he had stopped medical treatment for an aggressive type of brain cancer; McCain died the next day.

In 2019, police in Aurora, Colorado, responded to a report of a suspicious person and used a chokehold to subdue Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old black man. He suffered Cardiac arrest on the option to hospital He was later declared brain dead and life support was discontinued.

In 2020, Republicans officially nominated President Donald Trump for a second term on the opening day of a scaled-down convention. During a visit to the convention city of Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump told delegates: “ The only way they can take this election away from us is if it is rigged. ”

Today's birthdays:

• Composer and musician Mason Williams is 86.
• R&B singer Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) is 82.
• WWE co-founder Vince McMahon is 79.
• The writer Paulo Coelho is 77.
• Actress Anne Archer is 77.
• The writer Alexander McCall Smith is 76.
• The composer Jean-Michel Jarre is 76.
• The writer Orson Scott Card is 73.
• The poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is 72.
• Actor Kevin Dunn is 69.
• Former Arkansas governor and political commentator Mike Huckabee is 69.
• Actor and writer Stephen Fry is 67.
• Actor Steve Guttenberg is 66.
• Cal Ripken Jr., a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 64.
• Actor Jared Harris is 63.
• Talk show host Craig Kilborn is 62.
• Actress Marlee Matlin is 59.
• Reggie Miller, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 59.
• Film director Ava DuVernay is 52.
• Actor and comedian Dave Chappelle is 51.
• Actor James D'Arcy is 50.
• Actor Carmine Giovinazzo (jee-oh-vihn-AH'-zoh) is 51.
• Actor Alex O'Loughlin is 48.
• Author John Green is 47.
• Actor Chad Michael Murray is 43.
• Actor Rupert Grint is 36.
• Basketball player Kelsey Plum is 30.

Today is Friday, August twenty third, the 236th day of the 12 months 2024. There are 130 days left within the 12 months.

Today in history:

On August 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl Strike began, organized by farmworkers' union leader Cesar Chavez; between 5,000 and 10,000 staff walked off the job, leading to the biggest farmworkers' strike in U.S. history.

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In 1305, the Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.

In 1914, Japan declared war on Germany during World War I.

In 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston amid worldwide protests for the murder of two men during a robbery in 1920. (On the fiftieth anniversary of their executions, then-Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been wrongfully tried and convicted.)

In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a non-aggression pact in Moscow, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

In 2000, a Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain. All 143 people on board were killed.

In 2003, former priest John Geoghan (GAY'-gun), the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church across the country, died after he was attacked by one other inmate in a Massachusetts prison.

In 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake with an epicenter near Mineral, Virginia, caused the strongest on the East Coast since 1944, Cracks within the Washington Monument and damaged the Washington National Cathedral.

In 2013 a military jury convicted Major Nidal Hasan within the deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, through which 13 people were killed; the military psychiatrist was later sentenced to death.

In 2020, a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot a black man, Jacob Blake, seven times as officers attempted to arrest Blake on an excellent warrant; the shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and triggered several nights of violent protests.

In 2022, a Jury convicted two men of conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a victory for prosecutors in a plot uncovered by the FBI and hailed by anti-government extremists as a rallying cry for US civil war.

Today's birthdays:

• Actress Vera Miles is 95.
• Actress Barbara Eden is 93.
• Sonny Jurgensen, member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 90 years old.
• Ballerina Patricia McBride is 82.
• The creator Nelson DeMille is 81.
• Former Surgeon General Antonia Novello is 80.
• Singer-songwriter Linda Thompson is 77.
• Author and motivational speaker Rudy Ruettiger is 76.
• Actor Shelley Long is 75.
• Actor and singer Rick Springfield is 75.
• Noor al-Hussein (Queen Noor of Jordan) is 73.
• The film composer Alexandre Desplat is 63.
• Actor Jay Mohr is 54.
• Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is 53.
• Actor Ray Park is 50.
• Actor Scott Caan is 48.
• Rock singer Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) is 46.
• Actress Joanne Froggatt is 44.
• Olympic gold medalist in swimming, Natalie Coughlin Hall, is 42.
• The musician Lil Yachty is 27.

Today is Thursday, August twenty second, the 235th day of the yr 2024. There are 131 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On August 22, 1851, the schooner America left greater than a dozen British ships behind off the English coast and won a trophy that became generally known as America's Cup.

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In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began when the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against the French colonialists.

In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot, apparently by members of the Irish Republican Army who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which Collins had co-signed.

In 1965, a fourteen-minute brawl broke out between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal hit Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the top with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro later reconciled and have become lifelong friends.)

In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogotá (Colombia) to start his first papal visit to South America.

In 1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT'-uh-joke) and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees of a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, hostage in a botched robbery. The siege, which ended with Wojtowicz's arrest and Naturile's murder by the FBI, was the inspiration for the 1975 film Dog Days.

1989 Co-founder of the Black Panthers Huey P. Newton was shot in Oakland, California.

In 1992, on the second day of the siege of Ruby Ridge in Idaho, an FBI sniper killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of the white separatist Randy Weaver.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a welfare bill that ended guaranteed money payments to the poor and required recipients to work.

In 2003, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.

In 2007, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 US soldiers on board.

Today's birthdays:

• The writer Annie Proulx (proo) is 89.
• Carl Yastrzemski, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 85.
• Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 83.
• Writer and producer David Chase is 79.
• CBS news anchor Steve Kroft is 79.
• Diana Nyad, member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, is 75.
• Paul Molitor, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 68.
• Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is 66.
• Country singer Collin Raye is 64.
• Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 63.
• Singer Tori Amos is 61.
• Mats Wilander (VEE'-luhn-dur), member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is 60 years old.
• Rapper GZA (JIHZ'-ah)/The Genius is 58.
• Actor Ty Burrell is 57.
• Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is 54.
• Actor Rick Yune is 53.
• Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 51.
• Comedian and actress Kristen Wiig is 51.
• Talk show host James Corden is 46.
• Pop singer Dua Lipa is 29.

Today is Wednesday, August twenty first, the 234th day of the 12 months 2024. There are 132 days left within the 12 months.

Today in history:

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner instigated a violent slave revolt in Virginia by which a minimum of 55 white people were killed. Following the revolt, quite a few black people were killed in revenge and Turner himself was later executed.

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In 1858, the primary of seven debates took place between Illinois Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.

In 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China began talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that paved the way in which for the creation of the United Nations.

In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the fiftieth state.

In 1983, Filipino politician Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated as he disembarked from a plane at Manila International Airport. (His widow, Corazon Aquino, became President of the Philippines three years later.)

In 1991, a hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev failed within the face of a preferred rebellion led by Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin.

In 1992, an eleven-day siege of the white separatist hut began Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, when government agents attempted to arrest Weaver for failure to look in court on charges that he had sold two illegal sawed-off shotguns. On the primary day of the siege, Weaver's teenage son Samuel and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.

In 1993, NASA suffered a serious setback: engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer space probe because it was attempting to achieve the red planet as a part of a $980 million mission.

In 2000, rescue efforts for the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with the report that not one of the 118 sailors had survived.

In 2010, Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant. Moscow promised to guard the plant and forestall the fabric there from getting used to supply potential weapons.

In 2015, three Americans, including US Air Force Staff Sergeant Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and student Anthony Sadler, met with British businessman Chris Norman. overpowered and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.

In 2017 Americans experienced their first complete coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War Iwith eclipse observers gathering along a path of totality stretching 2,600 miles across the continent

In 2018, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and mediator, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other charges; Cohen said Trump directed him to rearrange for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal to stave off damage to his pursuit of a White House seat. (Trump was found guilty in May 2024 on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the payments.)

In 2020, a former police officer often known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims and relations in a Sacramento courtroom that he was “sincerely sorry” before being sentenced to multiple life sentences for a ten-year series of rapes and murders.

Today's birthdays:

• James Burton, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is 85.
• Singer Jackie DeShannon is 83.
• Film director Peter Weir is 80.
• Willie Lanier, a member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 79.
• Actress Loretta Devine is 75.
• Two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin is 70.
• Actor Kim Cattrall is 68.
• Former NFL quarterback Jim McMahon is 65.
• Rock musician Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 57.
• Actress Carrie-Anne Moss is 57.
• Google co-founder Sergei Brin is 51.
• Singer Kelis (kuh-LEES) is 45.
• TV star Brody Jenner is 41.
• Olympic sprint gold medalist Usain (yoo-SAYN') Bolt is 38.
• Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 36.
• Football player Robert Lewandowski is 36.
• Actor Hayden Panettiere (pan'-uh-tee-EHR') is 35.
• Comedian, singer and filmmaker Bo Burnham is 34.

Originally published: August 21, 2024 at 01:00

Today is Tuesday, August twentieth, the 233rd day of the 12 months 2024. There are 133 days left within the 12 months.

Today in history:

On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact states invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the liberalization movement of the “Prague Spring.”

Also on this date:

In 1858, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was first published within the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson officially declared the Civil War over.

In 1882, Tchaikovsky’s “Overture 1812” had its premiere in Moscow.

In 1910, a series of wildfires raged across parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at the least 85 people and burning about 1.2 million acres of land.

In 1920, the American Professional Football Conference was founded by representatives of 4 skilled football teams; two years later, with 18 teams, it was renamed the National Football League.

In 1940, the exiled communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked in Coyoacán, Mexico, by the assassin Ramón Mercader. (Trotsky died the following day.)

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, an almost $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a rampage in a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, shooting 14 colleagues after which committing suicide.

In 1989, 51 people died when the pleasure boat Marchioness sank after colliding with a dredging vessel on the River Thames in London.

In 2012, after 80 years of existence, the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia (home of the Masters tournament) invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to develop into its first female members; each accepted the invitation.

In 2023, tropical storm Hilary Baja California hitThree people were killed and damage amounted to $15 million.

Today's birthdays:

• Boxing promoter Don King is 93.
• Former US Senator and diplomat George Mitchell is 91.
• Former U.S. Representative Ron Paul, Republican from Texas, is 89 years old.
• Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 78.
• Rock singer Robert Plant is 76.
• Country singer Rudy Gatlin is 72.
• Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is 72.
• Actor and director Peter Horton is 71.
• TV weather presenter Al Roker is 70.
• Actress Joan Allen is 68.
• Film director David O. Russell is 66.
• Rapper KRS-One (Boogie Down Productions) is 59.
• Actor Colin Cunningham is 57.
• Actor Billy Gardell is 55.
• Rock singer Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) is 54.
• Actor Ke Huy Quan is 53.
• Todd Helton, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 51.
• Actress Amy Adams is 50.
• Actor Misha Collins (TV: “Supernatural”) is 50.
• Actor Ben Barnes is 43.
• Actor Andrew Garfield is 41.
• Actress and singer Demi Lovato is 32.

Originally published: August 20, 2024 at 01:00