On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 05:
1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger proposed Julian dating
1604 John Eliot "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
1624 William Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
1749 Thomas Lynch signed Declaration of Independence
1850 Guy de Maupassant France, author (Boule de Suif)
1860 Joseph Carey Merrick "Elephant Man"
1876 Mary R Beard Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
1890 Erich Kleiber Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
1899 Conrad Aiken US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems)
1906 John Huston Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown)
1908 Harold Holt PM of Australia (1966-67); supported US in Vietnam
1911 Robert Taylor Filley Neb, actor (Ivanhoe)
1914 Anita Colby Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)
1914 David Brian NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)
1920 Selma Diamond London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)
1923 Richard Kleindienst attorney general (1972)
1930 Neil Armstrong Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
1933 Joan Weldon SF, actress (So This is Love, Them)
1935 John Saxon Bkln, actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman)
1936 John Dancy Jackson Tx, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
1941 Leonid D Kizim cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
1942 Rick Huxley guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1943 Rodney Pattisson England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 Sammi Smith singer
1944 Loni Anderson St Paul Minn, actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati)
1946 Erika Slezak Hollywood, Calif, actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
1947 Rick Derringer rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme)
1950 Rose Mittermaier German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 Samantha Sang singer (Emotion)
1954 Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda Bx, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1960 Mike Nocito rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1962 Patrick Ewing Kingston Jamacia, NBA center (NY Knicks), 1992 Summer Olympics
1966 Jonathan Silverman LA Calif, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
1968 John Garrett Olerud Seattle WA, Baseball player, Blue Jays, Mets. American League Batting Crown 1993
1975 Ami Foster actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster)
Deaths which occurred on August 05:
1792 Frederick 7th baron Lord North, English premier -- presided over Britain's loss of its American colonies (1770-82), dies at 60
1900 James Augustine Healy black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
1959 Edgar Guest newspaperman, dies at 77
1961 Sir Sidney Holland PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
1962 Marilyn Monroe found dead of "apparent" self-inflicted drug overdose
1972 Frederic Tozere actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71
1978 Queenie Smith actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
1983 Judy Canova singer/comedienne/actress, dies at 66 of cancer
1984 Howard Culver actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
1984 Richard Burton actor (Cleopatra), dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage
1985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
1991 Paul Brown NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82
1991 Soichiro Hondo CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
2003 Catalino "Tite" Curet Alonso (77), a Puerto Rican composer who wrote nearly 2,000 dance songs and ballads
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
05-Aug-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Farao K. Letufuga Mosul - Ninawa Non-hostile - accidental fall
US Staff Sergeant David L. Loyd Not reported Non-hostile - illness - heart attack?
05-Aug-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Donald R. McCune Landstuhl Reg. Med. Ctr. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Yadir G. Reynoso An Najaf Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Moses Daniel Rocha Najaf Hostile - hostile fire
US Private 1st Class Raymond J. Faulstich Jr. Najaf (near) Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A Good Day
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On this day...
1391 Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews.
1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1664 British take over the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. Rename it New York.
1772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
1815 A peace treaty with Tripoli--which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis--brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
1837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
1846 Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
1858 Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
1861 President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first federal income tax. As a wartime measure, all incomes over $800 were to be taxed at the rate of three percent. It was rescinded in 1872.
1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1862 Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
1864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala; Adm David Farragut orders "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
1892 Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.
1901 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
1914 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland)
1914 British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I
1914 US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
1915 Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front
1916 British navy defeates the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt
1921 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
1921 Mustapha Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
1923 1st American to swim the English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
1924 Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
1926 Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1hr
1927 Phillies Cy Williams hits for the cycle in just 4 at bats
1936 At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal (In your face adolf!)
1937 Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
1940 St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
1952 In LA, Ca., 14 Communist leaders were convicted of conspiring to overthrow the US government. 6 of the defendants were from SF, one was from Oakland.
1953 Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1954 Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
1957 "American Bandstand," goes on network TV (ABC)
1957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
1960 Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
1960 Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) gains independence from France
1961 118ø F, Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
1962 1st quasar located by radio
1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
1963 Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
1963 Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH
1964 Actress Anne Bancroft & comedian Mel Brooks wed
1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam
1966 Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
1966 Beatles release "Revolver" album in US
1966 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
1967 1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7
1967 Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down
1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
1972 Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
1972 Ugandan president Idi Amin deports all 80,000 Asians
1973 Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
1973 USSR launches Mars 6
1974 Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways
1975 Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a major league record, win 13-5
1978 New Orleans Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
1980 NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
1981 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
1984 Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2h24m52s)
1984 Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
1984 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson sets record with 19 pinch hit HRs
1985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
1985 Chic White Sox Tom Seaver wins #300 over Yanks at Yankee Stadium
1985 Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets the 5k woman's record (14:37.33)
1986 It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
1988 Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat (A democrat, involved in racketeering! What a shock!)
1990 US Marine's enter Monrovia, Liberia's capital, to evacuate U.S. citizens because of a rebel threat to arrest Americans to order to provoke foreign intervention in the civil war.
1991 Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record (20¬") in Malm” Sweden
1991 The Democrats ordered inquiries into allegations that Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign team delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran until after the election.
(Yes it's true, it's ALL TRUE! Not only did he do it, he laughed maniacally while doing it (you know the kind of laugh that insane evil villians use). Not only did he laugh with glee he did it while kicking grand ma out of her house while stealing her dog food, then went home to his luxurious mansion (built by handicapped children) to feast on the stolen dog food and roasted spotted owl (roasted over a fire of fresh cut Sequoias)
1994 A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington chose Kenneth W. Starr to take over the Whitewater investigation from Robert Fiske.
1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole proposed a $548 billion tax cut.
1997 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing, goes on trial
1998 Ian Murphy, starts the Freedom Scouts, in the belief that a million Indonesians planned to invade the country within 5 years. His organization trained as a guerrilla force to hit and run and protect Australia from attack.
(and now back to the REAL world)
1998 Iraqi "President" Saddam Hussein brakes off cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors and demanded the commission monitoring the weapons be reorganized.
1999 Researchers reported the discovery of a gene that causes narcolepsy in dogs
2001 The spacecraft Galileo flew as close as 120 miles above Io’s north pole and captured wisps of volcanic gas largely composed of sulfur dioxide
2002 The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a storm
2002 The Vatican excommunicates 7 women who claimed to have been recently ordained as priests.
2003 US Episcopal leaders approve New Hampshire bishop-elect Rev. Gene Robinson as the church's first openly gay bishop
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Iran : Constitution Day
Upper Volta : Independence Day/Burkina Faso (1960)
World : Test Ban Day
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins (Day 5)
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )
Ancient Rome : Nonae Sextilis
National Failure Day
Sisters Day
National Catfish Month
Religious Observances
Christian-England : St Oswald Day
Old RC : Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows, Rome
RC : Mem of Dedication of St Mary Major Basilica, Rome (opt)
Religious History
1570 Spanish Jesuits led by Fray Batista Segura arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, for the purpose of converting the American Indians to Christianity. (Unfortunately, six months later, the entire group was massacred by the very Indians they had come to evangelize.)
1604 Baptism of John Eliot, American "apostle to the Indians." His evangelistic zeal led in 1649 to establishing the (missionary) Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England.
1656 Eight Quakers from England arrived in Boston and were immediately imprisoned by the local Puritan authorities. (The church-and-state amalgam of Puritanism looked upon non-ritual Quakerism with suspicion, regarding it as theologically apostate and politically subversive).
1869 Birth of Grant C. Tullar, American Methodist evangelist and music publisher. He is remembered today for composing the tune to the hymn, "Face to Face with Christ My Savior."
1961 The South American country of Bolivia adopted a new constitution that separated the powers of church and state.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Loo With A View Set To Debut
(AP) CANBERRA, Australia Scaling Australia’s highest mountain will soon become a more civilized climb after the construction of the country’s highest toilet.
Dubbed the “Loo with a View,” the all-weather toilet block is to be built into the wind-swept side of Mount Kosciuszko, 390 feet below its snowcapped peak in a New South Wales state national park.
“The engineering challenges are in trying to build something in such a remote location and at that elevation,” National Parks and Wildlife Service alpine area manager Andrew Harrigan said Thursday.
He described the toilet as “a bunker” built to withstand 93 mph winds and carved 20 feet into the mountain.
It will comprise three urinals and three unisex stalls—one with wheelchair access, he said.
The septic tank would have enough capacity to ensure that the toilet can last more than six months without a service when it is snowed in during winter. The toilet will also catch its own water.
It’s part of a campaign to prevent walkers and campers from digging latrines in the earth or snow.
Thought for the day :
"I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street."
Neil Armstrong
