Born On This Day:

• Englebert Humperdinck, 1854
• Gentleman Jim Corbett, 1866
• Kin Hubbard (Frank McKinney), 1868
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1875
• Walter Reuther, 1907
• Richard Farnsworth, 1920
• Yvonne de Carlo, 1922
• Vittorio Gassman, 1922
• Rocky Marciano, 1923
• Sunny von Bulow, 1932
• George Maharis, 1933
• Conway Twitty, 1933
• Lily Tomlin, 1936
• Barry Gibb, 1946
• Gloria Estafan, 1957

Died On This Day:

• Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear), 1159
• Jacques Cartier, 1557
• King Louis XIV France, 1715
• William Clark, 1838
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1912
• Dennis Brain killed, 1957
• Eero Saarinen, 1961
• Drew Pearson, 1969
• Ethel Waters, 1977
• Albert Speer, 1981
• Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, 1983
• Sir James Pitman, 1985
• Morris Carnovsky, 1992

Today's Events:

• 338 BC - King Philip II of Macedonia defeats allies, Thebes and Athens, at Battle of Chaeronea in Greece.
• 312 BC - Greek Era of Seleucus begins.
• 1422 - Henry VI becomes youngest King of England (9 months old) succeeding his father Henry V.
• 1661 - Charles II and brother James, Duke of York, stage first yachting race; Greenwich to Gravesend.
• 1853 - First triangular postage stamps issued in Cape of Good Hope.
• 1859 - First railway sleeping car goes into service, invented by George M. Pullman.
• 1870 - Germans beat French at Battle of Sedan; leads to fall of 2nd French Empire.
• 1879 - Britain signs peace treaty with Zulu chiefs ending British-Zulu War.
• 1894 - First use of postcards with adhesive stamps in Britain.
• 1897 - America's first subway, nicknamed the "T" opens in Boston.
• 1902 - Mount Pelee volcano erupts again in Martinique after only four months; 2,000 die.
• 1904 - Deaf, dumb and blind Helen Keller graduates with honors from Radcliffe College.
• 1905 - Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan formed in Canada.
• 1914 - Last passenger pigeon, Martha, dies at Cincinnati Zoo.
• 1920 - State of Lebanon created by the French.
• 1923 - 142,807 die in 8.3 killer earthquake (Great Kanto Earthquake) in Japan destroying Yokohama and half of Tokyo.
• 1933 - H.G. Wells 'The Shape of Things to Come' published.
• 1939 - German troops invade Poland triggering WWII.
• 1953 - The Dupont Co. starts producing Teflon.
• 1969 - Muammar Gaddafi, 27 year-old army captain, leads successful bloodless military coup against King Idris I of Libya.
• 1972 - Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky at Reykjavik, Iceland to become first U.S. world chess champion.
• 1975 - 'Gunsmoke' goes off the air after 19 years 11 3/4 months of continuous broadcast.
• 1978 - Earthquake in Zarand, Iran; 7.1 magnitude; kills 12,230.
• 1983 - Soviets shoot down Korean Airlines Flight 007 from New York to Seoul-all 269 dead.
• 1985 - 73 years after sinking, wreckage of the 'Titanic' found 95 miles off coast of Newfoundland.
• 2004 - Chechen rebels hold 1,000 school children, parents and teachers hostage at Beslan, North Ossetia.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Giles
• Fiacre

Holiday:

• Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore.
• Independence Day Qatar (1971)
• Wattle Day in Australia

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JANAM (OR JANMA) ASHTAMI, Hindu Birthday Festival of Krishna
• ANANT CHATURDASI, Hindu Eternal Anniversary of 14th day of Month Bhaedra
• LABOR DAY (U.S. and Canada) First Monday in September.
• CH'UNG YANG, Festival of High Places in China (ninth day of the ninth moon)
• BIRTHDAY OF KRSNA. (Hindu)
• CHUSOK (Korea) on day of full moon of eighth lunar month.
• ROSH HASHANA (Jewish New Year) first and second days of lunar month Tishri.
• YOM KIPPUR (Jewish Day of Atonement) tenth day of lunar month Tishri.
• SUKKOTH (Jewish Feast of Tabernacles) 15th day of lunar month Tishri - five days after Yom Kippur
• SIMCHAT TORAH (Jewish Rejoicing of the Law) 23rd day of Tishri
• DURGA-PUJA (Hindu festival of Goddess Durga)
• PITRA PASKSHA and AMAVASYA, Hindu Feast of the Dead.
• LAKSHMI PUJA, Hindu Festival of the Goddess of Fortune
• CHUNG CH'IU CHIEH (Chinese mid-autumn festival) 15th day of 8th lunar month.
• OWARA KAZE NO BON, HACHIMAN & DOBUROKU MATSURI harvest festivals in Japan
• NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS' DAY - first Sunday after Labor Day in USA
• NATIVE AMERICAN DAY - fourth Friday in September in US
• RAMADAN, Muslim Holy Month