Born On This Day:

• François René de Chateaubriand, 1768
• Anton Bruckner, 1824
• Darius Milhaud, 1892
• Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1893
• Antonin Artaud, 1896
• Edward Dmytryk, 1908
• Henry Ford II, 1917
• Paul Harvey, 1918
• Craig Claiborne, 1920
• Mitzi Gaynor, 1931
• Tom Watson, 1949
• Damon Wayans, 1960
• Mike Piazza, 1968
• Ione Skye, 1971
• Beyonce Knowles, 1981

Died On This Day:

• Robert Dudley earl of Leicester, 1588
• Saint Peter Claver, 1654
• Edvard Grieg, 1907
• Albert Schweitzer, 1965
• Hank Greenberg, 1986
• Georges Simenon, 1989
• Irene Dunne, 1990
• Thomas Tryon, 1991
• Dottie West, 1991
• Hervé Villechaize suicide, 1993
• William Kunstler, 1995
• Joan Rivers, 2014

Today's Events:

• 1733 - Royal Menagerie in the Tower of London loses its first lioness to old age.
• 1781 - City of Los Angeles founded.
• 1833 - New York Sun first to advertise for newsboy; 10 year-old Barney Flaherty gets job.
• 1870 - France proclaims itself Third independent Republic after defeat of Napoleon III.
• 1882 - Thomas A. Edison switches on first commercial electric lights in N.Y. Central Station.
• 1888 - George Eastman patents first hand-held camera using roll film-Kodak.
• 1909 - First Boy Scout rally in England held at Crystal Palace, South London.
• 1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell sets new world motor speed record of 300 mph in Bluebird at Bonneville salts.
• 1950 - Cartoonist Mort Walker premieres his comic strip 'Beetle Bailey' about goof-off Army enlistee.
• 1957 - National Guard called out by Gov. Orville Faubus of Arkansas to stop 9 black students entering Central High.
• 1957 - Ford introduces its new car-the '58 Edsel.
• 1972 - Mark Spitz becomes first person to win 7 Olympic Gold Medals.
• 1991 - F.W. de Klerk proposes new South Africa constitution and opens parliament to all races.
• 2016 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis making her a Catholic Saint.
• 2018 - Amazon becomes the second American company to be worth over one trillion dollars (after Apple). Jeff Bezos becomes number one richest person in the world with $164.7 billion.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Marinus of San Marino

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