Born On This Day:

• Augustus Caesar, 63 BC
• King Ferdinand VI Spain, 1713
• Walter Lippmann, 1889
• Walter Pidgeon, 1897
• Tom C. Clark, 1899
• Louise Nevelson, 1900
• Mickey Rooney, 1920
• John Coltrane, 1926
• Ray Charles, 1930
• Romy Schneider, 1938
• Julio Iglesias, 1943
• Mary Kay Place, 1947
• Bruce Springsteen, 1949
• Cherie Blair, 1954
• Ani DeFranco, 1970

Died On This Day:

• King Wenceslas I Bohemia, 1253
• Sigmund Freud, 1939
• Pablo Neruda, 1973
• Lyman Bostock, 1978
• Bob Fosse, 1987
• Carl Rowan, 2000

Today's Events:

• 490 BC - Battle of marathon between invading Persians and victorious Athenians. Soldier Phidipipides runs 26 miles to Athens to announce victory.
• 1779 - John Paul Jones defeats British man-of-war in War of Independence; 'I have not yet begun to fight.'
• 1780 - Plot of Benedict Arnold to betray Americans exposed.
• 1817 - Spain ends slave trade by treaty with Britain.
• 1845 - Alexander Joy Cartwright organizes world's first baseball team, the Knickerbocker Club.
• 1846 - Planet Neptune, eighth planet from the sun, first spotted by Berlin astronomers Galle and Le Verrier.
• 1896 - Queen Victoria becomes longest reigning British monarch beating George III's 59 years 3 months.
• 1912 - First Keystone Cops one reel movie comedy premieres.
• 1913 - French aviator Roland Garros is first to fly Mediterranean non-stop; longest flight ever over sea.
• 1926 - Gene Tunney outpoints Jack Dempsey at Philadelphia to become world heavyweight boxing champ.
• 1930 - Photo flashbulbs patented.
• 1952 - VP candidate Richard Nixon's 'Checkers speech' rebuts allegations of bad campaign financing.
• 1952 - Rocky Marciano KO's Jersey Joe Walcott in 13th at Philly to become Heavyweight Champ.
• 1975 - President Gerald Ford target of 2nd unsuccessful assassination attempt in San Francisco.
• 1986 - Congress approves the rose as America's national flower.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Thecla of Iconium
• Linus
• Adamnan

Holiday:

• Independence Day Saudi Arabia (1932)
• Shuki-Korei-Sai (Festival of the Equinox) in Japan
• Chinese Festival of Fo
• Zodiac: Virgo ends, Libra begins

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