August 8

It's August 8th

On this day in 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg
observatory is laid on the island of Hven.


In 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by
Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

"Mount Blanc" by Nicholas Roerich

In 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

In 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers' first public flight, at a racecourse
in Le Mans, France.


In 1988 - N.W.A. released "Straight Outta Compton"


Birthdays:

Kool Moe Dee


Daniel House


Caroline Ansink


Dennis Drew


David Grant


Chris Foreman


Willie Hall

Keith Carradine
as Archibald "Whizzer" Overton in "Hex"


Larry Wilcox
as Jody in "Death Stalk"


John Gustafson


Donald P. Bellisario


Joe Tex


Terry Nation


Richard Anderson
as Owen Clark in "A Cry in the Night"

as Quin in "Forbidden Planet"

as Max Steiner in "Compulsion"


Rory Calhoun
as Teller in "The Red House"

as Tony Dumont in "Flight to Hong Kong"

as Vincent Smith in "Motel Hell"

as Looney Tunes in "Hell Comes to Frogtown"


Esther Willams
as Lois Conway in "The Ungaurded Moment"


William Asher


John David Wilson

Sylvia Sidney
as Elsie Braden in "Violent Saturday"

as Aunt Marion in "Damien, The Omen II"

as Margeret Smith in "Copkiller"


Lucky Millinder


Benny Carter


André Jolivet


Adolf Busch

In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch decided he could not in good conscience stay in Germany, so
he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland. Busch was not Jewish and was popular in Germany, but firmly opposed
Nazism from the beginning. On 1 April 1933, he repudiated Germany altogether and in 1938, he boycotted
Italy. As the Nazis tried to convince him to return to Germany, he declared "If you hang Hitler in the middle
with Georing on the left and Goebells on the right, I'll return to Germany"

Ladislas Starevich


Friedrich Georg Weitsch
"Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo
volcano in Ecuador (imaginary scene)"


Laurent Belissen


Godfrey Kneller
"Portrait of Isaac Newton"


Matteo Tafuri

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