- 1522: Juan Sebastian Del Cano completed the first circumnavigation
                  of the world; the last of Magellan's fleet returned to Spain.
                - 1620: The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower.
                - 1628: The Puritans landed in Salem, Mass.
                - 1666: The Great Fire of London ended after destroying much of the
                  city in a conflagration that began Sept. 2.
                - 1716: The first lighthouse was built in the U.S. in Boston.
                - 1776: The first submarine attack happened when the first American
                  sub attacked the British warship Eagle in New York harbor.
                - 1819: Thomas Blanchard patented the lathe.
                - 1839: The Cherokee Nation was formed.
                - 1866: Frederick Douglass became the first American black delegate
                  to a national convention.
                - 1899: Carnation processed its first evaporated milk.
                - 1901: President William McKinley, the 25th president, was shot by
                  anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo,
                  N.Y. The president died eight days later.
                - 1941: Jews six years of age and older were ordered to wear yellow
                  Stars of David in Nazi-occupied areas.
                - 1965: India invaded West Pakistan in an attack intended to prevent
                  further Pakistani offensives against India in Kashmir.
                - 1966: South African prime minister since 1958, Henrik Frensch
                  Verwoerd was killed in parliament by Dimtric Tsafondas, a
                  parliamentary messenger.
                - 1970: Palestinian guerrillas hijacked four airliners traveling to
                  New York from Europe.
                - 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, killed in a Paris car crash Aug. 31,
                  was buried on an island at her ancestral home, Althorp House, near
                  Great Brington, England.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Jane Curtin, 51, actress/comedienne, "Saturday Night Live"
                - John Erikson, 44, swimmer, first man to complete triple crossing
                  swim of English Channel
                - Angie Everhart, 28, model/actress
                - Jeff Foxworthy, 40, comedian, "The Jeff Foxworthy Show"
                - Swoosie Kurtz, 54, actress, "Sisters'" Alex Reed Halsey
                - Rosie Perez, 34, actress/choreographer, "Do the Right Thing"
                - Justin Whalin, 24, actor, "Lois & Clark"
                - Jo Anne Worley, 61, actress, "Love American Style," "Laugh In"