^B{^#!16!28 August^N! Feast day of St Augustine of Hippo, St Alexander of Constantinople, St Edmund Arrowsmith, St Julian of Brioude, and St Moses of Abyssinia.
^B{1640^B} The Indian War in New England ended with the surrender of the Indians. ^B{1849^B} Venice was taken by the Austrians after a siege. ^B{1850^B} The Channel telegraph cable was laid between Dover and Cap Gris Nez. ^B{1914^B} The Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of World War I, was fought. ^B{1933^B} For the first time in Britain, a BBC-broadcasted appeal was used by the police in tracking down a wanted man. ^B{1945^B} US forces under General George Marshall landed in Japan. ^B{1963^B} The massive (200,000 people) civil rights march from the South ended in Washington, DC where Martin Luther King delivered his famous 'I have a dream' speech. ^B{1988^B} The Yan Hee Polyclinic in Bangkok, Thailand, reported on a new slimming technique - overweight Thais were suppressing their appetites by sticking lettuce seeds in their ears and pressing them in ten times before meals.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet, novelist and dramatist, ^B{1749^B}; Edward Burne-Jones, British painter, ^B{1833^B}; Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist, ^B{1896^B}; Godfrey Hounsfield, British inventor of the EMI-scanner, ^B{1919^B}; Ben Gazzara, US film actor, ^B{1930^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist and politician, ^B{1645^B}; William Smith, British geologist, ^B{1839^B}; Leigh Hunt, critic and poet, ^B{1859^B}; Ernest Orlando Lawrence, US physicist, ^B{1958^B}; Prince William of Gloucester, killed in an air crash, ^B{1972,^B} John Huston, US film director, ^B{1988^B}.
