Seeking Comments on SB 1235 - Deadline 9/9/19
California Department of Business Oversight

Over 3,496 licensed companies and their branches in the state have filed to do business loans and capital leases in California, according to the California Division of Business Oversight. This will expand under SB 1235, perhaps double or triple.

As originally announced, as of June 1, 2019, California will become the first state in the nation to give small business owners the same protections that Truth in Lending laws have given consumer borrowers for more than half a century.

Under the new law, the financer will have to disclose the following at the time they offer financing of less than $500,000 to a business owner:

• Total amount of financing
• Total cost of financing
• Term length
• Frequency and amount of payments
• Pre-payment policies
• Annualized rate in APR via True

(Interim rent, first and last, balloon payments to be included in calculation via interest calculator such as TValue)

The law will cover traditional term loans, lines of credit, merchant cash advances, lease financing, factoring, and asset-based financing. While federally chartered banks are exempt due to federal pre-emption issues, the bill does cover online platforms that partner with banks and do the marketing and underwriting that lead to financing that is ultimately provided by a bank.

 The bill requires the Department of Business Oversight (Department) to adopt regulations governing such disclosures.

On December 4, 2018, the Department invited the public to comment on the substance and form of the disclosures required by SB 1235.  The Department has carefully reviewed the comments received from stakeholders and drafted regulations that may be proposed for adoption through the rulemaking process.

At this time, the Department is requesting public comment on the draft regulations and sample disclosures.  The Invitation for Comments notice is on the Department’s website here:
https://dbo.ca.gov/regulations-legislation-opinions-releases/

The deadline to submit comments is September 9, 2019.

Please submit comments to regulations@dbo.ca.gov

 

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Post a Free Ad that You are Looking
Limited to 100 Words

Free Positon Wanted goes into our Classified Ad section on the website: http://leasingnews.org/Classified/Jwanted/Jwanted.htm

It also runs once a week in the News Edition.

Use your personal email address only. We encourage you to add a resume, although not necessary. If you do so, please make sure your name, address and telephone number are not included. If so, we will delete them. The reason is once the resume is placed on line: it remains in Google, as well in Leasing News Editions’ archives. A search of your name will bring up your posting, which will have your address and telephone number for years to come.

It is also a good idea to create an email for the ad specifically that you can delete after use.
This is “free” to those looking for a new position. Each ad is limited to (100) words.

To post your free position wanted, please email: kitmenkin@leasingnews.org.

 

 

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Leasing News Top Stories
July 22 - July 26

(Stories most opened by readers)

(1)  Alert  
Entegra Capita, Overland Park, KS
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_26.htm#entegra

(2) June, 2019  The List
   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_24.htm#list_june

(3) Leasing News Complaints Bulletin Board
     BBB Ratings
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_22.htm#bbb

(4) New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
    and Related Industries
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_26.htm#hires

(5) Companies who notify lessee in advance of lease expiration
     Updated
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_26.htm#notify

(6) North Mill Finances over 60 Deals
         with Truckmaster Warranty
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_22.htm#north

(7) Fire and fraud: The mystery of a small Texas bank
  that became the nation's first failure in years
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/banking/2019/07/20/fire-fraud-mystery-small-texas-bank-became-nations-first-failure-years

(8) Chesswood New Additional Funding Facility for Pawnee
    Provides Fixed Rate Funding and Competitive Pricing
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_24.htm#chesswood

(9) Maxim Commercial Capital Closes Tough Deals
      for Brokers and "Gets Deals Done Together"
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_24.htm#maxim

(10) Don't want to give references on first interview
    Career Crossroad---By Emily Fitzpatrick/RII
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Jul2019/07_22.htm#crossroad

 

Help Wanted

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A First! Open to Non-Members
Meet North Mill Equipment Finance

The NAELB, now American Association of Commercial Finance Brokers, for years held a weekly "Meet the Funder,” originally by telephone, then online.

In an experiment to attract new members, the webinar is being open to non-members.

Title: “Meet North Mill Equipment Finance
A premier small-ticket lender with decades of experience, North Mill achieved record originations in 2019. You'll learn about the company, its products, and how the many enhancements made in the last year translate into growth opportunities for your business.”

Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 @ 3:00 pm EST

Speaker: Don Cosenza, CLFP, Chief Marketing Officer, CLFP,
North Mill Equipment Finance 
DCosenza@northmillef.com

Register for North Mill’s webinar and AACFB will waive the new member application fee.
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yCaBBwEPTr2JtwGlJKAjAg

 

 

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SLIM Capital Reviews Some Deals
Shows Broker Deals Accomplished

$1,500,000 for Oil Re-Recycling Facility Expansion to NEW LOCATION

This oil re-recycling operator was running a successful plant where he was at capacity in servicing his region. With so much demand to process used cooking oil from restaurants and used motor oil from auto repair facilities, he found an opportunity to make a duplicate plant in another state. We were able to offer 100% financing, progress funding, and cash back for roughly $500,000 of equipment he had already purchased. This was a total of $1,500,000 funded with A credit rates for an expansion to a different facility.

That is getting it DONE!

$560,000 Commercial Laundry Facility

This group of hotel operators found an opportunity in running their own laundry operation to support their own hotels and service surrounding hotels in the area. They were in need of equipment that could support larger clients more efficiently, so they came to us for financing needs. They had put over $180,000 down towards their $740,000 purchase. Given their better credit profiles and cash flows from their other businesses, we offered $560,000 to complete their purchase.

Full Circle Supply Chain

$260,000 Start Up Hemp Processor

This Serial Entrepreneur jumped at a the chance to get into the cannabis space with a start-Up Hemp Processing Facility. He came to us to finance CBD Extraction and Hemp Processing Equipment totaling $260,000. He was able to fill a supply chain need for a family member who is a large hemp grower. 765 Credit. Built-in supply from day one. 20% down, 24 months. Plenty of profit margin to handle the payment.
Cannabis is in our wheelhouse!

$189,000 Articulating Loader

This utility Contractor needed a piece of yellow iron to support a recently awarded contract in the construction space. His biggest customer pays on 90 day terms, so the cash flows are spotty and the credit was a 643. We were able to get comfortable with our A tier pricing over a 60 month term.

Don’t forget our application only programs go up to $200,000:

    3 years TIB
    650+ FICO
    $500,000 with Light Financials
    $3,000,000 Full Financial Package

Call us to learn about others and see if we can help your clients!
SLIM Capital, LLC is a nationwide direct finance company that specializes in securing hard assets to structure financing transactions as well as Credit Based Financing Decisions. We consider equipment with a strong secondary market value, real estate and other assets that can be easily monetized as collateral. Give us a call or email us with any deals that you think might be a fit.

Shervin Rashti, CLFP
shervin@slimcapital.com
Direct: 310-499-2506

Stephanie Cruz
stephanie@slimcapital.com
Direct: 949-274-8958

Jeff Brannon
jeff@slimcapital.com
Direct: 949-981-0431

SLIM Capital, LLC
Beverly Hills, CA | Orange County, CA
www.slimcapital.com
deals@slimcapital.com
310-499-2562

Getting Interview, but No Offers—Now What?

Career Crossroad---By Emily Fitzpatrick/RII

Interviewing, but I am not receiving any offers, what should I do?

If you are getting interviews, your resume is doing its job. However, you must remember what you do before, during, and after the interview can increase your chances of receiving the offer. I do have some suggestions:

Here are some ideas to increase your chances:

Be prepared to give a “closing statement” 
If you are given the opportunity during the interview, be ready to summarize (in 90 seconds or less) why you think you would be a good fit for the position. If possible, incorporate in the additional information you have learned in the interview itself. Prepare the key points of this closing statement in advance.

Bring materials
To assist the interviewer with the decision, bring your list of references, work samples, and don’t just throw it down. Decide if you didn’t “close” the interview and need to produce more of a “sales pitch” about yourself.  Be proactive.

Homework 
You can’t do the above, unless you have visited the company’s website to learn more about the key personnel (look them up in www.LinkedIn.com ---maybe there is something you have in common). Perhaps go to www.news.google.com and do a news search on the company.

Follow up 
If you do not hear back from the interviewer in the time you expected to hear from him/her, it is okay to follow up. Just remember that hiring often takes much longer than expected – make sure to be respectful in your follow-up efforts. Don’t be afraid to call, as the worst they can say is they are not interested.

If this is a pattern, going on many interviews but not receiving any offers, try to get feedback. Are you “over qualified,” “under qualified,” “didn’t like the way I dressed.”  Ask for a suggestion. You might be surprised when you get one, or if they hire someone, and then decide they should have hired you, there is a door open.

Look at the interview as a rehearsal for the actual performance that will actually get an offer you won’t refuse.

If you put in the positive, thoughtful effort, eventually the results will follow.

Emily Fitzpatrick
Sr. Recruiter
Recruiters International, Inc.
Phone:  954-885-9241
RII Career Services
Phone: (954) 885-9241 | (888) 855-9231
Fax: (888) 855-9244
Email: info@riirecruit.com
www.riirecruit.com | www.riicareer.com

Career Crossroads - Emily Fitzpatrick
http://leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/crossroad.html

 

Labrador Retriever/Australian Cattle
Sacramento, California  Adopt a Dog

PJ

41385506
Male/Neutered
Retriever, Labrador/Australian Cattle Dog
10 years 2 months

Sacramento SPCA
6201 Florin Perkins Rd.
Sacramento, CA 95828
916-383-7387

Hours
Adoption Center
Wed – Sun: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.*
Closed Mon, Tues, and holidays

*Animal adoptions can take more than 30 minutes to complete. When visiting our adoption center please note that we do not begin new animal visitations or adoption applications after 5:30 p.m., but invite you to come back the next business day.

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Attorneys Who Specialize in
Banking, Finance, and Leasing

Birmingham, Alabama The lawyers of Marks & Associates, P.C. have over 30 years experience in dealing with virtually every type of equipment financing and are recognized throughout the industry for prompt, practical solutions and exemplary service. They offer cost-conscious, effective lease enforcement and good counsel.  Email: Barry@leaselawyer.com Website: www.leaselawyers.com	California  Marshall Goldenberg, Esq. GLASS & GOLDBERG, ALC 22917 Burbank Blvd. Woodland Hills, CA 91367-4203. (818) 888-2220 mgoldberg@glassgoldberg.com www.glassgoldberg.com
Kenneth C. Greene California Leasing and Financial consultant, active in several leasing associations, as well as involved in music and film production in LA.  Mention "Leasing News" for a free consultation. 818.575.9095 Skype: 424.235.1658 ken@kengreenelaw.com	Connecticut, Southern New England:  EVANS, FELDMAN & BOYER, LLC Collections, litigation, documentation, portfolio sales and financing, bankruptcy. We represent many of the national and local leasing companies doing business in this state. Past chairman EAEL legal committee. Competitive rates.  email: rcfeldman@snet.net
Los Angeles/Santa Monica Hemar & Associates, Attorneys at Law Specialists in legal assistance, including debt collection, equipment recovery, litigation for 35 years. Fluent in Spanish.  Tel: 310-829-1948  email: phemar@hemar.com	David G. Mayer Partner, Dallas, Texas Schackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton  9201 N. Central Expressway Fourth Floor Dallas, Texas 75231 Telephone: (214) 780-1400 http://shackelfordlaw.net/attorneys/david-g-mayer/
Los Angeles, Southern CA  Seasoned attorney representing secured creditors in auto finance and truck/equipment lease industry.  Bankruptcy and State Court litigation.   Vincent V. Frounjian (818) 990-0605 or email: vvf@pacbell.net.	Encino, California: Statewide “ELFA”  Hemar, Rousso & Heald, LLP 30 yr excellent reputation Lessor representation commercial litigation, debt collection, and bankruptcy. Call Stephen E. Jenkins Esq (818) 501-3800
Los Angeles, Statewide: CA.     "ELFA" Aggressive creditors rights law firm specializing in equipment leasing handling collection matters on a contingency, fixed fee or hourly cbasis. email:RGarwacki@prodigy.net	Los Angeles, Statewide: CA      "ELFA" Practice limited to collections, bankruptcy and problem accounts resolution. Decades of experience. 10-lawyer firm dedicated to serving you. Call Ronald Cohn, Esq. (818)591-2121 or email. Email: rrcohn@aol.com
	California & National Paul Bent – More than 35 years experience in all forms of equipment leasing, secured lending, and asset based transactions. Financial analysis, deal structuring, contract negotiations, documentation, private dispute resolution, expert witness services.  (562) 426-1000 www.paulbent.attorney pbent@paulbent.attorney
Illinois   Kevin E. Trabaris: Concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial finance, corporate and business transactions. Extensive experience representing banks, financial companies, equipment lessors, insurers and other funding and intermediary entities and borrowers in connection with thousands of business financing matters. He has handled everything from small ticket transactions to billion dollar syndicated loans, real estate financing to asset-based facilities. Email:  ktrabaris@culhanemeadows.com Telephone:  847-840-4687 www.culhanemeadows.com	Massachusetts Joseph G. Bonanno, Esq., CLFP.  Transactional/Documentation. Past special industry consultant to The World Bank,  industry expert witness in litigation, appointed to Governor’s Counsel to adopt Articles 2A and 9 in Massachusetts, MA continuing legal education co-instructor,  past (5) Term Certified Leasing and Finance Professional Board Member, CLFP review instructor, numerous authored and co-authored published articles and conducting educational seminars. (781) 328-1010; law@jgbesq.com
National: Coston & Rademacher: Business attorneys serving the lease-finance industry since 1980. Transactional, documentation, corporate/finance, workouts, litigation, bankruptcy, portfolio management. Chicago-based national practice. Jim Coston, CLP (Members: ELFA, NEFA).  email: Jcoston@costonlaw.com Website:www.costonlaw.com	Michael J. Witt, experienced bank, finance, and leasing attorney, also conducts Portfolio Audits. Previously he was Managing Counsel, Wells Fargo & Co. (May, 2003 – September, 2008); Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Advanta Business Services (May, 1988 – June, 1997) Tel: (515) 223-2352 Cell: (515) 868-1067  E-mail: MWitt@Witt-Legal.com Web: www.witt-legal.com
St. Louis County , MO. - statewide:  Schultz & Associates LLP., collections, negotiation, and litigation. Also register and pursue recovery on foreign judgments. Contingency and reasonable hourly rates.  Ronald J. Eisenberg, Esq. (636) 537-4645 x108  reisenberg@sl-lawyers.com www.sl-lawyers.com	NJ, De, Pa: Specializing in leased equipment/secured transactions. Collections, replevins/workouts reasonable rates. Sergio Scuteri/Capehart & Scratchard, PAsscuteri@capehart.com / www.capehart.com
New York and New Jersey Frank Peretore Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi West Orange, New Jersey http://www.csglaw.com/ biographies/frank-peretore  Phone 973-530-2058 fperetore@csglaw.com  Documentation, portfolio purchase & sale, replevin, workouts, litigation, collection, bankruptcy. Aggressive. Over 30 years experience.	Thousand Oaks, California:  Statewide coverage Spiwak & Iezza, LLP 20+ years experience,Representing Lessors banks in both State/ Federal Courts/ all aspects of commercial leasing litigation. Nick Iezza 805-777-1175 niezza@spiwakandiezza.com

 

News Briefs----

Privacy group challenges $5B Facebook settlement
deal is not ‘adequate, reasonable or appropriate’ in light of violations
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/28/privacy-group-challenges-5b-facebook-settlement/

H-1B: Chinese woman, in U.S. on visa, indicted over alleged
 visa fraud  involving thousands of foreign citizens
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/26/h-1b-chinese-woman-in-u-s-on-visa-indicted-over-alleged-visa-fraud-involving-thousands-of-foreign-citizens/

 

 

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Mapped: The 22 Cities With the Most $1 Million Homes in the U.S.
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Stop Action

Slowly as in an underwater dance
the shortstop dips to take the ball
on a low hop, swings back his arm, balancing
without thought, all muscles intending
the diagonal to the first baseman's glove.

As the ball leaves his hand, the action stops —
and, watching, we feel a curious poignancy,
a catch in the throat. It is not this play only.
Whenever the sweet drive is stopped
and held, our breath wells up like the rush

of sadness or longing we sometimes feel
without remembering the cause of it.
The absolute moment gathers the surge
and muscle of the past, complete,
yet hurling itself forward — arrested
here between its birth and perishing.

Written by Conrad Hilberry, published in
“Line Drives,” 100 Contemporary Baseball
Poems edited by Brooke Horvath and Tim Wales,

published by Southern Illinois University Press

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Sports Briefs---

Rio Olympian wins 42nd San Francisco Marathon gold
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Rio-Olympian-wins-42nd-San-Francisco-Marathon-gold-14191403.php

Can the 49ers Handle the Pressure?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2845840-can-the-49ers-handle-the-pressure

A's find their long-ball identity in 5-4 win against Rangers
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/sports/9833555-181/barber-as-find-their-long-ball

Last Giants’ game in San Diego for Bruce Bochy,
    what about Madison Bumgarner?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Last-Giants-game-in-San-Diego-for-Bruce-Bochy-14191560.php

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California Nuts Briefs---

SF Bay Area home sales fell sharply in June — prices mostly fell, too
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Bay-Area-home-sales-fell-sharply-in-June-prices-14188212.php?psid=eDdMq

Emeryville minimum wage rises to $16.30 for all businesses
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/25/emeryville-minimum-wage-rises-to-16-30-for-all-businesses/

Village eyed for part of El Paseo de Saratoga mall in San Jose
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/26/village-eyed-for-part-of-el-paseo-de-saratoga-mall-in-san-jose/

How to catch carpool cheats: Behind the search to find a better way
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/07/28/how-videos-apps-and-good-ol-fashioned-policing-are-catching-carpool-lane-cheaters-in-the-bay-area/

Flight delayed at SFO? The Wag Brigade is on the way
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFO-therapy-dogs-animals-pig-airport-wag-brigade-14121957.php

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“Gimme that Wine”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJnQoi8DSE8

Fruit starts turning color,
 signaling grape harvest a month away on North Coast
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/9829927-181/fruit-starts-turning-color-signaling

First Ever International Canned Wine Competition Awards
    Gold to Aluminum
https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataId=217293

This ‘Starbucks of wine’ chain is changing
   the way Americans experience Chardonnay
https://www.fastcompany.com/90370684/coopers-hawk-is-making-wine-for-everyone-and-pouring-it-too

Free Wine App
https://www.nataliemaclean.com/mobileapp/

Wine Prices by vintage
http://www.winezap.com
http://www.wine-searcher.com/

US/International Wine Events
http://www.localwineevents.com/

Leasing News Wine & Spirits Page
http://two.leasingnews.org/Recommendations/wnensprts.htm

This Day in History

    1676 - Nathaniel Bacon of the Virginia Colony, was declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians.  Before the "Virginia Rebellion," as it was then called, began in earnest in 1674, some colonists on the Virginia frontier demanded that Native Americans, including those in friendly tribes living on treaty-protected lands, be driven out or killed.  They also protested corruption in the government of Governor Berkeley.  Upon arriving in Virginia, Nathaniel Bacon bought two frontier plantations on the James River. Since his cousin was a prominent militia colonel and friend of Governor Berkeley, Bacon settled in Jamestown, the capital. Soon Bacon was himself appointed to the governor's council.  Bacon and his makeshift army issued a “Declaration of the People of Virginian” which criticized Berkeley's administration, accusing him of levying unfair taxes, appointing friends to high positions, and failing to protect outlying farmers from Indian attack. They also issued a 'Manifesto' urging the extermination of all Indians, charging that they did not deserve legal protections because they "have bin for these Many years enemies to the King and Country, Robbers and Thieves and Invaders of his Majesty's Right and our Interest and Estate."  Months of conflict ensued in what became known as Bacon’s Rebellion, including a naval attempt across the Potomac and in Chesapeake Bay by Bacon's allies to capture Berkeley at Accomac. Berkeley raised his own army of mercenaries on the Eastern Shore and captured Bacon's naval allies and executed the two leaders. Bacon's forces then turned against the colony's capital, burning Jamestown to the ground on September 19, 1676.  Before an English naval squadron could arrive, Bacon died of fever on October 26, 1676 and the rebellion soon collapsed. Governor Berkeley returned to power, seizing the property of several rebels and ultimately hanging twenty-three men, many without trial.  After an investigative committee returned its report to King Charles II, criticizing both Berkeley and Bacon for their conduct toward friendly tribes, Berkeley was relieved of the governorship, returned to England to protest, and died shortly thereafter.
    1708 - Haverhill, Mass. was destroyed by French & Indians.
    1758 - New Jersey Legislature formed the 1st Indian reservation at, oddly enough, Indian Mills, NJ…that’s right, New Jersey!!  It is located in Burlington County near the Wharton State Forest.
    1776 - General George Washington retreated during the night from Long Island to New York City, withdrawing from Manhattan to Westchester.
    1786 - Shays’ Rebellion: Daniel Shays, veteran of the battles of Lexington, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and Saratoga, was one of the leaders of more than 1,000 rebels who sought redress of grievances during the depres­sion days of 1786—87. He began organizing his followers with speeches this day. They prevented general court sessions and on Sept 26, they prevented Supreme Court sessions at Spring­field, MA. On Jan 25, 1787, with 1100 men, they attacked the federal arsenal at Springfield; Feb 2, Shays’ troops were routed and fled. Shays was sentenced to death but pardoned June 13, 1788.  The uprising had been caused by the harsh economic conditions faced by Massachusetts farmers, who sought reforms and the issuance of paper money.  Shays later he received a small pension for services in the American Revolution.
    1809 - Birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes (d. 1894), physician and author, father of Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, at Cambridge, MA. “A moment’s insight”, he wrote, “is sometimes worth a life’s experience.”
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/owholmes.htm
http://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/owhhes.html
    1811 – Birthday of Henry Bergh (d. 1888), founder of the ASPCA, in NYC.  He was President Lincoln’s ambassador to Russia when the severe climate forced him home.  On returning to the United States, Bergh resolved to work on behalf of animal welfare. Alone, in the face of indifference, opposition, and ridicule, he began working as a speaker and lecturer, but most of all in the street and the courtroom, and before the legislature. The legislature passed the laws prepared by him, and on 10 April 1866, the ASPCA was legally organized, with Bergh as president. 
    1815 - Anna Ella Carroll’s (d. 1893) birthday, Pocomoke City, MD.  Writer and publicist for Union causes during the Civil War. She is best known for her pamphlet which outlined the proposition that the Southern states would resume their original places in the United States once the rebellion of the Civil War was over, precisely the course adopted by Abraham Lincoln in superseding Congress in the conduct of the war. She is credited with the plan to invade the South along the Tennessee River. Her tombstone reads "Maryland's Most Distinguished Lady." However, she died financially poor and anonymous.
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/exhibits/
womenshall/html/carroll.html
http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/103-5362656-4423850?tag=fast-b
kasin00-20&keyword=Anna%20Ella%20Carroll&mode=books
    1817 - The first “abolition” newspaper was “The Philanthropist”, published and edited by Charles Osborn, which appeared in Mount Pleasant, OH. It published “An Appeal to Philanthropists” by Benjamin Lundy, which is said by some to be the most powerful abolition appeal ever made.
    1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.  Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Faraday also established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena.  It was largely due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology.  As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers, and popularized terminology such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion.
    1839 - The crew of “Amistad” secretly changed course and the ship landed at Long Island, NY, where it and its ‘cargo’ were seized as salvage.  In January, 53 Africans were seized near modern-day Sierra Leone, taken to Cuba and sold as slaves. While being transferred to another part of the island on the ship, led by the African, Cinque, they seized control of the ship, telling the crew to take them back to Africa. However, the crew secretly changed course and the ship landed at Long Island. The Amistad was towed to New Haven, CT where the Africans were imprisoned and a lengthy legal battle began to determine if they were property to be returned to Cuba or free men. John Quincy Adams took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where on Mar 9, 1841, it was determined that they were free and could return to Africa.
    1852 - The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice.
    1858 – The Harris Treaty was signed by the US and Japan.  Also known as the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, it opened the ports of Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade, among a number of trading stipulations.  
    1861 - The first Confederate forts to surrender in the Civil War were Fort Clark and Fort Hatteras on Hatteras Island, NC, guarding Pamlico Sound. They surrendered to Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham and General Benjamin Franklin Butler, who had captured the garrison with 715 men, 31 heavy guns, and 1,000 stands of arms.
    1862 - (29th-30th) At the second Battle of Bull Run, the maneuvers of General Stonewall Jackson and his teamwork with General Robert E. Lee were too much for the 45,000 Union troops under General John Pope, who broke and retreated to Washington, DC. Union losses were 1724 killed, 8372 wounded, 5958 missing. Confederate losses stood at 1481 killed, 7627 wounded, 89 missing. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0857066.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839705.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0252023633/jimbo2/104-1979401-1205565
    1864 – Confederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.  She operated from her father's hotel in Front Royal, VA, and provided valuable information to Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson in 1862.
    1869 - The Mt. Washington Cog Railway opens in New Hampshire, making it the world's first rack railway.  The railway is still in operation, climbing Mt. Washington.
    1896 - History records chop suey was concocted in New York City by the chef of Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-Chang, who devised the dish to appeal to both American and Asian tastes. Chop suey was unknown in China at the time.
    1898 – The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded.
    1904 - Third modern Olympic Games open in St Louis.  These Games were originally scheduled for Chicago. However, President Theodore Roosevelt intervened on behalf of St. Louis so that the Games would be in conjunction with the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition. Again the Games were upstaged, this time by the St. Louis World’s Fair, and critics believed this would kill the fourth Olympics from taking place. The marathon included the first two Africans to compete in the Olympics – two Zulu tribesman named Lentauw (real name: Len Taunyane) and Yamasani (real name: Jan Mashiani). They wore bibs 35 and 36, respectively. 
The only problem was that these two tribesmen were not in town to compete in the Olympics – they were actually the sideshow! Yes, they were imported by the exposition as part of the Boer War exhibit (both were really students at Orange Free State in South Africa, but no one wanted to believe that these tribesmen could actually be educated – it would have ruined the whole image).  Lentauw finished ninth and Yamasani came in twelfth. This was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Lentauw could have done better – that is if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by a large, aggressive canine! 
The marathon was over, but there is still one more little story to go along with this:  It seems that two of the patrolling officials driving in a brand-new automobile were forced to swerve to avoid hitting one of the runners – they ended up going down an embankment and were severely injured. 
In the end, the St. Louis Olympics (along with the previous Paris games) proved to be such a disaster that the Olympic Committee was forced to hold interim Olympic Games in 1906 at Athens, in an attempt to revive the flagging Olympic movement. These games were not numbered, but were attended by twenty countries and put the Olympics back on a steady course to success.   An interesting useless side note: Iced tea made its debut at the 1904 Exposition. It seems that it was so hot during the Expo that the staff at the Far East Tea House couldn’t even give away their product. 
    1905 – “The It Girl,” Clara Bow (d. 1965), was born in Brooklyn.  She rose to meteoric stardom in silent films during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" after 1927. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film “It” brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl."  Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol and motion picture star, appearing in 46 silent films and 11 talkies.  In 1999, film historian Leonard Maltin said, "You think of Garbo, Gish, all these great names, great actresses, Clara Bow was more popular in terms of box-office dollars, in terms of consistently bringing audiences into the theaters, she was right on top."  Many film historians consider Bow to have been the industry’s first megastar.
    1911 – Cy Young pitched his final game for the Cleveland Spiders, going just three innings and allowing five runs in a 7-1 loss to Washington.  After this game, Cleveland waived him and he joined the Boston Rustlers in the National league where he finished his career that season.
    1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California…and he had no statement on the name of Washington’s NFL team!!
    1915 – The US Navy raises F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
    1915 – Birthday of actress Ingrid Bergman (d. 1982) at Stockholm, Sweden.  She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in “Casablanca” (1942), co-starring Humphrey Bogart, and as Alicia Huberman in “Notorious” (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant. 
    1916 – US passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
    1917 – Weezie’s birthday:  Actress Isabel Sanford (d. 2009) was born in Harlem, NYC.  Lead role in “The Jeffersons,” in 1981, she became the first African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. 
    1920 - Birthday of Charlie Parker.  Clint Eastwood made a movie about his life. Known as “The Bird,” he and Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet player extraordinaire and great showman, are credited with “inventing” the style “Be-Bop.” Definitely way ahead of his time, and quite melodic (his record albums with strings from 1947 to 1952 produced by Norman Granz are jazz classics). There is controversy on how he got his name. Some say it was from sitting in the backyard of “speakeasies” in Kansas City, Kansas, where he was raised, fingering his alto sax. Others say it was his love of chicken. He was addicted to Heroin, as many of the “Be-Bop” players were. The movie “The Man with the Golden Arm” was a take-off of his life, not Chet Baker, according to the writer of the movie.  He was taken to Camarillo for the Insane, where he kicked the habit, for a short time. The club Birdland in Manhattan was named after him. It is told one of his ideas to make the club more profitable was to have a Country and Western band come and play during the breaks. Parker was a profound influence upon Miles Davis, who started playing with his band at the age of 17.
 http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/sc/bio/parker.htm
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5066/
http://www.changingtones.com/trmpt02.html
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column4.html
http://www.downbeat.com/artists/window.asp?action=new&aid=
117&aname=Charlie+Parker
http://www.charlieparkerresidence.net/
    1921 – Birthday of Wendell Scott (d. 1990), at Danville, VA.  Auto racer and the first black stock-car driver.  He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. NASCAR champion 12-1-63: won race but because of racial tensions did not receive honor until Jan. 1964 when NASCAR officials admitted the flagman’s intentional error.  The film “Greased Lightning”, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, was loosely based on Scott's biography. 
    1922 - New Orleans Rhythm Kings cut first records for Gennett.
    1922 – The first radio advertisement is aired on WEAF-AM in NYC
    1924 – Birthday of singer Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones (d. 1963), Detroit, Michigan.  Her hits include: “What A Diff’rence a Day Makes,” “It Could Happen to You,” “Our Love is Here to Stay,” “For All We Know,” “Baby [You’ve Got What It Takes],” “A Rockin’ Good Way [To Mess Around and Fall in Love],” “Baby Get Lost,” “This Bitter Earth.”  She sang with Lionel Hampton band [1943-46]. 
http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1950/Washington.html
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=207
    1924 – Elizabeth Short (d. 1947) was born in Boston.  Known as “The Black Dahlia,” she was the victim of one of America’s most famous unsolved murders.  Short was found mutilated, her body sliced in half at the waist, on January 15, 1947, in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.  A person claiming to be the killer called the editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, offering to mail items belonging to Short to the editor. The following day, a packet arrived at the Los Angeles newspaper containing Short's birth certificate, business cards, photographs, names written on pieces of paper, and an address book. One or more others wrote more letters to the newspaper, signing them "the Black Dahlia Avenger," after the name given Short by the newspapers. Due to the notoriety of the case over the years, more than fifty men and women have confessed to the murder, with police receiving large amounts of information from citizens every time a newspaper mentions the case or a book or movie is released about it.  The murder has borne a cottage industry of books, films, and magazine speculation, but no further progress toward identifying the killer.
    1936 – Incumbent Arizona Senator John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father was stationed.  At the time, the Canal was under US control.  McCain graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1958 and began his naval career at Pensacola where he began his aviation training.  On a mission during the Vietnam War, he was captured on October 26, 1967 when his plane was shot down by a missile over Hanoi.   McCain fractured both arms and a leg ejecting from the aircraft, and nearly drowned when he parachuted into a lake.   Some North Vietnamese pulled him ashore, then others crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt and bayoneted him. Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to treat his injuries, beating and interrogating him to get information; he was given medical care only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral.  He was released on March 14, 1973.  After retiring in 1981, he began his political career by running and winning a seat in Congress from Arizona’s First District.  Upon being skewered in the press for being a carpetbagger, McCain responded, “…Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.”  His Senate career began in 1987 where he has been a leader and he has run for President twice.
        1939 - A typical day at the Graham dairy farm in Georgetown, North Carolina.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug29.html
    1944 - For the sake of diplomacy, Paris was liberated on August 25, when the German commander General Dietrich von Choltiz surrendered to French General Jacques-Phillipe Leclerc. On this day, the 15,000 American troops taking part in the liberation marched down Champs Elysees.
    1944 - McVElGH, JOHN J., Medal of Honor.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U .S. Army, Company H, 23d Infantry, 2d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Brest, France, 29 August 1944. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth: Philadelphia, Pa. G.O. No.: 24, 6 April 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty near Brest, France, on 29 August 1944. Shortly after dusk an enemy counterattack of platoon strength was launched against 1 platoon of Company G, 23d Infantry. Since the Company G platoon was not dug in and had just begun to assume defensive positions along a hedge, part of the line sagged momentarily under heavy fire from small arms and 2 flak guns, leaving a section of heavy machineguns holding a wide frontage without rifle protection. The enemy drive moved so swiftly that German riflemen were soon almost on top of 1 machinegun position. Sgt. McVeigh, heedless of a tremendous amount of small arms and flak fire directed toward him, stood up in full view of the enemy and directed the fire of his squad on the attacking Germans until his position was almost overrun. He then drew his trench knife. and single-handed charged several of the enemy. In a savage hand-to-hand struggle, Sgt. McVeigh killed 1 German with the knife, his only weapon, and was advancing on 3 more of the enemy when he was shot down and killed with small arms fire at pointblank range. Sgt. McVeigh's heroic act allowed the 2 remaining men in his squad to concentrate their machinegun fire on the attacking enemy and then turn their weapons on the 3 Germans in the road, killing all 3. Fire from this machinegun and the other gun of the section was almost entirely responsible for stopping this enemy assault, and allowed the rifle platoon to which it was attached time to reorganize, assume positions on and hold the high ground gained during the day.
    1946 – One of the battleships damaged at Pearl Harbor, USS Nevada, was decommissioned by the US Navy.
    1948 - In St. Louis, Jackie Robinson hits for the cycle, drives in two runs, scores three times and steals a base helping the Dodgers to beat the Cardinals, 12-7.
    1953 - Birthday of American composer William Copper, Virginia.
    1953 – Producer Ken Burns was born in Brooklyn.  Known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films, his most widely known documentaries are “The Civil War” (1990), “Baseball” (1994), “Jazz” (2001), “The War” (2007), “The National Parks:  America’s Best Idea” (2009), “Prohibition” (2011), “The Central Park Five” (2012), and “The Roosevelts” (2014).  Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards and has won Emmy awards, among other honors. 
    1954 - San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens. It has been continually “under construction” since this date. San Francisco has had at least three airports within the city limits during the twentieth century. Crissy Field at the Presidio dates from World War I, the Marina Flying Field from 1915, and the late 1930s saw development of the Seaplane Harbor at Treasure Island. Ingleside racetrack was also used for aviation purposes in the early part of the twentieth century. Commercial and general aviation ultimately moved to Mills Field in San Mateo County in the 1930s, which originally was temporary as the originally international airport was to be built on Treasure Island.  Crissy Field at the Presidio was the last airport within the city, and ended limited operations in the 1980s.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/airport.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/airfield.html
http://www.san-francisco-sfo.com/
http://www.worldairportguide.com/Airports/sfo/sfo.asp
    1956 - Top Hits
“My Prayer” - The Platters
“Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel” - Elvis Presley
“Allegheny Moon” - Patti Page
“I Walk the Line” - Johnny Cash
    1958 - Air Force Academy moved from Denver to its present site in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
    1958 – President Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
    1958 – Birthday of singer/dancer Michael (Joe) Jackson, (d. 2009), Gary, Indiana.  Known as the King of Pop.  Joined the family act, The Jackson Five, in 1964 and started his solo career in 1971.  “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save,” “ I’ll Be There,” solo: Ben; Grammy Award: Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough [1979]; 5 Grammy Awards in 1983: “Thriller,” ”Billie Jean,” “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial;” 2 in 1984: ”Beat It;” another in 1985 [w/Lionel Richie]: “We are the World”); 1989 Best Music Video/Short Form Grammy: “Leave Me Alone;” “The Legend,” Award Grammy; “The Girl is Mine,” “Stay, Stay, Stay” [w/Paul McCartney], “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” [w/Siedah Garrett], “Rock with You,” “Bad,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Ease on Down the Road” [w/Diana Ross - from Broadway’s The Wiz]; portrayed Captain Eo in Epcot Center’s multimedia show; married and divorced Lisa Marie Presley; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mar 19, 2001. 
    1958 - Alan Freed's "Big Beat Show" opens at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn. The usual venue, The Paramount, is vacated because management didn't like the fact there was a riot after Freed's Boston concert. The opener in Brooklyn brought in $200,000 and those performing included Frankie Avalon, Jimmy Clanton, Bobby Freeman, the Elegants, Bill Haley & the Comets and Chuck Berry.
    1958 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney of a Liverpool band called the Quarrymen, welcome George Harrison to the group.
    1959 – The first Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union were held.
    1959 - Horace Silver Quintet records “Blowin’ the Blues Away.”
    1962 - Malvin Russell “Mel” Goode of Pittsburgh, PA, became the first African-American television news commentator when he was assigned by WABC-TV to the United Nations staff, New York City.
    1962 - Elvis' tenth movie, “Kid Galahad,” opens in US theaters, featuring the King as an amateur boxer. Charles Bronson also stars.
    1962 - Hackberry, LA, was deluged with twenty-two inches of rain in 24 hours, establishing a state record.
    1964 - Top Hits
“Where Did Our Love Go” - The Supremes
“The House of the Rising Sun” - The Animals
“C’mon and Swim” - Bobby Freeman
“I Guess I’m Crazy” - Jim Reeves
    1964 - Walt Disney's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "Mary Poppins" released.  http://us.imdb.com/Details?0058331
    1964 - Roy Orbison’s "Oh, Pretty Woman" was released. It hit number one (for 3 weeks) on September 26th and became the biggest of his career. "Oh, Pretty Woman" was Orbison’s second #1 hit. The other was "Running Scared" (6/05/61).
    1964 - In a clear case of rock and roll being saved by the British Invasion, Billboard magazine notes that guitar sales are the highest they've been since the advent of Elvis Presley.
    1965 – San Francisco Giant Willie Mays breaks former Pirate Ralph Kiner’s record for home runs in the month of August when the 'Say Hey Kid' connects for his 17th round tripper in an 8-3 victory over the Mets.
    1965 - Cool wave brought 2.5 inches of snow to Mt. Washington for an August record. It reached 25 in Vermont, the earliest freeze on record in many locations.
    1965 - The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth.
    1966 - The Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. It was the group’s last live appearance before they disbanded in 1970. Also appearing were The Ronettes and the Remains. Ticket purchases by mail were available from KYA, No. 1 Nob Hill Circle, San Francisco
http://www.televideos.com/prod01.htm
    1966 - The last episode of ABC-TV's musical variety show “Hullabaloo” airs, featuring guest stars Lesley Gore, Paul Anka, Peter and Gordon, and The Cyrkle.
    1967 - Final TV episode of "The Fugitive." The series originally started on September, 1963. Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for his wife’s murder, but escaped from his captors in a train wreck. This popular program aired for four years detailing Kimble’s search for the one-armed man (Bill Raisch) who had killed his wife, Helen (Diane Brewster).  In the meantime, Kimble himself, was being pursued by Lieutenant Phillip Gerard (Barry Morse). The final episode, aired this day in 1967, featured Kimble extracting a confession from the one-armed man as they struggled from the heights of a water tower in a deserted amusement park. That single episode was the highest-rated show ever broadcast until 1975. The TV series generated a hit movie in 1993 with Harrison Ford as Kimble and Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones as Gerard. (Feb. 28, 1983: “M*A*S*H”, concluding a run of 255 episodes, this 2 ½ hour finale became the most-watched television show at that time---77 percent of the viewing public was tuned in. “Cheers’” last episode on August 19, 1993 did not beat this rating nor did “Seinfeld’s” last on May 14, 1998 nor did my most favorite show, “Mad About You.” on May 24, 1999.
http://www.tvtome.com/MadAboutYou/
(Helen Hunt and co-star, Paul Reiser, were both given $1,000,000 per episode salaries for the 1999 TV season of "Mad About You".)
    1967 – At a time when they scheduled doubleheaders in Major League Baseball, the Yankees and the Red Sox played the longest in Yankees’ history.  Red Sox take the 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yankees win 2nd game in 20 innings, 4-3, taking a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes.
    1968 - Democratic Party National Convention: Antiwar protesters clashed with police and national guardsmen in the streets outside, and hundreds of people, including innocent bystanders and members of the press, were brutally beaten by Chicago’s finest.
    1968 - Cream and Electric Flag opened at Fillmore West, San Francisco.
    1969 - To compete with Johnny Carson (NBC) and Joey Bishop (ABC), CBS-TV presented Merv Griffin on late-night TV. Johnny ruled -- staying on top for almost 23 years to come.
    1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War was staged in East Los Angeles. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
    1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to drive in 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
    1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,'' Paul & Linda McCartney. McCartney had a real Uncle Albert, who he said would quote the Bible when he got drunk.
    1972 - Top Hits
“Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” - Looking Glass
“Alone Again (Naturally)” - Gilbert O’Sullivan
“Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)” - The Hollies
“If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry” - Jerry Wallace
    1972 - President Richard Nixon announced that a White House investigation of the Watergate break-in, conducted by White House counsel John Dean, revealed that administration officials were not involved in the burglary.
    1974 - 600 Catholic nuns adopt a resolution calling for the ordination of women priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
    1974 - Moses Malone became the first basketball player to jump from high school to professional basketball, skipping college to sign a contract with the Utah Stars of the ABA.
    1976 – In NYC, “Son of Sam,” David Berkowitz, killed one person and seriously wounded another in the first of a series of attacks.  He killed six victims and wounded seven others by July, 1977. Berkowitz eluded a massive police manhunt while leaving brazen letters that mocked the police and promised further crimes, highly publicized in the press. He terrorized New York and achieved worldwide notoriety.  Berkowitz was arrested by NYC homicide detectives in August, 1977, and was indicted for eight shooting incidents. He confessed to all of them.  Berkowitz was found mentally competent and incarcerated in state prison for murder. In the course of further police investigation, Berkowitz was also implicated in many unsolved arsons in the city.  Berkowitz has been imprisoned since his arrest and is serving six life sentences consecutively.
    1977 - Lou Brock stole the 893rd base of his career, surpassing Ty Cobb’s modern record for career stolen bases. Ricky Henderson in 1982 breaks Brock’s for stealing the most bases in one season with 122.
    1979 - Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network, making it the first completely Black-owned radio network in the world.
    1980 - Top Hits
“Magic” - Olivia Newton-John
“Sailing” - Christopher Cross
“Take Your Time (Do It Right)” - The S.O.S. Band
“Drivin’ My Life Away” - Eddie Rabbitt
    1981 - The Pretenders "II" LP enters the chart.
    1981 - The soundtrack to the film, "Heavy Metal" enters the album charts. The LP features tracks by Stevie Nicks, Cheap Trick, Devo and Sammy Hagar.
    1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Abracadabra,'' Steve Miller Band.
    1984 - Edwin Moses won the 400-meter hurdles in track competition in Europe. It was the track star’s 108th consecutive victory.
    1984 - High temperature at Topeka, KS reaches 110 degrees for the first time since the dust bowl of the 30's.
    1986 - The former "American Bandstand" studio, at the original home of WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, PA, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The studio is located at 4548 Market Street.
    1986 – Sparky Anderson, the first manager to win the World Series in each league, became the first manager to win 600 games in both the leagues when his Tigers beat the Brewers, 9-5.
    1987 - Los Lobos' remake of Ritchie Valens' 1959 classic, "La Bamba" hits #1 on the pop singles chart and stays there for three weeks.
    1987 – Nolan Ryan passes the 200 strikeout mark in a season for a record eleventh time.
    1987 - Some of the most powerful thunderstorms in several years developed over the piedmont of North Carolina, and marched across central sections of the state during the late afternoon and evening hours. Baseball size hail was reported around Albemarle, while thunderstorm winds downed giant trees around High Falls.
   1988 - Cool air invaded the north central U.S. Ten cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Bismarck, ND with a reading of 33 degrees. Deerfield, a small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, reported a low of 23 degrees. The remnants of Tropical Storm Chris drenched eastern Pennsylvania with up to five and a half inches of rain, and produced high winds which gusted to 90 mph, severely damaging a hundred boats in Anne Arundel County, MD.
    1988 - Top Hits
“Monkey” - George Michael
“I Don’t Wanna to Go on with You like That” - Elton John
“I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love” - Chicago
“The Wanderer” - Eddie Rabbitt
    1989 - In a special election, Ileana Rose Lehtinen (R-FL) becomes the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Congress.
    1990 - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq. By the end of 1990, 580,000 Iraqi troops were believed to be in Kuwait or southern Iraq. Facing them were 485,000 troops of 17 allied countries. Earlier, on August 10 at a meeting in Cairo, only 12 of the 21 member nations of the Arab League voted to support American troops.
    1991 - The Soviet Communist Party suspended parliament, thus ending a 75-year control of the USSR. Democratic change was sought and the struggle still continues today, perhaps ending the hunt in the United States to “halt” communism. Capitalism won out but we must wait to see what President Putin has in mind for the second coming of the USSR.
    1992 – Guns 'n' Roses’ "November Rain" peaks at #3 on the pop singles chart.
    1994 - Viacom Inc. announced the purchase of Blockbuster Entertainment Corp., the video rental store giant, for $8 billion.
    1998 - Top Hits
“I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”- Aerosmith
“The First Night”- Monica
“Crush”- Jennifer Paige
“My Way”- Usher
    2002 - To show their displeasure about tomorrow's impending strike, fans at Devil Ray-Angel game begin throwing foul balls back onto the field at Edison Field and over 100 people are ejected for throwing trash. New words are added to the traditional seventh-inning rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as many of the fans in attendance begin to chant, "Don't strike! Don't strike! Don't strike!"
    2005 - Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish in southeastern Louisiana early on the 29th with maximum sustained winds near 125 mph, a strong category-three, and the third most-intense land-falling hurricane in U.S. history. The center of the hurricane passed just east of New Orleans, where winds gusted over 100 mph. Widespread devastation and unprecedented flooding occurred, submerging at least 80 percent of the city as levees failed. Farther east, powerful winds and a devastating storm surge of 20-30 feet raked the Mississippi coastline, including Gulfport and Biloxi, where Gulf of Mexico floodwaters spread several miles inland. Rainfall amounts of 8-10 inches were common along and to the east of the storm's path. Katrina weakened to a tropical storm as it tracked northward through Mississippi and gradually lost its identity as it moved into the Tennessee Valley on the 30th.
    2005 – Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Fats Domino, 77, is rescued from his Ninth Ward home in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
    2007 - Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot AFB, North Dakota, to Barksdale AFB, Bossier City, LA.
    2007 – The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken, Jr.  Separately, Ichiro Suzuki collected the 1,500th hit of his Major League career in only his 1,060th game. Only two players – Al Simmons (1,040) and George Sisler (1,048) - had accumulated 1,500 hits in fewer games.
    2009 - A 1970 interview with John Lennon, in which he revealed some of the reasons that The Beatles split, appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. John said that his band mates disrespected and "insulted" his wife, Yoko Ono, adding, "They despised her... It seemed I had to be happily married to them or Yoko, and I chose Yoko." He also took a shot at his former songwriting partner, saying "We got fed up with being sidemen for Paul."
    2013 - The first federal health study reporting on the use of sleeping pills reveals that 8.6 million Americans take prescription sleeping pills.
    2014 - The NCAA settled a lawsuit regarding concussions, paying $70 million to assess head injuries for current and past players of college sports.  The fund does not cover treatment, forcing injured players to sue their colleges for compensation.