ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC
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Today is the 225th day of 2024 and the 54th day of summer.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1898, Spain agreed to peace protocols with the United States, bringing an end to the Spanish-American War.
In 1953, the USSR detonated the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
In 2017, one person was killed and several others injured when a car was driven into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), author/songwriter; Christy Mathewson (1880-1925), baseball player; Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959), film director/producer; Cantinflas (1911-1993), actor/filmmaker; William Goldman (1931-2018), author/screenwriter; George Hamilton (1939- ), actor; Ann Martin (1955- ), author; Bruce Greenwood (1956- ), actor; Peter Krause (1965- ), actor; Michael Ian Black (1971- ), actor; Pete Sampras (1971- ), tennis player; Casey Affleck (1975- ), actor; Tyson Fury (1988- ), boxer; LaKeith Stanfield (1991- ), actor.
TODAY'S FACT: "Sue," one of the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found, was discovered in South Dakota on this day in 1990. The skeleton is now displayed at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1994, Major League Baseball players began a 232-day strike that resulted in the first cancellation of the World Series since 1904.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "Cynics are simply thwarted romantics." -- William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
TODAY'S NUMBER: 16,000 -- bytes (16 kilobytes) of memory available on the IBM PC first available for purchase on this day in 1981. The base system retailed for $1,565.
TODAY'S MOON: First quarter moon (Aug. 12).