Today is World Elephant Day

August 12, 2022

1898: Spain agreed to peace protocols with the United States, bringing an end to the Spanish-american war.

1953: The

USSR detonated the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.

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.

World Elephant Day asks everyone to "help conserve and

protect elephants from the numerous threats they face" and

“to experience elephants in non-exploitive and sustainable environments where elephants can thrive under care and

protection.”

Source: Checkiday.com

Graphic: Staff, TNS

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Katharine Lee

Bates (1859-1929), songwriter; Christy Mathewson (18801925), baseball player; Cecil B. Demille (1881-1959), film director/producer; Cantinflas (1911-1993), actor/filmmaker; William Goldman (19312018), 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.

TODAY’S FACT: “Sue,” one of the largest and bestpreserved 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: “When I was your age, television was called books.” — William Goldman, “The Princess Bride”

TODAY’S NUMBER: 64,000 — bytes (62.5 kilobytes) of memory available in the “typical system for home and school” offered in an IBM press release announcing the personal computer on this day in 1981. The system retailed for $3,005.

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (Aug. 11) and last quarter moon (Aug. 18).