FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012

Today is Friday, August 31, the 244th day of 2012. There are 122 days left in the year.

1535 ― Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII

1887 ― Thomas A. Edison patents Kinetoscope (produces moving pictures)

1902 ― Split skirt first worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)

1907 ― England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente

1919 ― Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago

1955 ― First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill.

1968 ― Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover

1971 ― Dave Scott becomes first person to drive a car on the Moon

1972 ― Olga Korbut, USSR, wins Olympic gold medal in gymnastics

1980 ― Poland's Solidarity labor union founded