Picture of the Day and B'day's for August 20

Posted August 19, 2008, 8:06 pm

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 20, the 233rd day of 2008. There are 133 days left in the year.

Today's Birthdays: News anchor Connie Chung is 62. Trombone player Jimmy Pankow of Chicago is 61. Singer Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin is 60. Singer Doug Fieger of The Knack is 56. Singer Rudy Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers is 56. Actor-director Peter Horton (``thirtysomething'') is 55. ``Today'' show weatherman Al Roker is 54. Actress Joan Allen is 52. Actor James Marsters (``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'') is 46.

Picture of The Day: True Story. Some of the first aerial photographs were taken in 1903 by German Engineer Julius Neubronner who combined a small camera with a mechanical timer and attached it to pigeons with a tiny harness.