Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, August 29, the 241st day of 2006. There are 124 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE<$>

In 1533, the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.

In 1632, English philosopher John Locke was born.

In 1943, responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark managed to scuttle most of its naval ships.

In 1944, thousands of troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris to celebrate liberation.

In 1975, Irish statesman Eamon de Valera died near Dublin at age 92.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my ‘I-ity,’ or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half (historian Thomas Carlyle), I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking ME.” — Jane Welsh Carlyle, English writer (1801-1866).