• Today is Wednesday, Aug. 29, the 242nd day of 2012. There are 124 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Aug. 29, 1952, 4'33" ("Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds"), a three-movement composition by avant-garde composer John Cage, had its premiere in Woodstock, N.Y., as pianist David Tudor sat at a piano and, for a total of four minutes and 33 seconds, played... nothing. (According to Cage, the "music" consisted of the setting's background noises, including the sounds of the increasingly restive audience.)
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• On this date:
• In 1533, the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa (ah-tuh-WAHL'-puh), was executed on orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
• In 1862, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing began operations at the United States Treasury.
• In 1877, the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, died in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 76.
• In 1943, responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark managed to scuttle most of its naval ships.
• In 1944, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees (shahms ay-lee-ZAY') in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
• In 1957, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ended a filibuster that had lasted 24 hours.
• In 1958, pop superstar Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Ind.
• In 1962, Malvin R. Goode began covering the United Nations for ABC-TV, becoming network television's first black reporter.

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