On This Day: Wednesday August 31, 2005 This is the 243rd day of the year, with 122 days remaining in 2005. Fact of the Day: White House baby In 1893, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Frances Folsom Cleveland, became the first presidential wife to give birth at the White House (girl, Esther). The first child born in the White House, though, was the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson in 1806: Jefferson's daughter, Patsy (Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.) gave birth to a son named for James Madison. Holidays Kyrgyzstan: Independence Day. Malaysia: Hari Kebangsaan / Freedom Day. Trinidad and Tobago: Independence Day. Kazakhstan: Constitution Day. Moldova: National Language Day. Feast Day of St. Paulinus of Trier, St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, St. Raymond Nonnatus, and The Servite Martyrs of Prague. Events 1521 - Cortes captured the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, and set it on fire. 1887 - Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the forerunner of the motion picture camera. 1888 - The body of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in Buck's Row, London. 1903 - A Packard auto completed the first transcontinental road trip. 1939 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signed an order to attack Poland, and German forces moved to the frontier. 1961 - A concrete wall replaced the barbed wire fence that separated East Germany and West Germany -- the Berlin Wall. 1962 - The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth. 1980 - The Polish trade union Solidarity was formed in Gdansk. 1990 - East Germany and West Germany signed a reunification treaty. Births 1880 - Wilhelmina, Dutch queen (1890-1948). 1897 - Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel), American Academy Award-winning actor. 1908 - William Saroyan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. 1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, American songwriter, lyricist. 1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, American black activist. 1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist. Deaths 1969 - Rocky Marciano, American world heavyweight boxing champion. 1973 - John Ford (Sean Aloysius O'feeney), American film director. 1997 - Diana, princess of Wales, from injuries in a car accident, along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. 2002 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader.