On August 10, 1984, the action thriller Red Dawn, starring
Patrick Swayze, opened in theaters as the first movie to
be released with a PG-13 rating.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which
oversees the movie rating system, had announced the new
PG-13 category in July of that same year.

Founded in 1922 as a trade group for the American film
industry, the MPAA introduced its first-ever movie rating
system in November 1968.

   
CAMILLE BOHANNON

On August 9, 1945, a second atomic bomb is dropped on
Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally
in Japan’s unconditional surrender.

SANDY KOZEL

Among Dustin Hoffman’s numerous accolades are two
Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Golden Globe
Awards, and two  Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a
nomination for a Tony award.         

He was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1997,
the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy
Center Honors Award in 2012.     

Dustin Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California on
this day in 1937. He’s 88 years old today. 

On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declared war on
Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers the following
day into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to
take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.

On August 7, 1942, U.S. forces, primarily the 1st Marine
Division, launched Operation Watchtower, the first major
Allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II, by
landing on Guadalcanal.

This airfield, later named Henderson Field, became a
crucial strategic point in the Pacific campaign. The
invasion marked the beginning of the lengthy and
brutal Guadalcanal Campaign, a six-month struggle
for control of the island.