August Events Through History

August Events

8/1 :Army Day (China).
8/1 :Emancipation Day (Trinidad, Tobago, and Granada).
8/1 :Freedom Day (Guyana). (8/4?)
8/1 :Homowo (Ghana).
8/1 :National Day (Switzerland).
8/1 :Parent’s Day (Zaire).
8/1 :Rounds Re-sounding Day.
8/1/1291 :Swiss Confederation founded.
8/1/1714 :George I became English Sovereign.
8/1/1787 :Proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States printed.
8/1/1789 :First US customs officers began collecting.
8/1/1790 :First US census taken (3,929,214 people in 17 states).
8/1/1838 :Slavery abolished in Jamaica.
8/1/1870 :Utah Territory allowed women to vote.
8/1/1873 :Cable car designed for San Francisco successfully tested.
8/1/1876 :Colorado became 38th US state.
8/1/1896 :George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen reached England while rowing from New York to France.
8/1/1903 :First US cross-country trip completed (Packard – 52 days).
8/1/1903 :Martha (Calamity Jane) Burk, frontierswoman, died.
8/1/1907 :US Army Air Force founded (now the USAF).
8/1/1914 :Germany declared war on Russia.
8/1/1933 :NRA (National Recovery Administration) established.
8/1/1946 :Atomic Energy Commission established.
8/1/1950 :Guam became a US territory.
8/1/1963 :First black named to a US Davis Cup team (Arthur Ashe).
8/1/1966 :Charles Joeseph Whitman shot after killing 15 people at University of Texas.
8/1/1971 :Concert for Bangladesh.
8/1/1981 :MTV debuted.
8/2 :I Want You To Be Happy Day.
8/2 :Nuestra Senora de los Angeles (Costa Rica).
8/2 :Saint Elias Day (Illinden).
8/2 :Saint John’s Regatta (Canada).
8/2 :Sinjska Alka (Yugoslavia).
8/2/1776 :US Declaration of Independence actually signed.
8/2/1788 :Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait artist (“The Blue Boy”),
:died.
8/2/1799 :Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, co-inventor of hot air balloon, died.
8/2/1811 :William Williams, signer of US Declaration of Independence, died.
8/2/1832 :Black Hawk defeated (Iowa).
8/2/1858 :First street letter boxes installed (Boston and New York).
8/2/1859 :Horace Mann, father of public education in the US, died.
8/2/1861 :A US national income tax bill was passed to aid the Union war
:effort.
8/2/1903 :Macedonians rose up against Turkey.
8/2/1921 :Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, died.
8/2/1921 :Several former Chicago White Sox and two others acquitted in
:”Black Sox” scandal.
8/2/1922 :Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor, died.
8/2/1923 :Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th US president, died.
8/2/1936 :Louis Bleriot, first to fly across English channel, died.
8/2/1939 :Einstein wrote a letter to FDR describing the atomic bomb.
8/2/1943 :PT-109 rammed and sunk.
8/2/1946 :First peacetime production of atomic energy delivered (St. Louis).
8/2/1968 :Earthquake in Philippines (307 killed).
8/2/1977 :Francis Gary Powers, US aviator, died.
8/2/1979 :Thurman Munson, New York Yankee catcher, died.
8/2/1985 :Apollo Computer Inc. announced cost cutting measures including a
:15% salary reduction with six days off over the next eight
:weeks.
8/2/1985 :Delta Airlines jumbo jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth (137
:killed).
8/2/1985 :Largest health-related settlement ever offered by a US company
:(Manville Corp., asbestos).
8/2/1988 :Raymond Carver, US poet and short story writer, died.
8/2/1990 :Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait.
8/3 :Bourguiba Harib Birthday (Tunisia).
8/3 :Colonization Martyr’s Day (Guinea-Bissau).
8/3 :Independence Day (Jamaica and Niger).
8/3 :Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios (Cyprus).
8/3/1492 :Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain.
8/3/1777 :New US flag flown in battle.
8/3/1852 :First intercollegiate sports competition (Harvard vs. Yale –
:rowing).
8/3/1861 :US Army nurses’ pay raised from $8 per month to $12 per month.
8/3/1882 :US Congress passed first law restricting immigration.
8/3/1914 :Germany declared war on France.
8/3/1923 :Calvin Coolidge sworn in as the 30th US president after Harding
:died.
8/3/1924 :Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist, died.
8/3/1929 :Thorstein Veblen, US economist, died.
8/3/1941 :Joe DiMaggio ended his streak of 74 consecutive games reaching
:base safely.
8/3/1954 :Colette, French novelist, died.
8/3/1955 :Hurricane Connie hit US – 11 days.
8/3/1958 :USS Nautilus crossed under north polar ice cap.
8/3/1966 :Lenny Bruce, comedian, died.
8/3/1975 :Superdome (New Orleans) opened.
8/3/1976 :First Viking I images of Mars beamed back to Earth.
8/3/1977 :”The Spy Who Loved Me” released in US.
8/3/1981 :Apollo Computer UK Ltd. began operations.
8/3/1981 :US air traffic controllers went on strike. (1980?)
8/3/1988 :Mathias Rust released by the Soviet Union after he landed a plane
:in Red Square.
8/4 :Freedom Day (Guyana). (8/1?)
8/4 :Lizzie Borden Liberation Day.
8/4 :National Day (Burkina Faso).
8/4 :Nicole Robin Day (Virgin Islands).
8/4/1735 :John Peter Zenger, New York newspaperman, acquitted of libel
:charges.
8/4/1790 :US Coast Guard founded.
8/4/1821 :William Floyd, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, died.
8/4/1830 :Plans for the city of Chicago laid out.
8/4/1862 :General McClellan’s troops recalled.
8/4/1874 :Chautauqua Organization formed (New York).
8/4/1875 :Hans Christian Andersen, Danish storyteller, died.
8/4/1892 :Borden murders (Fall River, Massachusetts).
8/4/1914 :Britain declared war on Germany.
8/4/1922 :Alexander Graham Bell’s funeral (13 million phones silent for one
:minute).
8/4/1944 :Anne Frank arrested by Nazi police in Amsterdam.
8/4/1949 :Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal established.
8/4/1949 :Eathquake hit Ecuador (>6000 killed).
8/4/1959 :First black to wear Red Sox uniform (Pumpsie Green).
8/4/1962 :Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, South African leader, apprehended.
8/4/1964 :Bombing of North Vietnam began.
8/4/1964 :Three civil rights workers found slain outside Philadelphia,
:Mississippi.
8/4/1971 :First satellite launched from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15).
8/4/1972 :Arthur Bremer found guilty of shooting George Wallace.
8/4/1982 :First player to get hits for two different baseball teams in two
:different cities in the same day (Joel Youngblood – Mets and
:Expos).
8/4/1983 :Dave Winfield accidently killed a seagull with a warmup toss in
:Toronto.
8/4/1984 :Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso.
8/4/1985 :Rod Carew got his 3000th hit.
8/4/1985 :Tom Seaver won his 300th major league baseball game.
8/4/1990 :Ettore Maserati died.
8/5 :Bank Holiday (Scotland and Northern Ireland).
8/5 :National Mustard Day.
8/5/1100 :Henry I became the English Sovereign.
8/5/1583 :Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Britain) claimed Newfoundland.
8/5/1763 :Battle of Bushy Run.
8/5/1861 :US Federal Income Tax signed into law.
8/5/1864 :Battle of Mobile Bay (Alabama).
8/5/1884 :Cornerstone laid for Statue of Liberty.
8/5/1909 :US Corporation tax first enacted.
8/5/1914 :First US traffic light installed (Euclid and East 105th Street,
:Cleveland).
8/5/1959 :Edgar Albert Guest, poet, died.
8/5/1962 :Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson, later Baker), actress,
:found dead.
8/5/1969 :Willie Stargell (Pirates) knocked one completely out of Dodger
:Stadium.
8/5/1984 :Richard Burton (Richard Jenkins), actor, died.
8/5/1991 :Paul Brown, founder of the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati
:Bengals, died.
8/6 :Caricom (Barbados).
8/6 :Emancipation Day (Bahamas).
8/6 :Independence Day (Bolivia).
8/6/1637 :Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, died.
8/6/1774 :”Mother Ann” Lee, founder of the Shakers, arrived in New York.
8/6/1777 :Battle of Oriskany.
8/6/1801 :Second Great Awakening or Great Revival of the West.
8/6/1825 :Bolivia gained independence from Spain.
8/6/1890 :Cy Young pitched his first game.
8/6/1890 :First execution by electrocution (William Kemmler – New York).
8/6/1914 :Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, first wife of of Woodrow Wilson, died.
8/6/1926 :First American (and first woman) swam the English Channel
:(Gertrude Ederle).
8/6/1930 :Judge Joseph Force Crater stepped out of a New York chop house,
:never to be heard from again.
8/6/1940 :Battle of North Africa began.
8/6/1945 :Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (8:15 am local time, 80,000
:killed).
8/6/1954 :David Grandison Fairchild, US botanist, died.
8/6/1958 :Jimmy’s Drive-in (Milford, New Jersey) opened.
8/6/1961 :Vostok 2 (USSR) launched.
8/6/1962 :Jamaica attained independence.
8/6/1966 :Luci Baines Johnson married Patrick Nugent.
8/6/1978 :Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) died.
8/6/1979 :Kurt Kasznar, actor, died.
8/6/1980 :First horserace with purse of more than $2 million.
8/6/1991 :Harry Reasoner, TV reporter, died.
8/7 :Battle of Boyaca (Colombia).
8/7/1782 :Order of the Purple Heart established.
8/7/1789 :US War Department established.
8/7/1834 :Jacquard died.
8/7/1862 :Union forces re-took Fort Filmore (New Mexico Territory).
8/7/1888 :Revolving door patented.
8/7/1896 :George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen finish rowing from New York to
:France.
8/7/1941 :Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet and mystic, died.
8/7/1942 :US Marines landed on Guadalcanal.
8/7/1959 :First photograph of Earth taken from space (Explorer VI).
8/7/1961 :Titov orbited the earth 17 times.
8/7/1963 :Jacqueline Kennedy became the first wife of a president to give
:birth while he was in the White House since the days of Grover
:Cleveland.
8/7/1964 :”Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” approved.
8/7/1971 :Apollo-15 splashed down despite failure of one of its three
:parachutes.
8/7/1971 :Love Canal (New York) declared a disaster area.
8/7/1986 :Russia announced it granted political asylum to Edward Lee Howard.
8/7/1989 :Congressman M. Leland died in a plane crash enroute to Ethiopia.
8/8 :Bonza Bottler Day.
8/8 :Fete Des Cuisinieres (French West Indies).
8/8 :Middle Children’s Day.
8/8 :Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors’ Porch Night.
8/8/1829 :First steam-powered locomotive (Stourbridge Lion) operated in US.
8/8/1876 :Mimeograph patented (Edison – Menlo Park, New Jersey).
8/8/1883 :First official visit by a US president to Indians of the West.
8/8/1914 :Montenegro declared war on Germany.
8/8/1940 :German Luftwaffe began daylight raids on Britain.
8/8/1942 :General Eisenhower given command of Allied invasion of North
:Africa.
8/8/1945 :Russia declared war on Japan.
8/8/1963 :The Great Train Robbery ($7,368,000).
8/8/1968 :Richard Nixon got Republican Presidential Nomination.
8/8/1974 :Richard Nixon announced resignation.
8/8/1978 :Pioneer Venus Multiprobe (US) launched.
8/8/1988 :First night game held at Wrigley Field.
8/9 :Independence Day (Singapore).
8/9 :International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of
:South Africa.
8/9/-480 :Persia defeated Spartans at Thermopylae.
8/9/1642 :First Harvard commencement. (9/23?)
8/9/1842 :US-Canada border defined (Webster-Ashburton Treaty).
8/9/1859 :Escalator patented.
8/9/1936 :Jesse Owens won fourth Olympic gold medal.
8/9/1945 :Atomic bomb (“Fat Man”) dropped on Nagasaki (11:02 am).
8/9/1969 :Sharon Tate and four others killed by members of Charles Manson’s
:cult.
8/9/1974 :Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency (12:00 noon).
8/9/1975 :Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, died.
8/9/1981 :Largest crowd during baseball All-Star game (72,086, Cleveland).
8/9/1985 :Retired Navy Lt. Commander Arthur Walker convicted of spying for
:Russia.
8/10 :Independence Day (Ecuador).
8/10/1622:Province of Maine granted to John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges.
8/10/1759:Ferdinand VI of Spain died.
8/10/1776:”E pluribus unum” (Out of many one) adopted as US motto.
8/10/1809:Ecuador attained independence.
8/10/1821:Missouri became 24th US state.
8/10/1833:Chicago incorporated (population 200).
8/10/1835:Noyes Academy (Canaan, New Hampshire) burned after 14 blacks
:enrolled.
8/10/1846:Smithsonian Institute established (bequest by J. Smithson).
8/10/1861:Battle of Wilson’s Creek.
8/10/1869:Motion picture projector patented (O.B. Brown – Malden,
:Massachusetts).
8/10/1885:First electric streetcar ran (Baltimore).
8/10/1912:Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf.
8/10/1921:FDR stricken with polio.
8/10/1945:Robert Hutchings Goddard, “father of the space age,” died.
8/10/1960:Discoverer 13 (US) launched.
8/10/1966:Lunar Orbiter 1 (US) launched.
8/10/1969:LaBianca murders (“The Manson Family”).
8/10/1977:US and Panama agreed to transfer the canal in the year 2000.
8/10/1982:First day of filming “Octopussy.”
8/11 :Independence Day (Chad).
8/11 :King Hussein’s Accession to Throne (Jordan).
8/11/1780:Barbados hurricane began.
8/11/1841:Frederick Douglass, runaway slave, first spoke in public.
8/11/1877:Asaph Hall, US astronomer, discovered the two moons of Mars
:(Phobos and Deimos).
8/11/1881:Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore, second wife of Millard
:Fillmore, died.
8/11/1903:Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot, died.
8/11/1909:SOS distress signal first used by an American ship (Arapahoe).
8/11/1919:Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, died.
8/11/1937:Edith Wharton, American author, died.
8/11/1954:France ended seven year war in Indochina.
8/11/1962:Vostok 3 (USSR) launched.
8/11/1963:The Kingston Trio was mystery guest on “What’s My Line?”.
8/11/1963:PDP-5 unveiled (WESCON).
8/11/1965:Riots began in the Watts section of Los Angeles (34 killed, 856
:injured).
8/11/1971:Ground was broken for the construction of the Superdome (New
:Orleans).
8/11/1971:John Lindsay, New York mayor, switched to the Democratic party.
8/11/1977:David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) arrested.
8/11/1980:Canadian postal strike ended after six weeks.
8/11/1984:President Reagan’s voice-test-joke.
8/11/1985:Union Carbide toxic gas leak (Institute, West Virginia).
8/12 :Birthday of the Queen (Thailand).
8/12 :Indian Day (Massachusetts).
8/12 :Umpire Appreciation Day.
8/12/1658:First police in America (New Amsterdam).
8/12/1676:King Philip’s War (American Indians vs. white settlers in New
:England) ended.
8/12/1684:Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker, died.
8/12/1827:William Blake, English poet, died.
8/12/1848:George Stephenson, developer of steam locomotive, died.
8/12/1851:Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
8/12/1867:President Johnson suspended Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
8/12/1891:James Russell Lowell, US essayist, poet, and diplomat, died.
8/12/1898:Hostilities ended in the Spanish-American War.
8/12/1934:Babe Ruth played his last American League game (double header Red
:Sox vs. Yankees).
8/12/1955:Bill signed raising minimum wage from $.75 to $1.
8/12/1955:Thomas Mann died.
8/12/1960:Echo I (US), first successful communications balloon, launched.
8/12/1964:Ian Lancaster Fleming, creator of James Bond, died.
8/12/1972:Last US ground troops out of Vietnam.
8/12/1977:First successful flight of spacecraft on its own in Earth’s
:atmosphere.
8/12/1981:IBM unveiled the IBM Personal Computer. (8/14?)
8/12/1982:Henry Jaynes Fonda, actor, died.
8/12/1984:The XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles ended.
8/12/1985:Japan Airlines Boeing 747 crashed in central Japan (520 killed).
8/13 :Battle of Flowers (England).
8/13 :Independence Day (Central African Republic).
8/13 :International Lefthanders Day.
8/13 :National Alcoholism Awareness Day.
8/13 :O-Bon Festival (Japan).
8/13 :Women’s Day (Tunisia).
8/13/1651:Litchfield, Connecticut founded.
8/13/1826:Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French inventor of stethoscope,
:died.
8/13/1831:Blue sun observed throughout the South.
8/13/1881:Edward John Trelawney, English traveller and author, died.
8/13/1898:US forces captured Manila.
8/13/1907:First taxi cab appeared in New York.
8/13/1910:Brookly and Pitsburgh tied 8-8 (each had 38 at-bats, 13 hits, 12
:assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 hit batsman, and 1
:passed ball).
8/13/1910:Florence Nightingale, English nurse, died.
8/13/1912:First experimental radio liscense issued.
8/13/1930:Air speed record set (Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25
:minutes, Captain Frank Hawkes).
8/13/1934:L’il Abner debuted.
8/13/1935:Roller Derby began.
8/13/1946:Herbert George Wells, author-historian (“The Time Machine”), died.
8/13/1960:Central African Republic proclaimed its independence.
8/13/1961:Berlin wall began being erected.
8/13/1971:King Curtis, saxophonist, killed.
8/13/1991:Richard Snelling, Vermont Governor died.
8/14 :Independence Day (Pakistan).
8/14 :La Torta dei Feischi (Italy).
8/14 :Liberty Tree Day (Massachusetts).
8/14 :Victory Day (Rhode Island).
8/14 :Waddi Dhahab (Morocco).
8/14/1040:Macbeth slew Duncan.
8/14/1248:The Cologne Cathedral, largest Gothic church in northern Europe,
:began being built.
8/14/1880:The Cologne Cathedral, largest Gothic church in northern Europe,
:was completed.
8/14/1888:Electric meter patented.
8/14/1891:Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James Knox Polk, died.
8/14/1900:Boxer rebellion put down.
8/14/1910:First Esperanto convention.
8/14/1925:Mount Rushmore figures proposed.
8/14/1935:US Social Security Act signed into law.
8/14/1941:Atlantic Charter signed.
8/14/1945:VJ (Victory in Japan) Day (WWII ended).
8/14/1951:William Randolph Hearst, publisher, died.
8/14/1958:Mary Ritter Beard, US historian, died.
8/14/1961:Clark Ashton Smith, author (“The Double Shadow and Other
:Fantasies”), died.
8/14/1965:First black page appointed to US Congress (Frank Mitchell).
8/14/1972:East German airliner crashed on takeoff (156 killed).
8/14/1976:365 inning softball game began (Gagner’s Diner 491 – Bend’n Elbow
:Tavern 467).
8/14/1980:Domestic cow mothered a wild ox (Bronx Zoo).
8/14/1981:IBM PC announced. (8/12?)
8/14/1992:John J. Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate), died.
8/15 :Blessing of shrimp fleet in Little Caillon, Louisiana.
8/15 :Chauvin Day.
8/15 :Independence Day (India).
8/15 :Liberation Day (South Korea).
8/15 :National Holiday (Congo).
8/15 :National Relaxation Day.
8/15 :Panama City Foundation Day (Panama).
8/15 :Santa Maria (Malta).
8/15/1057:Macbeth, King of Scotland killed by King Duncan’s son.
8/15/1534:Jesuits founded.
8/15/1790:First US Roman Catholic bishop consecrated (Father John Carroll).
8/15/1846:California’s first newspaper began publication.
8/15/1870:Transcontinental Railway actually completed.
8/15/1914:Panama Canal officially opened.
8/15/1914:Taliesen (Frank Lloyd Wright’s home) burned.
8/15/1918:US and Russia severed diplomatic ties.
8/15/1935:Wiley Post, pilot, died.
8/15/1935:Will Rogers, humorist, died.
8/15/1937:Appalachian Trail finished.
8/15/1939:”The Wizard of Oz” premiered (Grauman’s Chinese Theater).
8/15/1945:Korea freed from Japanese domination.
8/15/1945:US rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ended.
8/15/1947:Gandhi’s movement obtained independence for Pakistan and India.
8/15/1948:Proclamation of the Republic of Korea.
8/15/1963:Clifford Odetts, playwright, died.
8/15/1967:Electric spinning reel for fishing introduced (Chicago).
8/15/1967:50,000 acre fire (Northern Idaho).
8/15/1969:The Woodstock Music Festival began (Max Yasgur’s Dairy Farm).
8/15/1971:90 day wage-price-rent freeze and 10% surcharge on foreign
:imports announced.
8/15/1976:365 inning softball game ended (Gagner’s Diner 491 – Bend’n Elbow
:Tavern 467).
8/15/1989:F.W. de Klerk sworn in as acting president of South Africa.
8/16 :Palio of the Contrade (Italy).
8/16 :Restoration of the Republic (Dominican Republic).
8/16/1678:Andrew Marvell, poet (“To His Coy Mistress”), died. (8/18?)
8/16/1738:Joseph (Josias) Miller, English comic actor, died.
8/16/1777:Battle of Bennington (Vermont).
8/16/1780:Battle of Camden (South Carolina).
8/16/1812:City of Detroit captured by British.
8/16/1819:Manchester Massacre.
8/16/1824:Charles Thomson, first official American record keeper, died.
8/16/1829:The original “Siamese” twins (Chang and Eng Bunker) arrived in
:Boston.
8/16/1861:Several Northern newspapers brought to trial for Confederate
:sympathies.
8/16/1896:Gold discovered in the Klondike region of the Yukon territory.
:(8/17?)
8/16/1896:Loop-the-Loop Centrifugal Railway patented (Edwin Prescott,
:Massachusetts).
8/16/1898:Roller coaster patented.
8/16/1899:Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, inventor of bunsen burner,
:died.
8/16/1916:US and Canada signed a treaty to protect migratory birds.
8/16/1920:First baseball player died in a major-league game (Ray Chapman,
:of Cleveland, hit by a Carl Mays, of New York, pitch).
8/16/1948:George Herman “Babe” Ruth, baseball player, died.
8/16/1949:Margaret Mitchell, US novelist (“Gone With The Wind”), died.
8/16/1977:Elvis Aaron Presley, rock singer, died.
8/16/1979:John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and prime minister, died.
8/16/1983:Carrie Fisher married Paul Simon.
8/16/1984:John Z. DeLorean acquitted of cocaine dealing.
8/16/1985:Madonna, pop singer, married Sean Penn, actor.
8/16/1987:Harmonic convergence began.
8/16/1988:George Bush chose Dan Quayle, “a man of the future,” as his
:running mate.
8/17 :Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin (Argentina).
8/17 :Cat nights begin.
8/17 :Independence Day (Indonesia).
8/17 :National Day (Gabon).
8/17/-10429:First goat domesticated (Armenia).
8/17/1590:John White returned to Roanoke, Virginia and found no trace of
:colonist’s he had left there three years earlier.
8/17/1785:Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot, died.
8/17/1788:Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded.
8/17/1807:Robert Fulton demonstrated steamboat operation (The Clermont).
8/17/1863:Fort Sumter shelled by Union forces.
8/17/1877:Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A. Hall).
8/17/1878:Richard Upjohn, US architect, died.
8/17/1891:First public bathhouse with showers opened in New York (“People’s
:Bath”).
8/17/1896:Gold discovered in Klondike region of Yukon territory. (8/16?)
8/17/1915:Hurricane struck Galveston, Texas (275 killed).
8/17/1920:First and only major league baseball fatality (Ray Chapman –
:Cleveland).
8/17/1938:First aircraft owned by the US Forest Service in service
:(Oakland).
8/17/1942:First European bombing run undertaken by US forces.
8/17/1945:Japanese withdrew from Indonesia.
8/17/1952:”Fallout” first used (New York Times).
8/17/1965:Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor, finished sailing the
:Atlantic (in a 13.5 foot craft).
8/17/1969:Hurricane Camille hit US Gulf Coast (248 killed).
8/17/1973:Conrad Potter Aiken, US poet and short-story writer, died.
8/17/1978:First successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (three
:Americans).
8/17/1983:Ira Gershwin, composer, died.
8/17/1985:1400 meatpackers walked off the job at a George A. Hormel and Co.
:plant.
8/17/1987:Muhammad Ali elected to “Ring” magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame.
8/17/1987:Walter Richard Rudolf Hess, last Nazi held in Spandau Prison,
:died.
8/18/1227:Ghengis Khan, Mongol conqueror, died.
8/18/1678:Andrew Marvell, English poet, died. (8/16?)
8/18/1786:Reykjavik, Iceland founded.
8/18/1834:Mount Vesuvius erupted.
8/18/1850:Honore de Balzac, French novelist, died.
8/18/1852:Margaret Smith Taylor, wife of Zachary, died.
8/18/1872:First mail-order house catalog issued (A.M. Ward).
8/18/1873:First climbers reached the top of Mount Whitney (John Lucas,
:Charles D. Begole, and A.H. Johnson).
8/18/1902:First unassisted triple-play (Harry O’Hagen).
8/18/1914:Wilson’s neutrality appeal.
8/18/1916:Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace given to US as a national shrine.
8/18/1920:19th Amendment to the US Constitution (women’s vote) ratified.
8/18/1938:Thousand Islands Bridge dedictated (FDR).
8/18/1940:US and Canada established a plan of joint defense against
:possible enemy attacks.
8/18/1947:Hewlett Packard incorporated.
8/18/1950:Four month old kitten, following a climbing party, scaled the
:Matterhorn (three days).
8/18/1954:First black attended a meeting of the president’s cabinet
:(Wilkins).
8/18/1956:Bill Bonanno married Rosalie Profaci.
8/18/1958:”Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov published in the US.
8/18/1963:James Howard Meredith, first black admitted to University of
:Mississippi, graduated.
8/18/1967:Tony C hit by Jack Hamilton pitch.
8/18/1969:Woodstock Festival ended.
8/18/1981:Anita Loos, American author (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”), died.
8/18/1982:Pete Rose broke the all-time record for baseball plate
:appearances.
8/18/1983:Royals and Yankees completed the famous “pine-tar” game.
8/18/1984:Friendship ’84 Games opened in Moscow.
8/18/1990:B.F. Skinner died.
8/18/1992:Wang Laboratories, Inc filed for bankruptcy.
8/19 :Buhe (Ethiopia).
8/19 :Independence Day (Afghanistan).
8/19 :National Aviation Day.
8/19/1662:Blaise Pascal, French philosopher and physicist, died.
8/19/1689:Samuel Richardson, English novelist (“Pamela”), baptised.
8/19/1812:USS Constitution sank HMS Guerriere.
8/19/1819:James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor of steam engine, died.
8/19/1856:Condensed milk patented (Gail Borden).
8/19/1861:”Essex County Democrat” editor tarred and feathered for
:Confederate sympathies.
8/19/1896:Water spout 100′ in diameter off Martha’s Vineyard.
8/19/1915:British ocean liner Arabic torpedoed.
8/19/1929:Network radio debut of “Amos and Andy” (NBC).
8/19/1934:Adolf Hitler given sole executive power of Germany.
8/19/1940:Civil Aeronautics Administration honorary license awarded to
:Orville Wright.
8/19/1941:Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge (US) established.
8/19/1942:Dieppe (France) beach raid.
8/19/1951:Browns used a midget as leadoff batter (vs. Detroit).
8/19/1955:Floods hit the northeastern US (200 killed).
8/19/1960:Francis Gary Powers, U2 spy plane pilot, convicted in a Moscow
:court.
8/19/1960:Yankee nuclear power plant (Rowe, Massachusetts) began operations
:(8:19 pm).
8/19/1960:Sputnik 5 (USSR) launched.
8/19/1968:Last episode of “The Monkees” aired.
8/19/1975:Ima Hogg, founder of the Houston Symphony, died.
8/19/1977:Most powerful earthquake in recorded history hit the eastern
:Indian Ocean.
8/19/1981:Two US F-14’s shot down two Libyan SU-22’s over the Gulf of Sidra.
8/19/1982:Soyuz T-7 (USSR) launched.
8/19/1991:Gorbachev ousted from power by a military coup.
8/20 :Constitution Day (Hungary).
8/20/1852:Steamboat collision, Lake Erie (250 died).
8/20/1896:Dial telephone patented.
8/20/1904:Abbey Theater founded (Dublin).
8/20/1912:Plant Quarantine Act came into effect.
8/20/1912:William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, died.
8/20/1914:St. Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto), 257th Roman Catholic
:Pope, died.
8/20/1940:Leon Trotsky assassinated. (8/21?)
8/20/1945:Youngest major league player to hit a home run (Tommy Brown, 17).
8/20/1953:The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a Hydrogen
:bomb.
8/20/1955:First airline to fly faster than 800 mph (H.A. Hanes).
8/20/1960:Two dogs and six mice survived Sputnik V orbit.
8/20/1966:Earthquake hit Turkey (3000 killed).
8/20/1975:Viking 1 (US) launched.
8/20/1977:Voyager 2 (US) launched.
8/20/1985:Original Xerox 914 copying machine presented to the Smithsonian.
8/20/1992:William Taylor, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance
:Corporation, died.
8/21 :Ozma’s (Queen of Oz) Birthday.
8/21/1708:French and Indians burned Haverhill, Massachusetts.
8/21/1762:Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author, died.
8/21/1858:Lincoln-Douglas debates began.
8/21/1863:Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas.
8/21/1874:Reverend Henry Ward Beecher accused of adultery.
8/21/1878:American Bar Association organized.
8/21/1888:Adding machine patented (W.S. Burroughs).
8/21/1911:The Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre.
8/21/1931:Babe Ruth hit his 600th career home run.
8/21/1940:Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author (“Casey at the Bat”), died.
8/21/1940:Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik leader, killed. (8/20?)
8/21/1950:United Nations building opened.
8/21/1951:US ordered construction of first nuclear submarine (Nautilus).
8/21/1959:Hawaii became 50th US state.
8/21/1963:Martial law declared in South Vietnam.
8/21/1965:Gemini 5 (US) launched.
8/21/1968:Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia.
8/21/1981:Scientists first warned of global warming.
8/21/1983:Benigno S. Aquino, Philippine opposition leader, killed.
8/22/565 :St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness.
8/22/1485:Battle of Bosworth.
8/22/1485:Henry VII became English Sovereign.
8/22/1485:King Richard III died.
8/22/1789:Presidential custom of sending written notes to US Senate began.
8/22/1822:Wallpaper printing press patented.
8/22/1831:Nat Turner led an uprising of blacks.
8/22/1851:First America’s Cup (then known as the “Hundred Guinea Cup”) won.
8/22/1902:First US president to ride in an automobile (Teddy Roosevelt).
8/22/1922:Michael Collins, founder of Irish Republican Army, killed.
8/22/1939:Disposable can for dispensing liquids under pressure patented
:(J.S. Kahn).
8/22/1942:Battle of Stalingrad began.
8/22/1950:First black tennis player accepted in national competition
:(Althea Gibson).
8/22/1963:CDC 6600 introduced.
8/22/1966:Beatles arrived in New York for a concert at Shea Stadium.
8/22/1968:First pontiff to visit South America (Pope Paul VI).
8/22/1978:Jomo Kenyatta, father of modern Kenya, died.
8/22/1979:James Thomas Farrell, American author, died.
8/22/1980:US Consumer Price Index announced to be unchanged (first time in
:13 years).
8/22/1986:Fumes from Lake Nios, Cameroon killed 1734 people.
8/22/1989:Nolan Ryan threw his 5,000th strikeout (Rickey Henderson).
8/22/1991:Statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky (KGB founder) dismantled.
8/23 :Liberation Day (Romania).
8/23/1818:First steamer service on the Great Lakes.
8/23/1819:Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, died.
8/23/1821:Mexico declared an independent nation.
8/23/1838:First graduation at a women’s college (Mount Holyoke Seminary –
:Massachusetts).
8/23/1914:Japan declared war on Germany.
8/23/1919:Gasoline Alley started (Chicago Tribune).
8/23/1926:Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina
:D’Antonguolla (a.k.a. Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol,
:died.
8/23/1927:Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti electrocuted.
8/23/1939:Nazi Germany and Russia signed a non-aggression pact.
8/23/1957:Digital Equipment Corporation founded.
8/23/1966:First image of Earth from vicinity of Moon (Lunar Orbiter 7).
8/23/1973:Intelsat-4 F-7 (US) launched.
8/23/1977:First man-powered flight.
8/23/1979:Alexander Godunov, Soviet dancer, defected to US.
8/23/1982:Beshir Gemayel elected president of Lebanon.
8/23/1989:Pete Rose banned from baseball for life. (8/24?)
8/24 :National Flag Day (Liberia).
8/24 :Schaferlauf (Germany).
8/24/79 :Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompei, Stabiae, and
:Herculaneum.
8/24/1572:Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (France).
8/24/1682:Delaware awarded to William Penn.
8/24/1770:Thomas Chatterton, poet and forger, died.
8/24/1814:British troops burned Washington DC.
8/24/1887:Scientific observation post in Greenland established by US.
8/24/1913:US Parcel post system authorized.
8/24/1923:Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”), died.
8/24/1932:First woman to fly non-stop across US (Amelia Earhart).
8/24/1940:German Battleship Bismarck commissioned.
8/24/1951:Route 128 around Boston opened.
8/24/1954:US Communist Control Act went into effect.
8/24/1959:US National Medal of Science authorized.
8/24/1965:Bob Dylan debuted (Newport).
8/24/1968:France detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
8/24/1969:”Alice’s Restaurant” premiered.
8/24/1979:Fans (60,916) choose old New England Patriots logo over new.
8/24/1983:Scott Nearing, US sociologist and author, died.
8/24/1987:Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader, died.
8/24/1989:Pete Rose banned from baseball for life (A. Bartlett Giamatti).
:(8/23?)
8/24/1989:Voyager II scheduled to encounter Neptune.
8/25 :Constitution Day (Paraguay).
8/25 :Independence Day (Uruguay).
8/25 :Kiss-and-Make-Up Day.
8/25/1635:Great Colonial Hurricane (20′ tides).
8/25/1666:Frans Hals died.
8/25/1718:City of New Orleans founded.
8/25/1776:David Hume, Scottish philosopher, died.
8/25/1825:Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
8/25/1867:Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, died.
8/25/1875:First person to swim the English Channel (Matthew Webb – 22
:hours).
8/25/1900:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, died.
8/25/1920:Woman suffrage amendment approved by US Congress.
8/25/1921:First baseball game broadcast (KDKA, Pittsburgh).
8/25/1922:Chicago Cubs faced 66 Philadelphia batters but won 26-23.
8/25/1928:Richard E. Byrd began Antarctic expedition.
8/25/1932:Amelia Earhart completed transcontinental flight.
8/25/1944:Allied forces liberated Paris.
8/25/1949:”Father Knows Best” first broadcast.
8/25/1967:George Lincoln Rockwell, Nazi leader, assassinated.
8/25/1968:First black to win US men’s singles tennis championship (Arthur
:Ashe).
8/25/1980:Gower Champion, broadway director (“42nd Street”), died.
8/25/1981:Voyager 2 (US) at closest approach to Saturn.
8/25/1983:PC-Write Version 1.0 launched.
8/25/1984:Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons), novelist (“In Cold
:Blood”), died.
8/25/1985:Dwight Gooden became the youngest 20 baseball game winner.
8/25/1985:Samantha Smith, US schoolgirl who visited USSR, died in a plane
:crash.
8/25/1990:Fastest team to reach three million season attendance (64 games,
:Toronto Blue Jays).
8/26 :Aaron Burr Day.
8/26 :Bank Holiday (England and Wales).
8/26 :Susan B. Anthony Day (Massachusetts).
8/26 :Women’s Equality Day.
8/26/-55 :Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
8/26/1883:Krakatoa erupted (36,000 died).
8/26/1884:Linotype machine patented (Ottmar Mergenthaler).
8/26/1894:US Federal income tax declared unconstitutional.
8/26/1910:William James, American psychologist and philosopher, died.
8/26/1920:US women won the right to vote (19th amendment to US Constitution
:went into effect).
8/26/1939:First major league baseball game televised (W2XBS – Ebbets Field).
8/26/1945:Franz Werfel, Austrian author, died.
8/26/1957:The Soviet Union announced it had successfully tested an ICBM.
8/26/1961:International Hockey Hall of Fame opened (Toronto).
8/26/1966:Namibia came under direct UN responsibility.
8/26/1970:Jimi Hendrix gave his last performance (Isle of Wight).
8/26/1974:Soyuz 15 (USSR) launched.
8/26/1978:Charles Boyer, French actor, died.
8/26/1978:Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263th Pope, elected.
8/26/1978:Soyuz 31 (USSR) launched.
8/26/1981:Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, died.
8/27 :Liberation Day (Hong Kong).
8/27 :Lyndon B. Johnson’s Birthday (Texas).
8/27/1665:First play performed in the North American colonies (Ye Bear and
:Ye Cubb).
8/27/1776:Battle of Long Island.
8/27/1859:First successful oil well in the US drilled (near Titusville,
:Pennsylvania).
8/27/1861:Union troops captured Cape Hatteras.
8/27/1904:First arrest for automobile speeding (Newport, Rhode Island).
8/27/1912:”Tarzan of the Apes” published.
8/27/1914:Kaiser Wilhelm Degross, German luxury liner destroyed.
8/27/1928:Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed.
8/27/1930:H.L. Mencken married Sara Haardt.
8/27/1937:Andrew W. Mellon, financier, died.
8/27/1938:Robert Frost disrupted a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish by
:setting fire to a stack of papers.
8/27/1945:US troops began landing in Japan following their surrender.
8/27/1948:Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court Justice, died.
8/27/1961:Francis the Talking Mule was the mystery guest on “What’s My
:Line”.
8/27/1962:Mariner II (US) launched.
8/27/1963:William Edward Burghardt DuBois, US educator died.
8/27/1964:Gracie Allen (Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen) died.
8/27/1967:Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, found dead.
8/27/1974:Charles Augustus Lindbergh, aviator, died.
8/27/1979:Lord (Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten killed.
8/27/1981:Paul Ekai sentenced in Kenya for killing “Born Free” Joy Adamson.
8/27/1982:Single season base stealing record set (Rickey Henderson).
8/27/1985:”Sergeant York” weapon system cancelled as ineffective.
8/27/1990:Stevie Ray Vaughn died.
8/28 :Heroes Day (Philippines).
8/28/430 :Saint Augustine died.
8/28/1609:Delaware Bay discovered (Henry Hudson).
8/28/1645:Hugo Grotius, Dutch theologian, died.
8/28/1867:Midway Islands claimed for US.
8/28/1903:Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect, died.
8/28/1904:First jail sentence for speeding in an auto handed down (Newport
:Rhode Island).
8/28/1916:Italy’s declaration of war against Germany took effect.
8/28/1922:First radio “commercial” broadcast (New York realty co., $100,
:WEAF).
8/28/1955:Kidnap and lynching of Emmett Till.
8/28/1963:Martin Luther King led a civil rights rally in Washington DC
:(200,000).
8/28/1973:Earthquake hit central Mexico (>525 killed).
8/28/1983:Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, announced his resignation.
8/28/1985:Ruth Gordon, actress, died.
8/28/1986:Jerry Whitworth, “Walker family” Soviet spy, sentenced to 365 yrs.
8/28/1987:John Huston, director, died.
8/28/1988:Three Italian stunt planes collided (Ramstein, West Germany) (70
:killed).
8/28/1992:Milwaukee Brewers had 31 hits vs. Toronto Blue Jays.
8/29 :More Herbs, Less Salt Day.
8/29/-30 :Cleopatra bitten by an asp.
8/29/29 :John the Baptist beheaded.
8/29/1533:Atahualpa, last of the Inca rulers, strangled.
8/29/1769:Edmond Hoyle, rules expert, died.
8/29/1786:Shays Rebellion.
8/29/1842:Tariff to prevent importation of obscene pictures and literature
:enacted.
8/29/1854:Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay).
8/29/1862:Second Battle of Bull Run began.
8/29/1877:Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, died.
8/29/1893:”Clasp-locker” patented (developed into the zipper) (Whitcomb L.
:Judson).
8/29/1896:Chop Suey invented (New York).
8/29/1930:Rev. William Archibald Spooner, coined phrases like “swell foop,”
:died.
8/29/1949:First Soviet atomic bomb exploded.
8/29/1957:Senator Strom Thurmond ended a filibuster after talking for more
:than 24 hours.
8/29/1965:Gemini-5 returned to earth (Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad).
8/29/1966:Beatles played at Candlestick Park (last public concert).
8/29/1967:Richard Kimble caught Fred Johnson, the one-armed man.
8/29/1975:Eamon de Valera, Irish independence figure, died.
8/29/1975:Star in Cygnus was observed to go nova and became fourth
:brightest in sky.
8/29/1977:Lou Brock passed Ty Cobb’s career stolen base record.
8/29/1979:Samuel I. Newhouse, “America’s most profitable publisher”, died.
8/29/1981:Lowell Thomas, radio news announcer, died. (1979?)
8/29/1982:Ingrid Bergman, actress, died.
8/29/1991:Soviet parliament suspended all activities of the Communist Party.
8/30 :Huey P. Long Day (Louisiana).
8/30 :Santa Rosa de Lima (Peru).
8/30 :Victory Day (Turkey).
8/30/1780:Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
8/30/1842:Nut and bolt machine patented (Micah Rugg).
8/30/1842:75 cents per pound tariff set on opium.
8/30/1862:Second Battle of Bull Run ended.
8/30/1875:First US college music department established (Harvard).
8/30/1888:Lord Walsingham killed 1070 grouse in a single day.
8/30/1890:First US meat Inspection Legislation enacted.
8/30/1905:Ty Cobb’s first at bat in the major leagues.
8/30/1941:Siege of Leningrad began.
8/30/1960:Japan Stationary Company sold the first felt-tipped pen.
8/30/1963:Washington-Moscow “hot-line” connected.
8/30/1983:STS-8 (US), first black astronaut in space (Guion Bluford),
:launched.
8/30/1984:Space Shuttle Discovery (US) launched for the first time.
8/30/1989:Leona Helmsley, “hotel queen,” found guilty of tax evasion.
8/30/1991:Long jump world record set (29 feet 4.5 inches, Mike Powell).
8/31 :Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago).
8/31 :National Day (Malaysia).
8/31 :Pashtoonian Day (Afghanistan).
8/31/1057:Leofric, husband of Lady Godiva, died.
8/31/1422:Henry V of England died.
8/31/1688:John Bunyan, author (“Pilgrim’s Progress”), died.
8/31/1867:Charles Baudelaire, French poet, died.
8/31/1881:First lawn tennis national championship held.
8/31/1886:First major earthquake in recorded history of eastern US
:(Charleston, South Carolina).
8/31/1887:First movie projector patented (Thomas Edison, “kinetoscope”).
8/31/1888:Jack the Ripper killed first victim (Mary Ann Nichols).
8/31/1895:First professional (American) football game (Latrobe,
:Pennsylvania).
8/31/1903:First automobile crossed US under its own power (52 days,
:Packard).
8/31/1919:US branch of the Communist Party founded.
8/31/1920:First radio news show broadcast (Detroit – WWJ).
8/31/1926:Non-aggression pact signed by Russia and Afghanistan.
8/31/1935:First US national skeet-shooting tournament held (Indianapolis).
8/31/1954:Hurricane Carol hit New England, New York, and New Jersey (70
:killed).
8/31/1957:Malaysia attained independence.
8/31/1962:Trinidad and Tobago became a commonwealth nation.
8/31/1965:Burning draft cards declared illegal in US.
8/31/1969:Rocky Marciano killed.
8/31/1973:John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney), film director, died.
8/31/1979:Sally Rand (Helen Gould Beck), inventor of the fan dance, died.
8/31/1980:Solidarity founded in Poland.
8/31/1982:First giant squid captured alive (Bergen, Norway).
8/31/1985:Richard Ramirez arrested for “Night Stalker” killings.
8/31/1985:Susan Butcher, champion dogsled racer, married David Monson.
8/31/1989:Jim Bakker suffered an apparent breakdown during his fraud trial.
8/31/1990:First father and son combination to play together in major league
:baseball (Griffeys).