August 31 Events

2010 In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of 2010
2010 Hurricane Earl shifts toward the east coast of the U.S., placing most of North Carolina's coast on hurricane watch
2004 The Republican party nominates George W. Bush as its presidential candidate
2002 WNBA Championships, Los Angeles Sparks beat New York Liberty 2 games to 0
1997 "Gin Game," closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 144 performances
1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by New York Yankees
1997 Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic
1997 Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 26807721201
1994 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia
1994 Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1992 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd and Dana Delane
1992 Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM
1991 Houston quarterback David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
1991 Jan Berry (Jan and Dean) weds Gertie Filip
1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
1991 William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA
1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
1990 East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems
1990 Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
1987 Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, vs. England at Lord's
1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser
1980 "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 301 performances
1980 80th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at U.S. Open
1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador
1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
1976 Mexican peso devalued
1976 Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution
1976 Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
1975 Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1973 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1972 Olga Korbut, U.S.S.R., wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1971 Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon
1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1970 Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 68th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover
1968 Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
1968 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1965 House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop
1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
1962 Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1959 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
1957 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
1955 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Texas)
1955 1st solar automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois
1955 KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 Indians beat Yankees 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1953 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 home runs and a single in a game vs Braves
1948 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
1947 Hungarian Communist Party wins election
1947 New York Giants set season record for home runs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1944 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy
1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux
1944 Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1943 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: U.S. assault on Marcus Island
1943 Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault
1942 U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
1941 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)
1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC
1940 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
1940 Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
1940 German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
1940 U.S. National Guard assembles
1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
1937 Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for home runs of 18 home runs in August
1935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents
1935 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
1935 White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
1934 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
1928 Brecht and Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres
1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923 Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1916 Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London
1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits New York Giants, 2-0
1914 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan, state record
1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
1914 German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914 Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
1911 Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"
1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
1909 Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
1907 Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet
1907 England, Russia and France form Triple Entente
1905 25th U.S. Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)
1905 Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
1903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1900 British troops over run Johannesburg
1900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1897 General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
1896 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in New York City
1895 1st pro football game (quarterback John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0)
1894 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box"
1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern U.S., at Charleston SC, 110 die
1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1881 1st U.S. men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)
1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
1843 Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
1842 Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine
1842 U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
1829 Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1751 English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1535 Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII
1310 German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1230 Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice

August 30 Events

2010 In Chile, 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface make contact with their families for the first time in three weeks since the incidentally
2010 Sumatra's Sinaburg volcano continues to erupt, two people are killed and 21,000 are evacuated from the vicinity
1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1997 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat New York Liberty
1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open)
1995 Cable News Network joins internet
1995 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
1994 Gund Arena in Cleveland opens
1994 Largest U.S. Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 160 performances
1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 229 performances
1992 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1992 David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
1991 Dan O'Brien sets U.S. decathalon record with 8,812 points
1991 France beats U.S. by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14 to 13
1991 Mike Powell of U.S., sets then long jump record at 29' 4 " (8.95m)
1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
1987 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota 10-6 win over Milwaukee
1987 Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10")
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News World Report)
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1984 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984 Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, New York, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia
1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses
1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976 Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival
1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1968 1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude
1968 John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG
1967 U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins
1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court
1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1961 U.S.S.R. says it will resume nuclear testing
1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1956 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1953 Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City
1951 U.S. and Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1949 Roly Jenkins (Worcs vs. Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1949 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony
1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan
1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944 Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in New York City
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 Poland mobilizes
1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1933 Air France forms
1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1932 Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1927 41st U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey vs. Middlesex)
1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1919 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918 Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech
1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St. Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1912 St. Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11
1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1906 New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1905 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1894 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1893 13rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, Kentucky
1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1843 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1799 Bataafse fleet surrender to English
1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1776 U.S. Army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, New York City
1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia
1751 Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1682 William Penn left England to sail to New World
1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1645 Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
257 St. Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

August 29 Events

2010 Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people
2010 In Hong Kong, 80,000 people rally in response to last week's fatal tourist coast hijacking hostage crisis in the Philippines
2005 Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836
1993 21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton
1993 93rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
1993 Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
1993 Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28)
1992 Largest wrestling crowd out side of U.S. (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
1992 Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season and it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
1992 Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout and decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
1991 John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney
1991 U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1988 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 U.S.S.R. launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1987 Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
1987 Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
1986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1986 Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
1985 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1985 New York Yankee Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
1982 38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1982 George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982 Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1
1981 28th Walker Cup: U.S. wins 15-9
1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
1979 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York
1977 St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1974 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1972 San Francisco Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1969 KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, Montana (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 1st U.S. Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr. Vija Vuskains)
1968 Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
1968 Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja
1967 Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
1967 Yankees longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yankees win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes
1966 Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
1965 Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1965 Willie Mays sets NL record for home runs in a month with his 17th of August
1964 "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 965 performances
1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1964 On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
1963 Harmon Killebrew (Twins) home runs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
1962 Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962 U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1960 Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1958 Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1958 George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights
1956 French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens
1953 KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1950 International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52
1949 U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1947 Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944 Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
1943 Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1937 Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1935 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
1932 International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932 United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him
1924 German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
1916 Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve
1916 General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916 Transportship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
1916 U.S. Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence
1916 Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
1914 Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal
1914 Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac
1913 Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1908 N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London
1906 Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
1906 William J. Clothier wins the U.S. Tennis Open
1905 Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis
1896 Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1889 1st American International pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey
1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion
1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"
1882 Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs. England (7-46 and 7-44)
1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
1862 Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1862 Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
1862 U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operation
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1842 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1831 Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
1793 Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
1792 English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1786 Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1758 New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
1756 England and France meet in war
1756 Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
1742 Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
1708 English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia
1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians
1664 Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1655 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw
1640 English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1612 Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
1540 Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
1533 Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohacs
1484 Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
1475 Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts
1261 Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
284 General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
284 Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)

August 28 Events

2010 A crowd of 500,000 people attend a 'Restoring Honor' rally hosted by Glenn Beck at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
2010 Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others
1997 32nd Ryder Cup: at Sotogrande Spain
1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1996 Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants vs. Middlesex
1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
1995 Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 and 157
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
1994 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
1994 94th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1993 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 Long Beach, California beats Panama for little league world championship
1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1992 Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 home runs, consecutively
1990 Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1989 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1989 Frank Viola and Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and Dodgers 1-0
1988 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 88th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 home runs
1986 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1986 Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 41 performances
1983 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1982 "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 1208 performances
1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan
1981 Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1977 Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1977 New York Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1977 N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1976 N.Y. Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1973 "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 India and Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven
1967 Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng
1967 Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1964 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C.
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana, state record
1962 Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run home run is disallowed as ump called time
1958 Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1957 Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill
1956 England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
1955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1953 "Me and Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 358 performances
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 Pirates snap New York Giants 16 game win streak
1950 Earle and Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
1949 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
1944 U.S. air raid on Ambon
1943 Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1942 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
1942 Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1941 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle
1939 "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 Netherland mobilizes
1939 Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1938 Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1938 On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
1929 Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1922 1st Walker Cup: U.S. beats England 8-4
1922 Albert von Tilzer and Neville Fleesons musical premieres in New York City
1922 WEAF in New York City airs 1st radio commercia, Queensboro Realty, $100 for 10 minutes
1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels and Paris)
1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1920 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
1916 Germany declares war on Romania
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1914 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914 Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914 John French evacuate Amiens
1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)
1911 45.7 cm rainfall at St. George, Georgia (state record)
1908 14th U.S. Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1884 Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
1883 Slavery banned throughout British Empire
1879 Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz
1867 U.S. occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
1862 Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.
1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1850 Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1830 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1655 New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1637 WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1619 Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1609 Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay
1565 Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established
1521 Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
476 German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
476 West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted

August 27 Events

2010 Mexico's lead investigator of the 72 corpses found near the U.S. Texas border at Tamaulipas, has been missing for two days
2010 After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu
1995 "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 204 performances
1995 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
1995 95th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days
1994 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers New York City after 320 performances
1993 Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1992 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson
1991 Moldavia declares independence from U.S.S.R.
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2
1986 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1983 U.S. performs nuclear test
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea
1979 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1978 Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases
1978 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1977 "Chicago" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 947 performances
1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1975 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1974 New York Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1969 Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966 Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois
1966 Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1965 Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965 WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
1958 Calvin Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1957 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game
1955 Guinness Book of World Records 1st published
1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1952 Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1948 102 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1945 U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1944 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1941 Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor
1939 Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1938 Yankees Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1937 Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1934 Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Harburgs musical premieres in New York City
1933 Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
1932 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1928 16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 42nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918 Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1917 Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914 U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1911 Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1910 Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1910 Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1908 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1903 23rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1900 Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha
1897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1895 15th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1892 New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1881 Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die
1861 Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1832 Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1828 Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
1816 Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1813 Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1799 English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1798 Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1789 French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"
1788 Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in U.S., Jamestown, Virginia
1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1634 Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
1628 Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1626 Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1619 Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1610 Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1601 Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1585 Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1569 Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1549 Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1232 Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation

August 26 Events

2010 Threatened by floods, Pakistan directs nearly half a million people to evacuate their homes
2010 Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp
2000 WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat New York Liberty 2 games to 0
1995 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan
1995 Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
1992 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances
1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
1990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
1990 Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive home runs
1989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st U.S. team since 1983 to win Little League WS
1987 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
1984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
1982 NASA launches Telesat-F
1981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1981 Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
1980 Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
1979 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1977 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
1974 Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
1974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners
1972 20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany
1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972 N.Y. Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1971 Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1971 New York Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975
1971 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
1967 Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, and Twins sweep Cleveland
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam
1966 Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky and B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch home runs
1966 KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention
1963 W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
1962 Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits Kansas City A's, 1-0
1961 Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1957 U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1956 KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
1956 Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1950 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a home run on 1st at bat)
1946 George Orwell published "Animal Farm"
1945 Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
1944 Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed
1944 De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees
1944 U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
1942 Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942 Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1939 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York)
1939 Belgium mobilizes
1939 Kroatia gets autonomous status
1938 British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine
1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
1937 Franco's troops conquer Santander
1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is finished
1935 CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1930 Hack Wilson hits his 44th home run, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
1929 1st U.S. roller coaster built
1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1920 19th amendment passes - women's suffrage granted
1920 Percy Fender (Surrey vs. Northants) scores 100 in 35 minutes
1918 W Smith and F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in New York City
1916 Philadelphia A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland, 5-0
1916 Yankees turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1914 Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1913 33rd U.S. Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
1912 32nd U.S. Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
1912 Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1909 Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 and 13-67 for Middlesex vs. Gloucs
1909 Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1896 Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1895 Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
1894 Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1883 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis
1863 Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1846 Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
1846 W A Bartlett appointed 1st U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1794 French troops occupy Lock
1791 John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat
1745 England, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty
1652 Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
1648 People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin
1641 West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1634 Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants
1629 Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1549 Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1545 Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
1541 Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1346 Battle at Crecy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle
1278 Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
580 Chinese invents toilet paper

August 25 Events

2010 Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen
2010 Mexican Naval Infantry discover 72 corpses near the U.S. Texas border, believed to be migrants from Central America and South America murdered by a drug cartel
1996 96th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1995 Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs vs. Glam, world record 16 x 6
1995 Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
1992 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
1991 "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 70 performances
1991 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig
1991 91st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
1991 Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
1991 Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
1991 Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament
1991 Norway and Denmark recognize independence of former U.S.S.R. Baltic reps
1991 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
1990 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ")
1990 U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq
1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1988 Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 STS-51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1984 French airship capsizes
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign $10 billion grain pact
1981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1981 Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
1981 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1980 "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 3486 performances
1980 Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in New York City
1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps New York City after 86 performances
1979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1976 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1976 Yankees beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1974 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 L.A. Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1973 Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1973 Zambia adopts constitution
1970 Elton John's 1st U.S. appearance, Los Angeles
1969 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1968 New York Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game and homered
1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1964 Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1956 To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yankees release Phil Rizzuto
1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1954 Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1952 Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth
1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
1948 Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speed record, 1,047 kph
1946 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland Golf Club Portland, Oregon
1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1944 General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris
1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation, Freedom Tuesday
1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1943 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
1943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
1943 Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
1943 U.S. forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
1942 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht, Netherlands
1941 English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941 German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1940 1st parachute wedding
1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1936 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
1926 Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem New York)
1925 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
1924 International maritime treaty drawn
1924 Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 innings
1922 Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1921 U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany
1921 Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
1920 1st U.S. woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1917 37th U.S. Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1916 Department of Interior forms National Park Service
1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1914 Belgian offensive at Antwerp
1914 Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1914 German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1912 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1912 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
1910 30th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1908 Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race
1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1904 James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1890 Would be start of England/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1888 8th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum, Jr. beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
1886 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England
1875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel, 21h 45m
1864 Combination rail and ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
1862 Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1835 N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1830 Belgium revolts against Netherlands
1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1804 Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
1795 Curacao slaves opponents returns to St. Christopher
1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean
1758 Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1704 Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet
1698 Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1689 Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French
1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois
1628 Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia
1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1580 Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
1566 Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1499 Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1485 Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
1425 Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
1330 AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
357 Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught
325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity

August 24 Events

2010 The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research
2008 2008 Summer Olympics come to a close in Beijing, China
2006 Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet'
1997 97th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1997 Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997 Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
1997 Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
1997 Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
1995 Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
1995 Windows 95 debuts
1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
1994 Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism
1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs. Cardinals
1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1992 Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
1991 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1991 Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1991 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991 Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R.
1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990 Iraqi troops surround U.S. and other embassies in Kuwait City
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1985 STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1984 Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1983 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1982 KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder
1980 Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1979 Cars play concert in New York Central Park
1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979 U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1978 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1975 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975 San Francisco Giant Ed Halick no-hits New York Giants, 6-0
1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
1972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1
1972 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia
1972 Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1971 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1969 Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4
1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1960 -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1959 England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959 Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1954 William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1951 Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on
1950 Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N.
1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect
1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
1944 General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1943 Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942 Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1940 Luftwaffe bombs London
1940 Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits and 1 run
1939 Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1938 England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval
1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
1937 Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists
1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1931 France and U.S.S.R. sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1929 43rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
1929 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1929 Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty
1925 39th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1922 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1921 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece
1921 British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1919 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1914 Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914 German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914 Jerome Kern and Michael E Rourles musical premieres in New York City
1912 New York City ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious U.S. olympians
1912 Territory of Alaska organizes
1912 U.S. passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG
1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1905 Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1904 24th U.S. Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die
1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs New York)
1847 Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1826 Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks
1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1704 Sea battle at Malaga
1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1658 Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1654 Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1542 Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1516 Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1511 Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1349 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1217 Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die

August 23 Events

2010 Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground
2010 2 tons of elephant ivory and five rhino horns are seized in Nairobi, Kenya, the items were disguised as avocados destined for Malaysia
1998 Minnesota LPGA Classic
1995 Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1995 Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1993 Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1993 Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game
1992 Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1992 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
1990 Armenia declares independence
1990 East and West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990 U.S. begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1989 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey home run)
1989 Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1988 Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1987 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987 Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1986 "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985 South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985 West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1980 Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City
1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1977 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany
1977 Yankees leap frog over Red Soxs game in 1st place to stay
1976 Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1975 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975 Communists take over Laos
1975 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1975 Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1974 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City
1974 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan vs. England at The Cricket Oval
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley
1972 Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1971 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1969 Audrey McElmory (U.S.) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
1969 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1968 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1968 Yankees and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1964 St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series
1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar)
1962 John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1961 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961 East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin
1961 U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1958 China resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe
1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1954 President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1953 Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3 ")
1953 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing
1950 Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1950 West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation
1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1947 President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1944 94.5 degrees F (34.7 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands and 101.5 degrees F (38.6 degrees C) in Warnsvelt
1944 Allied troops capture Marseilles, France
1944 General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944 General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944 King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944 Sammellager Drancy freed
1944 U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1943 Red army recaptures Charkow
1942 1st U.S. flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game, raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940 Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin
1939 U.S.S.R. and Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1938 England score 7-903 decl vs. Australia Hutton 364
1936 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns
1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
1931 45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1931 Count Gyula Karolyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1930 44th U.S. Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1929 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1926 40th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1920 M R Rinehart and A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in New York City
1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed)
1916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1914 German troops plunder Belgium
1914 Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
1914 General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1910 Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1907 Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits New York Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators
1906 Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention
1904 Automobile tire chain patented
1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1898 18th U.S. Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in U.S. (SF)
1883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and and passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
1879 Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1873 Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1869 1st carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1862 Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1839 British capture Hong Kong from China
1838 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1821 Mexico declares independence
1813 Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1796 African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
1711 Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence
1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
1614 University of Groningen opens
1582 French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1566 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566 Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1441 Holland and Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1328 Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 King Philip VI of France, crowned
1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians

August 22 Events

2010 International pledges to help Pakistan recover from devastating floods currently totals $800 million
2010 A U.S. federal investigation results in 47 foreign-born gang members arrested in New England, half are arrested in the state of Maine
2009 Fearing that turkeys contracted swine flu from humans, two turkey farms in Valparaiso, Chile are quarantined
1995 FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1994 DNA testing links O. J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
1994 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands
1993 "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 25 performances
1993 Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1992 Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka
1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
1990 President Bush calls up military reserves
1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1985 30th Walker Cup: U.S. wins 13-11
1985 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
1984 Evelyn Ashford of U.S. ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
1984 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984 Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1984 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush
1984 South African election for parliament boycvotted
1982 General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
1979 200 black leaders, meet in New York, to support Andrew Young
1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1975 Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws
1973 Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as Minister of Foreign affairs
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1971 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out
1971 Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1969 Beatles record a video for "Long and Winding Road"
1969 Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1968 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
1968 Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota
1966 Beatles arrive in New York City
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
1964 Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1962 Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
1960 Gil Hodges set NL righty home run record with #352
1959 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive home runs
1958 Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1957 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)
1956 President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco
1954 WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, Florida (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 France closes jail on Devil Island
1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1950 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in national tennis competition
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike end
1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1946 Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Australia Services at Old Trafford
1945 England defeat Australia Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket
1945 Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London
1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 Soviet troops free Karkov
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1934 Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes
1934 Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 home runs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1933 Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games and a split season
1933 International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1930 Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1926 Greek dictator General Pangulos driven out
1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
1914 Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French
1914 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium)
1914 Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton
1914 Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia
1914 German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
1914 Von Ludendorff and von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
1913 Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
1912 England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1912 Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
1911 Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1910 Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
1907 Colin Buchanan, town planner
1907 Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1902 President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st U.S. chief executive to ride in a car
1901 Cadillac Co forms
1900 Gabriel Faures opera "Promethee," premieres in Beziers
1877 Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1867 Fisk University forms, 1867
1864 Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
1864 International Red Cross forms
1862 Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1846 U.S. annexes New Mexico
1826 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1818 Grand duchy of Bathe forms
1791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1788 Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1780 Resolution, without Captain Cook, returns to England
1775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1717 Spanish troops lands on Sardinia
1715 Handels "Watermusic" premieres on Thames
1707 Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
1707 Sweden and Prussia sign military treaty
1654 1st Jewish immigrant to U.S., Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament
1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1582 King James IV of Scotland captured
1572 Failed assassination on Admiral De Coligny
1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
565 St. Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness