1789 – Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
1840 – Karl Leberecht Immermann, German writer, dies at 44
1942 – W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
1943 – Johan Petter Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist (modern adjustable spanner), dies at 86
1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies from a heart ailment and pneumonia at 62
1972 – Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71
1974 – Gus Viseur, Belgian-French jazz button accordionist, dies at 59
2001 – Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77
2021 – Neal Brendel, American rugby union prop (6 Tests; Pittsburgh RC) and executive (Chairman USA Rugby 2002-05), dies from cancer at 66
2021 – Robin Miller, American motorsports journalist (Indianapolis Star, Autoweek, Car and Driver, ESPN, Speed, NBCSN), dies from leukemia at 71
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Historical Events for 25th August 2024
1922 – Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1940 – First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1944 – US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France
1960 – AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 – Somali adopts constitution
1988 – Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1991 – Carl Lewis runs 100m in a world record 9.86 seconds
2014 – 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC
2017 – President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling
Today in History for 25th August 2024
Historical Events
1835 – New York Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1960 – XVII Summer Olympic Games open at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy
1971 – Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations
1986 – A’s Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
2001 – Singer Aaliyah and 8 others killed in an air crash in the Bahamas
2022 – California votes to ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered cars by 2035
Famous Birthdays
1919 – George Wallace, American politician (Gov-D-Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio, Alabama (d. 1998)
1936 – Hugh Hudson, English film director (Chariots of Fire), born in London, England (d. 2023)
1946 – Charlie Sanders, American football player (Detroit Lions), born in Richlands, North Carolina (d. 2015)
1955 – Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician, born in Thirumangalam, India
1962 – Mazzi Rawd, [Clifford Lewis], American heavy metal guitarist (Femme Fatale), and physicist, born in the USA
1966 – Michael Cohen, American lawyer to Donald Trump, born on Long Island, New York
Famous Deaths
1282 – Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (b. ca 1218)
1868 – Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
1957 – Leo Perutz, Austrian writer and mathematician, dies at 74
1967 – Paul Muni, American actor (Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez), dies after a lengthy illness of heart disease at 71
1972 – Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71
2016 – Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (Miles Davis, John Coltrane), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 24th August 2024
1779 – Saint Kosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr, executed at Kolkondas (b. c. 1714)
1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
1974 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1978 – Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist, her excavations at Jericho established it as the oldest continuously occupied city, dies at 72
1980 – Frederick A. Fox, American classical composer (Nightscenes; Shaking The Pumpkin),and educator (Indiana University, 1974-94), dies at 80
1983 – Shawn Stephens Lewis, 5th wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone OD, after 77 days of marriage at 25
1992 – André Donner, Dutch jurist (2nd President European Court of Justice), dies at 74
1999 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (Our Miss Brooks; The Lucy Show), dies of natural causes at 83
2001 – Hank Sauer, American baseball left fielder (NL MVP, HR leader, RBI leader 1952; MLB All Star 1950, 52; Chicago Cubs), dies from a heart attack at 84
2006 – Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor, dies at 90
Historical Events for 24th August 2024
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid
1217 – Battle of South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 – Black Death Massacre: 6,000 Jews, blamed for spreading the Bubonic Plague, are killed in Mainz, Electorate of Mainz; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon’s murder
1991 – Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
2008 – Dániel Varga and Péter Biros score 3 goals each as Hungary wins the men’s water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; third consecutive Olympic gold medal
2014 – Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting Ebola virus after attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
2019 – US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic
2021 – Beyoncé becomes first black woman and third person to wear the Tiffany Diamond in an advertising campaign for the company alongside her husband Jay-Z
Today in History for 24th August 2024
Historical Events
1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca
1572 – St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces
1968 – Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned
1975 – Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1992 – Diplomatic relations are established between the People’s Republic of China and South Korea.
2023 – BRICS meeting of emerging nations in South Africa agrees to invite six new nations to join, in attempt to balance global power of the US and Europe
Famous Birthdays
1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1614)
1889 – Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congolese religious leader and founder of Kimbanguism, born in Nkamba, Congo (d. 1951)
1943 – Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent, born in Ness Ziona, Israel
1965 – Reggie Miller, American NBA guard, 1987-2005 (Indiana Pacers; Olympic gold, 1996), born in Riverside, California
1972 – Todd Young, American politician (Senator-R-Indiana 2017-), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1979 – (Katherine) “Kaki” King, American guitarist, lap steel guitar player and composer, born in Atlanta, Georgia
Famous Deaths
1939 – William Moule, Australian lawyer, politician and cricketer (Australia v England 1880), dies at 81
1988 – Max Shulman, American author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1992 – André Donner, Dutch jurist (2nd President European Court of Justice), dies at 74
1994 – Jason McRoy, English mountain bike racer, dies in a motorcycle accident at 23
1996 – John Christopherson, English artist and collector, dies at 75
1998 – E. G. Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), dies of lung cancer at 84
Famous Deaths for 23rd August 2024
1484 – Diogo, Duke of Viseu, murdered by his cousin, King João II of Portugal at 34
1591 – Luis de Leon, Spanish scholar and poet, dies at 64
1914 – George Ambrose Pogson, British consul in Hamburg (1880-1914), dies
1979 – Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan captain 1948-49), dies
1987 – Siegfried Borris, German composer, dies at 80
1993 – Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
1995 – Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboardist and industrial-electronic music composer (Skinny Puppy), dies of a heroin overdose at 31
1995 – Hedda J. Garza, American writer and political activist, dies at 66
1999 – James White, Northern Irish sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer), dies of a stroke at 71
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American Baseball HOF pitcher (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1954 NY Giants; no-hitter 1958 Baltimore Orioles; Chicago WS), dies of heart failure at 80
Historical Events for 23rd August 2024
1566 – Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 – American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games
1944 – Sammellager Drancy freed
1948 – World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1970 – Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1975 – Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1979 – Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds
2004 – Winning pitcher Lisa Fernadez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
Today in History for 23rd August 2024
Historical Events
1914 – -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1953 – Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1972 – Chicago White Sox Dick Allen is 4th player to homer into Comiskey Park’s center field bleachers; previously slugged by only Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson
2007 – Hashtag invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina
2020 – Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his 2nd title under yellow caution flag after a crash with 3 laps remaining
Famous Birthdays
1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor, born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1923)
1913 – Bob Crosby, American jazz singer and bandleader (Bob-Cats), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1993)
1922 – George Kell, American Baseball HOF third baseman (10 x MLB All-Star; AL batting champion 1949; Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox), born in Swifton, Arkansas (d. 2009)
1927 – Martial Solal, French jazz pianist and composer, born in Algiers, French Algeria
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1968 – Cortez Kennedy, American NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks), born in Osceola, Arkansas (d. 2017)
Famous Deaths
1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1994 – Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1999 – James White, Northern Irish sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer), dies of a stroke at 71
2007 – Philip Wilkinson, British bank executive (National Westminster Bank), dies at 80
2013 – William Glasser, American psychiatrist, dies from respiratory failure from pneumonia at 88
2021 – Michael Nader, American actor (Dynasty, All My Children), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2024
1485 – Richard III, King of England (1483-85), killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field at 32
1609 – Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1801 – Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1796-1801), dies at 46
1866 – George Shillibeer, pioneer of London’s 1st bus service, dies
1917 – Matthijs Maris [Thijs], Dutch painter and etcher influenced by Pre-Raphaelites, dies at 78
1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist (Nobel Prize for Literature 1937), dies at 77
1979 – Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69
1991 – Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
2015 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator, dies at 88