1821 – Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
1934 – John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), dies at 73
1948 – Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
1973 – Douglas Kennedy, American actor (Dark Passage, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer at 57
1976 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (54 Tests, 130 dismissals, 4 x 50; NSW CA), dies at 81
1996 – Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
1997 – Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (Soundings 4), dies at 84
2002 – Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic), dies of pancreatic cancer at 40
2012 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
2021 – Tony Esposito, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (6 x NHL All Star; Vezina Trophy 1970, 72, 74; Chicago Blackhawks), dies from pancreatic cancer at 78
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Historical Events for 10th August 2023
70 – Second Temple in Jerusalem set on fire by Roman army under Titus during the capture of the city (approx)
610 – In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an
1793 – Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
1904 – NY Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games in a 5-1 loss to Chicago White Sox at South Side Park, Chicago
1919 – Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1926 – Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
1943 – Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
2016 – 18 year old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates huge upset when he swims a junior world record 47.58 to win the blue ribband men’s 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
2020 – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces his government is resigning, less than a week after massive industrial explosions devastated Beirut
2021 – Forest fires kill 65 people, including 25 soldiers, in Algeria in the Kabylie region during heatwave conditions
Today in History for 10th August 2023
Historical Events
1827 – Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1914 – WWI: French fall back at Alsace
1941 – FDR and Churchill’s 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland
1971 – Twins’ Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, and adds his 501st
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
1992 – Soyuz TM-15 lands
Famous Birthdays
1720 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1789)
1926 – Benjamin Ward, 1st African American NYC Police Commissioner (1984-89), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
1966 – Roberta Donnay American jazz singer, guitarist, and songwriter (“One World”), born in Washington, D.C.
1973 – Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer (Inter Milan), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1978 – Daniel Allsopp, Australian footballer (Manchester City), born in Melbourne, Australia
1994 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer (Manchester City), born in Lisbon, Portugal
Famous Deaths
1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter, dies at 70
1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (founded journal Globus), dies at 66
1929 – Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and women’s suffrage activist, dies at 75
1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer (invented and built the first liquid-fueled rocket), dies of throat cancer at 62
1967 – John Francis Larchet, Irish arranger (Irish national anthem), composer (By the Waters of Moyle), and musical director (Abbey Theatre – Dublin, 1908-35), dies at 83
1988 – Adela Rogers St John “The World’s Greatest Girl Reporter”, American journalist, screenwriter and author (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 9th August 2023
1652 – John Dirksz Both, Dutch landscape painter and etcher, dies at about 37
1888 – Isaac Strauss, French violinist, conductor and composer, dies at 82
1888 – Charles Cros, French inventor and poet (Le Hareng Saur), dies at 45
1890 – Eduard von Bauernfeld, Austrian comedic playwright, dies at 88
1904 – Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
1924 – Jacob P. Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1959 – Emil František Burian, Czech author and composer, dies at 55
1992 – Jan van Baal, Dutch anthropologist and governor of Dutch New Guinea, dies (b. 1909)
1996 – Ruth Holland, British journalist (BMJ), dies in the Watford rail crash at 54
2000 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt’s Wafd Party, dies at 88
Historical Events for 9th August 2023
378 – Battle of Adrianople: Goth army defeats Roman forces under Emperor Valens, who is killed
1778 – Captain James Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering Straits
1859 – Otis Tufts patents the first passenger elevator in the US
1864 – Siege of Fort Morgan, Alabama, by Union forces begins (Confederates surrender 23 August)
1910 – Chicago resident Alva Fisher receives US patent for an electric washing machine
1937 – Ranger (US) easily beats Endeavour II (England) in race 4 to wrap up the 17th America’s Cup yachting series, 4-0; it’s the final competition for 21 years
1944 – WWII: Port Chicago Mutiny – mass work stoppage by munition loaders at Port Chicago Naval facility concerned with conditions after recent explosion in Port Chicago, California; 50 men were tried for mutiny, found guilty and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor
1971 – Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is introduced in Northern Ireland allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial; the security forces arrested 342 people suspected of supporting paramilitaries
1988 – Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY’s daily number is 888
2001 – US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
Today in History for 9th August 2023
Historical Events
1673 – Dutch under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
1936 – Helen Stephens claims the women’s sprint double at the Berlin Olympics having won the 100m and as part of the victorious American 4 x 100m relay team
1942 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, dedicated to city of Leningrad, performed in Leningrad by starving musicians and broadcast to German forces over loudspeakers during siege by Nazi forces
1961 – James Benton Parsons is 1st African American to be nominated to a US Federal District Court
1967 – Biafran offensive against Nigerian army
1991 – British radio show “On the Hour” debuts on BBC Radio 4 with first appearance of Alan Partridge character
Famous Birthdays
1834 – Elias Álvares Lobo, Brazilian composer, born in Itu, Brazil (d. 1901)
1892 – Charles Delaney, American actor (Air Police, Lonesome Trail), born in NYC, New York (d. 1959)
1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian and director (End), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American Jazz drummer (Skyline), born in Chicago, Illinois
1962 – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German politician, Leader of Christian Democratic Union (2018-), born in Völklingen, West Germany
1973 – Jimmy King, American NBA guard (Toronto Raptors, University of Michigan Wolverines Fab Five), born in South Bend, Indiana
Famous Deaths
1806 – Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 33
1835 – Claus Nielsen Schali, Danish violinist and composer, dies at 78
1944 – Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), murdered at Auschwitz Concentration Camp at 39
1967 – Anton Walbrook [Adolf Wohlbrook], Austrian actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of a heart attack at 66
1992 – Thomas J. McIntyre, American politician (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
1995 – John Schofield, English BBC journalist, shot to death in Croatia at 29
Famous Deaths for 8th August 2023
1685 – Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna), dies at 75
1965 – Shirley Jackson, American author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45
1979 – Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)
1991 – John Brasser, Dutch Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies at 79
1994 – Henriette Santer, Dutch-English clinical psychologist, dies at 62
1997 – Duncan Swift, English jazz pianist, dies at 74
2005 – Ilse Werner [Ilse Charlotte Still], Dutch-German actress (Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow), dies at 84
2008 – Frank Cornish, American NFL center/guard, 1990-95 (San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys, and 3 other teams), dies of heart disease at 40
2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses) and wife of Roald Dahl, dies at 84
2022 – Lamont Dozier, American songwriter and producer (Holland–Dozier–Holland – “Heat Wave”; “Where Did Our Love Go”; “You Keep Me Hanging On”), dies at 81
Historical Events for 8th August 2023
1322 – Emperor Godaigo makes Sojiji the chief monastery of Soto Sect
1570 – Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for Huguenots
1911 – The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1969 – The Beatles are photographed by Iain MacMillan crossing the street as they walk away from EMI Recording Studios, for the cover of their “Abbey Road” album
1982 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Southern Hills CC: Ray Floyd wins his second PGA C’ship by 3 shots from fellow American Lanny Wadkins
1992 – Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
2000 – Confederate submarine CSS H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor, off the coast of South Carolina
2013 – Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
2018 – Malaysia charges former prime minister Najib Razak with three counts of money laundering
2022 – FBI conduct a search of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Largo, over his handling of classified government documents
Today in History for 8th August 2023
Historical Events
1576 – Cornerstone laid for Tycho Brahe’s observatory in Uraniborg, Denmark, will become the world’s then most advanced research institution
1700 – Denmark and Sweden sign peace treaty
1864 – Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
1882 – Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1925 – 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
1988 – Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years (New York City)
Famous Birthdays
1571 – John Ward, English composer, born in Canterbury, England (d. 1638)
1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American conservative historian, born in New York City (d. 2019)
1950 – Liberatori “Liberty” DeVitto, American rock drummer (Billy Joel, 1976-2006), born in New York City
1958 – Harry Crosby, American actor (Friday the 13th), born in Los Angeles, California
1965 – Angus Fraser, English cricketer (England right-arm pace bowler)
1977 – Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
Famous Deaths
1694 – Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82
1705 – Willem Roukens, Dutch mayor of Nimegen (old Plooi faction), beheaded for trying to overthrow the new ruler of the city
1747 – Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (repelling a raid on Fort Verchères when she was 14 years old), dies at 69
1918 – Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright, dies at 38
1994 – Henriette Santer, Dutch-English clinical psychologist, dies at 62
2008 – Frank Cornish, American NFL center/guard, 1990-95 (San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys, and 3 other teams), dies of heart disease at 40
Famous Deaths for 7th August 2023
1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
1885 – Anthony Modderman, Dutch politician (Minister of Justice, 1879-83), dies at 46
1914 – Bransby Cooper, Australian cricketer, dies at 70
1970 – William Christmas, US African American activist, shot dead
1974 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 72
1994 – Robert Hutton [Winne], American actor (Torture Garden, Rocket), dies at 74
1995 – Brigid Brophy, British novelist (Hackenfeller’s Ape) and campaigner, dies at 66
2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent/manager and producer (b. 1931)
2010 – Manon Alving, Dutch actress (The Assault, Short American), dies at 87
2020 – Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese leader, General Secretary (1997-2001), dies at 88