1886 – Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
1926 – England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1941 – German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1955 – 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1960 – Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1977 – Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1982 – NYSE tops 100m shares traded for the 1st time, sets a new record of 132.69m shares traded
1987 – Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach, Astrid Strauss, Anke Mohring and Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1987 – Ohio health care worker Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life for poisoning 24 patients
2020 – Joe Biden is formally nominated as the Democratic party’s presidential candidate during the second night of their 1st ever virtual convention
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Today in History for 18th August 2023
Historical Events
440 – St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1840 – American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1891 – Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
1965 – Dutch soccer team FC Den Bosch (successor to BVV 1906 and Wilhelmina 1890) is established at ‘s-Hertogenbosch
1983 – Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas
1989 – Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
Famous Birthdays
1900 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1964)
1902 – Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter, born in Tartu, Estonia (d. 1968)
1958 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress (Tropical Snow, Bad Girls), born in Los Angeles, California
1964 – Craig Bierko, American actor, born in Rye Brook, New York
1966 – Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress (The Surrogate Woman, Come Come Come Upward), born in Seoul, South Korea (d. 2022)
1969 – Masta Killa [Elgin Turner], American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan), born in Brooklyn, New York
Famous Deaths
1815 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1940 – Walter Chrysler, American automotive pioneer (Chrysler Corporation) and thoroughbred breeder, dies at 65
1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian revolutionary and nationalist, dies of injuries from a plane crash at 48
1989 – Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered
2010 – Benjamin Kaplan, American copyright scholar, dies at 99
2014 – Jim Jeffords, American politician (Senator-R+I-Vermont 1989-2007, Rep-R-VT, 1975-89), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 17th August 2023
1958 – Florent Schmitt, French composer (La tragédie de Salome; Psalm 47), and music critic (Le Temps), dies at 87
1966 – Michael Garrison, American TV producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
1969 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (November Group), dies at 83
1973 – Conrad Aiken, American poet (Pulitzer Prize, US Poet Laureate 1950-52), dies at 74
1976 – William Redfield, American actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage), dies of leukemia at 49
1982 – Barney Phillips [Bernard Philip Ofner], American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies from cancer at 68
1982 – Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
1984 – Hammie Nixon [Nickerson], American blues harmonica player (Sleepy John Estes), dies at 76
1984 – Hollie Roffey, British youngest ever heart transplant, dies at 28 days
2022 – Josephine Tewson, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances; Last Of The Summer Wine, 2003-10), dies at 91
Historical Events for 17th August 2023
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1918 – Samuel Riddle buys Man o’War for $5,000
1926 – Greek-Serbian, Croatian and Slavs peace treaty signed
1936 – An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a State law, for $15
1948 – Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game for the 2nd time
1948 – Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1985 – 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1986 – Bronze pig statue unveiled at Pike Place Market, Seattle
2008 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 from Se Ri Pak
2013 – 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo
Today in History for 17th August 2023
Historical Events
1796 – British defeat Batavian navy in Saldanha Bay, South Africa
1960 – Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
1987 – Muhammad Ali elected to “Ring” magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame
1991 – Royals Warren Cromartie’s 1st major league HR since 1983
2008 – German swimmer Britta Steffen beats American Dara Torres by 0.01 in the 50m to wrap up the 50/100m double at the Beijing Olympics
2016 – German pair Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst upsets Brazilian hometown favourites Ágatha Bednarczuk and Bárbara Seixas 21–18, 21–14 to win the Olympic women’s beach volleyball gold in Rio de Janeiro
Famous Birthdays
1753 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
1888 – Monty Wooley, American actor (Pied Piper, The Man Who Came to Dinner), born in NYC, New York (d. 1963)
1906 – Marcello Caetano, last Portuguese prime minister of the Estado Novo regime (1968-1974), born in Graça, Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1980)
1952 – (Terry) “Topper” Price, American blues, jazz and rock vocalist and harmonica player (The Upsetters). born in Plateau, Alabama (d. 2007)
1963 – Jackie Walorski, American politician (Rep-R-Indiana 2013-22), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 2022)
1986 – Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player, born in Batton, Rouge, Louisiana
Famous Deaths
1153 – Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1635 – Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48
1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (Father of Bantu Philology), dies at 48
1972 – Alexander Vampilov, Russian playwright (Elder Son), drowns at 34
1995 – Marjorie Sykes, British educator, peace activist, and Indian independence campaigner, dies at 90
2013 – John Hollander, American poet and literary critic, dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 16th August 2023
1508 – Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, German viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1786 – Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer and violinist, dies at 80
1799 – Vincenzo Manfredini, Italian harpsichordist, composer, and music theorist, dies at 61
1870 – Edmund Passy, Swedish composer, dies at 80
1986 – Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1991 – Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1994 – Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
2004 – Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 – William Corlett, English children’s writer(b. 1938)
2005 – Joe Ranft, American screenwriter and animator (Toy Story, Cars), dies at 45
Historical Events for 16th August 2023
1954 – 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1969 – Second day of the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York; performers include Santana, John Sebastian; Mountain, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, and Jefferson Airplane
1972 – Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
1988 – Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1991 – John Gutfreund announces his resignation as chief executive of Salomon Brothers amid illegal bidding scandal
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 7th of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 100m butterfly in Olympic record 50.58; beats Milorad Čavić of Serbia by 0.01
2012 – South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
2012 – 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
2013 – 61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines
2019 – Huge fire in Chalantika slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, destroys 1,200 houses and leaves up to 10,000 homeless
Today in History for 16th August 2023
Historical Events
1864 – Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1944 – 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy, during Operation Intractable
1948 – Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1955 – Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1987 – Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
2012 – 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
Famous Birthdays
1915 – Al Hibbler, American singer (Unchained Melody), born in Tyro, Mississippi (d. 2001)
1933 – Reiner Kunze, German writer (The Lovely Years), born in Oelsnitz, Saxony
1937 – David Anderson, Canadian politician
1948 – Pierre Reid, Canadian politician and teacher
1969 – Andy Milder, American voice actor
1974 – Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer, born in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Famous Deaths
1864 – Victor Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 27
1920 – Sir Norman Lockyer, English physicist, co-founder of helium gas, founder and editor of “Nature” magazinem dies at 84
1969 – Russ Bender, American actor and writer (Amazing Colossal Man; Space Monster, It Conquered the World), dies at 59
1973 – Veda Ann Borg, American model and actress (Kid Galahad, Avalanche, Accomplice), dies of cancer at 58
2006 – Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
2020 – Georg Volkert, German soccer striker (12 caps, FRG; 1. FC Nürnberg, Hamburger SV, VfB Stuttgart), dies from heart attack complications at 74
Famous Deaths for 15th August 2023
1552 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1615 – Mír ‘Imád al-Ḥasaní, Persian calligrapher (Master of the Nasta‘liq style – St. Petersburg Muraqqa), assassinated on Shah’s authorization (b. 1554)
1619 – Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Kraków, dies
1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (considered the father of aerodynamics – discovered the boundary layer), dies at 78
1956 – Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1967 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (This is Not a Pipe), dies at 68
1969 – Stijn Streuvels [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Vlaschaard), dies at 97
2020 – Henk Wullems, Dutch soccer manager (NAC Breda, SBV Vitesse, Go Ahead Eagles, AZ; Indonesia 1996-98), dies from a Cerebral infarction at 84
2021 – Gerd Müller “Der Bomber”, German soccer striker (62 caps; FIFA World Cup 1974; Bayern Munich 453 games, 398 goals), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 75
2021 – Gary Woollard, New Zealand rugby league five eighth (10 Tests; Wellington), dies at 79
Historical Events for 15th August 2023
1248 – Construction of the new Cologne Cathedral in the Gothic style begins with the laying of the foundation stone by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden (completed 1880)
1891 – San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed
1950 – Sukarno proclaims the unitary Republic of Indonesia and becomes its 1st President
1971 – Despite crashing out on lap 36, Scotsman Jackie Stewart clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the Austrian Grand Prix at Österreichring; Swiss driver Jo Siffert of the BRM team wins the race
1973 – David Storey’s play “Cromwell” premieres in London
1988 – NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1990 – Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1992 – Colombo ’92 closes in Genoa, Italy
1994 – South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
2019 – Whistleblower releases damaging report on General Electric titled “General Electric, a Bigger Fraud Than Enron” claiming $38 billion accountancy fraud