1676 – King Philip [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1830 – Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50
1864 – Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian World Chess Champion (1866-94), dies at 64
1911 – Jozef Israels, painter, dies
1994 – Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
1999 – John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, dies at 75
2004 – Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2004 – Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2010 – Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)
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Historical Events for 12th August 2022
1099 – Battle of Ascalon won by Crusader army led by Godfrey of Bouillon against Fatimid force, last action of the First Crusade
1336 – English King Edward III ends wool export to Flanders
1553 – Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud
1950 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
1955 – 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
1962 – Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1994 – Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
2007 – Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
2015 – Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals that he has cancer
2020 – Yemen authorities say at least 172 people died in floods caused by torrential rains, which have also destroyed historic buildings in Sanaa, a Unesco World Heritage Site
Today in History for 12th August 2022
Historical Events
3 – Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
1588 – Radboud Castle on Medemblik harbor in North Holland surrenders to the Spanish army
1991 – Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
1994 – Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labour dispute
2016 – Italian jockey Frankie Dettori aboard Predilection rides his 3,000th British winner at Newmarket
2021 – Bennu Asteroid, size of the Empire State Building, now has 1-in-1,750 chance of hitting Earth in 2182, according to data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft
Famous Birthdays
1920 – Percy Mayfield, American singer (Please Send Me Someone to Love)
1922 – Lord Colinbrook, British government minister
1925 – Robin Nicholson, English metallurgist, born in Warwickshire, England
1940 – Alexander Yossifov, Bulgarian conductor and composer (Back To The Beginning), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2016)
1960 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (1983 and 1984 Tour de France), born in Paris (d. 2010)
1961 – Roy Hay, British guitarist (Culture Club – “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”)
Famous Deaths
1812 – Jean-Joseph Rodolphe, Alsatian composer, dies at 81
1941 – Bobby Peel, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 3 x 50, 101 wickets, BB 7/31; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 84
1985 – Marcel Mihalovici, Romanian-French composer, dies at 86
1990 – Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
1999 – John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, dies at 75
2008 – Donald Erb, American composer known for large orchestral works, dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 11th August 2022
1522 – Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1794 – Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer, dies at 72
1872 – Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1956 – Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1988 – Jean-Pierre Ponnele, French opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1994 – Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
1996 – Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (Cornelia Farooli), dies at 82
2005 – James Booth [David Geeves], British actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum), dies at 77
2012 – Carlo Curley, American classical concert organist dies at 59
Historical Events for 11th August 2022
1695 – English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
1920 – 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1944 – US air raid on Palembang
1944 – French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées
1948 – The weightlifting competition at the London Olympics concludes with the US (4) and Egypt (2) dominant, combining to win all of the 6 gold medals
1949 – Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian government
1962 – LA Dodgers protest as San Francisco manager Alvin Dark orders Candlestick Park ground crew to water down base paths to hinder MLB All-Star Maury Wills’ base-stealing attempts; Giants win 5-4
1978 – Funeral of Pope Paul VI held in the Vatican
1978 – “C’est Chic” second studio album by Chic is released featuring single “Le Freak” (Billboard Album of the Year 1979)
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
Today in History for 11th August 2022
Historical Events
1949 – 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1960 – Chad declares Independence from France
1965 – “Help!” a musical comedy film featuring the Beatles released in the US
1970 – Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jim Bunning becomes 2nd Cy Young Award winner to win 100 games in both NL and AL; Phillies beat Houston 6-5 at Astrodome
1980 – Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago’s Britt Burns
1980 – Angola revises its constitution
Famous Birthdays
1888 – Owen Nares [Ramsay], British actor and manager (Maiden Erleigh), born in Maiden Erlegh, Berks, England (d. 1943)
1925 – Robert Linn, American composer, born in San Francisco (d. 1999)
1927 – Raymond Leppard, British-American harpsichordist, conductor (Indianapolis Symphony, 1987-2001; BBC Northern Symphony, 1973-80), and composer (Lord Of The Flies), born in London, England
1956 – June Daugherty, American women’s college basketball coach (Boise State Uni, Uni of Washington, Washington State University), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2021)
1984 – Lucas Di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
1985 – Grace Adams-Short, British reality television contestant
Famous Deaths
1578 – Pedro Nunes [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, dies at 61
1868 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (Brudefaerden i Hardanger), dies at 52
1868 – Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R-Pennsylvania 1849-53 1859-68), dies at 76
1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist, steel tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest Americans ever, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83
1994 – Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
Famous Deaths for 10th August 2022
1730 – Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist, dies at 74
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1976 – Ray “Crash” Corrigan, American actor (Crash Corrigan’s Ranch), dies at 74
1987 – Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
1995 – Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
2001 – Lou Boudreau, American Baseball HOF shortstop (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series and AL MVP 1948; AL batting champion 1944; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland, Boston RS, KC A’s, Chicago Cubs), dies at 84
2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2012 – Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78
2014 – Graham Gedye, New Zealand cricket batsman (4 Tests 1964), dies at 85
Historical Events for 10th August 2022
1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1678 – Netherlands and France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1827 – Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1897 – Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)
1932 – A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1954 – Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
1970 – British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
1990 – NASA’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
2018 – US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island
Today in History for 10th August 2022
Historical Events
1948 – Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
1954 – Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1986 – Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
1995 – Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
1997 – Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
2014 – Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African American Michael Brown by a policeman.
Famous Birthdays
1793 – Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1893 – Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
1921 – Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)
1949 – Gene Johnson, American country singer (Diamond Rio – “Meet in the Middle”), born in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania
1971 – Paul Newlove, rugby league player
1997 – Kylie Jenner, American model, TV and social media personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter, dies at 70
1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
1932 – Rin Tin Tin, American Hollywood shepherd dog (Clash of the Wolves), dies at 13
1963 – Ernst Wetter, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 85
1987 – Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
1995 – Fay Honey Knopp, American activist (founded a Quaker ministry for men and women in prisons), dies of complications from ovarian cancer at 76
Famous Deaths for 9th August 2022
1420 – Pierre d’ailly [Peter de Alliaco], French theologist and cardinal, dies
1634 – Pieter de Jode I, Flemish publisher of engravings, dies (b. 1573)
1672 – Jose Ximenez, Spanish composer, dies at 70
1902 – Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher, dies at 66
1924 – Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1982 – Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-French filmmaker (pinscreen animation) and artist, dies at 81
1986 – Jef Scherens, Belgian track cyclist (World C’ships gold sprint 1932-37, 47), dies at 77
1991 – Corrie Hartong, Dutch dance pioneer, dies at 85
1997 – Robert Satanowski, Polish opera conductor and general, dies at 79
2000 – Nicholas Markowitz, American teenager kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood at 15