1645 – Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673 – Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1906 – Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
1954 – Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast
1969 – 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1979 – In a wild encounter at the US Open, John McEnroe beats Ilie Năstase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Năstase is defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1987 – Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1994 – Gund Arena in Cleve opens
2007 – NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock, where solar and interstellar winds met (following Voyager 1 in 2004)
2017 – Late author Terry Pratchett’ unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions
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Today in History for 30th August 2020
Historical Events
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1860 – 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1949 – Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1957 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1988 – France performs nuclear test
Famous Birthdays
1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (1876-78), born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1948 – Lewis Black, American stand-up comedian (Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil), born in Washington, D.C.
1977 – Elden Henson, American actor (Daredevil), born in Rockville, Maryland
1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player, born in Ciudad Evita, Argentina
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer, born in Paso de los Libres, Argentina (d. 2007)
1983 – Jonne Aaron, Finnish vocalist of the band Negative, born in Tampere, Finland
Famous Deaths
1950 – Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center), dies at 57
1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy, dies of acute liver failure at 52
1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies at 66
1991 – Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies at 61
1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2012 – Chris Lighty, music executive and manager (Violator), dies of a gunshot wound at 44
Famous Deaths for 29th August 2020
1653 – Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
1758 – Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal, dies at 56
1769 – Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1880 – Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army), dies at 47
1968 – Victor Sutherland, American actor (Captive City), dies at 79
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, dies at 77
1987 – Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1994 – Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90
2005 – Barry Cowsill, American rock bassist (The Cowsills), believed to have drowned during Hurricane Katrina at 50
2009 – Frank Gardner, Australian auto racer (European F5000 1971; British Touring Car Championship 1967-68, 73), dies at 77
Historical Events for 29th August 2020
1540 – Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges
1838 – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years
1885 – Boxing’s 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey
1903 – The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese
1914 – 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
1916 – General Paul von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1920 – An American sweep of the medals in the men’s 100m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics; Duke Kahanamoku sets world record 1:00.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
1949 – USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR
1967 – Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes
2018 – Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin
Today in History for 29th August 2020
Historical Events
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1756 – England and France meet in war
1916 – Congress creates US Naval Reserve
1953 – KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 – Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
2014 – Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
Famous Birthdays
1632 – John Locke, English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and “Father of Liberalism” (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England (d. 1704)
1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer, born in Żnin, Poland (d. 1830)
1926 – Elizabeth “Betty” Lynn, American actress (The Andy Griffith Show), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1957 – Pim Kops, Dutch rock musician (Dike, Bloedend Heart)
1969 – Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player, born in Belfast, United Kingdom
1981 – Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), New Zealand actor, born in Auckland, New Zealand
Famous Deaths
1758 – Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal, dies at 56
1880 – Paul Octave Hébert, American Brigadier General and 14th Governor of Louisiana, dies at 61
1960 – Alexander Gauge, British actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at 46
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, dies at 77
1989 – Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer, dies at 79
2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
Famous Deaths for 28th August 2020
1484 – Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered
1647 – Johann Dilliger, German composer, dies at 53
1839 – William Smith, British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), dies at 70
1964 – Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), dies at 89
1978 – F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (Three Harbours), dies at 76
1990 – Patience Strong [Winifred Emma May], English poet and journalist, dies at 83
1994 – Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
1995 – Carl Ronald Giles, British cartoonist (Daily Express), dies at 78
2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
2014 – Glenn Cornick, English rock bassist, dies from heart failure at 67
Historical Events for 28th August 2020
1777 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cooch’s Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1840 – Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1943 – Benito Mussolini transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1964 – WEWS-TV Channel 5’s “Upbeat” debuts in Cleveland
1972 – American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich and Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1990 – F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
1990 – Cub’s Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1993 – Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
2019 – New Italian coalition government formed of anti-establishment Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party ousting Matteo Salvini
Today in History for 28th August 2020
Historical Events
1914 – Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed
1941 – 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1963 – Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens
1977 – NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1993 – Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
2017 – North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country’s J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
Famous Birthdays
865 – Rhazes [Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī], Persian physician, born in Ray, Persia (d. 925)
1901 – Cees Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet), born in Amsterdam (d. 1981)
1924 – Margaret O’Rene “Peggy” Ryan, American dancer and actress (Hawaii Five-0), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2004)
1940 – Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind), born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
1973 – Matthew John Armstrong, American actor (American Dreams), born in Chicago, Illinois
1982 – Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer, born in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Famous Deaths
1947 – Manolete [Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez], Spanish bullfighter, dies at 30
1967 – Bruce Smith, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1941, U of Minnesota; NFL: Green Bay Packers), dies of cancer at 47
1996 – Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50
2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2013 – Rob du Bois, Dutch composer, dies at 79
2017 – Bobby Boyd, American NFL cornerback (5 × All-Pro 1964–1968; NFL interceptions leader 1965; Baltimore Colts), dies of bladder cancer at 79
Famous Deaths for 27th August 2020
1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1590 – Pope Sixtus V [Felice Piergentile], Pope of the Catholic Church (1585-90), dies at 68
1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (Rule, Britannia), dies at 47
1865 – Józef Nowakowski, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 64
1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1950 – Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1978 – Robert Shaw, British actor, novelist, and playwright (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday), dies of heart attack at 51
1981 – Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1991 – Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1996 – Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82
Historical Events for 27th August 2020
1897 – Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1909 – Jack Chesbro’s final Highlander game
1927 – Parks College, America’s oldest aviation school, opens
1934 – Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Yips Harburg’s musical ‘Life Begins at 8:40’ premieres in NYC
1955 – Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 – Jimi Hendrix creates his last studio recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York, an instrumental called “Slow Blues”
1975 – Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1986 – Protests erupt in Soweto, South Africa, against evictions carried out after an 11 week rent boycott
1990 – Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)