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Today in History for 27th August 2020

Historical Events

1610 – Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1901 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles
1909 – Jack Chesbro’s final Highlander game
1958 – USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
1984 – US President Ronald Reagan announces ‘Teacher in Space’ project
1997 – 54th Venice Film Festival: “Hana-bi” directed by Takeshi Kitano wins Golden Lion

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Famous Birthdays

1865 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist and anthropologist, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1935)
1932 – Francois Glorieux, composer
1964 – Frankie Thorn, American actress
1968 – Emanual Davis, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1977 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian American actress (Roseanne, Scrubs), born in Ottawa, Ontario

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Famous Deaths

1521 – Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1651 – Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1971 – Jim Turnesa, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1952; Ryder Cup 1953), dies of lung cancer at 58
1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2003 – Jinx Falkenburg [Eugenia], American actress and well-known US cover-girl model throughout 1930s-40s, dies at 84
2007 – Driss Basri, Moroccan politician (Interior Minister 1979-99), dies at 68

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Famous Deaths for 26th August 2020

1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1894 – PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1937 – Andrew Mellon, American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82
1966 – Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1972 – Francis Chichester, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), dies at 70
1980 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer, dies at 30
1993 – Alan Wharton, English cricketer (England batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 and 13), dies at 70
2011 – George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)

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Historical Events for 26th August 2020

1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1896 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-1 for his third US singles title
1938 – British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine
1962 – Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A’s, 1-0
1964 – LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1971 – Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
1978 – Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1990 – Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
1995 – Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
2018 – Boxing match between YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul ends in a draw in Manchester, England

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Today in History for 26th August 2020

Historical Events

1939 – Croatia gets autonomous status
1970 – Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament)
1972 – Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1984 – Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
2008 – Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia
2012 – A Legionella outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104

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Famous Birthdays

1884 – Earl Biggers, author (“Charlie Chan” detective series)
1914 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Blow-Up, Underground Game), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1984)
1919 – Ronald “Ronny” Graham, American actor, director, composer, lyricist, and writer (Bob Crane Show, Chico and the Man), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1944 – Richard A W G, English prince/duke of Gloucester
1946 – Alison Steadman, actress (Life is Sweet), born in Liverpool, England

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Famous Deaths

1712 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, dies at 80
1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist who was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa and naturalist (Philosophical Transactions), dies at 90
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1971 – Francesco Santoliquido, Italian composer, dies at 88
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
2011 – George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)

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Famous Deaths for 25th August 2020

1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1791 – Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies
1936 – Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
1942 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1972 – Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80
1989 – Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
1992 – Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
1998 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court justice (1972-87), dies at 90
2000 – Nils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), dies at 80
2008 – Josef Tal, Israel composer (Israeli art music), dies at 97

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Historical Events for 25th August 2020

1941 – British and Soviet troops attack pro-German Iran
1951 – Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
1979 – Somali adopts constitution
1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2004 – Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos win Brazil’s first gold medal in men’s beach volleyball with a 21–16, 21–15 victory over Spanish pair Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera
2012 – 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
2013 – 4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico

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Today in History for 25th August 2020

Historical Events

1917 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Robert Lindley Murray beats Nathaniel W. Niles 5-7, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3 for first of 2 straight US singles titles
1920 – Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep of the Antwerp Olympics women’s 100m freestyle with a world record swim of 1:13.6
1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1991 – Norway and Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic republics
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2012 – 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war

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Famous Birthdays

1868 – Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1942)
1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher, born in East St. Louis, Illinois (d. 1962)
1944 – Pat Martino, American jazz guitarist (2004 Guitar Player of the Year, Down Beat), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1949 – John Savage, American actor (The Deer Hunter, Maria’s Lovers), born in Old Bethpage, New York
1965 – Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1983 – James Rossiter, British racing driver

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Famous Deaths

471 – Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
882 – Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19
1792 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1984 – Andy Varipapa, American ten-pin bowler (BPAA All-Star champion 1947-48), dies at 93
1995 – R B Hudmon, RandB/Soul Singer, dies at 41
2008 – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball center (NBA All Star 1989, 91; Portland Trail Blazers), dies of heart failure at 44

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Famous Deaths for 24th August 2020

1833 – Adrian Hardy Haworth, English entomologist and botanist, dies at 65
1889 – Jan Matzeliger, Surinamese-Dutch inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies at 36
1940 – Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
1967 – Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1983 – Scott Nearing, American sociologist, pacifist and author (The Good Life), dies at 100
1985 – Paul Creston [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], Italian-American composer (Creative Harmony, dies at 78
1994 – Wijnanda MC “Nan” Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82
1997 – Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90
1999 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks), dies of natural causes at 83
2014 – Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), dies at 90

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Historical Events for 24th August 2020

1883 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Two-time defending champion Richard Sears wins 3rd straight title; beats James Dwight 6-2, 6-0, 9-7
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
1972 – Gordie Howe and Jean Béliveau inducted into the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
1975 – Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1976 – Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1987 – Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1995 – Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
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

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Today in History for 24th August 2020

Historical Events

1391 – Jews of Palma, Mallorca, massacred
1908 – Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 – Australian Antarctic Territory created
1982 – KCs’ John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher’s record
2015 – Physicist Stephen Hawking presents a new theory on black holes at a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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

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Famous Birthdays

1198 – King Alexander II of Scotland, born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (d. 1249)
1845 – James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1880 – Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, Scottish baron and diplomat (d. 1964)
1963 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director (Death Stranding), born in Setagaya, Tokyo
1977 – John Green, American author (The Fault in Our Stars) and vlogger, born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1981 – Mercedes Scelba-Shorte, American model, born in New Jersey

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Famous Deaths

1313 – Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1954 – Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer and dictator, commits suicide at 71
1978 – Louis Prima, American musician (That Old Black Magic), dies at 67
2001 – Raymond Wilding-White, American composer, dies at 78
2013 – Julie Harris, American actress (Bell Jar, I Am a Camera, East of Eden), heart failure at 87

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