1591 – Luis de Leon, Spanish scholar and poet, dies at 64
1898 – Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
1903 – Paul Gabriël, Dutch water colors painter and etcher, dies at 75
1939 – Sidney Coe Howard, American playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
1941 – Jack O’Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, dies at 65
1965 – John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1970 – Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher, dies at 55
1971 – The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1979 – Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
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Historical Events for 23rd August 2020
1582 – French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1711 – Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1944 – General George Leclerc’s troops advance towards Paris
1944 – US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1972 – 4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland
1977 – 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1985 – Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1990 – Armenia declares independence
Today in History for 23rd August 2020
Historical Events
1959 – 20th Venice Film Festival: “The Great War” directed by Mario Monicelli and “General della Rovere” directed by Roberto Rossellini jointly awarded Golden Lion
1975 – Communists take over Laos
1975 – Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1977 – Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
1979 – Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds
1985 – West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
Famous Birthdays
1884 – Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1927-1932), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1937)
1943 – Bobby Diamond, American actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis), born in Los Angeles, California
1954 – Charles Busch, American actor, screenwriter, playwright and drag queen (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife), in Hartsdale, New York
1973 – Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model, born in Thane, India
1979 – Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer, born in Mexico City, Mexico
1986 – Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons, born in Kiama, Australia
Famous Deaths
1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1723 – Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister, dies at 84
1903 – Paul Gabriël, Dutch water colors painter and etcher, dies at 75
1961 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1905; doubles 1904-06), dies at 81
1965 – John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2020
1241 – Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (1st Governor-General of Swedish Livonia), dies at 69
1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman, dies at 72
1793 – Louis de Noailles, Marshal of France, dies at 80
1890 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian foreign minister, diplomat and poet, dies at 69
1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1937 – David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
1966 – Apolinary Szeluto, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 82
1980 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz), dies at 89
1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (Maggie-Blue and Grey), dies of cancer at 67
Historical Events for 22nd August 2020
1138 – English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle – led to the name Battle of the Standard
1864 – First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field” signed by 12 nations
1934 – Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1968 – 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.
1971 – Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
1984 – Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984 – The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
1989 – 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
2008 – The Jamaican team led by Usain Bolt smashes the world 4 x 100m relay record in the final at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2017 as Nesta Carter tests positive for prohibited substance
2019 – South Korea says it is leaving an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in an escalation of the rift between the two countries
Today in History for 22nd August 2020
Historical Events
1951 – Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1953 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returns to Tehran
1954 – WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1978 – Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
2010 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins last of 3 Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke from Michael Allen and Taiwan’s Lu Chien-soon
2019 – Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Famous Birthdays
1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia, born in Mărășești, Romania (d. 1901)
1920 – Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria), born in Curacao, Venezuela (d. 1981)
1929 – Harry McPherson, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, born in Tyler, Texas (d. 2012)
1956 – Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92), born in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1958 – Stevie Ray [Lane Huffman], American professional wrestler, born in Houston, Texas
1974 – Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist (Le Vibrazioni), born in Milan, Italy
Famous Deaths
1367 – Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57
1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Hungarian-German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser), dies at 48
1944 – Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1989 – Johannes “Jan” Teulings, Dutch actor (Lentelied, The Three Wishes), dies of natural causes at 84
2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
Famous Deaths for 21st August 2020
1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1824 – John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1963 – John Gunn, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies at 87
1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Italy, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71
1968 – Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1970 – Timothy Mather Spelman, American composer, dies at 79
1971 – George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
1988 – Ray Eames, American designer and filmmaker, dies at 75
1991 – Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 101
2018 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (Lazytown), dies of cancer at 43
Historical Events for 21st August 2020
1264 – Kublai Khan accepts the surrender of his younger brother Ariq Böke at Xanadu, at the end of the Mongol civil war
1673 – Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English and French fleet
1864 – Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1914 – Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1943 – Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1948 – Cleveland Indians 47-inning scoreless streak is broken as future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon yields a home run to Aaron Robinson in a 3-2 loss to Chicago WS
1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
1963 – Jerry Lynch’s record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1967 – China reports downing of 2 US bombers
2008 – Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women’s softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics
Today in History for 21st August 2020
Historical Events
1863 – Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
1926 – -22] Uprising against Greek president and dictator Pangalos
1944 – Raid on Jewish children’s house in Secrétan/St-Mandé
1948 – Cleveland Indians 47-inning scoreless streak is broken as future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon yields a home run to Aaron Robinson in a 3-2 loss to Chicago WS
1995 – Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 crashes near Carrollton, Georgia, killing 9 crew and passengers
2012 – 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
Famous Birthdays
1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist, born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1891)
1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World’s oldest living man 2004-2007, born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico (d. 2007)
1925 – Judy Grable [Nellya Baughman], American professional wrestler, born in Bremerton, Washington (d. 2008)
1961 – Lance Earl Deal, American hammer thrower (Olympic silver 1996), born in Riverton, Wyoming
1962 – Jeff Stryker, American adult film actor, born in Carmi, Illinois
1976 – Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player, born in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Famous Deaths
1949 – Gerhard von Keussler, German composer, dies at 75
1988 – Ray Eames, American designer and filmmaker, dies at 75
1995 – Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76
1995 – Anatole Fistoulari, Ukrainian conductor, dies at 88
1997 – Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
Famous Deaths for 20th August 2020
1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, dies at 43
1823 – Pius VII [Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti], Italian bishop of Imola and Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), dies in 61
1945 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer, dies at 73
1952 – Kurt Schumacher, German political chairman (SPD), dies at 56
1959 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian writer and illustrator, dies at 82
1985 – Harchand Singh Longowai [Sant Ji], Indian Sikh leader and President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s, assassinated by Sikh extremists less than a month after he signed a peace accord with the government
1996 – George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81
2012 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84), dies at 96