1882 – French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1914 – Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
1940 – Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross
1947 – Philadelphia A’s rookie pitcher Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0
1953 – French minister François Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
1964 – 2nd incident that year of race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay, 13 people killed, 106 injured
1966 – Future Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr signs his first NHL contract with the Boston Bruins; 2 year deal paying a then record $70,000 plus signing bonus
1971 – Manlio Brosio resigns as secretary general of NATO
2018 – Argentine President Mauricio Macri announces new austerity measures, including closing half of all government ministries, in televised address
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd September 2022
1911 – Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews
1937 – Film “The Prisoner of Zenda” based on the novel and play by Anthony Hope, starring Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is released
1944 – US leaders meet in Belgium
1945 – Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)
1956 – San Francisco Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1982 – Rolling Stone Keith Richard’s house burns down
1990 – Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws MLB record 9th no-hitter of the season; beats Cleveland, 3-0
1998 – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide
2019 – Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
Historical Events for 1st September 2022
1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1913 – Zhang Xun’s Wuwei Corps captures Nanjing on behalf of Emperor Yuan Shikai in the Republic of China’s Second Revolution, ending Chinese independence and causing Sun Yat Sen to flee to Japan
1946 – Greece votes for monarchy
1965 – Indo-Pakistani conflict – Pakistani counter-attack (Operation Grand Slam,)
1978 – Last broadcast of “Columbo” starring Peter Falk on NBC
1981 – Uruguay’s Ruling Council names Gregorio Álvarez as transitional President (he rules till 1985)
1985 – Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde and Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello
1999 – 56th Venice Film Festival: “Yi ge dou bu neng shao” directed by Zhang Yimou wins Golden Lion
2007 – In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State’s Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
2015 – India scores their first Test cricket series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 winning 3rd Test in Colombo by 117 runs; Ravichandran Ashwin (4) and Ishant Sharma (3) combine for 7 Sri Lankan 2nd innings wickets
Historical Events for 31st August 2022
1142 – Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League [disputed date – other research places date between 1450 and 1660]
1942 – U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)
1947 – NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1954 – Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
1955 – KTRE TV channel 9 begins broadcasting in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC affiliate)
1966 – Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1969 – 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1977 – Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate’s vote
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
2012 – “Argo” directed by Ben Affleck and starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2013)
Historical Events for 30th August 2022
257 – St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125 – Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1862 – Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1900 – Last 2,000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt, South Africa, freed
1910 – Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11
1939 – Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet
1972 – Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet teammate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games
2006 – Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game
2018 – Film “Roma” directed and written by Alfonso Cuarón, (Best Director 2019 Academy Awards) starring Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira premieres at the Venice Film Festival
2018 – Ugandan pop star MP Bobi Wine re-arrested attempting to leave the country
Historical Events for 29th August 2022
1914 – New Zealand forces capture German Samoa
1916 – Transport ship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1,000 die
1916 – General Paul von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1920 – Swedish swimmer Håkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating teammate Thor Henning in the 200m; also beats Henning for gold in the 400m
1952 – New York premiere of history-based film “The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima”
1953 – USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb
1956 – French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1970 – Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
1992 – Irish rock band U2 plays the 1st of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NYC
1997 – Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business
Historical Events for 28th August 2022
1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1951 – Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game winning streak
1956 – Australia clings on for a draw in 5th Test at The Oval, London; England retain cricket Ashes with Jim Laker’s 46 wickets a record series haul
1964 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 – National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men
1986 – Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
2004 – The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
2013 – 70th Venice Film Festival: “Sacro GRA” directed by Gianfranco Rosi wins Golden Lion
2017 – North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country’s J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
2018 – Chinese ride-sharing firm Didi Chuxing issues public apology after second Hitch passenger killed within three months
Historical Events for 27th August 2022
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force
1969 – Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1969 – Lindy’s Pride wins Hambletonian Stakes
1990 – Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline.
1993 – Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1995 – 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 – Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning
2004 – In a huge upset in the men’s basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and US bronze
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia killing 49 of 50 on board
Historical Events for 26th August 2022
1071 – Battle of Manzikert: Seljuq Turks led by sultan Alp Arslan beat and capture Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
1545 – Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma
1629 – Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
1939 – 1st major league baseball telecast on W2XBS- Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1967 – Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1974 – Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1986 – Robert Chambers, the “Preppie Killer” murders Jennifer Levin in New York City’s Central Park, afterwards claimed “rough sex” as motive
1995 – Brian Lara completes his 7th Test Cricket century, scoring 179 at The Oval in London
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2017 – Hurricane Harvey downgraded to a tropical storm, National Hurricane Center warns of “multiday rainfall disaster”
Historical Events for 25th August 2022
1515 – Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds Havana in modern day Cuba, on the southern coast of the island. Moved to its current location in 1519.
1894 – -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1962 – 23rd Venice Film Festival: “Family Diary” directed by Valerio Zurlini and “Ivan’s Childhood” directed by Andrei Tarkovsky jointly awarded Golden Lion
1976 – Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1979 – California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1984 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1988 – Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).