1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid
1349 – Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1814 – British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)
1912 – NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
1919 – Having pitched into the 9th inning Cleveland’s Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning; goes on to record final out for Indians’ 2-1 win over Philadelphia A’s
1921 – Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece
1936 – Australian Antarctic Territory created
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 – USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
2012 – A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple meanwhile in a South Korea court both are found guilty of patent infringement
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd August 2022
1906 – Cuba’s 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1921 – Austria and the US formally end war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th, and Hungary on the 29th
1926 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan 4-6, 6-4, 9-7 for her 8th and final US singles title
1943 – 50th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Largest tank battle in history ends with Russia’s defeat of Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, nearly 250,,000 combatants killed
1946 – “The Big Sleep” directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe) and Lauren Bacall, premieres
1975 – Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1982 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1993 – Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
2004 – Outstanding British athlete Kelly Holmes wins 1st leg of her 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking the gold medal in 1:56.38
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane
Historical Events for 22nd August 2022
1454 – Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1914 – 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium)
1939 – Premier De Geer recalls Dutch holidaymakers in Black Forest
1946 – Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1966 – The Beatles arrive in New York
1978 – Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
1984 – Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1988 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2021 – Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island
Historical Events for 21st August 2022
1689 – Battle of Dunkeld fought in Scotland between supporters of King James VII of Scotland and troops of William of Orange
1929 – Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1962 – Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1972 – US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1982 – American MLB Milwaukee Brewers’ relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1983 – 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
1991 – Latvia declares its independence from USSR
1997 – US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
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
2017 – London’s parliament clock Big Ben chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts
Historical Events for 20th August 2022
1741 – Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition
1914 – German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1941 – Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1945 – Soviet troops occupy Harbin and Mukden
1947 – Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1974 – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed is elected fifth President of India
1978 – Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1982 – US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1990 – George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 – Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
Historical Events for 19th August 2022
1263 – King James I of Aragon censors Hebrew writing
1895 – American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin is shot and killed by John Selman Sr. in a saloon in El Paso, Texas
1903 – Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game
1922 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th US singles crown
1944 – US general Omar Bradley visits British general Bernard Montgomery
1953 – England regains cricket Ashes from Australia after winning series 1-0
1960 – American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident); sentence to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy
1981 – 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1987 – Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide
1991 – Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d’état
Historical Events for 18th August 2022
1858 – Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement
1951 – Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
1956 – Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1964 – Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 – USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1981 – Jerry Lewis appears on “Donahue” to defend Telethons
1986 – Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1989 – Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
2008 – Russian pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva sets a new world record of 5.05m to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; her 24th world record
2018 – Australian mare Winx wins her Australasian record 26th consecutive race, the renamed Winx Stakes at Royal Randwick in Sydney; 19th Group One win for thoroughbreds
Historical Events for 17th August 2022
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated
1950 – Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1960 – Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 – Russian nuclear sub “Artika” is 1st to North Pole
1985 – 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1986 – Rioting at DMC concert at Long Beaxh (California) Convention Center – 40 injured
1989 – Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
2013 – 14th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m
Historical Events for 16th August 2022
1864 – Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1865 – Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1918 – US troops overrun at Archangelsk by Bolshevik troops
1959 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Ranier GandCC: Betsy Rawls wins her second WO by 6 strokes from JoAnne Gunderson and Patty Berg
1965 – American Football League’s 9th franchise is officially awarded to Joe Robbie and television star Danny Thomas; Miami Dolphins start play in AFL’s Eastern Division in 1966
1972 – Morocco King Hassan II’s B727 shot during failed coup attempt by General Mohamed Oufkir. Reportedly, King Hassan grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots “Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!”, fooling pilots to break off attack
1973 – 5th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Sheraton Hotel, Harbor Island
1993 – The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the “Debian Linux Release”)
2016 – New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington retains her K-1 200m Olympic title with a time of 39.864 at the Rio de Janeiro Games
2016 – Russian pair Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina retain their Olympic synchronised swimming duet title at the Rio de Janeiro Games with final score 194.9910
Historical Events for 15th August 2022
1308 – Knights of St John conquer Rhodes
1540 – Arequipa is founded in Peru
1914 – The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads
1936 – Americans make a clean sweep of the 3m diving medals via Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls and Dorothy Poynton-Hill at the Berlin Olympics
1945 – Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1965 – Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1994 – South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1995 – Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
1997 – L.A. Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda’s #2
2010 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Martin Kaymer of Germany wins his first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with Bubba Watson