1457 – Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1873 – “Field and Stream” begins publishing
1919 – Chicago White Sox outfielder Happy Felsch ties MLB record of 4 outfield assists in a game in 15-6 loss to Boston Red Sox
1944 – Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
1968 – Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
1974 – Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1982 – Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
1993 – Reggie Jackson Day – NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
1994 – Terrorist “Carlos” arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
1995 – “Battle of Brit Pop” rival bands Oasis (Roll with It) and Blur (Country House) release singles on the same day
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th August 2022
1788 – Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1907 – 1st taxicabs operate in New York City, imported by Harry N. Allen
1917 – A revolt in Catalonia, the province in northeast Spain that has long seen itself as independent
1923 – US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day
1923 – Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as 1st President of Turkey
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces begin the Battle of Shanghai, a conflict that will last 3 months and involve 1 million troops
1956 – Elvis Presley releases music single “Don’t Be Cruel”
1959 – US Military satellite Discoverer 5 launches into polar orbit
1991 – Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney for Australia versus England at Old Trafford
2008 – American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins 3 gold medals, all in world record time, in the one day at the Beijing Olympics; 200m I/M (1:54.23), 200m butterfly (1.52.03) and 4 x 200m freestyle relay (6:58.56)
Historical Events for 12th August 2022
1099 – Battle of Ascalon won by Crusader army led by Godfrey of Bouillon against Fatimid force, last action of the First Crusade
1336 – English King Edward III ends wool export to Flanders
1553 – Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud
1950 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
1955 – 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
1962 – Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1994 – Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
2007 – Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
2015 – Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals that he has cancer
2020 – Yemen authorities say at least 172 people died in floods caused by torrential rains, which have also destroyed historic buildings in Sanaa, a Unesco World Heritage Site
Historical Events for 11th August 2022
1695 – English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
1920 – 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1944 – US air raid on Palembang
1944 – French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées
1948 – The weightlifting competition at the London Olympics concludes with the US (4) and Egypt (2) dominant, combining to win all of the 6 gold medals
1949 – Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian government
1962 – LA Dodgers protest as San Francisco manager Alvin Dark orders Candlestick Park ground crew to water down base paths to hinder MLB All-Star Maury Wills’ base-stealing attempts; Giants win 5-4
1978 – Funeral of Pope Paul VI held in the Vatican
1978 – “C’est Chic” second studio album by Chic is released featuring single “Le Freak” (Billboard Album of the Year 1979)
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
Historical Events for 10th August 2022
1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1678 – Netherlands and France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1827 – Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1897 – Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)
1932 – A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1954 – Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
1970 – British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
1990 – NASA’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
2018 – US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island
Historical Events for 9th August 2022
681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
1849 – Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia
1936 – Helen Stephens claims the women’s sprint double at the Berlin Olympics having won the 100m and as part of the victorious American 4 x 100m relay team
1966 – The Beatles release their “Yellow Submarine” single and its album “Revolver” in the US
1976 – USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1991 – British radio show “On the Hour” debuts on BBC Radio 4 with first appearance of Alan Partridge character
1997 – Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
1997 – “Just to See You Smile” single released by Tim McGraw (Billboard Song of the Year 1998)
2020 – Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.
2020 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, TPC Harding Park: 23 year old American Collin Morikawa fires final round 64 (-6) to win his first major title by 2 strokes from Paul Casey of England
Historical Events for 8th August 2022
1814 – Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
1816 – Bavaria joins Holy Alliance
1864 – Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
1868 – Earthquake destroys the city of Arica, Chile
1903 – International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Boston, MA: Laurence Doherty beats William Larned 6-3, 6-8, 6-0, 2-6, 7-5 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-1 lead over US (ends 4-1)
1956 – WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
1964 – “110 in the Shade” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 performances
1984 – Carl Lewis wins 3rd gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200m
1997 – Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox
2018 – Australia’s most populous state New South Wales declared 100% in drought
Historical Events for 7th August 2022
1914 – Russia invades East Prussia
1941 – 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1951 – Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1954 – Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver; first time 2 men run sub-4 minute mile in the same race
1963 – Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
1983 – “Merlin” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
2005 – American sprinter Justin Gatlin blitzes field to win 100m in 9.88 at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland
2016 – United States men’s 4 × 100m freestyle relay team wins the final in 3:09.92 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Michael Phelps’ record 19th Olympic gold medal
2018 – Mendocino Fire becomes the largest recorded fire in California’s history at 290,600 acres, overtaking 2017 Thomas Fire
2021 – As part of the winning American 4×400m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to 11 Olympic medals; becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history
Historical Events for 6th August 2022
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair
1905 – 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
1915 – The British land more troops at Suvla Bay on the northern shore of Gallipoli in an effort to break the stalemate on the peninsula during WWI
1934 – US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1937 – US and USSR sign trade treaty
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena
1965 – Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control into Kashmir
1982 – Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa
1984 – 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
2006 – British Open Women’s Golf, Royal Lytham and St Annes GC: 43 year old American Sherri Steinhauer wins her second major title, 3 strokes ahead of Sophie Gustafson and Cristie Kerr
Historical Events for 5th August 2022
1884 – Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe’s Island (NYC)
1915 – The Latin-American Conference Convenes in Washington, with representatives from leading South American nations joining the US to discuss conditions in Mexico
1936 – Italian athlete Ondina Valla runs a world record 11.6 in the semi finals of the 80m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; wins final the next day but can’t match the time
1940 – St Louis Brown’s pitcher John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings (rain shortened)
1948 – A Jamaican 1-2 in the men’s 400m at the London Olympics with Arthur Wint (46.2) beating teammate Herb McKenley for the gold medal
1959 – 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
1984 – American Joan Benoit wins first Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) ahead of Grete Waitz of Norway at the Los Angeles Games
1989 – NASA Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle, 1st to do so
1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.
2020 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the cornerstone for a new Hindu temple at Ayodhya Ram to replace a previous Muslim mosque