1347 – English troops conquer Fort Calais
1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships
1897 – Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
1954 – Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1972 – Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace
1976 – England beats Australia by 8 wickets in the limited overs cricket international at Lord’s; first time women are permitted to play on the main square at ‘the home of cricket’
1993 – Angolan air force bombs Huambo
1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia, the Croatian army attacks territory under the Republic of Serbian Krajina in the largest land battle since WWII
2006 – Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in 23 August
2021 – Largest wildfire in California so far in 2021, the Dixie Fire at 320,000 acres, destroys the gold rush town of Greenville
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd August 2022
1596 – David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
1914 – French fleet sails to North Africa
1928 – Ray Barbuti wins 400m in 47.8 at the Amsterdam Olympics, the only individual track event won by an American at the Games
1944 – General Montgomery visits general Dempsey’s headquarter
1948 – Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, age 42, debuts in Cleveland after controversial signing, goes 7 innings in 5-3 win v Washington
1951 – William H Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA
1962 – 29th Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20, 65,000 at Soldier Field
1970 – The second ever NFL work stoppage ends with NFL and Players’ Association agreeing to a 4-year, $19.1 million deal
1989 – Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
2021 – Hawaii’s largest wildfire on record, Mana Road Fire in South Kohala, finally being brought under control after burning through 40,000 acres
Historical Events for 2nd August 2022
1832 – Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk and Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US
1861 – Skirmish at Dug Springs, Missouri results in Union victory
1941 – Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1959 – Future Hall of Fame 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 MLB home runs in SF Giants 5-3 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
1968 – 35th Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17, 69,917 at Soldier Field
1983 – STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 – Jeff Blatnick becomes first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics, Blatnick was in remission for Hodgkin’s disease
1987 – Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49mph) in winning the Marlboro 500 at the Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan
1998 – Curtis Cup Women’s Golf, Minikahda GC: US beats Great Britain and Ireland 10-8
2009 – US Open Senior Men’s Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Fred Funk wins by 6 strokes from Joey Sindelar with a tournament record score (-20)
Historical Events for 1st August 2022
1203 – Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
1589 – Assassination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
1901 – Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited
1914 – Marcus Garvey and others found the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica with aim of creating black-governed nation in Africa
1924 – Brooklyn pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters as the Robins beat Cubs, 4-0
1933 – National Recovery Administration (NRA) is founded with Hugh S. Johnson as its first director
1965 – Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring to clinch his second F1 World Drivers Championship
1992 – USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
2012 – American Nathan Adrian clocks 47.52 in winning the 100m freestyle gold at the London Olympics, his first swim under 48 seconds
2021 – American virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci says “things are going to get worse” as US COVID-19 cases double in 10 days due to surge of Delta variant
Historical Events for 31st July 2022
768 – [Philip] begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1899 – Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord’s
1938 – 32nd Tour de France: Italian cyclist Gino Bartali wins both general and mountain classifications
1955 – WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, West Virginia (NBC) 1st broadcast
1961 – Israel welcomes its one millionth immigrant
2005 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, NCR CC: Allen Doyle wins by 1 stroke ahead of Loren Roberts and D. A. Weibring for his 3rd Champions Tour major title
2006 – Fidel Castro temporarily hands over power to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2018 – Aeroméxico flight 2431 crash lands in Durango, Mexico, all 103 on board survive
2018 – Rihanna becomes the first black woman to appear on the cover of British Vogue’s September issue
Historical Events for 30th July 2022
1618 – Prince Maurits’ troops pull into Utrecht
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed after being found guilty of treason by the Spanish military in Chihuahua, Mexico
1907 – The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October
1944 – US 30th division reaches the suburbs of Saint-Lô, Normandy with heavy battles also occurring at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon
1968 – Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes 8th unassisted triple-play in MLB history and first in 41 years as Senators lose, 10-1 to Cleveland Indians
1970 – -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida and Texas
1981 – Simon Gray’s “Quartermaine’s Terms” premieres in London
1990 – Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
2002 – Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s 12th studio album “The Rising”, his first new record with the E Street Band since 1985 tops the charts in 7 countries
2020 – Federal law enforcement officers begin a phased withdrawal from Portland amid criticism of their actions to shut down Black Lives Matter protests
Historical Events for 29th July 2022
362 – Emperor Julianus of Constantinople’s “School Edict” prohibited Christian teachers from using pagan literature which were standard texts for classical education at the time
1014 – Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States
1934 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Park CC: Paul Runyan wins first of his 2 PGA crowns, defeating Craig Wood in 38 holes
1968 – Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1983 – Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1993 – Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1995 – Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis
2018 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Spaniard Miguel Ángel Jiménez wins by 1 shot from defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany
2021 – Following Simone Biles’ withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she wins women’s artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo
Historical Events for 28th July 2022
1586 – Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1864 – US Civil War: Battle at Ezra Chapel – Union forces under Major Gen. William Sherman defeat Confederate Lt. General John Hood near Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia
1866 – Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1898 – Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1932 – “White Zombie” – 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US
1959 – Hawaii’s 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1971 – Dutch ends censorship of “Blue Movie”
2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2014 – Israel criticizes John Kerry’s proposed ceasefire, stating that no ceasefire deal will be accepted without the destruction of tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip
2020 – Iter, the world’s largest nuclear fusion project, begins assembly in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
Historical Events for 27th July 2022
1377 – First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubroknik); city council passes law saying newcomers from plague areas must isolation for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1880 – Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
1891 – Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Suriname
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1956 – England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia’s 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in 2nd innings 10-53
1962 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 – Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1997 – Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser’s #16
2019 – American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 3 gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and mixed 4×100m freestyle relay (WR 3:19.40)
Historical Events for 26th July 2022
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1948 – President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing “equality of treatment and opportunity” in the military
1953 – Cuban pirate radio station’s 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
1963 – US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1966 – WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 – Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1992 – US Open Women’s Golf, Oakmont CC: Patty Sheehan wins an 18-hole Monday playoff over runner-up Juli Inkster, 72 to 74
1999 – Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting
2012 – North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless