1598 – Spanish King Philip II receives sacraments
1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1875 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband
1911 – M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1914 – Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1916 – Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1932 – NYC Mayor James J “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker resigns (graft charges)
1965 – Indo-Pakistani conflict – Pakistani counter-attack (Operation Grand Slam,)
1982 – Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1999 – Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as new owner of the struggling franchise; Penguins become first club in pro sports history to be owned by a former member of the team
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 31st August 2021
1900 – Dodgers’ Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1916 – Oscar Asche’s musical “Chu Chin Chow” premieres in London
1919 – Ukrainian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1923 – League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1940 – US National Guard assembles
1955 – 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1968 – 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1971 – Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1981 – MLB Kansas City Royals fire manager Jim Frey, replace him with Dick Howser
2011 – 68th Venice Film Festival: “Faust” directed by Alexander Sokurov wins Golden Lion
Historical Events for 30th August 2021
1574 – Ram Das becomes the 4th Sikh Guru
1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her
1885 – 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1941 – Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so
1941 – St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
1945 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony
1969 – 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
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
1979 – In a wild encounter at the US Open, John McEnroe beats Ilie Năstase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Năstase is defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1992 – “Most Happy Fella” closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
Historical Events for 29th August 2021
1786 – Shay’s Rebellion in Springfield, Massachusetts
1831 – Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
1838 – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years
1896 – Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1965 – Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1988 – USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2012 – 69th Venice Film Festival: “Pieta” directed by Kim Ki-duk wins Golden Lion
2012 – Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
2016 – Italian coastguard says 6,500 migrants rescued at sea in 40 separate incidents in 1 day off coast of Sabratha, Libya
Historical Events for 28th August 2021
1619 – Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor (rules till 1637)
1861 – Battle of Fort Hatteras, North Carolina
1911 – 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
1922 – WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio commercial (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
1926 – Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1968 – Northern Irish MP Gerry Fitt tables a House of Commons motion criticising the Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon, “citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom”
1977 – Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1983 – Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1990 – F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
2020 – Japanese tech company SkyDrive says it has completed the first manned test flight of a flying car
Historical Events for 27th August 2021
1665 – “Ye Bare and Ye Cubb” is the first play performed in North America in Acomac, Virginia
1909 – Jack Chesbro’s final Highlander game
1955 – Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1972 – US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam
1983 – Haiti adopts constitution
1984 – US President Ronald Reagan announces ‘Teacher in Space’ project
1991 – Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida creates nine states: Abia, Enugu, Delta, Jigawa, Kebbi, Osun, Kogi, Taraba, and Yobe
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
2004 – China’s first ever gold in Olympic Games men’s track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson’s 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
2014 – Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
Historical Events for 26th August 2021
1909 – Middlesex beat Gloucester (Bristol) at cricket by an innings and 31 runs in a single day
1916 – Philadelphia Athletic’s Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland, 5-0
1956 – KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 – Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1967 – Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1971 – Orioles’ Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
2012 – 17 villagers in Afghanistan’s Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
2014 – Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion
2017 – Women’s Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast
2020 – Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (29) is the youngest to win the International Booker prize for their debut novel “The Discomfort of Evening”
Historical Events for 25th August 2021
1921 – US signs peace treaty with Germany
1936 – 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1937 – Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1941 – British and Soviet troops attack pro-German Iran
1943 – US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
1952 – Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1979 – “Madwoman of Central Park West” closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 performances
2012 – 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
2019 – NASA investigates possibly the 1st crime in space over astronaut Anne McClain illegally accessing bank a/c from space
Historical Events for 24th August 2021
1858 – Richmond “Daily Dispatch” reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1907 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Brisbane : Australian Horace Rice beats Harry Parker of New Zealand 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
1912 – NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
1937 – Republican offensive near Belchite, Spain
1950 – Edith Sampson named 1st African American US delegate to UN
1957 – English soccer player Jimmy Greaves’ (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1963 – 1st 200 metre freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1978 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
2013 – 30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia
2015 – China stock market’s “Black Monday”, Shanghai Composite loses 8.5%, sending other international markets lower
Historical Events for 23rd August 2021
1328 – Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1793 – French Revolution: The National Convention adopts the levée en masse, conscripting all able-bodied men between 18 and 25 for military service during the French Revolutionary Wars
1839 – British capture Hong Kong from China
1931 – Philadelphia A’s Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1971 – WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1990 – US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane
2008 – Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5k in an Olympic record 12:57.82
2010 – Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals.
2020 – UEFA Champions League Final, Lisbon: Kingsley Coman heads German giants Bayern Munich to the club’s 6th crown in a 1-0 win over Paris St-Germain