1718 – Battle of Cape Passaro: British fleet destroys Spanish off Sicily
1936 – Chaing Kai-shek’s troops conquers Kanton
1978 – Funeral of Pope Paul VI held in the Vatican
1985 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Hubert Green wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino
1987 – France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1991 – Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
1992 – Oakland A’s rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
1999 – Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
2008 – Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima repeats 1st leg of his Athens Olympics 100/200m breaststroke double at the Beijing Games winning the 100m in world record 58.91; goes on to win 200m event
2020 – US Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden announces California Senator Kemala Harris is his running mate, the 1st woman of color selected by a major party
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th August 2021
1566 – Protestant Iconoclasm “Beeldenstorm” begins in European Low Countries
1822 – Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1876 – 1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
1972 – Finnish runner Lasse Virén wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Munich Olympics; runs Olympic record 13:26.42 for the 5k gold medal
1977 – About 100 white sympathisers joined evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
1985 – Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1992 – Soyuz TM-15 lands
1996 – Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
2017 – Taylor Swift testifies that DJ David Mueller groped her in court in Denver, Colorado
2018 – Anti-government protests begin in Bucharest, Romania, with over 400 injured in clashes with police
Historical Events for 9th August 2021
1848 – US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
1859 – Otis Tufts patents the first passenger elevator in the US
1942 – CBS radio broadcasts the debut of wartime series “Our Secret Weapon”
1952 – General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
1984 – STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
1987 – The National Union of Mineworkers begin South Africa’s longest wage strike
1992 – Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
2012 – Women’s Olympic Football Gold Medal won by the USA beating Japan 2-1 in the final
2016 – Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei sets a world record of 147kg in the clean and jerk, and another for a total score of 262kg, to win the women’s 63kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
2020 – Brazil passes 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, the world’s 2nd highest, with over 3 million recorded cases
Historical Events for 8th August 2021
1844 – Brigham Young chosen as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith
1916 – A’s set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road
1931 – Washington Senators pitcher Bobby Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D. C.
1963 – Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1988 – Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
2006 – Actor Sylvester Stallone and former heavyweight boxing contender Chuck Wepner settle lawsuit out of court for an undisclosed sum; Wepner claims he was the inspiration for the “Rocky” movies
2008 – IXXX Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, China
2012 – 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
2013 – 28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
2013 – Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
Historical Events for 7th August 2021
1820 – 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1914 – Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece
1936 – Argentina wins the polo gold medal beating Great Britain 11-0 in the final at the Berlin Olympics; final time the sport is contested at the Olympics
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean
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
1964 – Turkey begins air attack on Greek Cypriots
1976 – Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1983 – Grete Waitz of Norway wins inaugural women’s marathon at the 1st world athletics championships in Helsinki, Finland
1987 – Lynne Cox becomes the 1st woman to swim from the US to the Soviet Union, 4.3 km across the Bering Sea in water temperature averaging 43 to 44 °F (6 to 7 °C)
1997 – STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
Historical Events for 6th August 2021
1497 – Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) – first European to do so since the Vikings
1625 – Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
1919 – Romanian forces bring down Hungarian Soviet Republic in Budapest
1926 – “Don Juan” starring John Barrymore is released by Warner Bros, the 1st feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects
1946 – US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1960 – Chubby Checker performs his version of “The Twist” on “The Dick Clark Show” starting a worldwide dance craze
1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi
1990 – President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
2002 – 32-year old reliever Robb Nen becomes 16th and youngest closer to record 300 career saves as he protects Giants 11-10 lead v Cubs
2019 – The Philippines declares a national dengue epidemic with 622 people killed and 146,000 cases so far in 2019
Historical Events for 5th August 2021
1882 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established
1914 – 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
1944 – German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
1956 – KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 – WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 – US begins bombing North Vietnam
1982 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 – US Senate votes for SDI-project (“Star Wars”)
1995 – 5th Athletics World Championships open at Gothenburg, Sweden
2015 – Torrential rains and flooding leave at least 178 people dead in India, in the wake of Cyclone Komen
Historical Events for 4th August 2021
1735 – Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
1914 – WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1943 – USAAF bombs Germans in Troina
1943 – Soviet units reach suburbs of Orel
1945 – American golfer Byron Nelson wins Canadian Open at Uplands and Thornhill CC for a record 11th consecutive PGA victory, on way to record season tally of 18
1960 – Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1980 – -11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean
2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
2012 – 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
2019 – Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith hits brilliant 142 following his 1st innings 144 in 1st Test v England at Edgbaston; only 4th batsman all-time to score more than 140 in each innings of a Test match
Historical Events for 3rd August 2021
1708 – Battle at Trencsén: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
1881 – Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
1914 – German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
1918 – The first allied troops land at Archangel, the Russian port on the White Seas
1973 – Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
1989 – 22nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Omni Hotel
1990 – “Little Night Music” opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 performances
2001 – Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes first athlete to achieve Olympics-World Championships marathon double; runs 2:12:42 to beat Kenya’s Simon Biwott by just 0.1s in Edmonton World Championships
2017 – Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City
2020 – Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation
Historical Events for 2nd August 2021
1701 – Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk
1934 – 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1948 – Danish swimmer Greta Anderson (1:06.3) touches out American Ann Curtis by 0.2 in the women’s 100m freestyle at the London Olympics
1964 – Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey
1985 – 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1989 – NASA confirmed Voyager 2’s discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24
1996 – The star-studded United States men’s basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
1999 – “The Sixth Sense”, starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres
2013 – Carl Icahn sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell
2017 – Great Britain’s Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements