1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 – Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1894 – In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1904 – Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1920 – Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923 – New York Yankees pitcher ‘Sad Sam’ Jones no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 2-0
1936 – Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
1950 – Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
1998 – NY Yankees beat Chicago WS, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
1998 – 1st ever “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd September 2020
1650 – Battle of Dunbar; Oliver Cromwell’s English New Model Army defeats Scottish force in surprise attack
1901 – Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1914 – British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne
1943 – British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)
1944 – Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
1945 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills: American Frank Parker successfully defends title; beats William Talbert 14-12, 6-1, 6-2
1989 – Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1990 – Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1995 – eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar
2005 – After beating South Africa the previous weekend, New Zealand clinch their 6th Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 34-24 win over Australia in Auckland; All Blacks winger Doug Howlett crosses for 3 tries
Historical Events for 2nd September 2020
1859 – Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1952 – Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1954 – WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1958 – KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – St. Louis 1st baseman Stan Musial’s records his 3,516th hit in Cards’ 4-3 loss v NY Mets; jumps him over Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list
1972 – East German swimmer Roland Matthes wraps up the Olympic backstroke double with a world record 2:02.82 in the 200m in Munich, having already won the 100m in Olympic record time
1973 – Netherlands win their first men’s hockey World Cup, 4-2 on penalties over India in Amstelveen, Netherlands
1995 – Southern California begins using new area code 562
2008 – 54th National Film Awards (India): “Pulijanmam” wins the Golden Lotus
Historical Events for 1st September 2020
1598 – Spanish King Philip II receives sacraments
1821 – 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1859 – 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1946 – 1st US Open Women’s Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5 and 4 over Betty Jameson
1950 – 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1972 – Egypt and Libya form federation
1981 – Fiona Brothers sets women’s propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1991 – Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
1995 – New York reinstates the death penalty
Historical Events for 31st August 2020
1903 – New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
1911 – The “Sullivan Act” requiring New Yorkers to possess licences for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect
1915 – Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1942 – Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault
1944 – Allied offensive at “Gothen-linie” Italy
1955 – 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1970 – 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1972 – Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1994 – Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia
Historical Events for 30th August 2020
1645 – Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673 – Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1906 – Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
1954 – Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast
1969 – 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
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
1987 – Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1994 – Gund Arena in Cleve opens
2007 – NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock, where solar and interstellar winds met (following Voyager 1 in 2004)
2017 – Late author Terry Pratchett’ unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions
Historical Events for 29th August 2020
1540 – Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges
1838 – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years
1885 – Boxing’s 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey
1903 – The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese
1914 – 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
1916 – General Paul von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1920 – An American sweep of the medals in the men’s 100m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics; Duke Kahanamoku sets world record 1:00.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
1949 – USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR
1967 – Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes
2018 – Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin
Historical Events for 28th August 2020
1777 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cooch’s Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1840 – Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1943 – Benito Mussolini transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1964 – WEWS-TV Channel 5’s “Upbeat” debuts in Cleveland
1972 – American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich and Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1990 – F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
1990 – Cub’s Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1993 – Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
2019 – New Italian coalition government formed of anti-establishment Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party ousting Matteo Salvini
Historical Events for 27th August 2020
1897 – Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1909 – Jack Chesbro’s final Highlander game
1927 – Parks College, America’s oldest aviation school, opens
1934 – Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Yips Harburg’s musical ‘Life Begins at 8:40’ premieres in NYC
1955 – Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 – Jimi Hendrix creates his last studio recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York, an instrumental called “Slow Blues”
1975 – Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1986 – Protests erupt in Soweto, South Africa, against evictions carried out after an 11 week rent boycott
1990 – Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
Historical Events for 26th August 2020
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1896 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-1 for his third US singles title
1938 – British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine
1962 – Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A’s, 1-0
1964 – LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1971 – Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
1978 – Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1990 – Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
1995 – Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
2018 – Boxing match between YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul ends in a draw in Manchester, England