1941 – British and Soviet troops attack pro-German Iran
1951 – Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
1979 – Somali adopts constitution
1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2004 – Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos win Brazil’s first gold medal in men’s beach volleyball with a 21–16, 21–15 victory over Spanish pair Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera
2012 – 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
2013 – 4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 24th August 2020
1883 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Two-time defending champion Richard Sears wins 3rd straight title; beats James Dwight 6-2, 6-0, 9-7
1968 – Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned
1972 – Gordie Howe and Jean Béliveau inducted into the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
1975 – Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1976 – Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1987 – Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1995 – Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
2019 – US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic
Historical Events for 23rd August 2020
1582 – French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1711 – Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1944 – General George Leclerc’s troops advance towards Paris
1944 – US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1972 – 4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland
1977 – 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1985 – Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1990 – Armenia declares independence
Historical Events for 22nd August 2020
1138 – English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle – led to the name Battle of the Standard
1864 – First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field” signed by 12 nations
1934 – Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1968 – 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.
1971 – Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
1984 – Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984 – The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
1989 – 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
2008 – The Jamaican team led by Usain Bolt smashes the world 4 x 100m relay record in the final at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2017 as Nesta Carter tests positive for prohibited substance
2019 – South Korea says it is leaving an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in an escalation of the rift between the two countries
Historical Events for 21st August 2020
1264 – Kublai Khan accepts the surrender of his younger brother Ariq Böke at Xanadu, at the end of the Mongol civil war
1673 – Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English and French fleet
1864 – Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1914 – Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1943 – Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1948 – Cleveland Indians 47-inning scoreless streak is broken as future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon yields a home run to Aaron Robinson in a 3-2 loss to Chicago WS
1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
1963 – Jerry Lynch’s record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1967 – China reports downing of 2 US bombers
2008 – Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women’s softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics
Historical Events for 20th August 2020
1896 – Dial telephone patented
1934 – Australian cricket opening batsman Bill Ponsford is dismissed for 266 in his final Test match against England at The Oval; out for 22 in 2nd innings
1941 – Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1952 – 13th Venice Film Festival: “Genghis Khan” directed by Manuel Conde wins the Golden Lion
1979 – The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1980 – Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1985 – Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1999 – 7th Athletics World Championships open at Seville, Spain
2016 – German canoeist Sebastian Brendel teams with Jan Vandrey to win the C-2 1,000m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up C-1 / C-2 1,000m double
2016 – Suicide bombing in Turkish city Gaziantep during a wedding party kills at least 51
Historical Events for 19th August 2020
1493 – Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria
1702 – -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
1887 – Dmitri Mendeleev makes a solo ascent by balloon to an altitude of 11,500 feet (3.5 km) above Klin, Russia to observe an eclipse
1922 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th US singles crown
1960 – The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts
1984 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Shoal Creek: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd PGA C’ship by 4 shots from Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins
1993 – Mattel and Fisher Price toy companies merge
2008 – “The Fame”, debut album by Lady Gaga, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Electronic/Dance Album 2009)
2016 – A 6-way tie for first place in the final of the equestrian individual jumping competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Nick Skelton of Great Britain wins gold medal jump-off
2016 – Kiley Neushul scores 3 goals as the US women’s water polo team routs Italy 12-5 to win the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro and retain their Olympic title
Historical Events for 18th August 2020
1605 – Spanish army under of general Spinola conquers Lingen
1846 – General Stephen W Kearney’s US forces capture Santa Fe, New Mexico
1914 – -20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
1926 – Weather map televised for 1st time
1955 – 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1958 – Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 – WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
1976 – USSR’s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1981 – Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy for $1 million
1996 – Record 6,654 tap at Macy’s Tap-o-mania in NYC
Historical Events for 17th August 2020
1827 – Dutch King Willem I and Pope Leo XII sign concord
1907 – Bishop forbids Christian membership of Dutch Textile Union
1915 – Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed)
1938 – Henry Armstrong wins his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1955 – Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage
1977 – Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer and Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)
1979 – Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman and John Cleese premieres
1980 – “Blackstone” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
1990 – Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
2017 – Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly
Historical Events for 16th August 2020
1513 – Battle of the Spurs at Guinegate (now Eguinegatte): Henry VIII of England and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I beat France
1861 – US President Abraham Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1914 – World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1954 – 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1969 – WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
2002 – Africa Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
2008 – South Korean weightlifter Jang Mi-Ran wins the women’s unlimited (+75 kg) division at the Beijing Olympics by breaking world records 5 times: once in snatch, twice in clean-and-jerk, and twice in total
2009 – Usain Bolt of Jamaica edges American Tyson Gay to win 100m in world record 9.58s at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin
2012 – South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
2018 – World’s first floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven harbour, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots