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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 25th August 2020
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
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