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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 15th August 2020
1635 – 1st recorded north American hurricane hits the Plymouth Colony
1939 – “The Wizard of Oz”, American musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming and King Vidor, premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, starring Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch)
1944 – German field marshal Günther von Kluge vanishes for one day; he killed himself on the 19th in the aftermath of the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
1955 – WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
1957 – USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1960 – Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1962 – Netherlands and Indonesia sign accord over New Guinea
1974 – Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1989 – Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
2019 – Whistleblower releases damaging report on General Electric titled “General Electric, a Bigger Fraud Than Enron” claiming $38 billion accountancy fraud
Historical Events for 14th August 2020
1842 – Second Seminole War declared over by Colonel Worth; Indians go on to be removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1914 – British field marshal John French and Gen Wilson land in France
1949 – Military coup in Syria under colonel Sami Hinnawi
1953 – KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 – Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game
1962 – US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1967 – Celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon cuts actress Mia Farrow’s hair into the famous pixie cut, costing $5,000. In reality, just a publicity stunt, Farrow had previously cut her own hair.
1967 – British pirate radio station Radio 270 broadcast from an offshore lugger, is forced to close down
1982 – Iran “Ramadan-offensive” in Iraq
1997 – Soyuz TM-25 lands
Historical Events for 13th August 2020
1642 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1907 – 1st taxicabs operate in New York City, imported by Harry N. Allen
1921 – Simon Kaufman and Marc Connelly’s “Dulcy” premieres in NYC
1932 – Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers and wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1948 – Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1954 – 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
1979 – Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
1984 – Morocco and Libya sign “Arabic-African Union” treaty
2017 – More than 60 children reported to have died at Gorakhpur Hospital, India, prompting an investigation
2019 – Entertainment companies CBS and Viacom announce they will merge with a combined 28 billion revenue
Historical Events for 12th August 2020
1121 – Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi
1915 – “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham, published
1936 – 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
1960 – Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched by NASA
1970 – Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
1971 – Syrian President Hafez al-Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1990 – 12th annual Macy’s Tap-o-mania
1999 – Shakira records her first live album in New York City, titled “MTV Unplugged”
2017 – “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia turns violent when car rams protesters killing 1, injuring 19
2018 – Mali’s Presidential run-off election held, eventually won by current President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita with opposition disputing outcome