1597 – Germany throws out English sales people
1863 – Cambodia becomes French protectorate
1874 – Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
1928 – Carl Hubbell’s 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils
1950 – Ethel Rosenberg testifies before grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union
1965 – 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1979 – Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
1986 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Inverness Club: Bob Tway holes a famous bunker shot on the 18th to beat Australian Greg Norman by 2 stokes
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2015 – Greek Debt crisis: European Commission announces a bailout with Greece and its creditors has been agreed “in principle”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th August 2020
1901 – Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1914 – German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1944 – Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0
1944 – US/French offensive at Alencon
1948 – Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
1950 – “Sunset Boulevard”, American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in NYC
1994 – Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
2016 – South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh recovers from 7th place during the final to record an Olympic record 193.7 and win gold in men’s 50m pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; first shooter to win 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
2018 – Omarosa Manigault Newman, former aide to US President Donald Trump, releases taped recordings of her firing from The White House
2019 – Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trail for sex trafficking charges
Historical Events for 9th August 2020
378 – Battle of Adrianople: Goth army defeats Roman forces under Emperor Valens
1726 – Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
1841 – Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
1901 – 34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization
1920 – Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
1930 – Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
1953 – Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir fired
1967 – KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1988 – Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
1995 – South Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
Historical Events for 8th August 2020
1839 – Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
1882 – Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1916 – A’s set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road
1924 – British-Russian trade agreement signed
1968 – Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
1970 – NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
1984 – “Rink” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances
2012 – 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces plans to create its own streaming service, cancelling ties with Netflix
2019 – Nuclear accident at Russian nuclear-weapon testing site at closed city Sarov kills five scientists in mysterious circumstances
Historical Events for 7th August 2020
1428 – Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, first organized witch trials
1760 – Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1942 – Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
1978 – Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
1984 – The US collects its first Olympic gold medal in women’s basketball history with a 85-55 win over South Korea in the final at the LA Games
1991 – American team of Carl Lewis, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell set 4 x 100m relay world record of 37.67 seconds in Zürich, Switzerland
2005 – In one of cricket history’s closest Tests, and despite a brave unbeaten 43 from Australian tail-ender Brett Lee, England sneaks a 2-run win in series turning 2nd Test at Edgbaston
2007 – San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to break Hank Aaron’s long-standing MLB record
2010 – Hampered by a back injury Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman scores a brave, unbeaten 103 to guide India to a 5 wicket win v Sri Lanka in Colombo; draw series
2017 – England breaks 19-year drought in home Test cricket series against South Africa; beat Proteas by 177 in 4th Test at Old Trafford; Moeen Ali 75no and 5/69
Historical Events for 6th August 2020
258 – Pope St Sixtus II beheaded in Rome under persecutions by Roman Emperor Valerian
1600 – Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
1864 – Confederate forces evacuate Fort Powell in Mobile Bay, Alabama
1919 – Romanian forces bring down Hungarian Soviet Republic in Budapest
1945 – Australian Test cricket all-rounder Keith Miller scores 110 not out for Australian Services on Day 1 of drawn 4th Victory Test against England at Lord’s
1966 – US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1981 – NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
1984 – 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
2012 – Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
2019 – Lawyer representing 800 boy scouts identify 350 sex abusers within Boy Scouts of America saying “It’s the largest paedophile ring on earth”
Historical Events for 5th August 2020
1861 – Naval Engagement at Fernandina, Florida, the USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
1914 – Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
1953 – Operation “Big Switch”; Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1966 – Beatles release single “Yellow Submarine” with “Eleanor Rigby” in UK
1967 – First exhibition after AFL/NFL merger, Denver Broncos (AFL) surprise Detroit Lions (NFL), 13-7 at University of Denver
1973 – 15 year old Australian swimmer Stephen Holland smashes Mike Burton’s 1,500m world record by a massive 14.78 seconds (15:37.8) in Brisbane
1982 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1998 – The American spin-off “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC
2011 – NASA launches its Juno space probe from Cape Canaveral to orbit and study Jupiter
2018 – Vintage Junkers Ju-52 plane crashes near Flims, Switzerland, killing all 20 on board
Historical Events for 4th August 2020
1636 – Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
1772 – English poet and artist William Blake aged 14 is first apprenticed to engraver James Basire in London
1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships
1914 – US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI
1934 – II British Empire Games open at London’s White City Stadium
1943 – USAAF bombs Germans in Troina
1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1947 – American boxer Ike Williams knocks out Bob Montgomery in 6 rounds in Philadelphia to unify the world lightweight title
1983 – 16th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
1986 – Reports of probable OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) agreement on output quotas sends oil prices higher
Historical Events for 3rd August 2020
1108 – Louis VI, “the Fat One,” King of France, crowned
1914 – British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time.”
1943 – Nazi occupiers attack city of Orel, leave it on fire
1948 – An American clean sweep of the medals in the men’s 3m springboard diving at the London Olympics with Bruce Harlan winning gold, Miller Anderson silver and Sammy Lee bronze
1948 – The US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf and Bill Smith swim a world record 8:46.0 to win gold at the London Olympics
1960 – Niger gains independence from France
1962 – NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
1971 – Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
2013 – 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
2015 – Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama
Historical Events for 2nd August 2020
257 – St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1578 – Battle of Rijmenam: Spanish Habsberg forces defeated by Dutch troops (Eighty Years’ War)
1914 – German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1932 – Carl David Anderson discovers and photographs a positron, the first known antiparticle
1934 – William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1943 – Lt John F. Kennedy’s PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1964 – Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
1983 – STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 – Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran
2013 – Carl Icahn sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell