1255 – Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II
1862 – Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1906 – Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A’s hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston’s Joe Harris
1916 – US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1954 – “Rear Window”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released
1962 – United Nations announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion
1981 – Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
1990 – “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway” closes at Imperial NYC after 634 performances
2006 – Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner
2012 – Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan’s Sayed Abad district
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 31st August 2019
1907 – Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet
1923 – Mussolini orders the Greek Government to apologize for the deaths of an Italian general and his staff on the Greco-Albanian border
1939 – Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1944 – French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1968 – 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1972 – Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1980 – Poland’s Solidarity trade union federations forms and is offically recognised by the Polish government
1986 – Aeromexico DC-9 and small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)
1993 – Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1997 – Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
Historical Events for 30th August 2019
1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her
1892 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1933 – Air France forms from five French airlines
1944 – 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1961 – Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1963 – Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the “red telephone” no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.
1972 – Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet team mate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games
1974 – Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1987 – Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 sec
Historical Events for 29th August 2019
1882 – Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 and 7-44)
1883 – Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1914 – 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
1924 – Germany’s Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan, which sought to solve the WWI reparations problem
1940 – 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1966 – The Beatles’ last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco)
1974 – USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1993 – 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
2004 – German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher clinches his 5th straight F1 World Drivers Championship with a 2nd place in the Belgian F1 Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
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 2019
1861 – Battle of Fort Hatteras, North Carolina
1888 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
1917 – Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
1942 – 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1949 – Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
1967 – Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1973 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1983 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces his resignation
1987 – 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy
2017 – English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of role in movie “Hellboy” after whitewashing criticism
Historical Events for 27th August 2019
1813 – Battle of Dresden; Napoleon defeats Austrians
1869 – 1st international boat race (River Thames, Oxford beats Harvard)
1894 – Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1944 – 200 RAF Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg
1977 – “Chicago” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1978 – Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1981 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 – US performs nuclear test
1986 – 38th Emmy Awards presentation – “The Golden Girls” and “Cagney and Lacey” dominate
1991 – Moldavia declares independence from USSR
Historical Events for 26th August 2019
1278 – Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf of Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
1641 – West India Company conquers Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1791 – John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat
1846 – Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah” premieres at the Birmingham Festival in England
1903 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: Englishman Laurence Doherty beats American defending champion William Larned 6-0, 6-3, 10-8; first non-American champion
1938 – British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine
1942 – Transport #24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 – Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed
1961 – Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
2006 – New Zealand retain Tri Nations Rugby Series with 45-26 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 4 conversions
Historical Events for 25th August 2019
1330 – Antipope Nicholas V, having obtained assurance of pardon, presents a confession of his sins to Pope John XXII, at Avignon, who absolved him
1795 – Curaçao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
1814 – British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812)
1864 – Battle of Petersburg: Battle of Ream’s Station
1892 – British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to lieutenant
1910 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Tom Bundy 6-1, 5-7, 6-0, 6-8, 6-1 for his 4th consecutive US singles title
1960 – XVII Summer Olympic Games open in Rome, Italy
1974 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1976 – Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
2012 – 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
Historical Events for 24th August 2019
410 – Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire
1911 – Manuel d’Arriaga elected first president of Portugal
1923 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1936 – Australian Antarctic Territory created
1939 – Germany and USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs London
1958 – 19th Venice Film Festival: “Rickshaw Man” directed by Hiroshi Inagaki wins Golden Lion
1961 – Windward Islands’ Airways International (Winair) forms
1971 – India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
2012 – Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
Historical Events for 23rd August 2019
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii)
1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1947 – US President Truman’s daughter, Margaret’s 1st public singing concert
1963 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1988 – Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1992 – Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
1993 – Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
2008 – Midfielder Ángel Di María scores a 58th minute winner as Argentina beats Nigeria 1-0 to take the men’s football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; 89,102 at the National Stadium
2012 – Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia