1543 – Emperor Charles V’s army occupies Duren
1559 – Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1914 – Canada’s Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 – Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton
1945 – Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
1994 – Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands
2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2018 – Discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in “Nature”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st August 2019
1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1864 – Major General Nathan B. Forrest’s assault on Memphis, Tennessee
1864 – BBT Charleston, South Carolina [->DEC 31]
1944 – Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
1953 – Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1968 – After 5 years Soviet Union once again jams Voice of America radio
1976 – “Operation Paul Bunyan” begins in retaliation for the “Korean axe murder incident” 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers
1986 – Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials
1996 – Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
2004 – Belarusian sprinter Yulia Nestsiarenka runs 10.93 to beat American Lauryn Williams and win the 100m gold medal at the Athens Olympics
Historical Events for 20th August 2019
917 – Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
1948 – 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1958 – Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st major league lefty catcher since 1906
1966 – Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1982 – US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1985 – 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1986 – Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma
1989 – Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds and Willie Mays hitting 30 HRs and steal 30 bases
1994 – 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
2017 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Des Moines G and CC: US retains Cup 16½- 11½; down by 5, Europe can only halve the singles 6-6
Historical Events for 19th August 2019
1458 – Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1493 – Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria
1591 – French King Henry IV occupies Rouen
1915 – World War I: the Battle of Van begins
1944 – US general Omar Bradley visits British general Bernard Montgomery
1954 – American Ralph Bunche named undersecretary of the UN
1973 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1984 – Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for President
1986 – Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
2012 – 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan
Historical Events for 18th August 2019
1201 – The city of Riga is founded.
1737 – First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
1886 – Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
1955 – 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1956 – Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary release their first hit “If I Had a Hammer”
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 – Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing “pine-tar” game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1991 – Pan American games close in Havana
2008 – An American 1-2-3 in the 400m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics; Angelo Taylor wins gold in 47.25 ahead of Kerron Clement and Bershawn Jackson
Historical Events for 17th August 2019
1835 – Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1933 – Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket (“Object 09”)
1948 – Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game for the 2nd time
1963 – Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
1976 – An earthquake and tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1982 – First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany
1985 – 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1996 – Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
2012 – Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
2017 – Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly
Historical Events for 16th August 2019
1819 – Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England: cavalry charges demonstrators, 15 people killed and 400–700 injured
1914 – World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1936 – XI Summer Olympic Games close in Berlin
1941 – HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops
1948 – Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1954 – 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1972 – Morocco King Hassan II’s B727 shot during failed coup attempt by General Mohamed Oufkir. Reportedly, King Hassan grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots “Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!”, fooling pilots to break off attack
1977 – Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
2017 – Last batch of Farc rebel weapons removed by the UN in Colombia
Historical Events for 15th August 2019
1457 – Earliest dated book, “Mainz Psalter,” completed
1950 – Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1969 – Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State on Max Yasgur’s Dairy Farm
1971 – Despite crashing out on lap 36, Scotsman Jackie Stewart clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the Austrian Grand Prix at Österreichring; French Tyrrell driver François Cevert wins the race
1973 – USSR performs nuclear test
1981 – Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
1985 – P. W. Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban, South Africa, dissapointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country’s apartheid system
1989 – Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1991 – 750,000 attend Paul Simon’s free concert in Central Park
2013 – 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut
Historical Events for 14th August 2019
1862 – Abraham Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans to confer with a US president
1864 – -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
1864 – 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed after it began in 1248 – largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe
1959 – 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
1972 – A Catholic civilian is shot dead during an IRA attack on a British Army patrol in Belfast
1975 – Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
1988 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak Tree GC: Jeff Sluman wins his only major title by 3 shots from Paul Azinger
2008 – Australian women’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie swims world record 7:44.31 to beat China and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
2016 – An all-British final in the men’s cycling sprint with Jason Kenny beating team mate Callum Skinner at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
Historical Events for 13th August 2019
1521 – Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire
1933 – Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1943 – Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1944 – British 8th Army occupies Florence
1944 – Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, Miles Dempsey and Omar Bradley discuss a future breakthrough in the European theatre during World War II
1953 – US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1971 – Paul and Linda McCartney release “Back Seat of My Car”
1998 – 31st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2004 – 28th Olympic Games opens at Athens, Greece
2014 – Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics