1883 – The last quagga (zebra subspecies) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1914 – France and Great Britian declare war on Austria-Hungary
1925 – KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
1954 – Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1960 – 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
1986 – Iran fires missile at refinery near Baghdad; Iraq raids Iranian terminal at Sirri Island severely disrupting Iranian exports
1993 – Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1994 – 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition – SF vs Denver)
2004 – New Jersey Governor James McGreevey comes out publicly as gay
2015 – Large series of explosions in Tianjin, China leave at least 50 dead and 700 injured in an industrial accident
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 11th August 2019
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
1884 – 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
1936 – An American clean sweep of the 3m diving medals via Richard Degener, Marshall Wayne and Alan Greene at the Berlin Olympics
1937 – “The Life of Emile Zola” directed by William Dieterle and starring Paul Muni premieres in New York (Best Picture 1938)
1940 – German air raid on British ports Portland and Weymouth
1943 – Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
1944 – Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
1951 – 1st televised baseball game in color, on WCBS in New York City (Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 8-1)
1968 – Fifteen Guinea Special – last main-line steam passenger train service in Britain. Selection of British Rail steam locomotives make a return 120-mile journey Liverpool to Carlisle, before having their fires dropped for the last time.
1973 – “American Graffiti”, directed by George Lucas, opens in cinemas across the United States
Historical Events for 10th August 2019
1904 – Battle of the Yellow Sea: Japanese fleet prevented Russians breaking out of Port Arthur
1906 – Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
1935 – 3rd Venice Film Festival opens
1937 – 5th Venice Film Festival opens
1941 – FDR and Churchill’s 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland
1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1964 – WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 – Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
1990 – NASA’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
Historical Events for 9th August 2019
1329 – Quilon the first Indian Diocese was erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus was appointed the first Bishop
1726 – Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
1864 – Battle of Ft Morgan Alabama
1925 – Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
1944 – US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans
1963 – Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
1990 – Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 launches
1999 – Charles Kennedy wins the race to succeed Paddy Ashdown as the leader of the Liberal Democrats, UK
2002 – SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 600th career home run
2013 – 8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan
Historical Events for 8th August 2019
1788 – King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together
1936 – American Glenn Morris’ decathlon total of 7,254 points is a world record; team mates Bob Clark and Jack Parker complete US sweep in the gruelling event at the Berlin Olympics
1941 – 20 divisions of Soviet 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman
1945 – USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
1946 – India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36.
1957 – USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
1983 – Military coup in Guatemala, Dictator and former General Efraín Rios Montt flees
1992 – Fermín Cacho wins Spain’s first ever Olympic gold medal in a running event when he takes out the 1,500m at the Barcelona Games
2004 – John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Historical Events for 7th August 2019
1620 – Astronomer Johannes Kepler’s mother arrested for witchcraft
1900 – Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1930 – Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party
1933 – The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1948 – Delfo Cabrera of Argentina wins dramatic marathon in 2:34:51.6 at the London Olympics
1976 – US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts
1990 – US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield
2016 – Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 58 in final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC at River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut, becoming 1st player to shoot 58 in a PGA Tour event and 1st PGA Tour pro to card 2 sub-60 rounds
2016 – American swimmer Katie Ledecky sets a new world record with a time of 3:56.46 to win the gold medal in the women’s 400m freestyle at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
Historical Events for 6th August 2019
1497 – Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) – first European to do so since the Vikings
1774 – Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1870 – White conservatives capture the Tennessee legislature by suppressing the black vote
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair
1896 – France annexes Madagascar
1960 – Chubby Checker performs his version of “The Twist” on “The Dick Clark Show” starting a worldwide dance craze
1966 – Muhammad Ali knocks out English boxer Brian London in round 3 at Earl’s Court in London to retain his undisputed world heavyweight title
1996 – US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya
1996 – NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars after examining meteorite ALH84001, thought to be from Mars
2006 – British Open Women’s Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: American Sherri Steinhauer wins second of 2 majors (du Maurier Classic 1992) by 3 from Cristie Kerr and Sophie Gustafson
Historical Events for 5th August 2019
1435 – Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen
1864 – Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
1914 – US and Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
1914 – Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
1915 – The Latin-American Conference Convenes in Washington, with representatives from leading South American nations joining the US to discuss conditions in Mexico
1966 – Beatles release single “Yellow Submarine” with “Eleanor Rigby” in UK
1970 – Robert Morley’s “How the Other Half Loves” premieres in London
1998 – The American spin-off “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC
2017 – Jamaican sprint super-star Usain Bolt finishes 3rd behind Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman in his final individual race, the 100m at IAAF World Championships in London
2018 – Vintage Junkers Ju-52 plane crashes near Flims, Switzerland, killing all 20 on board
Historical Events for 4th August 2019
1598 – London’s head office of Hanze closed
1914 – German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1914 – WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1944 – Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified
1955 – Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
1971 – US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1980 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin recording “Double Fantasy”
1985 – Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
1988 – 21st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Omni Hotel
2010 – California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state’s voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger
Historical Events for 3rd August 2019
1635 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun, establishes alternate attendance (sankin kotai) feudal daimyōs spend 1 year at Edo Castle (Tokyo) and 1 year at their feudal manor, while their families remain in Tokyo as hostages (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21)
1936 – American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, first of 4 gold medals at the Games
1944 – Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1960 – For the only time in MLB history teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland’s Joe Gordon (49-46)
1972 – Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
1984 – 17 year old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favourite Michael Gross of West Germany in 200m butterfly at Los Angeles Olympics, world record (1:57.04)
1990 – NY Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas sets a MLB record for hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at bats (72)
2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia
2015 – US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut greenhouse gases
2015 – Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama