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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 22nd August 2019
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”
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