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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 12th August 2019
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
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