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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 2nd August 2019
1552 – Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1921 – After 3 hours deliberation a Chicago jury acquits 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal, next day banned from organised baseball for life
1931 – Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1941 – Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1943 – Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106
1979 – Washington, D.C. trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams buys MLB’s Baltimore Orioles from Jerold Hoffberger for reported $12.3 million
1982 – Roger Ebert’s “Movie News” premieres on ABC FM network
1985 – 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1986 – American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston
1988 – System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
Historical Events for 1st August 2019
1485 – Henry Tudor’s army sails to England (future Henry VII)
1780 – Sweden declares neutrality
1947 – “Medium and The Telephone” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 performances
1961 – Australian cricket captain Richie Benaud takes 6 for 70 in England’s 2nd innings for a 54 run 4th Test win at Old Trafford
1963 – Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1976 – Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle
1977 – San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam
1978 – Atlanta Braves trounce Cincinnati Reds, 16-4 and halt Pete Rose’s NL record hitting streak at 44 games
1996 – American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to become the first man to complete the 200m-400m double
2012 – Typhoon Saola kills 82 people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines, Taiwan and China
Historical Events for 31st July 2019
1667 – Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends
1948 – US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY
1963 – Arturo Illia elected President of Argentina
1966 – Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon’s anti-Jesus remark
1973 – Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later
1976 – Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
1977 – John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1979 – “But Never Jam Today” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
1990 – Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1994 – 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
Historical Events for 30th July 2019
1870 – Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100
1907 – Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
1959 – In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1965 – Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1988 – Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1992 – Yael Arad becomes Israel’s first ever Olympic medalist when she wins silver in the women’s 61kg judo in Barcelona; 20th anniversary of Munich massacre and 500th anniversary of Alhambra Decree
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia
2004 – “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”, starring Kal Penn and John Cho, is released
2016 – Air balloon crashes into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 on board
2017 – Venezuelan voting for a new assembly disrupted by violent protests, at least 3 people killed