1609 – Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1654 – Battle of Arras: Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, failed to take Arras and withdrew to Cambrai.
1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies’ Golf Open
1964 – Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
1968 – NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches second 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in second game and homered
1973 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1979 – Somali adopts constitution
1991 – Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system
1998 – “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” debut album by Lauryn Hill is released (5 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Billboard Album of the Year 1998)
2004 – Cuba beats Australia 6-2 to win the baseball gold medal at the Athens Olympics; Japan takes bronze; US did not qualify
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 24th August 2018
79 – Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1891 – Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1912 – NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
1921 – British airship R-38 crashes in River Humber, 44 die
1929 – Turkey and Persia sign friendship treaty
1965 – 26th Venice Film Festival: “Sandra” directed by Luchino Visconti wins Golden Lion
1992 – 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1994 – Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
2012 – Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
Historical Events for 23rd August 2018
1514 – Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1910 – Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1916 – Military court of Berlin sentences socialist Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1926 – 40th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (4-6, 6-4, 9-7)
1950 – Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1953 – Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1969 – 30th Venice Film Festival opens
1970 – Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1990 – US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
2013 – UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre
Historical Events for 22nd August 2018
1543 – Emperor Charles V’s army occupies Duren
1614 – Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1851 – Yacht “America” wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America’s Cup)
1926 – Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
1953 – John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 – Shah of Iran returns to Tehran
1954 – 15th Venice Film Festival: “Romeo and Juliet” directed by Renato Castellani wins Golden Lion
1958 – Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1988 – Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
2004 – The rowing program at the Athens Olympics ends with the United States winning the men’s eights, and Romania taking the gold in the women’s eights
Historical Events for 21st August 2018
1689 – Battle of Dunkeld fought in Scotland between supporters of King James VII of Scotland and troops of William of Orange
1841 – John Hampton patents venetian blind
1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1864 – Major Gen Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
1915 – Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1962 – Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1967 – Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1968 – William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1978 – 1st gay theme telefilm – Matlovich vs US Air Force
1991 – Latvia declares its independence from USSR
Historical Events for 20th August 2018
1921 – 35th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Mary Browne (4-6, 6-4, 6-2)
1923 – London dock strike ends
1944 – Soviet offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev
1953 – Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1978 – Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh’s Golf Open
1983 – The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) is launched at Rocklands Community Centre in Cape Town, South Afrca
1988 – Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman’s record (12.21)
1988 – Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1989 – Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds and Willie Mays hitting 30 HRs and steal 30 bases
2004 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 100/200m butterfly double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 100m (51.25 OR) ahead of team mate Ian Croker
Historical Events for 19th August 2018
1458 – Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1826 – Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1914 – German fleet bombs English coast
1934 – Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1944 – Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 – Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1955 – Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
1959 – Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1992 – Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children
Historical Events for 18th August 2018
1858 – Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement
1864 – 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
1864 – Battle of Petersburg: Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of a 3 day battle
1894 – US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1909 – Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1943 – Final convoy of Jews from Salonika, Greece, arrives at Auschwitz
1957 – Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252’4½”)
1981 – “My Fair Lady” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
2008 – Emulating the Chinese women, the men win the team table tennis gold medal at the Beijing Olympics without losing a match; win all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
2008 – Belarus weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks 3 world records, for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total, on the way to winning the men’s 105kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
Historical Events for 17th August 2018
1876 – Wagner’s opera “Götterdämmerung” premieres in Bayreuth
1879 – Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1942 – US 8th Air Force bombers stage first independent raid on Europe, attack Rouen, France
1944 – US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun
1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands
1982 – First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany
1994 – NY Central park reservoir officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship
2008 – US team Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak wins 4 x 100m medley relay at the Beijing Olympics in world record 3:29.34; Phelps’ 8th gold medal of Games breaks Mark Spitz’s 1972 record (7)
2016 – Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins 200m gold medal in 21.78; wraps up 100/200m Rio de Janeiro Olympics double
Historical Events for 16th August 2018
1882 – British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1906 – -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1934 – US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028′ (923 m) in Bathysphere
1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops
1948 – Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1974 – Ramones concert debut (NYC’s CBGBs)
1992 – Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
1992 – Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. Charles CC: American Sherri Steinhauer wins first of 2 majors (British Open 2006) by 3 from Judy Dickinson
2003 – Cristiano Ronaldo (18) makes his debut for Manchester United and the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers
2012 – South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people