1534 – Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1658 – France, Sweden, Bavarian, Brunswick, Munster and Hessen-Kassel form Confederation of the Rhine
1824 – Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)
1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1925 – White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
1944 – US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1960 – UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1975 – Indian action-adventure film “Sholay” directed by Ramesh Sippy, starring Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan is released, highest-grossing Indian film ever
1989 – In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
2005 – PGA Championship, Baltusrol GC: American Phil Mickelson wins by 1 stroke from Australian Steve Elkington and Thomas Bjørn of Denmark
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th August 2018
1183 – Taira no Munemori and Taira clan take young Emperor Antoku and 3 sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape Minamoto clan (Traditional Japanese date: 25th Day of the 7th Month of the 2nd Year of Juei).
1824 – General Lafayette returns to US
1897 – The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1936 – American swimmers Adolph Kiefer and Al Vande Veghe quinella the 100m backstroke at the Berlin Olympics
1941 – US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter
1945 – V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)
1958 – Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1968 – Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
1980 – Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale
1987 – Oakland’s Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
Historical Events for 13th August 2018
1892 – US black newspaper “Afro-American” begins publishing from Baltimore
1898 – US forces under Admiral George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-American War
1926 – Enrique Tirabocchi of Argentina becomes the first to swim the English Channel from France to England (record 16 hours 33 minutes)
1948 – José Beyaert of France wins the cycling road race at the London Olympics; Belgium takes gold in the teams section beating Great Britain and France
1960 – USSR withdraws advisors from China
1967 – “Bonnie and Clyde”, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released
1975 – Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed
1988 – Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
1999 – 32nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2017 – Gunmen kill at least 18 at a cafe in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Islamic extremists blamed
Historical Events for 12th August 2018
1588 – Commander of the English fleet Lord Howard of Effingham calls off chase of the Spanish Armada off coast of Scotland
1759 – Battle of Kunersdorf – Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
1908 – Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car
1948 – Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
1951 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1952 – Hussein ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
1978 – International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft launched – to study solar wind
1985 – 520 people die when Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Ueno, Japan, the second-deadliest aviation disaster of all time
1994 – Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
2013 – 30 people are killed by gunmen in northeast Nigeria
Historical Events for 11th August 2018
1304 – Sea battle of Zierikzee, Franco-Holland forces defeat Flemish fleet
1924 – 1st newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes 1st professional baseball player to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland Indians)
1963 – Kingston Trio are mystery guest on “What’s My Line?”
1975 – Expos’ Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
1984 – Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens’ 1936 feat, winning his 4th Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team; world record (37.83)
1987 – France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1993 – Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2013 – 22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan
Historical Events for 10th August 2018
1585 – English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Netherlands
1678 – Netherlands and France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
1809 – Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1893 – Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act
1904 – Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (future Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
1911 – Parliament Act reduces power of UK’s House of Lords
1934 – Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
1979 – Ecuador adopts its 17th constitution, extending citizenship and suffrage to all Ecuadorians over 18
1986 – Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
2013 – 6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia
Historical Events for 9th August 2018
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland
1831 – 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1923 – NY State Golf Association formed
1930 – Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer’s animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1942 – CBS radio broadcasts the debut of “Our Secret Weapon.”
1948 – The US crew blitzes the field to win the rowing eights gold medal at the London Olympics; beat silver medallists Great Britain by 10.2 seconds
1970 – Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
1975 – 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
1988 – Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
1997 – Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
Historical Events for 8th August 2018
1853 – Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan
1911 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1918 – 6 US soldiers surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York given command, shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more
1942 – Soviet anti-offensive of Voronezh under Marshal Timosjenko
1955 – Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1987 – Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
1988 – -11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed
1988 – Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty
1995 – Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
2014 – The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO
Historical Events for 7th August 2018
1620 – Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
1802 – Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
1948 – American Alice Coachman becomes the first black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she takes out the high jump at the London Games
1972 – Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn, Josh Gibson, Will Harridge, Buck Leonard and Ross Youngs are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 – “The Washington Star” ceases all operations after 128 years of publication
1983 – 1st Athletics World Championships open in Helsinki, Finland
1987 – Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea
1988 – Rioting in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park.
2004 – Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux enters the history books with his 300th career win in the Chicago’s 8-4 triumph v San Francisco at SBC Park
Historical Events for 6th August 2018
1940 – Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
1944 – Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1960 – The UN Security Council lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities
1980 – University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses
1991 – American softball pitcher Debbie Doom strikes out 17 in her 2nd consecutive perfect game at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba; beats Nicaragua, 8-0
1993 – Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
1996 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 people
2013 – 1 person is killed and 4 are injured after a hot air balloon crash in Montbovon, Sweden
2016 – Super Rugby Final: Wellington Hurricanes win their first SR title with a 20-3 home win over the Lions from Johannesburg at Westpac Stadium