135 – Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
1264 – Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1420 – Duke John VI of Bavaria visits Dutch mystic Lidwina (Christ’s bride)
1846 – Oregon territory divided between US and Britain at 49th parallel
1914 – Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I
1914 – Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
1948 – A Swedish sweep of the medals in the 3000m steeplechase at the London Olympics with Tore Sjöstrand taking gold ahead of team mates Erik Elmsäter and Göte Hagström
1962 – Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and for illegally leaving South Africa
1989 – First ever dead heat in harness racing’s Hambletonian; Park Avenue Joe and Probe tie the 3rd and final heat; Park Avenue Joe wins series on count back
2015 – Fishing boat carrying around 600 migrants sinks of the coast of Libya, 373 rescued
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th August 2018
1666 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St Christopher; thousands die
1772 – English poet and artist William Blake aged 14 is first apprenticed to engraver James Basire in London
1790 – United States Revenue Cutter Service is established to serve as an armed customs enforcement service (becoming the US Coast Guard in 1915)
1830 – Plans for city of Chicago laid out
1919 – The Communist Bela Kun comes to power in Hungary
1929 – Jones Beach in NY opens
1943 – British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
1961 – Spokane, Washington reaches August record 108°F
1964 – Bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1988 – Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
Historical Events for 3rd August 2018
1640 – 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malacca
1708 – Battle at Trencsén: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
1925 – Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
1940 – Italian troops invade British Somalia
1948 – The US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf and Bill Smith swim a world record 8:46.0 to win gold at the London Olympics
1951 – William H Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA
1959 – 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
1966 – South African government bans Beatle records
1967 – 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
1974 – “Little Night Music” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 performances
Historical Events for 2nd August 2018
1100 – King William II of England (William Rufus) is killed by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrell while hunting in the New Forest
1830 – Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux
1906 – Chicago White Sox beat Boston Americans, 3-0 to start AL record 19 game MLB win streak
1914 – Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1914 – Postdam Conference ends
1959 – Milwaukee Braves outfielder Bill Bruton hits 3 triples in 11-5 win v Cardinals, 2 of them bases loaded, first time in 20th Centiury
1966 – Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1992 – “Death and the Maiden” closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 performances
1994 – NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern’s non financial disclosure
2017 – New larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created
Historical Events for 1st August 2018
1021 – Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
1715 – First Doggett’s Coat and Badge race (Waterman’s race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea)
1911 – Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
1918 – Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win, 2-0 in 21
1928 – Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam with Sabin Carr gold, from William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis
1951 – David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1957 – Gil Hodges hits his 13th MLB career grand slam, a NL record and the last ever by a Brooklyn Dodgers player
1970 – KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1981 – “Endless Love” single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (Billboard Song of the Year 1981, Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time)
1990 – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” closes at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC after 149 performances
Historical Events for 31st July 2018
1940 – Riechskommissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1951 – Japan Airlines is established
1959 – Cliff Richard and the Drifters have their 1st No. 1 British single with “Living’ Doll” (biggest British single of 1959)
1966 – Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon’s anti-Jesus remark
1976 – East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski beats American Frank Shorter by 50 seconds to win the Olympic Games marathon in 2:09:55 in Montreal
1988 – Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1991 – Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1993 – Prince Ronald “Ronnie” Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
1993 – Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
2012 – Zara Phillips wins silver on her horse High Kingdom in Olympic equestrian eventing final
Historical Events for 30th July 2018
1655 – Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1825 – Malden Island is discovered in the central Pacific by British warship HMS Blonde
1908 – Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1914 – John French appointed British supreme commander
1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison
1941 – German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands
1944 – US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1977 – “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” by Andy Gibb reaches number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.
2013 – Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan
Historical Events for 29th July 2018
1030 – Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1696 – King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg
1937 – Tongzhou Incident: East Hopei Army mutinies against Japanese troops and civilians
1956 – WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1958 – Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running in San Francisco
1968 – Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1978 – Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
2013 – €103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France
2014 – France contributes 8 million Euros in aid to Gaza
2015 – Zion Harvey became the first paediatric patient to receive a double hand transplant at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Historical Events for 28th July 2018
1790 – Henry James Pye appointed British Poet Laureate by King George III
1911 – 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1945 – Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9
1974 – 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
1977 – Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
1978 – At Old Timer’s Game it’s announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1979 – France performs nuclear Test
1979 – Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
2002 – 89th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2012 – Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women’s 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Historical Events for 27th July 2018
1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre
1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
1920 – Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America’s Cup
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1955 – Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
1967 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
1992 – Nelson Mandela says a general strike will go ahead to protest for the removal of South African President F. W. de Klerk from power and for free elections
1997 – “Candide” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances