1683 – Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1888 – Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon’s Imperial British East Africa Company political and commercial rights
1899 – Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk
1900 – British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa
1903 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Creeping Man” (BG)
1905 – Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1955 – “Catch a Star” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1980 – Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1986 – Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1990 – US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th September 2018
1900 – France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1939 – J. B. M. Hertzog resigns as South African Prime Minister after losing a vote in parliament on neutrality in WWII
1944 – “Mad Tuesday” 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1949 – 69th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Pancho Gonzales beats Ted Schroeder (16-18, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4)
1951 – US National Men’s Tennis Championship: Australian Frank Sedgman beats Vic Seixas of the United States 6-4, 6-1, 6-1
1952 – General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
1959 – Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1991 – 8th MTV Video Music Awards: REM wins
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig’s record of playing in 2,130 straight games
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
Historical Events for 4th September 2018
1260 – Battle at Montaperti, Tuscany, between rival factions the Guelphs and Ghibellines
1864 – Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1922 – William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool, England
1939 – RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen
1961 – US authorizes Agency for International Development
1964 – Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)
1972 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 – India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
1995 – The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
2002 – Before a U.S. Congressional panel, Doris Roberts testifies that age discrimination is prevalent in Hollywood
Historical Events for 3rd September 2018
1752 – Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1826 – USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1908 – James Barries “What Every Woman Knows” premieres in London
1914 – French troops vacate Rheims
1928 – Future Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb records his 4,191st and final career hit as a pinch hitter for the Philadelphia A’s in a 6-1 loss v Washington Senators
1941 – 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1949 – Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
1956 – American Johnny Longden becomes thoroughbred racing’s winningest rider, breaking the record of 4,870 wins by British jockey Sir Gordon Richards; rides Arrogate to victory in the Del Mar Handicap
1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
1972 – American women’s 4 x 100m medley relay team of Melissa Belote, Cathy Carr, Deena Deardurff and Sandy Neilson swim world record 4:20.75 to beat East Germany for gold at the Munich Olympics
Historical Events for 2nd September 2018
1937 – US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1944 – Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific
1954 – Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1968 – Jerry Lewis’ 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1986 – Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 – Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
1991 – Jerry Lewis’ 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
1993 – Day of Peace in South Africa
1995 – Southern California begins using new area code 562
Historical Events for 1st September 2018
891 – Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1695 – French garrison of castle Namur surrenders to the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England
1695 – Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1888 – Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
1902 – Tinker, Evers, and Chance appear together for 1st time
1919 – Frank Wedekind’s “Herakles” premieres in Munich
1958 – St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a NL record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of Cincinnati Reds
1979 – Debbie Boone and Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1992 – Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
Historical Events for 31st August 2018
1778 – British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1941 – Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC
1944 – Soviet and Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1965 – US Congress establishes Department of Housing and Urban Development
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1970 – 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1973 – 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1977 – Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1980 – Poland’s Solidarity trade union federations forms and is offically recognised by the Polish government
1985 – Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
Historical Events for 30th August 2018
1125 – Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1721 – Russian and Swedish sign Treaty of Nystad, ending North Sea War
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces
1906 – Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
1919 – Ernst Toller’s “Die Wandlung” premieres in Berlin
1939 – NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1964 – Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1973 – Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1987 – Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman’s record (6’10½”)
1995 – Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
Historical Events for 29th August 2018
1540 – Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges
1742 – Edmond Hoyle published his “Short Treatise” on the card game whist
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1862 – Battle of Aspromonte; Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1916 – US Congress accepts Jones Act: Philippines independence
1953 – USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb
1981 – Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
1987 – Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Women’s Marathon at World Chapionships in Rome in 2hr 25:17mins
1987 – 44th Venice Film Festival: “Au revoir les enfants” directed by Louis Malle wins Golden Lion
Historical Events for 28th August 2018
1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1884 – First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1886 – US Men’s National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4
1951 – Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
1970 – Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1978 – Donald Vesco rode 21′-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1996 – 53rd Venice Film Festival: “Michael Collins” directed by Neil Jordan wins Golden Lion
2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London’s underground rail network to a halt.
2013 – China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria’s use of chemical weapons
2017 – English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of role in movie “Hellboy” after whitewashing criticism