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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 15th August 2018
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
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