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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 5th August 2018
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
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