1303 – Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji captures Chittorgarh, capital of the Guhila Kingdom
1629 – Cambridge Agreement: Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
1909 – Australian cricket all-rounder Frank Tarrant scores 145 and takes 13-67 in a county game for Middlesex as they beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 31 runs in a single day
1914 – Battle of Tannenberg begins (WWI): 8th German army defeats Russian Second army
1922 – Japanese cruiser Niitaka is driven onto rocks in a storm at Kamchatka, resulting in 284 deaths
1971 – Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia, the first Dutch royal visit since Indonesia gained independence from the Netherlands
1978 – Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
2020 – The Milwaukee Bucks forfeit their NBA playoff game after the shooting of Jacob Blake, leading to the NBA postponing more games
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th August 2025
1898 – 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Crete
1914 – German troops march into France and push the French army to Sedan
1924 – MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches his second no-hitter, beating the Browns 2-0 in 7 innings
1944 – US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France
1988 – Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1989 – After a 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over the cloud tops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
2001 – Singer Aaliyah and eight others are killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas
2014 – 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, are broadcast on NBC
Historical Events for 24th August 2025
79 – Believed until 2018 to be the date of the massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing untold thousands, latest evidence suggests the eruption occurred after 17 October
1787 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history
1893 – Tornado destroys the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina; about 1,000 people die
1938 – Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, the highest season total in organized baseball, for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
1972 – Dennis Amiss scores the first one-day international century, 103 against Australia
1984 – Pat Bradley sets an LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 during the second round of the Columbia Savings National at Green Gables Country Club, Denver, CO
2004 – Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May team up to win the women’s beach volleyball gold at the Athens Olympics beating Brazilian pair Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar 21–17, 21–11
Historical Events for 23rd August 2025
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses Dutch Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer
1953 – Phil Grate sets a record for throwing a baseball 443 ft 3 in (135.1 m)
1968 – Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew
1973 – Norrmalmstorg robbery and six-day siege begin in Stockholm, the first Swedish crime filmed live on TV and the origin of the term Stockholm Syndrome
1977 – First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
1992 – Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
2020 – Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second title under a yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining
2023 – Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is reported killed along with nine others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency
Historical Events for 22nd August 2025
1632 – Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, occupies Maastricht
1791 – Haitian Slave Revolution begins under Vodou priest Boukman
1914 – German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium
1930 – Australian cricket slow-medium bowler Percy Hornibrook takes 7-92 as England is dismissed for 251 in an innings defeat in the 5th Test at The Oval; Australia regains the Ashes 2-1
1964 – The Supremes’ “Where Did Our Love Go” reaches #1
1969 – The Beatles’ last official group photo session takes place at John and Yoko’s home, Tittenhurst Park, near Ascot, England
1984 – The last Volkswagen Rabbit is produced
2014 – Second Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country
Historical Events for 21st August 2025
1901 – Baltimore Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is suspended from MLB for punching and spitting on umpire Tom Connolly in the previous day’s 5-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers; the lifetime suspension is reduced to 12 days
1945 – US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1969 – Fire in Al-Aqsa-mosque in Jerusalem
1976 – Battle, East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes the first British firewoman
1980 – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded in a basement office in Takoma Park, Maryland
2008 – Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women’s softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics
2015 – First British unmanned drone hits a UK citizen outside a conflict: ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria
2021 – Flash flooding in Humphreys County, Middle Tennessee, kills 22, with dozens missing
Historical Events for 20th August 2025
1828 – Gioachino Rossini’s opera “Le Comte Ory” premieres in Paris
1920 – First US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ) in Detroit, begins daily broadcasting
1953 – Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1972 – The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
1977 – NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter and Saturn, later reaching Uranus and Neptune
1990 – Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations as human shields
1995 – Indians’ José Mesa sets a record with his 37th consecutive save
2009 – 12th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m
Historical Events for 19th August 2025
1399 – King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle after promising to abdicate if his life was spared
1493 – Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria on the death of his father and co-ruler Frederick III
1931 – Lefty Grove wins an AL record-tying 16th consecutive game
1990 – Dodger José Offerman hits a home run in his first at-bat
1991 – Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d’état
2016 – A six-way tie for first place occurs in the final of the equestrian individual jumping competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Nick Skelton of Great Britain wins the gold medal jump-off
2018 – Monsoon rains finally ease in Kerala State, India, with flooding taking 350 lives and 200,000 in relief camps
2023 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner hits two solo home runs in the same inning in a 12-3 win over the Nationals in Washington
Historical Events for 18th August 2025
1217 – First historical record of Scottish scholar Michael Scot, signs and dates his translation of al-Bitruji’s “On the Sphere” in Toledo, Spain
1587 – Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland (according to legend)
1605 – Spanish army under of general Spinola conquers Lingen
1931 – Lou Gehrig is hitless in Detroit in his 1,000th consecutive game
1934 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats fellow American Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6-1, 6-3 for her third straight US singles title
1981 – Jerry Lewis appears on “Donahue” to defend telethons
2008 – Emulating the Chinese women, the men win the team table tennis gold medal at the Beijing Olympics without losing a match, winning all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
2021 – MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani becomes the fastest player in team history to reach 40 home runs in a season and also pitches 8 innings in a 3-1 win at Detroit
Historical Events for 17th August 2025
1819 – The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand’s second mission station at Kerikeri
1835 – Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patents the first wrench
1908 – Projection in Paris of the first animated cartoon, “Fantasmagorie,” created by Émile Cohl
1984 – Pete Rose returns to the Cincinnati Reds as a player-manager and gets two hits in the game
1987 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for the first time (2,700.57)
2008 – Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia wins the 3,000 m steeplechase gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a world record time of 8:58.81
2022 – Possible second smaller impact crater that wiped out the dinosaurs, the “Nadir Crater,” 8.5 km across, is identified off the coast of Guinea, West Africa
2023 – First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit begins in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India