1786 – William of Orange’s troops overthrow the Dutch towns of Hattem and Elburg
1932 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Keller GC: Olin Dutra wins the first of 2 major titles, beating Frank Walsh, 4 and 3
1944 – Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany
1951 – First transcontinental TV broadcast by US President Harry Truman
1972 – American swimmer Melissa Belote, with a world record of 2:19.19, wins the 200 m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics and wraps up the backstroke double, having won the 100 m in Olympic record time
1979 – Iranian army conquers Baneh
1994 – Tom Tupa scores the first two-point conversion in NFL history, running a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
2019 – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdraws the controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd September 2026
1861 – Confederate forces enter Kentucky, ending its neutrality
1936 – For the first time in the history of the Walker Cup golf event, there is a shutout as the United States defeats Great Britain 9-0 at Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey
1940 – Dutch government-in-exile of Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy forms in London, England
1943 – Italy and the Allies sign the Armistice of Cassibile, the Italian instrument of surrender, signed by Italian General Giuseppe Castellano and US General Walter Bedell Smith at Cassibile in Sicily and made public five days later
1971 – Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in Los Angeles but fails to find his file
1978 – Bernard Slade’s stage comedy “Same Time, Next Year” closes at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City after 1,453 performances and a Tony Award
2020 – Actor Robert Pattinson tests positive for COVID-19, shutting down production of “The Batman”
2024 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber hits three home runs, becoming the first player in franchise history to do so twice in a season, in a 10-8 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto
Historical Events for 2nd September 2026
1905 – Chinese crown discontinues its Imperial Examinations (Golden Lists), civil service recruitment exams that dated back in some form to 581AD and influenced British civil service and beyond
1914 – French government flee Paris for Bordeaux as German forces advanced during World War I
1922 – W. Somerset Maugham’s play “East of Suez” premieres at His Majesty’s Theatre in London
1958 – Hendrik Verwoerd is appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Defense Education Act into law
1996 – Jerry Lewis’s 31st annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,146,555
2008 – 54th National Film Awards (India): “Pulijanmam” wins the Golden Lotus
2019 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit
Historical Events for 1st September 2026
1915 – The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner “Arabic”
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Keating-Owen Act, banning interstate sales of goods made by child labor
1926 – Turkish Civil Code comes into effect, making civil marriage compulsory and legally required across the country
1955 – KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, Kansas (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 – First Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1982 – Mexico President José López Portillo nationalizes banks
1989 – Chris Evert becomes the first player to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by defeating Patricia Tarabini 6-2, 6-4
1999 – Former Pittsburgh Penguins star player Mario Lemieux is approved as new owner of the struggling franchise; Penguins become first club in pro sports history to be owned by a former member of the team
Historical Events for 31st August 2026
1909 – Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon of 2:40:34.2 in Stockholm
1920 – Detroit radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) is the first to broadcast a news program on the air
1954 – WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, Maine (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight
1979 – Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador
1992 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio, on WNCX 98.5 FM
1997 – “Gin Game” closes at Lyceum Theater in NYC after 144 performances
2019 – India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens
Historical Events for 30th August 2026
1888 – Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day
1922 – Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for the fifth time in 1922
1924 – The Rentenmark is replaced by the Reichsmark as legal tender in Germany, during Hans Luther’s tenure as Minister of Finance.
1933 – Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forms the secret police (PIDE)
1956 – White mob prevents enrollment of Black students at Mansfield High School, Texas
1966 – American medical drama series “Dr. Kildare,” starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, ends a five-season run on NBC-TV
1969 – Three-day Texas International Pop Festival opens in Lewisville, Texas, with 125,000 attendees, featuring performers such as Chicago Transit Authority, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Grand Funk Railroad, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Led Zeppelin, Nazz, Sam and Dave, Sly and the Family Stone, and Johnny Winter
2006 – 63rd Venice Film Festival: “Still Life” directed by Jia Zhangke wins Golden Lion
Historical Events for 29th August 2026
1932 – United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1954 – San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens
1964 – James Baldwin’s stage drama “Blues for Mister Charlie,” directed by Burgess Meredith, closes at the ANTA Playhouse in NYC after 148 performances
1969 – Joe Pepitone quits NY Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany
1987 – 44th Venice Film Festival: “Au revoir les enfants” (“Goodbye, Children”), directed by Louis Malle, wins Golden Lion
2004 – 21st MTV Video Music Awards: OutKast, Beyoncé, and Usher, featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, win
2018 – Germany returns the human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people killed during the 1904-08 genocide at a church service in Berlin
Historical Events for 28th August 2026
1907 – United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington
1949 – Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
1968 – Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago’s Democratic National Convention
1970 – “I’ll Be There” single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
2011 – 28th MTV Video Music Awards: Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Justin Bieber win
2016 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf at Priddis Green Country Club: Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand wins by four strokes over Kim Sei-young of South Korea
2017 – North Korea launches a missile that flies over Japan, and the country’s J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
2018 – Chinese ride-sharing firm Didi Chuxing issues a public apology after a second Hitch passenger is killed within three months
Historical Events for 27th August 2026
1569 – Pope Pius V names Cosimo I de’Medici, Duke of Florence as Grand Duke of Tuscany
1626 – Battle of Lutter: Catholic League defeats Danish King Christian IV
1928 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns
1934 – Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, and Yip Harburg’s musical “Life Begins at 8:40,” starring Ray Bolger and Luella Gear, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre, NYC, and runs for 237 performances
1950 – First transmission of a TV program from continental Europe airs on the BBC
1960 – Anita Lonsbrough swims a 200 m breaststroke world and Olympic record of 2:49.5
1972 – The Grateful Dead holds a benefit concert for the Springfield Creamery (a yogurt company owned by writer Ken Kesey’s brother) at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon
1984 – The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
Historical Events for 26th August 2026
1691 – Charles Perrault’s poem “The Marquise of Salusses or the Patience of Griselidis” is read aloud at the French Academy and later attached to his “Tales of Mother Goose” (1697)
1937 – General Franco’s Nationalist troops conquer Santander during the Spanish Civil War
1956 – Yankees announce the purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from Kansas City
1967 – Dutch Second Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1977 – Ian Dury releases the single “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll”
2004 – An American 1-2-3 in the 200 m medals at the Athens Olympics; Shawn Crawford wins gold in 19.79 ahead of Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin
2011 – The 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
2015 – WDBJ TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward are fatally shot live on TV by an ex-colleague in Moneta, Virginia