1483 – Utrecht surrenders to the Habsburg army
1906 – Philadelphia Giants win the Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans, Black baseball’s largest crowd ever
1925 – The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14; 29 survive
1932 – A’s first baseman Jimmie Foxx smashes his 50th and 51st home runs to become only the third player to reach 50 in an MLB season, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson
1935 – British racer Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, becoming the first automobile to exceed 300 mph
1966 – 24th World Science Fiction Convention honors “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry
2022 – American band “Foo Fighters” and friends hold a tribute concert for drummer Taylor Hawkins at Wembley Stadium, London, England; performers include Stewart Copeland, Rush, The Pretenders, Paul McCartney, and Queen
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
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd September 2025
1894 – -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1930 – First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US (37 hours)
1936 – First transatlantic “ping-pong” round-trip air flight from New York to England and back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
1940 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Hershey CC: Byron Nelson wins his first PGA C’ship, beating Sam Snead 1 up in the Monday 36-hole final
1949 – “The Third Man”, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
1990 – Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco, California
1996 – Jerry Lewis’ 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
1996 – Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói (MAC) designed by Oscar Niemeyer inaugurated in Niterói, Brazil
Historical Events for 1st September 2025
1482 – Tatars plunder Kyiv, Ukraine
1547 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles V demands creation of an Imperial League (German state)
1948 – Australian Test batsmen Don Bradman (143), Lindsay Hassett (151) and Neil Harvey (110) score centuries in Australia’s 1st innings of drawn cricket tour match v South of England at Hastings
1968 – Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
1975 – 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
1981 – Northern Ireland’s first religiously integrated secondary school opens
2007 – Tyson Gay helps US win the men’s 4 x 100m relay at the world track and field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet
2021 – Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men’s international football; hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro
Historical Events for 31st August 2025
1886 – 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina, 110 die
1891 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Oliver Campbell beats Clarence Hobart 2-6, 7-5, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2; second of 3 straight titles
1920 – Detroit radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1954 – WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1971 – An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced
1991 – Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1997 – Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
2023 – Two leaders of right wing group the Proud Boys given lengthy sentences for sedition for their assault on the US Capitol – Joseph Biggs 17 years and Zachary Rehl 15 years
Historical Events for 30th August 2025
1751 – George Frideric Handel completes oratorio “Jephtha”
1888 – Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day
1933 – Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forms the secret police (PIDE)
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japanese control
1966 – American medical drama series “Dr. Kildare,” starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, ends a five-season run on NBC-TV
1976 – Tom Brokaw starts as news anchor of NBC’s “The Today Show”
1984 – Red Sox’s Jim Rice grounds into a record 33rd double play en route to 36
1987 – Ben Johnson of Canada runs the 100 m in a world record time of 9.83 seconds
Historical Events for 29th August 2025
1910 – Japan changes Korea’s name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony
1914 – Arizonian is the first vessel to arrive in San Francisco via the Panama Canal
1916 – Congress creates US Naval Reserve
1950 – International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany and Japan in 1952
1960 – Italy wins the cycling team pursuit, and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Italy wins all four track events and the road team time trial to thoroughly dominate the sport
1992 – Braves’ Charlie Leibrandt records his 1,000th strikeout. He decides to keep the ball by rolling it to the dugout, allowing Ricky Jordan to take second base on an error
1992 – Irish rock band U2 plays the first of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NYC
2003 – Skype Technologies releases its pioneering video-conferencing software
Historical Events for 28th August 2025
1922 – WEAF in New York City airs the first radio commercial for Queensboro Realty, costing $100 for 10 minutes
1955 – Chicago Black teenager Emmett Till is kidnapped, beaten, and shot dead by white men in Money, Mississippi; his killers are eventually acquitted, but the case helps ignite the US civil rights movement.
1967 – WCBS-AM (880) radio in NYC begins its all-news format; the AM station is knocked off the air just beforehand, moving the debut to the FM sister station (101.1)
1980 – First use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland
1982 – The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
2017 – Matt Vogel debuts as the voice of Kermit the Frog in the “Muppet Thought of the Week” video
2017 – Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, serving a life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more
2022 – Pakistan appeals for international aid as the death toll from monsoon rains and floods rises to over 1,000 people
Historical Events for 27th August 2025
1665 – “Ye Bare and Ye Cubb” is the first play performed in North America in Accomac, Virginia
1944 – 200 RAF Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg
1958 – The US performs a nuclear test over the South Atlantic Ocean as part of Operation Argus to study the Christofilos effect, a theoretical defensive shield to cloud Soviet radar
1983 – US performs a nuclear test
2004 – Australia wins its first-ever Olympic men’s field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win after extra time against the Netherlands in Athens
2004 – Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba throws an Olympic record of 71.53 m to easily beat German Steffi Nerius for the women’s javelin gold medal at the Athens Games
2014 – 71st Venice Film Festival: “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence,” directed by Roy Andersson, wins the Golden Lion
2017 – Former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas
Historical Events for 26th August 2025
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
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