1914 – US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI
1936 – Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas leads a self-coup, giving him authoritarian control of the country
1941 – Winston Churchill departs on the Prince of Wales to the US
1942 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo, Egypt
1948 – Five-day Southern States filibuster succeeds in maintaining America’s poll tax
1957 – Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio clinches his record fifth F1 World Drivers’ Championship (fourth consecutive) by winning the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring
1994 – 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
1996 – Jim Bunning, Earl Weaver, Bill Foster, and Ned Hanlon are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd August 2025
1933 – Philadelphia A’s defeat NY Yankees 7-0, the first time in 308 games “Bronx Bombers” are shut out
1949 – Republic of Indonesia proclaims ceasefire
1954 – The Convair XFY-1 Pogo, a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, makes its first successful flight
1972 – British Prime Minister Edward Heath proclaims an emergency crisis due to a dock strike
1989 – Lawrence Delisle drives his four kids into a river
1994 – 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo, Japan (record)
1997 – Manchester United defeats Chelsea 4-2 on penalties to win the Charity Shield after a bad-tempered 1-1 draw at Wembley
2023 – Forty-one migrants form Ivory Coast and Guinea drown and just four survive after their boat capsizes off Italian island of Lampedusa
Historical Events for 2nd August 2025
1858 – Government of India transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown
1880 – British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
1914 – Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1928 – Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1991 – Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
2018 – Japanese newspaper “Yomiuri Shimbun” reveals Tokyo Medical University has been tampering with female entrance exams to ensure under 30% accepted
2020 – Islamic State stages a jail break at a prison in Afghan city of Jalalabad, placing bombs at its entrance, results in 20 hr gunfight, 29 deaths and over 300 prisoners at large
2022 – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the first speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, prompting condemnation from the Chinese Communist Party
Historical Events for 1st August 2025
1954 – South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into effect, empowering the government to remove Africans from any area within and adjacent to the magisterial district of Johannesburg
1968 – Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in its coins
1996 – American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200 m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to become the first man to complete the 200-400 m double
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay
2010 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Sahalee CC: Berhard Langer of Germany wins by three strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Couples
2010 – 200 m x 250 m photo mosaic commemorating the life of Filipino President Corazon Aquino is unveiled near Quirino Grandstand at Luneta Park, Manila
2023 – Former US President Donald Trump is indicted by special counsel Jack Smith on charges of conspiring to defraud the country and prevent the peaceful transfer of power
2023 – South America experiences a winter heatwave, with Vicuña in Chilean Andres reaching 100°F (37.78°C), the warmest day in northern Chile for 72 years
Historical Events for 31st July 2025
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years
1790 – First US patent is granted to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1853 – First nighttime surgery performed at Lychakiv Hospital in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) using new kerosene oil lamps invented by Ignacy Łukasiewicz
1981 – Mid-season strike by MLB players ends after 42 days, causing the cancellation of 713 games; players and owners come to an agreement on free agent compensation
1987 – Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops kills 402
2021 – Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown wins gold in the 200 m backstroke to complete the 100/200 m double at the Tokyo Olympic Games
2022 – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helps plan the 9/11 attacks, is killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan; US President Joe Biden calls it the group’s biggest blow since Osama bin Laden is killed
2024 – Australian slalom canoeist Jessica Fox successfully defends her C-1 slalom gold medal with a time of 101.06 seconds and completes the K-1/C-1 double at the Paris Olympic Games
Historical Events for 30th July 2025
762 – City of Baghdad founded by Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad
1864 – Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Confederate forces under McCausland burn the town of Chambersburg
1905 – Dutch Covenant of Worker’s Union, NVV, forms
1937 – Soviet Politburo issues NKVD Order No. 00447 during the Great Purge to repress property-owning kulaks and anti-Soviets; 269,100 are arrested, with 76,000 executed
1978 – Expos crush Braves 19-0, collecting 28 hits and tying the National League record with eight home runs
1991 – Red Sox player Carlos Quintana becomes the 11th player to achieve six RBIs in an inning (3rd)
2013 – Wikileaks discloser Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning is convicted of 17 espionage charges
2020 – Former president Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral of Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis; former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also speak at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
Historical Events for 29th July 2025
1221 – Emperor Go-Horikawa, aged only 10 years old, ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
1566 – Great Britain executes Agnes Waterhouse, the first British woman convicted of witchcraft in Chelmsford, England
1923 – Albert Einstein speaks about pacifism in Berlin
1940 – SV Urk Dutch soccer team forms
1973 – Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safe deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel
1990 – South Africa Communist Party begins first legal conference
1994 – Jesse Timmendequas rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7, resulting in Megan’s Law
2018 – Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party claims to have won all 125 seats in the country’s general election amid widespread criticism of a sham vote
Historical Events for 28th July 2025
1893 – Vizcaya Bridge, the largest transporter bridge in the world designed by Basque architect Alberto de Palacio, opens over the River Ibaizabal
1904 – Rafael Reyes becomes dictator of Colombia after losing Panama
1942 – The Zionist partisans in Poland form the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB) or Jewish Fighting Organization
1980 – Peru adopts a constitution, and Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president
1984 – 23rd modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles
1988 – Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for first visit in 21 years
1989 – NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland announces new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 gigahertz
2008 – Historic Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier burns down for a second time in 80 years
Historical Events for 27th July 2025
1900 – German Kaiser Wilhelm II delivers his “Hun” speech at Bremerhaven, addressing German troops departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China, later used as propaganda in World War I
1914 – Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1954 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Keller GC: Chick Herbert scores a 4 and 3 win over defending champion Walter Burkemo in the Tuesday final
1955 – Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, killing 58
1988 – Baseball star Tommy John commits a record three errors on one play as the Yankees rout the Brewers 16-3
1995 – 28th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2015 – Fiat Chrysler fined record $105 million by US regulators over their number of car recalls
2017 – Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump after just over 6 months, making it the shortest non-interim tenure
Historical Events for 26th July 2025
1775 – US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1903 – Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete the first automobile trip across the United States, traveling from San Francisco to New York in a two-cylinder Winton in 63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes
1914 – Philippe Thys of Belgium wins 12th Tour de France
1948 – “Babe Ruth Story” premieres; Babe Ruth makes his final public appearance
1953 – Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins first of 3 consecutive Tour general classification events
1982 – Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada is crowned 31st Miss Universe
2014 – Brian Ortega’s victory over Mike De La Torre is overturned to “No Contest” after testing positive for drostanolone
2020 – Italian football giants Juventus win their ninth straight Serie A title with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Federico Bernardeschi in a 2-0 win over Sampdoria