843 – Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bald divide France
1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1897 – Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)
1936 – First time the Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the teams gold medal
1943 – Adolf Hitler watches a lynching of allied pilots
1981 – Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1984 – Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day
1988 – UN estimates Asia’s population hits 3 billion
1989 – A’s bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
1989 – Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th August 2024
1666 – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as “Holmes’s Bonfire”.
1790 – Robert Gray’s Columbia Rediviva returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st American ship to circumnavigate the Globe
1910 – Chicago resident Alva Fisher receives US patent for an electric washing machine
1930 – 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
1936 – Helen Stephens claims the women’s sprint double at the Berlin Olympics having won the 100m and as part of the victorious American 4 x 100m relay team
1950 – Lusty Song riden by Delvin Miller wins the Hambletonian in Goshen, New York
1961 – James Benton Parsons is 1st African American to be nominated to a US Federal District Court
1966 – The Beatles release their “Yellow Submarine” single and its album “Revolver” in the US
1997 – Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
2020 – Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.
Historical Events for 8th August 2024
1576 – Cornerstone laid for Tycho Brahe’s observatory in Uraniborg, Denmark, when built becomes the world’s most advanced research institution
1839 – Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
1863 – American Civil War: Tennessee’s “military” Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. Celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans (early 20th century)
1922 – Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
1940 – 31 German aircraft shot down over England
1942 – British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379
1952 – Syngman Ree re-elected president of South Korea
1975 – As a result of rainfall from Typhoon Nina, the Banqiao Dam in China fails, causing the collapse of almost 6 million buildings and 229,000 deaths
1984 – Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of a Muslim nation, and the first of her country in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics
1996 – American jazz artist Mel Tormé (70), suffers a stroke, ending his 65-year singing career
Historical Events for 7th August 2024
1927 – Peace Bridge over the Niagara River between US and Canada dedicated to commemorate 100 years of peace between the two countries
1956 – Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
1961 – Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
1983 – Grete Waitz of Norway wins inaugural women’s marathon at the 1st world athletics championships in Helsinki, Finland
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts
1988 – Future Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye wins his 4,000th career race aboard 2-year-old filly Fawn and Hahn in the 4th race at Del Mar
2000 – Los Angeles Lakers announce retirement of former star player and Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Jerry West; name Mitch Kupchak to succeed him
2010 – Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, John Randle, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little and Dick LeBeau are inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
2012 – 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
2019 – Largest single-state immigration raid in Mississippi as nearly 700 people arrested
Historical Events for 6th August 2024
1936 – Japanese athletes quinella the triple jump at the Berlin Olympics; Naoto Tajima wins gold and Masao Harada silver
1944 – Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1948 – Willem Drees forms Socialist government (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) in the Netherlands
1964 – Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree aged at least 4,862 years old, is accidentally cut down in Nevada, USA
1967 – Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
1980 – University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses
1983 – Bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of ANC, explodes at a synagogue in Johannesburg, South Africa
1987 – 20th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Holiday Inn
1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7
1989 – Revival of musical revue “Oh! Calcutta!” closes at Edison Theater, NYC, after 5959 performances: Broadway’s longest-running musical revue
Historical Events for 5th August 2024
1716 – Battle of Petrovaradin [Peterwardein]: Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Ottomans in a decisive victory
1900 – In Russia, anti-Jewish riots spread from Odessa into other parts of the country
1914 – Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money
1964 – Beatles record a cover of Little Willie John’s “Leave My Kitten Alone”; not released until 1995’s “Anthology 1”
1980 – Montreal Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager in 11-5 win v Mets, for whom Doug Flynn hits MLB record tying 3 triples
1983 – American rock singer David Crosby sentenced to 5 years in Texas state prison on drug and weapons convictions
1995 – 5th Athletics World Championships open at Gothenburg, Sweden
2018 – English swimmer Adam Peaty breaks his own world record in 57.00 as he wins his 9th European 100m breaststroke title in Glasgow, Scotland
2018 – 6.9 magnitude earthquake on island of Lombok, Indonesia, kills at least 460 people and displaces 350,000
2018 – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declares “now we are a land of droughts” as 99% of New South Wales affected
Historical Events for 4th August 2024
1903 – Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X, known as the ‘pope of the poor and humble’
1914 – WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war
1967 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1981 – Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission
1982 – Outfielder Joel Youngblood becomes only MLB player to get hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day; singles for Mets in Chicago day game; traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
1984 – Prince’s “Purple Rain” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks
1985 – “Dreamgirls” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
1994 – 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
1995 – Following a suspension from the league for substance abuse former Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry joins NY Yankees and eventually helps the Bronx Bombers to win the 1996 World Series
2013 – British Open Women’s Golf, St. Andrews: American Stacy Lewis wins her second major, 2 shots ahead of runners-up Na Yeon Choi and Hee Young Park
Historical Events for 3rd August 2024
1527 – First known letter sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland
1914 – Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I
1939 – Jean Genet’s play “Ondine” premieres in Paris
1959 – 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
1963 – Warner Bros. Records releases single of Allan Sherman’s novelty song “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)”, set to music of Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” from his 1876 opera “La Gioconda”
1987 – Detroit Tigers ace Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2, 10 innings loss v Kansas City Royals
1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
2004 – MESSENGER spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral
2014 – Alex Puccio ascends Jade in Rocky Mountain National Park, becoming the fourth-ever woman to climb V14
2020 – Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in the US as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
Historical Events for 2nd August 2024
1858 – 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
1934 – 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1941 – Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1961 – The Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool’s Cavern Club
1964 – Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey
1966 – Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1990 – 23rd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Holiday Inn
1990 – Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas hits his 10th MLB homer in 6-5 loss v Detroit, fastest to reach that mark, just 77 at bats
2012 – American swimmer Rebecca Soni becomes first woman to win the 200m breaststroke twice with a world record 2:19.59 at the London Olympics
2019 – Seven-year-old boy operated on after 526 teeth found inside his mouth in Chennai, India
Historical Events for 1st August 2024
1485 – Henry Tudor’s army sails to England (future Henry VII)
1639 – French Ursuline nun Marie de l’Incarnation arrives in Quebec on board the Saint-Joseph – goes on to open first school for girls and play a large part in establishing Catholicism in New France
1842 – Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames opens
1890 – Cecil Rhodes’ colonists reach Lundi
1900 – The 1st Michelin Guide is published by the brothers Édouard and André Michelin as a hotel and restaurant reference guide to encourage more road travel and thus boost tire sales (exact date beyond Aug 1900 unknown)
1917 – Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana
1961 – German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
1987 – Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
1992 – USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
2002 – In signing star linebacker Ray Lewis to a 5-year contract extension the Baltimore Ravens give him a $19m signing bonus, then the largest in NFL history