939 – Battle at Simancas: Spain defeats the Moors
1861 – US Congress passes First Confiscation Act
1908 – St. Louis Cardinals’ Johnny Lush pitches a second career no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Superbas; a change in MLB rules makes this unofficial as the game was shortened by rain
1936 – Jack Lovelock of New Zealand runs a world record time of 3:47.8 to win the gold medal in the 1,500 m at the Berlin Olympics
1986 – Phil Katz releases archiving utility PKARC for DOS
1995 – Revival of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’s musical comedy “Damn Yankees,” starring Jerry Lewis and Bebe Neuwirth, closes at Marquis Theatre, NYC, after 519 performances
2017 – UEFA Women’s Euro Final: Dutch forward Vivianne Miedema scores 2 as the Netherlands beat Denmark 4-2 in Enschede, the Netherlands
2018 – Saudi Arabia’s state airline suspends direct flights to Toronto and expels ambassador after Canada calls for release of detained activists for civil and women’s rights
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th August 2026
1763 – Pontiac’s War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Native American forces at Bushy Run
1861 – President Lincoln signs the first US personal income tax into law, imposing a 3% tax on incomes over $800
1942 – German troops cross the Russian Kuban River in the Western Caucasus
1953 – Operation “Big Switch”; Korean War prisoners exchanged at Panmunjom
1963 – Craig Breedlove sets a world land speed record of 407.45 mph (655.73 km/h) in the Spirit of America at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
1984 – American super-hurdler Edwin Moses wins the 400 m hurdles gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics, his 105th consecutive race victory
1993 – Republican Guard kills 64 civilians at Gninguilim marketplace in Chad
2019 – Brazilian drug dealer Clauvino da Silva tries and fails to escape a Rio de Janeiro jail by dressing up as his teenage daughter in a silicone mask and wig
Historical Events for 4th August 2026
1666 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Christopher, killing thousands
1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pérignon’s invention of Champagne
1917 – Pravda calls for the killing of all capitalists, priests, and officers
1948 – Hungary’s Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women’s long jump competition at the London Games
1983 – 16th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
1992 – In its debut at the Barcelona Olympics the badminton singles gold medals are both won by Indonesian athletes, whilst both men’s and women’s doubles go to South Korea
2019 – Car explosion kills 20 and injures 47 in Cairo, Egypt, in a terrorist-related incident
2019 – British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn GC: Hinako Shibuno of Japan wins her maiden major title in her first LPGA event; beats American Lizette Salas by 1 stroke
Historical Events for 3rd August 2026
1650 – Dutch Stadtholder William II and Amsterdam reach an accord about a standing army
1692 – Battle of Steenkerque: French defeat William III’s combined English/Dutch army
1948 – An American 1-2 in the men’s 200 m at the London Olympics with Mel Patton (21.1) defeating teammate Barney Ewell
1948 – Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss is accused of being a “communist”
1954 – The Convair XFY-1 Pogo, a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, makes its first successful flight
1958 – MLB Baltimore Orioles manager Paul Richards is ejected from both games of a doubleheader at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan
1987 – Discovery in the Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
2015 – The Athens Stock Exchange reopens after a month and falls by 22%
Historical Events for 2nd August 2026
1819 – First parachute jump in US by Frenchman Louis-Charles Guille over Jersey City
1870 – Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London
1920 – Marcus Garvey presents his “Back to Africa” program in NYC
1941 – Thousands of Jews are expelled from Subcarpathian Ruthenia
1967 – US Lunar Orbiter 5 is launched and enters lunar orbit on August 5
1975 – 104°F (40°C) in Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
2013 – 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria
2015 – British Open Women’s Golf, Turnberry: Inbee Park of South Korea shoots final found 65 (−7) to win her 7th major title, 3 strokes ahead of compatriot Ko Jin-young
Historical Events for 1st August 2026
1883 – A papyrus is offered to the British Museum for £10,000, later revealed to be a forgery
1941 – Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd Infantry Division
1944 – Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe
1957 – Gil Hodges hits his 13th MLB career grand slam, a National League record and the last by a Brooklyn Dodgers player
2014 – USA and UN announce a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Palestine, though it quickly breaks down
2014 – Indiana Pacers NBA superstar Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg during a Team USA scrimmage
2018 – Australian Rugby League’s “Immortals” tally increases to 13 as pre-war stars Dally Messenger, Frank Burge, and Dave Brown, along with latter-day giants Norm Provan and Mal Meninga, are added
2024 – Tunisian human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine is arrested and imprisoned for “conspiracy against state security”
Historical Events for 31st July 2026
1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself the sixth Mughal emperor; the Mughal Empire reaches its greatest extent under him
1969 – KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, Minnesota (IND) begins broadcasting
1983 – Dutch July average temperature is 20.1°C (68.18°F), making it the warmest July since 1854
1991 – US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1997 – First baseman Mark McGwire becomes MLB’s top home run hitter to be traded in the middle of a season when he moves from Oakland to the St. Louis Cardinals with 34 home runs and 81 RBIs
2016 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Jimmy Walker wins his first major by one shot from defending champion Jason Day of Australia
2019 – Russian President Vladimir Putin orders the Russian army to help put out huge wildfires in Siberia covering 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) after 700,000 people sign a petition
2019 – US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.25%, the first cut since 2008
Historical Events for 30th July 2026
1678 – English troops land in Flanders
1939 – Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his 3rd title from Frenchman René Vietto
1942 – German occupiers set a night curfew on Jews in the Netherlands
1968 – Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes the eighth unassisted triple play in MLB history and the first in 41 years as the Senators lose 10-1 to the Cleveland Indians
1969 – KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1982 – Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seating
1982 – USSR performs an underground nuclear test
2003 – Toronto Rocks – SARSStock benefit with performers including The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who, Justin Timberlake, The Flaming Lips, and The Isley Brothers, at Downsview Park; largest concert in Canadian history attracts 450,000 spectators
Historical Events for 29th July 2026
238 – The Roman Senate and Praetorian Guard proclaim 13-year-old Gordian III as Emperor – the youngest-ever emperor of a united Rome
1566 – Great Britain executes Agnes Waterhouse, the first British woman convicted of witchcraft in Chelmsford, England
1773 – First schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is completed in Schoenbrunn, Ohio
1924 – Paul Runyan wins PGA the golf championship
1942 – Transport #12 departs Drancy, France, with 1001 French Jews sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; five survive until the war’s end
1996 – MLB Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retires, with a record of 1599-1439, four National League Pennants, and two World Series championships.
2015 – “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage premieres at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2017)
2019 – Prison riot kills 58, with 16 decapitated in a battle between rival factions at Altamira prison, Pará state, Brazil
Historical Events for 28th July 2026
1330 – Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeat Bulgarian army
1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre after the English garrison surrenders after a siege
1794 – French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
1794 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of the French and first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, is released from prison five days after the execution of her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais
1967 – Pirate radio station 390 (Radio Invicta) in England closes down
2013 – 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2018 – Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with the death toll at 5, having burned 80,000 acres
2019 – Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is revealed as the first guest editor for UK Vogue in 103 years for its September 2019 issue