1950 – “Beetle Bailey” comic strip debuts in twelve newspapers
1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel automobile range
1964 – Eduardo Frei Montalva elected President of Chile
1964 – NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1972 – Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
1988 – The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
2002 – Kelly Clarkson is crowned the winner of the first series of “American Idol” TV singing competition series
2006 – Tiger Woods matches the lowest final round of his career (8-under 63) in the Deutsche Bank C’ship at Norton, MA to win for the 5th straight time and 7th time this PGA Tour season
2010 – Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
2019 – YouTube fined $170 million for illegally collecting data on children’s viewing habits by US Federal Trade Commission
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd September 2023
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
1940 – US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 – KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1941 – 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1943 – British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)
1943 – General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
1954 – The People’s Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy and Amoy
1973 – Jerry Lewis’ 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
2001 – In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals’ rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
2019 – Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
Historical Events for 2nd September 2023
1519 – 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1882 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark 6-1, 6-4, 6-0
1930 – 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1944 – US leaders meet in Belgium
1957 – Milwaukee 1st baseman Frank Torre scores 6 runs to tie the MLB record; Braves rout Chicago Cubs 23-10
1960 – New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
1963 – CBS expands “CBS Evening News” program, anchored by Walter Conkrite, from 15 to 30 minutes
1968 – Jerry Lewis’ 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
2018 – Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts
2019 – Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
Historical Events for 1st September 2023
1255 – Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II
1906 – New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
1911 – Anthony Fokker famously flies his aircraft “Spin” around the tower of the Grote Kerk in Haarlem
1971 – Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1972 – Welshman Richard Meade representing Great Britain and riding Laurieston grabs the equestrian individual and team 3-day event gold medals at the Munich Olympics
1979 – LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1986 – Henri Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1989 – Chris Evert becomes the first player ever to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by beating Patricia Tarabinia 6-2, 6-4
2007 – In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State’s Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
2021 – South America’s second-longest river, the Paraná, at its lowest levels for 77 years due to drought
Historical Events for 31st August 2023
1903 – New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
1920 – Detroit radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1923 – Italian troops occupy Corfu
1954 – Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A’s)
1979 – Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador
1983 – 40th Venice Film Festival: “First Name: Carmen” directed by Jean-Luc Godard wins Golden Lion
1983 – Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1985 – “Prakas” sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
1990 – East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems
2015 – Violent protests in Kiev after Ukraine parliament vote leave 1 national guard dead, 100 injured
Historical Events for 30th August 2023
1757 – Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1862 – Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1932 – Hermann Goering elected President of the German Reichstag
1939 – General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1961 – Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1982 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1984 – 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 launches for a 6-day excursion
1991 – Dan O’Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
1993 – “Late Show with David Letterman” debuts on CBS, from the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC; Bill Murray is his first guest, Billy Joel performs
Historical Events for 29th August 2023
1854 – Self-governing windmill patented by American inventor Daniel Halladay
1920 – An American sweep of the medals in the women’s 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright and Thelma Payne
1937 – MLB Philadelphia A’s Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1944 – 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1958 – Cliff Richard and the Drifters release single “Move It”, Richards debut single. Credited as 1st British Rock n Roll song.
1972 – SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1992 – Largest wrestling crowd outside US – 75,000 at Wembley Stadium, London
1997 – Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business
2004 – Athens Olympic marathon is run on same route as 1896 Games, start at site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens: Stefano Baldini of Italy wins men’s gold in 2:10:55
2014 – Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
Historical Events for 28th August 2023
1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink “Pepsi-Cola”.
1918 – Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
1939 – Netherland mobilizes
1966 – 27th Venice Film Festival: “The Battle of Algiers” directed by Gillo Pontecorvo wins Golden Lion
1988 – 70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany
1990 – Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1994 – 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
2011 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 stroke from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis
2017 – Kenya brings in world’s toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail
2018 – Aretha Franklin lies in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit in a 24 carat coffin
Historical Events for 27th August 2023
1585 – Duke of Parma’s troops occupy Antwerp
1883 – Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1918 – Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of US Army
1956 – Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
1968 – Protest by the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) at the Guildhall’s council chamber; after which Eamon Melaugh phones the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to organise a march in Derry
1982 – Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1991 – Moldavia declares independence from USSR
1996 – Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning
2004 – China’s first ever gold in Olympic Games men’s track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson’s 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
2021 – Britain’s Prince Andrew served with a US federal lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a teenager 20 years ago
Historical Events for 26th August 2023
1545 – Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma
1912 – MLB pitcher Walter Johnson’s 16-game winning streak ends
1920 – Surrey cricket all-rounder Percy Fender scores 100 in 35 minutes [113no] in a county match vs Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor
1942 – 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
1971 – Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1973 – David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 3 storm after causing deaths and severe damage in Florida
2015 – WDBJ TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward are fatally shot live on TV by an ex-colleague in Moneta, Virginia
2018 – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop resigns after losing Liberal Party leadership contest