1322 – Emperor Godaigo makes Sojiji the chief monastery of Soto Sect
1570 – Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for Huguenots
1911 – The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1969 – The Beatles are photographed by Iain MacMillan crossing the street as they walk away from EMI Recording Studios, for the cover of their “Abbey Road” album
1982 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Southern Hills CC: Ray Floyd wins his second PGA C’ship by 3 shots from fellow American Lanny Wadkins
1992 – Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
2000 – Confederate submarine CSS H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor, off the coast of South Carolina
2013 – Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
2018 – Malaysia charges former prime minister Najib Razak with three counts of money laundering
2022 – FBI conduct a search of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Largo, over his handling of classified government documents
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 7th August 2023
1606 – Possible first performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I
1914 – French government awards King Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
1930 – A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana
1938 – Nazis close theologic department of Innsbruck university
1948 – Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson wins the gold medal in the 10k event by 30.6 seconds from teammate Ingemar Johansson at the London Olympics
1970 – Shootout at Marin Courthouse in San Rafael, California, kills 4, including the presiding judge
1983 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Riviera CC: Hal Sutton wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Jack Nicklaus
1988 – Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
2016 – Miami Marlins veteran Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki becomes the 30th member of the 3,000 hit club in a 10 – 7 win v Rockies
2018 – China bans release of Winnie the Pooh movie “Christopher Robin”, after character used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping
Historical Events for 6th August 2023
1699 – HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia
1896 – France annexes Madagascar
1914 – Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I
1921 – Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1936 – Japanese athletes quinella the triple jump at the Berlin Olympics; Naoto Tajima wins gold and Masao Harada silver
1937 – MLB overturns New York Yankees’ 7-6 win over Cleveland Indians because of umpire error
1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”
1983 – First NFL exhibition game in Europe; Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cardinals 28-10 at London’s Wembley Stadium
1995 – Revival of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’ musical comedy ‘”Damn Yankees”, starring Jerry Lewis and Bebe Neuwirth, closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 519 performances
2018 – Boston appoints its first African American Police Commissioner William G. Gross
Historical Events for 5th August 2023
1399 – Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers
1949 – 6.4 Earthquake strikes Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, killing 5,000 people
1959 – 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
1966 – West Indies cricket captain Garfield Sobers scores 174 including a century between lunch and tea to set up a 4th Test win v England at Headingley
1969 – Mariner 7 flies past Mars
1986 – It’s revealed Andrew Wyeth of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, had secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf
1988 – American politician Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns his seat
1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.
1995 – 5th Athletics World Championships open at Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 – New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games by winning K-1 500m; 5th career gold for Carrington
Historical Events for 4th August 2023
1666 – St James’ Day naval battle is an English victory against the Dutch during Second Anglo-Dutch War off the Kent coast
1855 – John Bartlett publishes “Familiar Quotations”
1948 – Hungary’s Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women’s long jump competition at the London Games
1954 – Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1974 – Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 – Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Thurston House” is published
1993 – Rwandian Hutus and Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha, Tanzania
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
2021 – Largest wildfire in California so far in 2021, the Dixie Fire at 320,000 acres, destroys the gold rush town of Greenville
Historical Events for 3rd August 2023
1880 – American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, NY, first Commodore William L. Alden
1914 – British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time.”
1940 – Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
1944 – Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1949 – Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form National Basketball Association (NBA), Maurice Podoloff elected head of new league
1975 – Poland and West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
1979 – Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island
1998 – The Oval stages first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London when home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture
1998 – Irish band Boyzone release their best-selling single “No Matter What” composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman
2000 – South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Amnesty Committee grants amnesty to Curnick Ndlovu, the KwaZulu-Natal leader of the African National Congress and United Democratic Front, for committing sabotage during December 1961 and June 1963 near Durban
Historical Events for 2nd August 2023
1782 – George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1798 – Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet
1858 – 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
1892 – George A. Wheeler is granted a US patent for a prototype of the escalator
1942 – 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1979 – MLB New York Mets purchase contract of outfielder José Cardenal from Philadelphia Phillies between games of a double-header between the two teams
1980 – Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
2008 – “Breaking Dawn”, 4th book in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight Saga” is published by Little Brown at midnight with a print run of 3.7 million copies
2013 – Carl Icahn sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell
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
Historical Events for 1st August 2023
1720 – South Sea bubble reaches a frenzy in London as the stock price of the South Sea Company peaks at £1,000, collapses soon after and falls to £124 by December
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania
1852 – San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
1870 – Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland
1907 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset
1933 – NY’s future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell sets MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings at 45 1/3 as Giants lose 3-1 v Boston Braves
1970 – Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell smacks 3 doubles and 2 homers in a 20-10 Pirates win v Braves at Atlanta Stadium
1971 – “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” debuts on CBS-TV, with comic actor and singer Jimmy Durante as guest
1977 – San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam
1985 – Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
Historical Events for 31st July 2023
1794 – All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
1901 – Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
1922 – 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world’s 1st water skis (Minnesota)
1932 – 26th Tour de France: French cyclist André Leducq wins after tallying 6 stage victories; his second Tour triumph (1930)
1954 – Milwaukee first baseman Joe Adcock becomes only the 3rd player in 20th century to hit 4 HRs in 9-inning game (Lou Gehrig and Gil Hodges) in 15-7 Braves’ win over Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field; MLB record 18 total bases
1964 – US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1964 – American glider pilot Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor
1965 – Cigarette advertising banned on British TV
1988 – Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers, 27-21 in the American Bowl at London’s Wembley Stadium
1989 – MLB Minnesota Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to New York Mets
Historical Events for 30th July 2023
1809 – British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren
1870 – The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics
1932 – X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, USA
1954 – 5th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Vancouver, Canada
1966 – FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany, 4-2 after extra time
1975 – Simon Gray’s “Otherwise Engaged” premieres in London
2012 – Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without electricity
2017 – Hackers reveal they have stolen data from HBO, including episodes and scripts of Games of Thrones
2017 – Venezuelan voting for a new assembly disrupted by violent protests, at least 3 people killed
2017 – Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions