Historical Events for 8th August 2023

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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