05270801::Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium
06490801::Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
08600801::Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
09020801::Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
10210801::Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
10860801::English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier
11770801::Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III
12030801::Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
12910801::Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
14040801::Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
14850801::Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
14980801::Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
15880801::English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
15890801::Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
16190801::1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
16260801::Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
16280801::Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
16640801::Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed K”prl
16900801::Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
17110801::Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
17140801::Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
17160801::1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
17160801::Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
17320801::Foundation laid for Bank of England
17590801::Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
17740801::Priestly discovers oxygen
17800801::Sweden declares neutrality
17810801::English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
17850801::Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
17890801::US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
17900801::1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
17930801::France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
17940801::Whiskey Rebellion begins
17980801::Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
18120801::Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
18140801::Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
18310801::London Bridge opens to traffic
18340801::Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
18360801::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
18380801::Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
18420801::Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
18520801::SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
18550801::Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
18610801::Brazil recognizes Confederacy
18630801::Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
18630801::Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
18640801::Battle of Petersburg, VA
18670801::Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
18690801::1st voyage down Colorado River
18730801::SF's 1st cable car begins service
18760801::Colorado becomes 38th state
18810801::US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
18830801::A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for œ10,000 (forgery)
18830801::Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
18830801::Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
18860801::Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
18900801::Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
18930801::Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
18960801::George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
19010801::Burial within SF City limits prohibited
19020801::Building begins on Dutch public housing
19020801::Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
19030801::1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
19060801::Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
19070801::Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
19070801::Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
19090801::British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
19110801::Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
19140801::British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
19140801::Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
19140801::France & Germany mobilize
19140801::Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
19160801::Hawaii National Park forms
19170801::Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
19180801::British troops enter Vladivostok
19180801::Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
19190801::Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
19190801::Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
19200801::Papendrecht soccer team forms
19200801::Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
19220801::Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
19250801::Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
19260801::Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus
19260801::Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
19270801::Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
19280801::Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
19330801::Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
19330801::Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
19330801::Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
19330801::NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
19360801::Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
19360801::Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
19410801::Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
19410801::NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
19420801::Deurne soccer team forms
19420801::German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
19420801::Race riots in Harlem, New York
19430801::Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
19430801::Race riot in Harlem NYC
19430801::Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
19440801::Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
19440801::Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
19440801::General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
19440801::US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
19440801::US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
19440801::Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
19450801::Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
19450801::Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
19450801::SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
19460801::Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
19470801::"Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs
19470801::Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
19500801::1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
19500801::American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
19500801::Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
19500801::King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
19500801::Territory of Guam created
19510801::David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
19530801::Calif introduces sales tax (for education)
19530801::Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
19530801::KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
19530801::KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
19530801::Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
19530801::Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
19540801::Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
19540801::WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
19550801::1st microgravity research begins
19550801::Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca govt
19550801::WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560801::KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
19570801::1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
19570801::Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
19570801::Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
19570801::US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
19580801::1st class postage up to 4› (had been 3› for 26 years)
19580801::US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
19590801::New Continental baseball league formed
19590801::Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
19590801::WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19600801::Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
19600801::Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
19600801::Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
19610801::Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
19610801::German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
19610801::New SF Hall of Justice opens
19610801::Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
19620801::Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
19620801::Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
19630801::Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
19630801::Germany FR annexes Elten village
19630801::WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
19640801::ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
19640801::Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
19650801::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19660801::Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
19660801::Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 & wounds 31 at U of Texas
19670801::Iza„k Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
19670801::WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19680801::Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
19680801::Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
19680801::WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
19690801::110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
19690801::36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
19690801::Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
19700801::EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
19700801::KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
19700801::Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
19710801::Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
19710801::CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
19710801::George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
19710801::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
19720801::1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
19720801::Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
19730801::H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
19730801::Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
19740801::Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
19750801::38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
19750801::41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
19750801::Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
19750801::Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
19760801::21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
19760801::Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
19760801::Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
19760801::Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
19770801::SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
19780801::Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
19780801::Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
19780801::Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
19790801::Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms govt in Portugal
19800801::Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
19800801::Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
19810801::MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
19810801::Poland premier Jagielski resigns
19820801::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
19820801::Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
19820801::H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
19820801::Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
19820801::Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
19830801::New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
19850801::15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
19850801::Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
19850801::Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
19860801::Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
19860801::Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
19860801::Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
19860801::Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
19870801::Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
19870801::Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
19870801::Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
19870801::Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
19880801::Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
19890801::Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
19900801::"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 149 perfs
19900801::Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
19900801::Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
19900801::Soyuz TM-10 launches
19900801::Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
19910801::Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
19910801::Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
19920801::"Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
19920801::NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
19920801::USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
19930801::"In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
19930801::"She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
19930801::Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
19930801::Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
19930801::Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
19940801::99.9øF (37.7øC) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
19940801::The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
19940801::Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
19950801::Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
19960801::M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
19980801::-8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
02570802::St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
10570802::Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
13750802::1st roller skating rink opens (London)
14920802::Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
15420802::French troops leave Flanders
15520802::Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
15780802::Battle of Rijmenam
15810802::Leiden University names Snellius math professor
16100802::Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
16650802::French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
17040802::Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
17180802::Austrian joins Triple Alliance
17380802::France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
17760802::Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
17820802::George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
17860802::Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
17870802::Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
17910802::Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
17980802::British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
18020802::Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
18190802::1st parachute jump in US
18310802::Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
18320802::1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
18320802::Black Hawk defeated (IA)
18320802::Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
18580802::1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
18580802::Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
18610802::Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
18640802::2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
18650802::Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
18650802::Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
18730802::1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
18750802::World 1st roller skating rink opens in London
18770802::SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
18840802::Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
18870802::Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
18920802::Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
18940802::Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
18940802::Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
19030802::Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
19060802::Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
19070802::Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
19090802::1st Lincoln head pennies minted
19090802::Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
19110802::Ha‹ti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
19120802::18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY
19140802::Belgian govt receives German ultimatum
19140802::German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
19140802::German troops overthrows Luxembourg
19140802::Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
19140802::Great Britain mobilizes
19140802::Postdam Conference ended
19140802::Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
19140802::Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
19200802::Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
19210802::Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
19220802::China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
19240802::Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
19280802::Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
19290802::Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
19310802::Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
19320802::Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
19340802::1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
19340802::Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
19340802::William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
19380802::1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
19390802::Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
19400802::Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
19400802::KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
19410802::German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
19410802::Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
19410802::Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
19420802::250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
19420802::Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
19430802::Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
19430802::Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
19430802::RAF bombs Hamburg
19430802::Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
19430802::Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
19440802::Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
19440802::Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
19440802::Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
19450802::Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
19530802::Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
19530802::KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
19540802::Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
19550802::USSR performs nuclear test
19580802::Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
19590802::41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
19590802::Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
19590802::SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
19610802::Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
19610802::Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
19610802::St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
19620802::NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
19630802::30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)
19640802::Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
19640802::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
19640802::North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
19640802::Race riot in Jersey City NJ
19650802::Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
19660802::Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
19670802::New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
19670802::US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
19680802::35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)
19690802::Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
19690802::Pres Nixon visits Romania
19700802::Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
19700802::France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
19700802::Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
19720802::Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
19730802::George Brett gets his 1st hit
19750802::104øF (40øC) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
19750802::107øF (42øC) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
19790802::"Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs
19790802::Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
19800802::Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
19800802::US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
19810802::Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
19810802::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19820802::Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season
19820802::Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
19830802::STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
19830802::US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
19840802::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19850802::5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
19850802::Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
19850802::NASA launches space vehicle S-209
19860802::Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
19860802::TODAY/PC born today
19870802::25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
19870802::Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
19870802::Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
19870802::Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
19870802::Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season
19870802::Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
19870802::Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
19870802::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19880802::Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
19880802::System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
19890802::NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
19900802::Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
19900802::Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
19910802::Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
19910802::Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
19910802::Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
19910802::Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
19920802::"Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
19920802::Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
19920802::Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
19920802::Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
19930802::NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
19930802::Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
19930802::Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
19930802::Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
19940802::Congressional hearings begin on White Water
19940802::Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
19940802::NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
19940802::Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
19980802::26th du Maurier Golf Classic
19980802::30th Curtis Cup:
08810803::Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
11080803::Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned
13120803::Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
14920803::All Jews are expelled from Spain
14920803::Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"
15290803::"Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & King French I
15570803::Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes
15960803::David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
16400803::2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
16400803::Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo," premieres in Toledo
16450803::Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians
16500803::Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army
16760803::Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
16780803::Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
16920803::Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army
17040803::English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
17080803::Battle at Trencs‚n: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
17450803::Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
17780803::Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
17970803::Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
18290803::Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris
18330803::HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
18520803::1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
18550803::Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
18600803::American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
18610803::Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
18630803::Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
18630803::Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
18640803::Battle of Mobile AL
18810803::Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
18810803::US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
18820803::Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
18970803::John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best," premieres in NYC
19040803::British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
19060803::Wash Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th
19140803::1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
19140803::Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
19140803::French fleet sails to North-Africa
19140803::German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
19140803::Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
19140803::Great Britain declares war on Germany
19140803::Turkey signs military pact with Germany
19140803::World Alliance for Promoting Intl Friendship through Churches forms
19140803::Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
19210803::1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
19210803::Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
19230803::Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
19230803::VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
19240803::Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
19250803::Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
19260803::Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
19280803::Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
19300803::2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
19330803::Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931)
19390803::Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris
19400803::German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
19400803::Italian troops invade British Somalia
19400803::Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
19400803::Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
19410803::Benzine sales limited in US
19410803::Gas sales limited in US
19410803::German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
19410803::Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base
19430803::Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
19430803::Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
19440803::Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
19440803::Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
19440803::General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter
19440803::Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
19440803::Tommy Brown, just 16 years & 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers
19460803::Belgian govt of Huysmans, forms
19480803::Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings
19480803::FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
19490803::Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire
19490803::Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
19510803::William H Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19520803::15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
19530803::Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
19540803::1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
19550803::Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
19550803::Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
19550803::Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
19560803::Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
19570803::British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
19580803::USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
19590803::27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
19590803::50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
19590803::AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
19600803::Niger gains independence from France
19620803::29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)
19620803::NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
19630803::"No Strings" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 580 performances
19630803::Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
19630803::Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
19630803::Great Train Robbery-œ2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
19660803::S African govt bans Beatle records
19670803::45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
19670803::James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
19680803::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19690803::Reds beats Phillies 19-17
19690803::Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
19700803::4 day NFL strike ends
19700803::Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London
19700803::Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
19700803::Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
19710803::Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
19720803::British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
19720803::Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
19730803::Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
19730803::National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
19740803::"Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 perfs
19740803::"Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 perfs
19740803::Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
19750803::500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
19750803::Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
19750803::Poland & West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
19750803::Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
19770803::Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
19790803::Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
19790803::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19800803::22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
19800803::Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame
19800803::Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
19810803::13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
19810803::France performs nuclear test
19820803::Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as NY Yankee manager
19830803::John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
19830803::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840803::365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
19840803::Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
19850803::"Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
19850803::Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
19860803::Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
19860803::Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, & Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame
19870803::Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
19870803::Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
19870803::Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose
19870803::Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound & is ejected
19880803::Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
19890803::5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
19890803::Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
19890803::Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
19890803::Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning
19900803::"Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 perfs
19900803::98.8øF (37.1øC) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
19900803::NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
19900803::Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
19900803::US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
19900803::For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Phila 11-0
19910803::Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian
19910803::Pan Am games open in Havana
19920803::Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
19920803::Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
19940803::102.4øF (39.1øC) in Tokyo Japan: record
19940803::1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
19950803::CNN en Espanol premieres
19970803::25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins
19970803::BankBoston Senior Golf Classic
19970803::Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park NY for HBO
19970803::Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International
11810804::Supernova seen in Cassiopia
12650804::Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort
13470804::English troops conquer Ft Calais
13510804::Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English
15580804::1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
15780804::Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed
15980804::London's head office of Hanze closed
16360804::Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
16660804::Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands die
16660804::Sea battle between Netherlands & England
16930804::Dom Perignon invents champagne
16950804::French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
17040804::War of Spanish Succession, English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
17300804::Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England
17350804::Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
17530804::George Washington becomes a master mason
17600804::Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
17770804::Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
17890804::French National Meeting ending feudal system
17900804::US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
17910804::Austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova
18210804::1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
18300804::Plans for city of Chicago laid out
18550804::John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
18620804::US govt collects its 1st income tax
18640804::Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
18700804::British Red Cross Society forms
18790804::Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
18810804::122øF (50øC), Seville, Spain (European record)
18860804::Colombia adopts constitution
18920804::Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
18920804::Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
18970804::Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
19030804::Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
19090804::Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment
19100804::A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
19140804::German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
19140804::German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
19140804::Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
19140804::King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
19140804::Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
19140804::US declares neutrality in WW I
19160804::Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
19170804::Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
19220804::Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
19250804::1st Dutch Colijn govt forms
19250804::US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
19270804::Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens
19290804::60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
19290804::Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
19290804::Jones Beach in NY opens
19300804::Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
19340804::NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
19360804::Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
19410804::Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
19410804::Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
19420804::1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
19420804::British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
19420804::Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
19420804::German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
19430804::British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
19430804::Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
19430804::USAF bombs Germans in Troina
19440804::Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
19440804::British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
19450804::Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
19450804::Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
19480804::5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
19490804::NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
19530804::Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
19530804::Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
19540804::Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
19550804::Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
19560804::1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
19560804::Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
19560804::Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
19580804::Dumont TV Network crumbles
19590804::"Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs
19600804::Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
19610804::108øF, Spokane, WA
19610804::28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
19620804::Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
19630804::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
19640804::Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
19640804::North Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin
19650804::Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
19670804::34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
19670804::British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air
19670804::Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
19670804::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19670804::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19680804::100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
19680804::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
19680804::WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
19690804::Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
19700804::Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
19710804::US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
19720804::Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
19740804::Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
19740804::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
19750804::Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
19760804::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19770804::Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
19770804::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19790804::Italian govt of Cossiga begins
19790804::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19800804::-11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean
19800804::John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
19800804::Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
19810804::Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
19810804::Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
19820804::NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
19830804::Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
19830804::France performs nuclear test
19830804::Revolution in Burkina
19830804::While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull
19840804::Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
19840804::Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
19840804::Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
19840804::Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
19850804::"Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
19850804::Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
19850804::Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
19850804::Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
19850804::Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
19850804::White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
19860804::OPEC lowers oil production 20%
19870804::At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
19870804::FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
19880804::Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
19880804::Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
19890804::Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly
19900804::95.5øF (35.3øC) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
19900804::European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
19910804::1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
19910804::Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
19930804::Angolese air force bombs Huambo
19930804::Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
19930804::Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
19940804::Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
19940804::Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
19940804::Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
19950804::Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees
19960804::24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies
19960804::26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
19960804::J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, & N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame
19970804::"Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV
01350805::Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
10710805::Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
12640805::Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
13910805::Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
13910805::Jews are massacred in Toledo & Barcelona Spain
13990805::Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians & Litouwers
14200805::Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina
14350805::Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag¢n captured by Genuezen
15430805::French & Turkish troops occupy Nice
15830805::Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
15870805::Spanish troops conquer Lock
16540805::French troops occupy Stenay
16660805::English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
16670805::State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
17160805::Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks
17450805::Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
17720805::1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
17750805::1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
17810805::Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet
18370805::1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
18460805::Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
18580805::Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
18610805::Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
18610805::Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
18610805::US Army abolishes flogging
18610805::US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
18620805::Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
18640805::Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral
18640805::Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
18770805::Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo
18840805::Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
18900805::British & French accord to divide African colonization
18910805::1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
19010805::Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
19140805::1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland)
19140805::Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico & Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I
19140805::Dutch Cort Van de Linden govt issues silver bonds as money
19140805::Massive German assault on forts around Luik
19140805::Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
19140805::US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup
19140805::US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
19140805::Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
19150805::German troops over run Warsaw
19150805::Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
19170805::British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium
19210805::1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
19210805::Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty
19230805::1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
19240805::Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
19260805::1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY
19260805::French & German trade agreement signed
19260805::Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1« hrs
19270805::Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats
19310805::Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
19360805::At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
19370805::Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
19380805::33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2)
19400805::"Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
19400805::St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
19420805::British govt cancels agreement of Munich
19420805::German troops cross Kuban River
19430805::Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarter
19430805::Soviet forces reconquer Orel & Bjelgorod
19440805::US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
19440805::US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne
19450805::Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
19470805::Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
19480805::Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6)
19490805::6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die
19500805::Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title
19500805::Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23)
19510805::Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
19530805::Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
19540805::Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
19540805::Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio
19550805::After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games
19560805::KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19560805::Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open
19560805::WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19570805::"American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC)
19570805::Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut
19570805::WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
19570805::Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million
19580805::Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
19580805::Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi
19590805::42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
19590805::Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
19600805::Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
19600805::Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
19610805::118øF (48øC), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
19610805::Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal
19620805::1st quasar located by radio
19620805::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19620805::Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
19620805::UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
19630805::Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
19630805::Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH
19630805::US, USSR & Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing
19640805::Actress Anne Bancroft & comedian Mel Brooks wed
19640805::Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
19640805::Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville
19640805::Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner
19640805::US begins bombing North Vietnam
19650805::Dave Marr wins PGA title
19660805::33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)
19660805::Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus
19660805::Beatles' "Revolver" album is released
19660805::Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title
19660805::Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
19660805::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19660805::Beatles release "Revolver" album in US
19660805::Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
19670805::1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7
19670805::Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
19670805::Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down
19680805::WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
19690805::Mariner 7 flies past Mars
19690805::Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium
19700805::Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London
19700805::US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
19710805::WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
19720805::Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
19720805::Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
19720805::Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances without a miscue
19730805::Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55
19730805::Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
19730805::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
19730805::USSR launches Mars 6
19740805::Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
19740805::Pres Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
19750805::Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5
19750805::Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown
19780805::New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
19790805::"But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 7 perfs
19790805::Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario
19790805::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open
19790805::Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single
19790805::Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
19790805::Willie Mays, Warren Giles, & Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame
19800805::Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager
19800805::NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
19810805::Federal govt began firing striking air traffic controllers
19810805::Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
19810805::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19820805::Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
19820805::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840805::Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
19840805::Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52)
19840805::Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium
19840805::Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR
19850805::Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
19850805::Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
19850805::Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
19860805::Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33)
19860805::Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout
19860805::US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
19860805::It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
19880805::Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
19900805::Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19900805::Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame
19910805::Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record (20'¬") in Malm” Sweden
19920805::4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
19940805::Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed
19940805::Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
19960805::Dallas Cowboys play KC Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico
19970805::Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
19970805::Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
19970805::Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov, launched
02580806::St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05230806::St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
07680806::[Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
09390806::Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
11810806::Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
14970806::John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America
15880806::Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
16000806::Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
16010806::Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
16230806::Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
16250806::Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
16610806::Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
16750806::Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
17260806::Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty
17740806::Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
17870806::Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
18060806::Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
18150806::US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
18210806::1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
18240806::Battle at Jun n - Sim¢n Bol¡vars army beats Spanish
18250806::Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
18540806::Congress passes Confiscation Act
18610806::Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state
18620806::Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
18640806::Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
18700806::Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
18700806::White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
18900806::Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
18900806::Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game
18960806::France annexes Madagascar
19050806::26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
19080806::St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
19100806::NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
19140806::Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
19140806::French cavalry enter Belgium
19140806::German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
19140806::Serbia declares war against Germany
19180806::Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
19180806::In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends
19190806::1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
19190806::Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
19210806::Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
19260806::NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel
19260806::Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
19260806::Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
19300806::Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
19300806::Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit íya Spitsbergen
19340806::US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
19360806::1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs
19370806::Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
19370806::Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
19370806::US & USSR sign trade treaty
19390806::1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
19400806::Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
19410806::Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
19420806::-8] Riots by Dutch Jews
19420806::Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
19420806::Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
19420806::G”ring proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
19430806::US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
19440806::All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
19440806::Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
19440806::Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
19440806::US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
19450806::Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
19450806::Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
19460806::US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
19470806::1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"
19480806::Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
19480806::Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
19480806::Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
19490806::Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
19510806::Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
19520806::Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
19530806::Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
19540806::WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
19580806::Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
19580806::US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
19600806::Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
19610806::Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
19610806::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19610806::1st case of motion sickness in space reported
19620806::Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
19640806::Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
19650806::32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
19650806::Beatles release "Help" album in UK
19650806::Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
19650806::Indian troops invade Pakistan
19650806::LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
19660806::Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
19660806::Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
19660806::Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
19660806::US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
19670806::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
19670806::Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
19670806::Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play
19670806::Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
19690806::Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
19700806::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19720806::Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
19720806::Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team)
19720806::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic
19730806::Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame
19730806::Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma
19740806::6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
19740806::Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
19770806::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open
19780806::60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA
19780806::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open
19790806::61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich
19790806::Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
19800806::University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
19810806::Argentina ex-president Isabel Per¢n freed
19810806::Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st « champs
19810806::NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
19810806::crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
19820806::22nd Curtis Cup: US, 14«-3«
19820806::Calif Doug DeCinces hits 3 HRs again in game (did it 5 days ago also)
19820806::WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
19830806::Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
19830806::Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
19840806::203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
19840806::Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
19850806::19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
19850806::Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
19850806::Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
19850806::STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
19860806::Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
19860806::Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
19860806::Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
19880806::Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
19880806::Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
19890806::"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
19890806::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
19890806::Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
19890806::Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
19890806::Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
19900806::NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
19900806::Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
19900806::UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
19910806::Debbie Doom (US) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0
19920806::Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
19930806::Japan Hosokawa govt begins
19930806::Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
19940806::Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
19950806::"Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances
19950806::Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
19950806::Indians & Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
19950806::Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
19960806::NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars (ALH84001)
19970806::Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
19970806::NHL Nashville Tenn names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach
06260807::Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
07680807::Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
09360807::Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
14090807::Council of Pisa closes
14790807::Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
14850807::Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
14980807::Columbus arrives in Caribbean
15730807::Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
15750807::Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
15880807::-8] English assault on Spanish Armada
16200807::Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
16200807::Battle at Ponts-the-C‚, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
17100807::Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
17500807::Slave uprising on Cura‡ao
17600807::Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
17820807::George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
17890807::Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service
18020807::Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
18140807::Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
18190807::Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
18200807::1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
18670807::Battle of Moorefield, WV
18820807::Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
18840807::Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
18850807::5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
18880807::Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
18930807::53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
19000807::Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
19040807::Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
19070807::Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
19090807::US issues 1st Lincoln penny
19120807::Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
19140807::British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
19140807::French govt awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
19140807::French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
19140807::German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
19140807::Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
19150807::Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die
19150807::St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, & Card runner scores
19210807::Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
19250807::League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
19270807::Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
19270807::US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
19290807::Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch govt
19290807::Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
19300807::2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
19300807::Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
19340807::US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
19350807::60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
19380807::2 die in a NYC subway accident
19380807::Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
19380807::Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university
19400807::Churchill recognizes De Gaulle govt in exile
19400807::Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1› 1856 British Guiana)
19410807::551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
19420807::1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
19420807::Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
19420807::Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19430807::Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
19440807::Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
19440807::Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
19440807::German counter attack at Avranches fails
19440807::July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
19440807::US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
19460807::1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
19470807::Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
19480807::1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
19480807::Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
19490807::"All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 perfs
19500807::Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
19510807::Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
19510807::US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
19530807::Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
19540807::"Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
19540807::Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
19550807::Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
19550807::KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
19560807::Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
19560807::British govt sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
19560807::Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
19570807::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19590807::Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
19600807::Ivory Coast (C“te d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
19600807::Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
19600807::Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19610807::Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
19610807::Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
19620807::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19630807::Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
19640807::31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
19640807::Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
19640807::US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
19660807::Race riot in Lansing Michigan
19700807::1st computer chess tournament
19700807::Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
19700807::WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
19700807::4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
19710807::Apollo 15 returns to Earth
19720807::Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn
19740807::Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
19740807::Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
19760807::Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
19760807::US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
19760807::Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
19770807::"Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
19780807::Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
19780807::Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
19800807::Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
19830807::"Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
19830807::1st World Track & Field Championships
19830807::65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA
19830807::Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
19830807::Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
19830807::Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19830807::Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
19840807::David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in NYC
19840807::Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
19840807::Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
19850807::Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
19850807::Baseball players end a 2 day strike
19860807::"Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
19860807::Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
19870807::5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
19870807::Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
19870807::Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39øF (4øC) Bering Sea
19880807::Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
19880807::Writers guild end their 6 months strike
19900807::Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
19900807::NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
19910807::Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10«"
19910807::Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
19910807::Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
19910807::Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
19910807::US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
19920807::Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
19920807::Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
19930807::"Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
19930807::Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
19940807::"Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
19940807::1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
19940807::Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
19940807::Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
19970807::STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
19970807::Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
00700808::Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
08700808::Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans
09360808::German king Otto I the Great, crowned
13220808::Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect
15020808::Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor
15490808::France declares war on England
15670808::Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium
15700808::Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots
15790808::Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
15850808::Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV)
15880808::Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
16090808::Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
16190808::Duke Maximilian I & Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Mnchen
16730808::Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC
17000808::Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty
17090808::1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
17580808::British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg
17860808::Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
17860808::Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc
17880808::King Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together
17960808::Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
18090808::70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
18140808::Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
18150808::Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
18160808::Bavarian joins Saint Alliance
18290808::French govt of De Polignac forms
18310808::Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army
18430808::Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
18440808::Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
18530808::Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki Japan
18540808::Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
18600808::Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
18640808::Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
18640808::Red Cross forms in Geneva
18640808::Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
18680808::Quake destroyes Arica Chile
18700808::Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup
18760808::Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
18760808::Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
18820808::Snow falls on Lake Michigan
18900808::Daughters of American Revolution organizes
19000808::1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
19020808::2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
19030808::3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
19030808::In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park & forfeits game
19130808::Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
19140808::3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"
19140808::French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas
19140808::Montenegro declares war on Germany
19160808::A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road
19180808::Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens
19180808::6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
19190808::Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
19200808::Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
19220808::Italian general strike broken by fascist terror
19220808::Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
19240808::British-Russian trade agreement signed
19250808::1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC
19290808::1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
19290808::German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
19290808::Salem Oregon airport dedicated
19300808::St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
19310808::Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
19370808::Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
19400808::31 German aircrafts shot down over England
19400808::Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
19410808::20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman
19420808::"Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
19420808::6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
19420808::Dianthus sinks U-379
19420808::Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
19430808::Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
19430808::US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily
19430808::Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
19440808::Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan
19440808::Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank & family
19440808::US 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans
19450808::England & Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test
19450808::Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
19450808::US, USSR, England & France sign Treaty of London
19450808::USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
19450808::USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
19460808::India agrees to give Bhutan 32ý miles
19460808::Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John Galbreath for $25 million
19480808::"Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances
19490808::Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
19500808::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
19520808::Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea
19530808::Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb
19530808::US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
19550808::Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement"
19550808::Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
19560808::Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
19560808::WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
19570808::USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
19600808::"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
19600808::Ivory Coast declares independence
19610808::Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
19610808::Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
19630808::Great Train Robbery in England, œ2.6 million ($7.3 million)
19630808::Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
19630808::LA Dodgers F Howard & B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
19630808::Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ
19640808::"110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 perfs
19640808::Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
19640808::Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert
19650808::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
19650808::Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation
19660808::Beatles' release "Revolver"
19660808::South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)
19670808::Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Assn of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
19680808::Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
19680808::Race riot in Miami Florida
19680808::Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres
19700808::NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
19710808::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19710808::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
19720808::NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
19730808::VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)
19740808::Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
19760808::Chic White Sox suit up in shorts
19770808::Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
19770808::Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)
19780808::Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
19790808::Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
19800808::LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
19820808::64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa
19820808::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19830808::Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
19830808::Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
19830808::Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees
19840808::"Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances
19840808::Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer
19840808::Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
19850808::Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
19850808::Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
19860808::Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
19870808::Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
19870808::Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
19870808::Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
19880808::-11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed
19880808::9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
19880808::Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty
19880808::Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
19880808::Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
19880808::Goose Gossage registers career save #300
19880808::Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
19880808::Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season
19880808::Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72)
19880808::Minn Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2
19880808::Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years
19880808::Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
19880808::Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
19880808::South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
19880808::Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
19880808::Cubs & Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1
19890808::US space shuttle STS-28 launched
19900808::Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
19900808::Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
19900808::Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
19900808::Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
19910808::Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
19910808::Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge
19910808::Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving
19910808::Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy
19910808::With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)
19920808::Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
19920808::Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
19930808::Calif state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40)
19930808::Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt
19930808::Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
19950808::Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
19970808::Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chic White Sox
03780809::Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army
13780809::Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil)
15590809::Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
15960809::Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond
16380809::Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
16550809::Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts
16730809::Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures NY
16730809::Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
17260809::Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
17570809::English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
17780809::Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
17900809::Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world
18030809::1st horses arrive in Hawaii
18290809::"Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
18300809::Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X
18310809::1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
18320809::King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria
18410809::Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
18420809::US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
18480809::Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire
18480809::Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president
18490809::Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
18540809::Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
18550809::Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
18590809::Elevator patented
18620809::Battle of Cedar Mountain VA (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)
18620809::Berlioz' opera "B‚atrice et B‚n‚dict," premieres in Baden-Baden
18620809::Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
18640809::Battle of Ft Morgan AL
18900809::1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
18930809::1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
19010809::34-35øN/98-99øW open for US colonization
19020809::Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
19050809::Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
19100809::Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
19140809::German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
19150809::British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
19180809::Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, & suspends him "for indifferent play"
19200809::Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
19230809::NY State Golf Assoc formed
19250809::Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
19300809::113øF (45øC) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
19300809::Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
19300809::Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
19360809::Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
19410809::Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
19420809::200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
19420809::Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
19420809::Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
19420809::Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after  passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
19430809::Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei," premieres in Zrich
19440809::12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught
19440809::Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention
19440809::US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans
19450809::US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
19460809::1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
19500809::Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
19510809::Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
19520809::General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
19530809::Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired
19560809::1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
19560809::South African women demonstrate against pass laws
19570809::24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
19600809::Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
19610809::James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
19630809::Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
19630809::NY Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends
19640809::1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands
19640809::Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
19640809::Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings
19650809::Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
19650809::Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
19670809::Biafran offensive against Nigerian army
19670809::KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
19680809::Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague
19690809::"Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances
19690809::Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
19700809::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
19700809::Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
19710809::Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
19720809::Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
19730809::Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings
19730809::USSR launches Mars 7
19740809::Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
19750809::1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
19750809::Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught
19750809::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open
19760809::Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
19760809::Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
19760809::USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
19770809::Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks v Warwicks
19770809::NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs
19780809::USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
19780809::Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
19790809::English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
19800809::Belgian constitution revised
19810809::52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
19810809::6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
19810809::63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga
19810809::All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
19810809::Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic
19810809::NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
19840809::Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal
19840809::STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
19860809::"Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 perfs
19870809::"Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
19870809::69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA Natl Palm Beach
19870809::LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
19870809::Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19880809::Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
19880809::Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
19880809::Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
19900809::12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
19900809::Soyuz TM-10 lands
19920809::"Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 perf
19920809::25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
19920809::Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt
19920809::Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
19920809::Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3øF (37.4øC)
19930809::King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
19940809::Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
19940809::Stanley Betrian put in charge of Cura‡ao
19970809::Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
19970809::Yanks break Minn Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins
19980809::Star Bank LPGA Classic
00700810::"2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
06540810::Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
08430810::Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
09550810::Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians
13040810::-11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
14610810::Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
14970810::John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
15000810::Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar
15110810::Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka
15120810::Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
15190810::Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
15570810::Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France
15660810::Iconoclasm begins
15850810::English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth
16220810::County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
16270810::Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
16280810::Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed
16530810::Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
16640810::Austria/Turkey signs Peace of V sv r
16750810::King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
16750810::Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
16780810::Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
16800810::In N Mex, Pop‚ leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
17430810::Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
17590810::Carlos III becomes king of Spain
17740810::1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
17870810::Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
17870810::Turkey declares war on Russia
17900810::Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
17920810::Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
18090810::Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
18210810::Missouri admitted as 24th US state
18220810::Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
18270810::Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
18310810::Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
18310810::Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
18330810::Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
18350810::Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
18460810::Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
18560810::Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
18610810::Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
18620810::Battle of Nueces River TX
18660810::Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
18690810::O B Brown patents moving picture projector
18760810::1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
18770810::Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perc‚ indians
18770810::Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
18850810::Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
18870810::Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
18880810::NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
18890810::Dan Rylands patents screw cap
18930810::Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
18950810::1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
18970810::Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
19000810::1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
19010810::Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
19040810::Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
19040810::Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
19040810::Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
19040810::Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
19060810::Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
19070810::Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
19090810::Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
19110810::Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
19130810::2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
19140810::At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
19140810::German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
19140810::German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
19140810::Royal Nationally Steuncomit‚ forms
19160810::Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
19190810::Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
19200810::Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
19200810::Treaty of SŠvres (Allies & Turkey)
19200810::Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
19210810::FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
19250810::Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
19260810::Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
19290810::Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
19340810::Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
19360810::114øF (46øC) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
19360810::120øF (49øC) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
19380810::119øF (48øC), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
19390810::2nd Dutch De Geer govt forms (1st with Social Democrats)
19400810::Prince Bernhard Fund forms
19410810::FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland
19420810::Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
19430810::Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
19430810::Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
19430810::Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
19440810::Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
19440810::Race riots in Athens Alabama
19440810::US recaptures Guam from Japanese
19440810::US/French offensive at Alen‡on
19450810::Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
19480810::ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
19480810::Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
19480810::Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
19480810::WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
19490810::Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
19490810::Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
19520810::Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
19540810::Neth Indonesian Union breaks up
19540810::Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
19560810::23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
19570810::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19580810::Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
19600810::Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
19600810::Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
19610810::England applies for membership in European Common Market
19620810::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19640810::WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19650810::Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
19660810::1st lunar orbiter launched by US
19660810::Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
19680810::Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
19680810::Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
19690810::Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
19690810::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open
19700810::Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
19710810::16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
19710810::Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
19720810::1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
19720810::Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
19730810::1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
19740810::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
19750810::57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
19750810::David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
19770810::US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
19770810::USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
19770810::Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
19780810::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19790810::Ecuador adopts its constitution
19790810::Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
19800810::62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
19800810::8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
19800810::Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
19810810::Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
19810810::Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
19810810::Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
19840810::Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
19850810::A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
19850810::Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47« million
19850810::Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
19860810::"Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
19860810::Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19860810::Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
19860810::Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
19860810::Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
19870810::Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
19870810::Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
19880810::Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
19880810::Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
19880810::UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
19890810::A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
19890810::Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
19900810::US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
19910810::"Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs
19910810::NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
19920810::Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
19920810::Soyuz TM-15 lands
19930810::Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
19940810::Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
19950810::Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
19960810::Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
19960810::Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
19960810::Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
19960810::Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
19970810::36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
19970810::Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
19970810::Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
19970810::Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic
19970810::Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic
19970810::Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
01170811::Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch
12530811::Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen
13040811::Sea battle of Zierikzee
14920811::Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
15220811::Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails
15970811::Germany throws out English sales people
16110811::Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia
16740811::1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Cond‚ vs Willem III)
16950811::English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
17180811::Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
17720811::Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
17800811::Barbados hurricane begins
18350811::George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
18600811::Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
18630811::Cambodia becomes French protectorate
18660811::World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
18740811::Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
18770811::Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
18840811::1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
18850811::$100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
18850811::Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR
18880811::California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
18960811::Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
19040811::German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
19070811::St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
19090811::Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
19090811::SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
19090811::Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
19140811::France declares war on Austria-Hungary
19140811::Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
19140811::John Wray patents animation
19140811::Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews
19180811::Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
19190811::Green Bay Packers football club founded
19190811::Weimar Republic begins in Germany
19200811::1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
19230811::Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
19240811::1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
19240811::US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
19260811::Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
19280811::Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils
19280811::Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
19290811::Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
19290811::Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
19290811::Russian-Chinese border fights
19330811::Temp reaches 136øF (57.8øC) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
19340811::1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
19350811::Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
19360811::Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
19390811::Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
19400811::38 German aircrafts shot down above England
19400811::German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
19410811::FRD & PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
19420811::- Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland
19420811::999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
19420811::British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks
19420811::Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
19430811::Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
19430811::Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres
19430811::US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
19440811::British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
19440811::French 5th Armour division recaptures S‚es
19440811::Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
19440811::US air raid on Palembang
19450811::Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
19480811::Summer Olympics opens in London
19490811::1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
19490811::Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt
19500811::17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
19500811::Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
19500811::Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time
19500811::King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium
19510811::100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Okla, Mo & Ill
19510811::1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
19510811::NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
19510811::NY Giants lose to go 13« games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant
19520811::Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
19540811::BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
19540811::Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
19550811::Indonesia govt of Harahap forms
19560811::1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
19560811::Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
19570811::Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
19570811::Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
19600811::Chad declares Independence from France
19600811::French colony of Chad became independent
19610811::Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
19620811::Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
19620811::Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
19620811::Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
19620811::Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
19630811::Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
19630811::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
19640811::Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
19640811::Race riot in Paterson NJ
19650811::6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
19650811::Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
19650811::Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
19660811::Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
19670811::Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
19680811::Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
19680811::Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
19690811::Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
19690811::Pitts Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
19700811::Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
19700811::Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
19710811::Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
19710811::Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
19720811::"Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
19740811::56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC
19740811::Coup in East-Timor under UDT
19740811::Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
19750811::Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
19750811::US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
19760811::Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
19760811::Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
19770811::Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingley
19780811::Funeral of Pope Paul VI
19780811::Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
19790811::28øF in Embarrass Minnesota
19790811::Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
19800811::Angola revises its constitution
19800811::Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
19800811::Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
19820811::Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
19820811::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840811::101,799 fans at soccer match Brazili‰-France
19840811::Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
19840811::Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
19840811::During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
19840811::Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
19840811::USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
19850811::"Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
19850811::67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
19850811::Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
19850811::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19850811::Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
19860811::68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
19870811::France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
19880811::225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
19880811::Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
19880811::Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
19890811::"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
19890811::Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England
19890811::Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
19900811::Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
19900811::NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
19910811::400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
19910811::73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind
19910811::Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
19910811::Shite Moslems release US hostage Edward Tracy
19910811::Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
19910811::Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
19920811::Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
19930811::Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
19930811::NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
19930811::Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
19930811::Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
19940811::Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
19960811::"Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
19960811::78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY
19960811::Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
19970811::Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
19990811::Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
00030812::Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
10710812::Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
10710812::Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe
10990812::Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians
10990812::Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon
13320812::Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
13360812::English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders
14920812::Christopher Columbus discovers Canary Islands
15080812::Juan Ponce de Le¢n arrives in Puerto Rico
15300812::Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I
15490812::French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
15530812::Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
15880812::Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
16580812::1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
16650812::English fleet beat Dutch fleet
16760812::1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England
16870812::Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
16870812::Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs
17590812::Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
18120812::Dr Joseph Lister is 1st surgeon to use disinfectant during surgery
18120812::Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
18310812::Dutch troops conquer Leuven
18310812::Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
18510812::1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
18510812::Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
18560812::Anthony Fass patents accordion
18610812::Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
18620812::Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
18630812::1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
18670812::Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
18760812::Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
18770812::Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
18790812::1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
18840812::Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
18860812::W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval
18880812::Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
18960812::Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
18960812::Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
18980812::Hawaii formally annexed to US
18980812::Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
19010812::Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
19050812::King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
19140812::Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
19140812::German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
19140812::Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
19140812::Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa
19150812::"Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
19160812::Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Pƒquerette photographed in Paris
19220812::Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
19230812::Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
19230812::Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
19250812::KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
19270812::"Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
19280812::9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
19310812::Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
19330812::Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
19350812::Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
19360812::120øF (49øC), Seymour, Texas (state record)
19360812::Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
19360812::Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
19400812::Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
19400812::Netherlands starts rationing textile
19410812::French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
19420812::British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
19420812::German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
19420812::Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo
19440812::Churchill & Tito meet in Naples
19440812::Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
19480812::Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
19480812::Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
19490812::16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
19500812::NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
19500812::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
19510812::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19520812::Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
19530812::Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
19530812::Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed
19530812::Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
19540812::Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
19550812::22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
19550812::Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75› to $1 an hour
19550812::WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560812::Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Brink
19560812::KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
19560812::Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19560812::William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
19590812::1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
19590812::Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
19600812::27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
19600812::Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
19600812::Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11¬"
19600812::USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
19620812::1st time 2 people in space
19620812::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
19620812::Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
19630812::Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
19630812::Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
19640812::10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
19640812::Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game
19640812::Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
19650812::Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
19650812::Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
19650812::Race riot in West Side of Chicago
19670812::New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
19690812::Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
19700812::Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
19710812::Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
19720812::"Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs
19720812::"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
19720812::Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
19720812::Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
19730812::55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve
19730812::Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens
19730812::WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
19740812::Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
19740812::Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
19760812::1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
19760812::Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
19770812::For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
19770812::High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
19770812::Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
19780812::Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
19780812::China & Japan sign peace treaty
19780812::ICE is launched
19790812::"Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
19790812::Iran press censors start massive book burnings
19790812::Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
19810812::IBM introduces PC & PC-DOS version 1.0
19810812::Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
19820812::Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut
19830812::General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
19840812::23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif
19840812::Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
19840812::Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame
19840812::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19850812::7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
19850812::Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
19850812::Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
19860812::Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
19860812::Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
19870812::Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
19880812::Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
19880812::Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
19880812::Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
19880812::Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
19880812::Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
19900812::12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
19900812::72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
19900812::Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
19900812::Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
19910812::Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
19910812::Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
19930812::Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
19940812::1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
19940812::Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
19940812::Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
19940812::Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
19950812::Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
19960812::"Breakfast on Fox" premieres
20010812::38th Walker Cup:
05230813::St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
10990813::Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
14150813::King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
15160813::Kings Charles I & Fran‡ois I signs Treaty of Noyons
15210813::Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
15780813::Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
16080813::John Smith's story of Jamestown's  1st days submitted for publication
16240813::Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
16300813::Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
16420813::Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
16450813::Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Br”msebro
16510813::Litchfield, CT founded
16950813::-15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
16960813::State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
17040813::French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
17130813::King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
17320813::Voltaire's "Za‹re," premieres in Paris
17400813::Hunger strike in Rotterdam
17840813::English parliament accept India Act
17880813::Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
17920813::Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
17990813::English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
18140813::Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
18140813::Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
18310813::Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
18640813::Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
18680813::Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
18760813::Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
18760813::Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
18810813::Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
18890813::William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
18920813::US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
18980813::US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
19020813::England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
19060813::Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
19060813::Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning
19070813::1st taxicab (NYC)
19080813::Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
19100813::Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
19140813::-14] German army occupies forts at Luik
19140813::Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
19140813::France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
19170813::Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
19190813::British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
19190813::Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
19200813::24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
19210813::Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in NYC
19230813::Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition govt
19230813::Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
19230813::US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
19280813::Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
19310813::Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
19320813::Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
19320813::Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
19330813::16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee
19330813::Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
19350813::Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
19370813::Japanese attack Shanghai
19390813::Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
19390813::Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
19400813::Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
19400813::G”ring's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
19410813::Red army evacuates Smolensk
19430813::Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
19440813::British 8th army occupies Florence
19440813::Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
19440813::Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
19450813::35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
19460813::Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
19480813::Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
19500813::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19500813::Pres Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
19510813::Great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
19530813::4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
19530813::Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
19530813::US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
19540813::21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
19550813::Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield
19560813::WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
19580813::Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2
19590813::Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
19600813::Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
19600813::USSR draws adviseors out of China
19610813::Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
19610813::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
19620813::Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
19630813::Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
19630813::Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
19640813::1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
19670813::WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19690813::Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
19690813::Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
19710813::Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car"
19720813::Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
19720813::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
19750813::Viv Richards out for 291 v England at Cricket Oval
19770813::1st test glide of shuttle
19770813::Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband
19780813::Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
19780813::Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
19780813::Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted & thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0
19790813::Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
19800813::Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
19800813::Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
19810813::Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
19810813::Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96)
19840813::Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
19860813::KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
19870813::Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
19870813::Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5«" jump
19880813::Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
19880813::Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens
19880813::US beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
19880813::Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
19890813::2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
19890813::71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill
19890813::US space shuttle STS-28 lands
19910813::Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
19910813::Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford
19910813::VP Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers
19930813::Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
19930813::Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
19930813::US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
19940813::Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
19950813::77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif
19950813::Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship
19960813::Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
19970813::Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
19970813::SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels
05540814::Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
12480814::Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
12810814::Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
13850814::Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castili‰
13850814::Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
13950814::Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
14570814::Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
14980814::Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
15510814::Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
15590814::Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla
15850814::Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
15970814::Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
16240814::Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru
16360814::Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
16420814::Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
16780814::Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
17430814::Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
17560814::French capture Fort Oswego, NY
17580814::Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed
17620814::English fleet occupies Havana
17650814::Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
17820814::Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
17900814::Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
18130814::British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
18160814::Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
18200814::1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
18240814::General Lafayette returns to US
18250814::Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
18420814::Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
18460814::Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
18480814::Oregon Territory created
18610814::79th NY troops mutinies
18610814::Martial Law is declared at St Louis MI
18620814::Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
18640814::-16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
18640814::2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
18730814::"Field & Stream" begins publishing
18750814::Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
18760814::Prairie View State University forms
18800814::Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
18820814::Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
18900814::Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
18930814::France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
19000814::1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
19000814::2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
19010814::SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
19030814::James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title
19050814::Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa
19070814::"Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
19080814::Race riot in Springfield Illinois
19100814::6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
19110814::General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti
19120814::2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
19140814::British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France
19150814::British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
19170814::China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
19170814::Leeuwen soccer team forms
19190814::White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
19190814::Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
19200814::Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
19200814::Olympic Games open in Antwerp
19220814::1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
19250814::Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
19280814::Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in NYC
19290814::Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
19320814::10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
19320814::Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
19320814::Philips makes 1 millionth radio
19330814::Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle & sets AL record with 9 RBIs
19350814::Social Security Act becomes law
19360814::1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
19370814::China declares war on Japan
19370814::Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
19380814::BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
19390814::1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
19400814::Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
19410814::Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
19420814::Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
19430814::-Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
19430814::1st allied air raid on Borneo
19430814::US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
19440814::British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
19440814::Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
19440814::Russian offensive at Weichsel
19450814::V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
19470814::India granted independence within British Commonwealth
19470814::Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
19470814::Pakistan gains independence from Britain
19480814::14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
19480814::Bradman's last Test Cricket innings
19480814::England all out for 52 v Australia at Cricket Oval
19490814::Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria
19520814::M ty s R kosi appointed premier of Hungary
19530814::20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
19530814::KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
19540814::WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
19580814::Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
19580814::Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
19580814::KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
19590814::26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
19590814::AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
19610814::Phila Phillies lose 17th straight game
19620814::French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
19620814::NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
19620814::US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
19640814::Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
19640814::Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market
19650814::Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
19650814::Continental Football League plays 1st games
19650814::Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
19660814::1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
19660814::Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles
19660814::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
19670814::Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
19670814::Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland,
19670814::Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
19680814::Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19680814::Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
19690814::British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland
19690814::NY Mets fall 9« games back, later to win pennant
19700814::City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
19700814::Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
19710814::Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
19710814::British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
19710814::Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0
19710814::France performs nuclear test
19720814::Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
19720814::East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
19730814::Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
19730814::US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
19740814::Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
19740814::Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
19740814::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19740814::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19750814::-15] Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman
19750814::Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
19750814::Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
19760814::10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
19770814::59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal
19770814::77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
19770814::Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic
19780814::French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
19790814::Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
19800814::17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
19800814::Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
19800814::In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
19810814::George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront
19810814::Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott
19820814::Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
19820814::Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
19820814::Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
19830814::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19830814::Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03
19840814::IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
19840814::West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
19860814::Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
19860814::Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
19870814::"Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
19870814::Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
19880814::70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree GC Edmond
19880814::Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
19890814::President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
19900814::Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
19900814::Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
19910814::Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
19910814::Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
19930814::Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
19930814::Nigerian presidential election
19930814::Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
19930814::Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play)
19930814::St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
19940814::76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa
19940814::Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
19940814::Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
19940814::Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic
19940814::Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
19940814::Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum Sudan
19950814::Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
19970814::"1776," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
19970814::Convicted Okla City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death
19970814::Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open
19970814::Okla Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
19970814::Soyuz TM-25 lands
21260814::Comet Swift-Tuttle (í 5 km) approaches close to Earth
07780815::Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great
13080815::Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
14570815::Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
15190815::Panama City founded
15340815::Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
15350815::Asunci¢n, Paraguay founded
15480815::Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
15490815::Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
16200815::Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
16350815::1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
16530815::-16] Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
16580815::France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Mnster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
16680815::Rijnbond disbands
16840815::Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
17410815::French troops attack the Rhine
17480815::United Lutheran Church of US organized
17600815::Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
17850815::French cardinal De Rohan arrested
17950815::Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
18240815::Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
18320815::Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
18430815::National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
18430815::Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens
18480815::M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
18580815::Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
18610815::Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MI
18630815::Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
18640815::Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
18670815::2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
18700815::Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
18760815::US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
18860815::Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
18920815::4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
18930815::US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
18990815::Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
19010815::Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
19050815::Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
19060815::1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
19110815::Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
19120815::Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
19140815::13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2)
19140815::Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
19140815::German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
19140815::Japan joins side of allies
19140815::Panama Canal opens (under cost)
19150815::Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
19180815::1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
19180815::Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
19230815::Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
19230815::Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
19250815::Norway annexes Spitsbergen
19250815::White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
19310815::Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
19310815::Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
19310815::Spakenburg soccer team forms
19390815::"Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
19390815::In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
19400815::1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
19400815::Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
19410815::Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
19420815::5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
19430815::Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
19440815::Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
19440815::German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
19440815::Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
19440815::Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
19440815::US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orl‚ans
19440815::US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
19450815::A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
19450815::South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
19450815::US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
19450815::Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
19470815::India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
19470815::Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) declares independence from UK
19480815::3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
19480815::Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
19490815::WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
19500815::8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
19500815::Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
19500815::Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
19500815::Indies Constitution goes into effect
19500815::Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
19500815::Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
19500815::Rotterdam harbor strike begins
19520815::19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
19520815::9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
19540815::Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
19540815::WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
19550815::WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
19570815::David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
19570815::USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
19580815::25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
19580815::Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
19580815::Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
19580815::Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
19600815::CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
19600815::Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
19600815::Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
19600815::Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
19600815::UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
19610815::Building of Berlin Wall begins
19620815::Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
19620815::Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
19630815::Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
19640815::Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
19640815::Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago
19640815::Phillies triple-play NY Mets
19640815::Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
19640815::Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¬"
19650815::47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
19650815::Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
19650815::Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
19650815::Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
19660815::Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
19670815::Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
19670815::England's Marine Offense Bill makies pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
19680815::Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
19680815::Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague
19680815::USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
19690815::Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
19700815::Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
19710815::Bahrain gains independence from Britain
19710815::Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
19710815::KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
19710815::Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
19710815::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
19730815::Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
19730815::David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London
19730815::USSR performs nuclear test
19740815::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19740815::Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
19740815::Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
19740815::South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
19750815::Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
19750815::Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
19760815::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
19770815::England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust
19770815::SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
19780815::House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
19790815::Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
19810815::Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
19810815::Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
19820815::Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
19820815::Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
19830815::Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
19850815::Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
19850815::Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
19860815::Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
19870815::US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
19870815::At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
19880815::"Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs
19880815::At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
19880815::NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
19890815::Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
19890815::Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
19890815::Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
19890815::US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
19890815::In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
19900815::51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
19900815::Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
19900815::Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
19910815::750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
19910815::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19920815::Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
19920815::Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
19930815::"Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
19930815::75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
19930815::Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
19930815::NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
19930815::Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
19930815::Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
19940815::S African Pres Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
19940815::Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
19950815::Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
19970815::Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
19970815::Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
19970815::LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2
12900816::Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
14650816::Battle at Montlh‚ry
15130816::Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry III beat France
15700816::King J nos Sigismund Z polyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
16250816::Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
16910816::Yorktown Va founded
17170816::Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
17430816::Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
17450816::Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
17480816::"Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
17770816::Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
17800816::British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
17940816::Hungarian revolutionary Ign c Martinovics arrested in Vienna
17970816::Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
18120816::Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
18190816::Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
18290816::Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
18340816::Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
18460816::Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe P‚lissier in Paris
18580816::Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
18610816::Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
18610816::Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
18630816::Chickamauga campaign GA
18630816::Emancipation Proclamation signed
18640816::4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
18640816::Battle of Front Royal VA (Guard Hill)
18640816::Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
18700816::Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
18760816::Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
18820816::British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
18900816::Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
18940816::Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
18960816::Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
18980816::Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
19030816::Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
19040816::NYC begins building Grand Central Station
19050816::Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
19060816::-17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
19070816::Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
19140816::German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
19140816::Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
19150816::KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
19180816::US troops overthrows Archangelsk
19200816::Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
19220816::AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
19240816::38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
19240816::Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
19240816::Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
19270816::1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
19340816::US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
19340816::US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
19360816::11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
19400816::45 German aircrafts shot down over England
19420816::Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
19430816::1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
19430816::Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
19440816::2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
19440816::Chartres freed
19440816::Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
19440816::US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
19460816::Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
19470816::Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
19480816::Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
19480816::Israeli pound becomes legal tender
19500816::West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
19530816::KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
19530816::Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
19540816::"Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
19540816::200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
19550816::Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
19560816::Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
19560816::Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
19590816::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
19590816::USSR introduces installment buying
19600816::Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
19600816::Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
19600816::Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
19610816::250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
19610816::Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
19620816::Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
19630816::Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
19640816::Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
19640816::St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
19650816::AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
19670816::Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
19670816::WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19690816::WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
19690816::Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
19700816::52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
19700816::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
19720816::54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
19720816::Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
19720816::Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
19720816::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19740816::Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
19750816::"Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs
19750816::Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
19760816::58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
19760816::St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
19770816::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19770816::Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
19800816::Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
19800816::Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
19800816::Jools Holland quits Squeeze
19810816::Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
19810816::Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
19810816::Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
19830816::Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
19840816::Andrea Doria's safe opened
19840816::LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
19840816::Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
19840816::NASA launches Ampte
19850816::Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
19860816::Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
19860816::"Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
19860816::Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
19870816::Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
19870816::NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
19870816::Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
19870816::Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
19880816::Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
19880816::IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
19880816::Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
19880816::Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
19890816::Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
19900816::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19900816::Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
19910816::Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
19910816::Pres Bush declares recession is near an end
19920816::20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur
19920816::74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
19920816::Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
19940816::Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
19940816::Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
19970816::For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
19980816::80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA
19980816::Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
06820817::St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
11800817::Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira
14980817::Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows & office to marry a French princess
15440817::Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France
15630817::King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
15770817::Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
15790817::Fran‡ois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I
15850817::Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
15900817::John White returns to Roanoke, VA & found no trace of colonist's he had left there 3 yrs earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
16480817::-20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
17170817::France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement
17430817::Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty
17870817::Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
17880817::Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
17950817::Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Cura‡ao
17960817::English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
18070817::Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
18080817::Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
18270817::Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
18330817::Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
18340817::Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
18350817::Solymon Merrick patents wrench
18360817::British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
18360817::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time
18460817::US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
18580817::1st bank in Hawaii opens
18590817::1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
18620817::Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
18630817::Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
18630817::Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
18660817::Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
18690817::1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
18700817::1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
18700817::Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
18760817::Opera "G”tterd„mmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
18770817::Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
18770817::Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)
18790817::Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
18910817::1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
18910817::Electric self-starter for automobile patented
18920817::Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
18940817::Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
18960817::George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
18970817::W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
19030817::Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
19040817::Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
19050817::Dutch govt of De Master begins
19070817::Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
19080817::B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in NYC
19080817::Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
19140817::French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chƒteau Salins
19140817::Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
19150817::German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
19150817::Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
19150817::Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
19160817::Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
19170817::Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
19180817::British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
19180817::Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
19180817::Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
19200817::In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
19240817::French-German trade agreement signed
19260817::Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
19330817::Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
19330817::Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
19380817::1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
19380817::Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
19390817::"Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
19400817::FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
19400817::Greece mobilizes
19400817::Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
19410817::German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
19420817::1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
19420817::1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
19420817::Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet
19420817::Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19420817::US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
19430817::498 British bombers attack Peenemnde
19430817::Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
19430817::US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
19440817::4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
19440817::Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
19440817::German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
19440817::Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
19440817::US 12 Army corp occupies Orl‚ans
19440817::US 320th regiment infantry occupies Chƒteaudun
19440817::Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
19450817::Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
19450817::Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
19460817::Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
19480817::Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
19480817::Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
19480817::Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
19500817::Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
19500817::Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
19510817::18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
19510817::Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
19520817::"Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
19520817::Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19550817::Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
19560817::Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
19570817::Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
19580817::Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
19580817::World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
19590817::7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
19590817::USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
19600817::Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
19600817::Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
19600817::Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
19610817::Building of Berlin Wall begins
19610817::Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
19620817::Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
19620817::E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
19630817::Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
19630817::Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
19640817::Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval
19660817::Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
19660817::Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
19680817::Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
19690817::-18] Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss & Louisiana
19690817::51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio
19690817::Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
19690817::NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
19700817::Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
19720817::Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
19730817::Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
19730817::Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
19750817::Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
19760817::An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
19760817::Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
19770817::Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
19770817::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19770817::Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)
19780817::1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
19790817::2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
19790817::Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
19800817::"Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
19800817::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
19800817::George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
19820817::LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
19820817::South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
19830817::-19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
19840817::Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
19850817::1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
19850817::Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
19850817::Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
19850817::Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
19860817::Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
19860817::Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
19860817::Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
19860817::Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
19860817::Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
19870817::Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
19870817::Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
19870817::Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
19880817::Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
19880817::LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
19880817::NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
19880817::Republicans nominate George Bush for president
19880817::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19890817::32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12«-11«
19890817::Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
19900817::"Exorcist 3" premieres
19900817::Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
19900817::Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
19910817::Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
19920817::Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
19940817::Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
19940817::NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
19950817::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19960817::Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
19970817::79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC
19970817::First of America Senior Golf Classic
19970817::Macy's Tap-o-mania
19970817::Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
04100818::King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies & plunders Rome
12890818::Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem"
15640818::Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
15720818::King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois
15910818::Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from England & found everyone in the colony had disappeared [or Aug 17, 1590]
16050818::Spanish army under of general Sp¡nola conquerors Lingen
16740818::Jean Racine's "Iphig‚nie," premieres in Versailles
16860818::Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
16980818::Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
17000818::Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
17350818::Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
17590818::-19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
17690818::Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
17950818::Cura‡ao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves
18170818::Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
18340818::Mt Vesuvius erupts
18350818::Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
18380818::1st US marine expedition
18400818::Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
18460818::Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
18580818::Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
18620818::General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
18620818::Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
18640818::6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
18640818::Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
18680818::Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
18700818::Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
18720818::1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
18730818::1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')
18860818::Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Assn doubles
18910818::Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
18940818::Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
18960818::Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
19140818::-20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
19140818::French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
19140818::Pres Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
19150818::Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
19170818::Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
19190818::Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
19200818::1st class debut of Walter Hammond
19200818::Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
19230818::37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
19240818::France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
19250818::Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
19250818::Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
19260818::England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
19260818::Weather map televised for 1st time
19300818::Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
19310818::Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
19320818::Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
19320818::Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
19340818::48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64)
19340818::Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six
19340818::Ponsford & Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes v Eng
19360818::106.5øF-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
19370818::1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
19380818::FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
19400818::71 German aircrafts shot down above England
19410818::Concentration camp Amersfoort opens
19410818::Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
19420818::Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
19430818::Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants
19430818::Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
19430818::Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
19440818::Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
19440818::US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
19440818::US 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
19450818::Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
19460818::Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
19470818::Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
19490818::Hungary adopts constitution
19490818::Ralph Flanagan & his orch records "You're Breaking My Heart"
19510818::Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
19540818::James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
19550818::-19] Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
19550818::46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
19550818::Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
19560818::Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
19560818::Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
19570818::Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4«")
19570818::Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
19570818::Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
19570818::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19580818::"Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
19580818::Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
19580818::Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
19580818::Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
19580818::Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
19580818::Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
19580818::TV game show scandal investigation starts
19580818::US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
19580818::Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
19590818::Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League
19600818::1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
19600818::1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
19600818::Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
19600818::Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
19610818::Construction on Berlin Wall completed
19620818::Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
19630818::James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
19630818::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
19640818::Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
19640818::Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
19640818::South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
19640818::USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
19650818::Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
19650818::Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
19670818::Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
19670818::Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
19670818::WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
19680818::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
19690818::Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
19720818::Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney œ800 in Sweden cannabis possession
19730818::Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
19730818::Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
19740818::Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open
19760818::USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
19770818::2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
19770818::Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
19780818::Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters
19790818::Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
19790818::Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
19790818::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19800818::KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
19810818::"My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
19810818::Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
19810818::Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
19820818::1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
19820818::LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
19820818::NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
19820818::Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
19820818::Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
19830818::Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
19830818::Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
19830818::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19830818::Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
19840818::Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
19850818::Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
19850818::Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
19850818::Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
19860818::Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
19860818::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
19860818::Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
19860818::John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
19860818::WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
19870818::Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
19870818::Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
19870818::Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel  his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
19870818::Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke M”hring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
19880818::FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
19880818::Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
19880818::Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
19890818::Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
19890818::Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
19910818::Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
19910818::Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
19910818::Pan Am games closes in Havana
19920818::"Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
19930818::Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
19940818::5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
19940818::Jimi Hendrix's guitar sells for Ÿ150.000
19950818::Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
19960818::Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
19960818::Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
04400819::St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
10710819::Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
10990819::Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
12630819::King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing
13990819::King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
14580819::Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
14770819::Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of
14770819::Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
14930819::Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
15240819::Emperor Charles V's troops besieges Marseille
15610819::Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France
15870819::Sigismund III becomes king of Poland
15910819::French king Henri IV occupies Rouen
16270819::Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
16910819::Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
16920819::5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass
16980819::Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
17020819::-24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
17570819::Battle at Gross J„gerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30]
17720819::Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish govt & restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
17870819::W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
17910819::Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
17960819::Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
18120819::US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
18160819::Java again in Dutch hands
18210819::Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
18260819::Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
18360819::HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
18390819::Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
18490819::NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
18610819::Confederacy Congress allies with govt of MI
18640819::2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
18880819::1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
18910819::William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
18970819::1st electric taxi's drive in London
19000819::Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
19030819::Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
19050819::Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
19090819::Indianapolis 500 race track opens
19110819::NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
19120819::Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres
19130819::Frenchman P‚goud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
19140819::Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC
19140819::German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
19140819::German fleet bombs English coast
19140819::Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
19150819::Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
19170819::Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
19180819::Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC
19190819::Afghanistan declares independence from UK
19210819::Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
19220819::36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
19310819::Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
19320819::46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
19330819::47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
19340819::48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
19340819::Hitler elected Fhrer (95.7% of German voters)
19340819::Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
19360819::Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
19390819::37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
19410819::Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
19420819::-20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
19420819::1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
19420819::4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
19420819::Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
19430819::Belgian church excommunicates nazi L‚on Degrelle
19430819::US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
19440819::Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
19440819::Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
19440819::Last Japanese troops driven out of India
19440819::Nazi's give parts of Paris to R‚sistance
19440819::Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
19440819::Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
19440819::US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
19440819::US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
19450819::Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins
19470819::J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
19500819::ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
19510819::Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
19530819::England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
19540819::Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
19550819::32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
19550819::Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
19550819::US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
19550819::WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
19560819::Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
19570819::NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
19570819::US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
19580819::NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
19590819::Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
19590819::Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
19590819::Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
19600819::Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
19600819::Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
19610819::US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
19620819::Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
19620819::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
19630819::NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
19640819::Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
19650819::Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
19650819::Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
19660819::Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
19670819::Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
19690819::Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
19730819::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19730819::Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
19730819::Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
19730819::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open
19750819::Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
19760819::Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
19770819::USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
19780819::422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
19790819::"My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
19790819::Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
19790819::Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
19790819::Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
19800819::George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
19800819::Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
19800819::Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
19810819::2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
19820819::Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
19820819::Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
19830819::LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
19830819::Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
19840819::66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
19840819::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
19840819::Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres
19840819::Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
19850819::Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
19860819::Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
19880819::Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
19880819::Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma
19880819::NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
19890819::Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
19900819::Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
19900819::Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
19900819::NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
19910819::-20] Hurricane Bob hits US
19910819::Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
19910819::Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
19920819::Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
19920819::Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
19930819::34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
19930819::Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
19930819::Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
19930819::George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
19930819::Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
19930819::Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
19950819::After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
19950819::Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
19950819::Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
19970819::NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim
19970819::STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
00020820::Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
05730820::Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
06360820::Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines [or August 15]
09170820::Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
11910820::Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
15340820::Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
15660820::Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
15850820::English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
15970820::1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
16040820::Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
16190820::1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
16410820::Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
16480820::Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
17410820::Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
17450820::Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
17810820::George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
17910820::Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
17940820::Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
17950820::Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
18520820::Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
18560820::Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
18610820::Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
18640820::8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
18650820::Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
18660820::Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
18790820::Govt Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
18820820::Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
18880820::Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
18930820::Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
18950820::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
18960820::Dial telephone patented
19000820::Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
19010820::Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
19080820::Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
19100820::US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
19120820::Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
19120820::Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
19130820::1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P‚goud-France)
19130820::Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
19140820::-21] German General von Blow executes 211 Belgians
19140820::-24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons
19140820::Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
19140820::Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
19140820::Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
19140820::German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
19150820::Italy declares war on Turkey
19150820::White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
19180820::Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
19190820::Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
19200820::1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
19200820::Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
19200820::Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
19200820::Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
19200820::Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
19210820::35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
19220820::1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
19230820::London harbor strike ends
19250820::WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
19260820::Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
19290820::1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
19300820::Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
19300820::Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
19310820::45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
19340820::Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
19350820::Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
19380820::Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
19390820::1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
19390820::Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia
19400820::1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
19400820::Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
19400820::British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
19410820::Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
19420820::Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
19440820::"Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
19440820::26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash
19440820::Gen de Gaulle returns to France
19440820::Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
19440820::US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
19450820::Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
19450820::Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
19450820::Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
19450820::Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
19470820::Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
19470820::Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
19480820::15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
19480820::US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
19490820::78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
19490820::Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
19520820::Stalin meets Chou Enlai
19530820::General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
19530820::Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
19550820::1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
19550820::Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
19560820::Republicans convene at Cow Palace
19570820::"Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
19570820::Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
19570820::USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
19570820::White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
19580820::Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
19580820::Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
19580820::Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
19590820::Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
19600820::Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
19600820::USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
19610820::Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
19610820::East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
19620820::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19640820::LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
19640820::President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
19640820::Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
19640820::Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
19650820::Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
19650820::Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
19660820::Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
19670820::Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
19670820::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
19680820::650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
19680820::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19690820::69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
19700820::-21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
19710820::FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
19720820::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
19720820::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19740820::Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
19740820::Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
19740820::Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
19740820::Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
19750820::Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
19750820::Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
19770820::NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
19780820::Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
19780820::Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
19780820::Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
19780820::Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
19790820::India premier Charan Singh resigns
19790820::Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
19800820::Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
19800820::NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
19800820::Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
19800820::Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
19800820::Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
19800820::UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
19820820::Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
19820820::US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
19830820::Miss National Teen-Ager
19850820::1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
19850820::Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
19850820::Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
19850820::Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
19850820::Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
19860820::Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
19860820::Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
19880820::6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
19880820::Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
19890820::Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
19890820::Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
19890820::Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
19890820::Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
19900820::Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
19900820::George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
19900820::Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
19900820::NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
19910820::After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
19910820::Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
19910820::Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL  player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
19910820::Estonia declares it's independence from USSR itself independent
19920820::England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
19920820::Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
19930820::Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
19930820::Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
19930820::Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
19940820::109.8øF (43.2øC) in Cordoba Spain
19940820::Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
19940820::Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
19950820::"Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
19950820::Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
19950820::Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
19960820::India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
19970820::Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
09590821::Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
13210821::160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
15600821::Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
15980821::-22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence
16730821::Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
16800821::Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa F‚ from Spanish
17030821::Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
17180821::Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
18310821::Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
18410821::John Hampton patents venetian blind
18580821::1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
18630821::Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
18640821::BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31]
18640821::Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
18640821::Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
18640821::Battle of Summit Point, VA
18640821::Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
18780821::American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
18780821::Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
18830821::Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
18870821::Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
18880821::William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
18910821::Dutch Mackay govt resigns
18970821::Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
19010821::21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
19010821::Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
19120821::Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
19140821::20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
19140821::Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
19140821::French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre
19200821::3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
19220821::Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
19250821::BV Emmen soccer team forms
19260821::-22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos
19260821::White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
19270821::4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
19290821::Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
19300821::Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
19310821::Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
19320821::Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
19330821::Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
19360821::Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
19380821::Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
19420821::Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
19420821::Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19430821::Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
19430821::Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
19440821::Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
19440821::Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
19440821::Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secr‚tan/St-Mand‚
19440821::US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
19450821::Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
19470821::1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
19480821::Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
19490821::Phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners
19530821::Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
19530821::Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
19530821::Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
19560821::WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
19570821::1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
19580821::KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
19590821::Hawaii becomes 50th US state
19610821::Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
19620821::Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
19630821::Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
19630821::Martial law declared in S Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
19650821::Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
19650821::Romania adopts constitution
19650821::The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
19660821::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
19670821::China reports downing of 2 US bombers
19670821::Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
19670821::Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed
19670821::Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
19680821::After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
19680821::Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
19680821::Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
19680821::Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
19680821::Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
19680821::William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
19690821::Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
19720821::1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
19720821::British harbor strike ends
19720821::Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
19720821::Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
19720821::US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
19750821::3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
19750821::Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
19750821::US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
19760821::Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
19760821::Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
19770821::Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
19770821::Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
19780821::1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs US Air Force
19790821::Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
19800821::Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway
19820821::Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
19820821::Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
19830821::"La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances
19830821::110øF (43øC) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
19830821::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
19850821::Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
19850821::NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
19860821::"Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
19860821::Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)
19860821::Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
19860821::Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians
19860821::Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 govt officials
19860821::Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000
19860821::With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
19870821::"Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
19870821::Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
19870821::Silke H”rneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
19880821::Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
19880821::Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
19880821::Yordanka Donkova runs world record 100 m hurdles (12.21)
19890821::Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
19910821::Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
19910821::Latvia declares it's independence from USSR
19930821::Lyricist Bernie Taupin weds Strephanie Haymes
19930821::NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
19940821::-23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
19940821::Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
19940821::Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge
19940821::Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
19950821::US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
19960821::"Hughie," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
19960821::Christie Lee Woods, 18, of Texas, crowned 14th Miss Teen USA
19960821::Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
19970821::Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
19970821::US govt forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
20170821::Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
05650822::St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
11380822::English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
14540822::Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
14850822::Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
15430822::Emperor Charles V's army occupies Dren
15590822::Spanish archbishop Bartholom‚ de Carranza arrested as heretic
15720822::Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
15820822::King James IV of Scotland captured
16030822::1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
16140822::Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
16320822::Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
16420822::Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
16540822::1st Jewish immigrant to US, Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
17070822::Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
17070822::Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty
17150822::H„ndels "Watermusic" premieres on Thames
17170822::Spanish troops lands on Sardinia
17620822::1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
17750822::King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
17800822::Resolution, without Capt Cook, returns to England
17870822::John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
17880822::Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
17910822::Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
18180822::Grand duchy of Bathe forms
18260822::Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
18460822::US annexes New Mexico
18510822::Gold fields discovered in Australia
18510822::Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
18620822::Battle of Catlett's Station VA
18620822::Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
18640822::Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
18640822::International Red Cross forms
18670822::Fisk University forms, 1867
18770822::Nez Perc‚-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
19000822::Gabriel Faur‚s opera "Prom‚th‚e," premieres in Beziers
19010822::Cadillac Co forms
19020822::Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
19060822::1st Victor Victrola manufactured
19070822::Colin Buchanan, town planner
19070822::Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
19080822::Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, photographer (Decisive Moment)
19100822::Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
19110822::Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
19110822::Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
19120822::England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
19120822::Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
19130822::Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
19140822::-23] Battle at Charleroi: Gen von Blows troops beat French
19140822::1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
19140822::Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton
19140822::Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
19140822::General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia
19140822::German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
19140822::Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
19170822::Pitts Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
19210822::J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
19230822::Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
19260822::Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
19260822::Greek dictator Gen P ngulos driven out
19270822::Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
19300822::Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
19320822::BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
19330822::Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season
19330822::International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
19340822::Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes
19340822::Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
19390822::Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
19390822::Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
19410822::Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
19420822::Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
19430822::Soviet troops free Karkov
19440822::Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]
19440822::Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
19450822::Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
19450822::England defeat Aust Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket
19450822::No‰l Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London
19450822::Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
19460822::Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
19460822::Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
19470822::14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
19500822::Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
19500822::Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in natl tennis competition
19500822::Rotterdam harbor strike end
19510822::Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
19530822::France closes jail on Devil Island
19530822::John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
19530822::Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
19540822::WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
19560822::Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)
19560822::Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
19570822::Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
19580822::Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
19580822::Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
19590822::Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
19600822::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
19600822::Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
19610822::Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
19620822::Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
19620822::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19620822::Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
19630822::NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
19640822::Guin‚e, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
19640822::Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
19650822::Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
19650822::LA Dodger pitcher Juan Marachal hits SF Giant catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
19660822::Beatles arrive in NYC
19680822::1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
19680822::Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
19680822::Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota
19690822::Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"
19690822::Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
19690822::Hurricane Camille strikes US Gulf Coast kills 255
19710822::Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
19710822::Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
19720822::International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
19730822::Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
19730822::Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
19750822::Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
19750822::McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
19760822::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
19780822::Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
19790822::200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
19800822::Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
19820822::Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
19820822::Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace
19820822::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
19840822::Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
19840822::Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
19840822::Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
19840822::Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
19840822::South African election for parliament boycvotted
19850822::30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
19850822::Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
19860822::Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
19860822::NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
19870822::Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
19880822::Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
19880822::NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
19880822::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19890822::1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
19890822::Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
19900822::Pres Bush calls up military reserves
19910822::Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
19920822::Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
19930822::"In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs
19930822::Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
19940822::DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
19940822::Wim Cook govt forms in Neth
19950822::FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
04060823::Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
04760823::Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
10460823::King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
13280823::Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
13280823::King Philip VI of France, crowned
14410823::Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
15420823::Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
15530823::Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
15660823::Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
15660823::Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
15820823::French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
16140823::University of Groningen opens
16170823::1st one-way streets open (London)
17110823::Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
17840823::Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
17960823::African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
18130823::Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
18210823::Mexico declares independence
18330823::Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
18380823::Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
18390823::British capture Hong Kong from China
18500823::1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
18620823::Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
18640823::Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
18660823::Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
18690823::1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
18720823::1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
18730823::Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
18790823::Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
18830823::Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
18890823::1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
18980823::18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
19000823::National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
19030823::6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
19040823::Automobile tire chain patented
19060823::Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
19060823::Cuba's 1st president Tom s Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
19070823::Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
19100823::Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
19110823::British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
19140823::-24] German troops plunder Belgium
19140823::Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
19140823::Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
19140823::Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
19150823::Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
19160823::Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
19170823::Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
19190823::"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
19200823::M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
19240823::Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
19260823::40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
19290823::Arabs attack Jews in Israel
19300823::44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
19310823::45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
19310823::Count Gyula K rolyi becomes premier of Hungary
19310823::Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
19330823::1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
19360823::17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
19380823::England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
19390823::John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
19390823::Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin
19390823::USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
19390823::Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
19400823::German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
19400823::Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
19420823::1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
19420823::Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
19420823::British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
19420823::Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
19430823::Red army recaptures Charkow
19440823::94.5øF (34.7øC) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5øF (38.6øC) in Warnsvelt
19440823::Allied troops capture Marseilles France
19440823::General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
19440823::General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
19440823::King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
19440823::Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
19440823::Sammellager Drancy freed
19440823::US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
19440823::US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
19460823::13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
19470823::Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
19480823::Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
19480823::World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
19500823::Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
19500823::West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
19520823::Arab League security pact goes into effect
19520823::Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing
19530823::Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
19530823::Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
19530823::Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
19530823::KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
19530823::Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3«")
19530823::USSR performs nuclear test
19540823::President Get£lio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
19550823::Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
19570823::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19580823::China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
19580823::Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
19590823::Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
19600823::World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
19610823::Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
19610823::East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
19610823::US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
19620823::1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
19620823::John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
19630823::Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
19630823::Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
19630823::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19640823::Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
19640823::St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
19660823::Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
19680823::Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
19680823::Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
19690823::Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
19690823::France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
19700823::Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
19700823::Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
19710823::WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
19720823::Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
19720823::Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
19730823::Intelsat communications satellite launched
19740823::John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
19740823::Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
19750823::Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
19750823::Communists take over Laos
19750823::Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
19750823::Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
19750823::Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
19750823::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19760823::Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
19770823::1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
19770823::Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
19770823::Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs « game in 1st place to stay
19780823::Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
19790823::Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
19790823::Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
19790823::UN's Vienna office opens
19800823::Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
19810823::Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
19820823::Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
19820823::Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
19820823::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19850823::Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
19850823::South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
19850823::West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
19850823::Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
19860823::"Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
19860823::Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
19870823::15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
19870823::Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
19870823::Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
19880823::Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
19890823::LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
19890823::Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
19900823::Armenia declares independence
19900823::East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
19900823::US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
19920823::Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
19920823::Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
19930823::NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
19930823::Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
19950823::Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
19950823::Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
19980823::Minnesota LPGA Classic
00790824::Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
04100824::Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
12150824::Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
12170824::Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
13490824::6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
13490824::Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
13910824::Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
15110824::Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
15160824::Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
15420824::Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
15610824::Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
15720824::King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
16080824::1st English convoy lands at Surat India
16540824::Louis II Cond‚ disbands ends of Atrecht
16580824::Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
16620824::Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
16820824::Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
16900824::Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
17040824::Sea battle at Malaga
17510824::Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
17870824::Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
18140824::British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
18260824::Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
18280824::Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
18310824::John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
18330824::HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
18470824::Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
18530824::1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY)
18540824::National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
18580824::Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
18690824::Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
18760824::Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
18910824::Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
18930824::Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die
19040824::24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
19040824::Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
19050824::Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
19060824::Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
19080824::Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
19080824::NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG
19090824::Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
19110824::Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
19120824::NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
19120824::Territory of Alaska organizes
19120824::US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition govt
19140824::Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
19140824::German troops occupy Namur Belgium
19140824::Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
19180824::Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
19180824::Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
19190824::Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
19210824::Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
19210824::British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
19220824::1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
19230824::Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
19250824::39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
19290824::43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
19290824::Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
19290824::Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
19310824::France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
19320824::1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
19360824::Australian Antarctic Territory created
19360824::FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
19370824::Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
19380824::England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
19380824::Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
19390824::Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
19400824::Luftwaffe bombs London
19400824::Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run
19420824::Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
19420824::Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19430824::Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
19440824::Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
19450824::Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12
19490824::North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
19500824::1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
19500824::Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
19500824::Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
19510824::Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on
19540824::Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
19540824::Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
19540824::International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
19540824::William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
19560824::1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
19570824::British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
19580824::Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19580824::Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
19590824::England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
19590824::Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
19600824::-127øF (-88øC), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
19600824::60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
19610824::Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
19610824::Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
19620824::Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
19620824::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630824::1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
19630824::John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
19640824::2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
19660824::USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
19670824::Liberian flag designed
19680824::France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
19690824::Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
19690824::Peru nationalizes US oil interests
19700824::Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
19710824::India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
19720824::8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
19720824::Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia
19720824::Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
19730824::Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's
19730824::John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
19740824::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
19750824::Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
19750824::Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
19750824::Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
19750824::SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
19750824::Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
19760824::Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
19780824::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19790824::Cars play concert in NY Central Park
19790824::NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
19790824::UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
19800824::Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
19800824::Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
19810824::American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
19810824::Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
19820824::KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
19830824::Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
19840824::Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
19850824::STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
19860824::Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
19870824::Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
19890824::British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
19890824::Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
19890824::Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
19900824::3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
19900824::Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
19910824::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
19910824::Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
19910824::Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
19910824::Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
19910824::Ukraine declares independence from USSR
19920824::1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
19920824::Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
19920824::Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
19920824::Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
19930824::Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
19930824::Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
19940824::Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
19940824::Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
19940824::Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
19950824::Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
19950824::Windows 95 debuts
19970824::97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
19970824::Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
19970824::Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
19970824::Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
19970824::Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
19970824::Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
03250825::Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
03570825::Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught
12120825::Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
13300825::AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
14250825::Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
14850825::Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
14990825::Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
15400825::Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
15660825::Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
15800825::Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
16090825::Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
16280825::Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia
16890825::Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French
16890825::Montr‚al taken by Iroquois
16980825::Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
17040825::Battle at M laga: French vs English & Dutch fleet
17180825::Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
17580825::Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed
17680825::Capt James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean
17950825::Cura‡ao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
18020825::Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
18040825::Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
18140825::British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
18250825::Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
18290825::Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican govt refuses
18300825::Belgium revolts against Netherlands
18350825::NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
18620825::Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
18640825::Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
18640825::Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
18750825::Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
18860825::1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
18880825::8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
18900825::Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
18940825::-26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
19040825::James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
19080825::Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
19080825::National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
19100825::30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
19120825::1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
19120825::Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
19140825::-26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp
19140825::Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
19140825::German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
19140825::German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
19150825::Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
19160825::Dept of Interior forms National Park Service
19170825::37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
19190825::1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
19200825::1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
19210825::US signs peace treaty with Germany
19210825::Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
19220825::Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
19240825::International maritime treaty drawn
19240825::Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
19250825::Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
19250825::Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
19260825::Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
19280825::Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
19290825::Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
19320825::Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
19360825::3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
19370825::Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
19400825::1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
19400825::1st parachute wedding
19400825::Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
19410825::English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
19410825::German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
19420825::SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
19430825::10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
19430825::German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
19430825::Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
19430825::Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
19430825::US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
19440825::France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
19440825::Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elys‚es Paris
19440825::Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
19440825::US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
19450825::Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
19460825::28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore
19470825::Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
19480825::Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
19500825::Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
19500825::Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
19510825::Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
19520825::Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
19520825::Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
19540825::Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
19550825::Last Soviet forces leave Austria
19560825::To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
19570825::Prince Suvanna Phuma forms govt in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
19600825::17th summer olympics opens in Rome
19600825::AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
19600825::Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
19610825::Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
19620825::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19620825::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19630825::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
19630825::Paul McCartney is fined œ31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding
19640825::Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression
19670825::Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
19670825::Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
19670825::Paraguay accepts its constitution
19670825::Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
19680825::Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
19680825::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
19680825::NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered
19690825::Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montr‚al (NFL expo)
19700825::Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
19730825::Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
19730825::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19730825::Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
19730825::Zambia adopts constitution
19740825::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19740825::LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
19760825::Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
19760825::Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
19780825::Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
19790825::"Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs
19790825::California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
19790825::Somali adopts constitution
19800825::"42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
19800825::Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
19800825::Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
19810825::Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
19810825::Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
19810825::Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
19830825::Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
19830825::US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
19840825::French airship capsizes
19840825::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19850825::Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
19850825::Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
19850825::STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
19860825::A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league HR
19870825::Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
19870825::Madonna sings in Rotterdam
19880825::Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
19880825::Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
19880825::Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
19880825::NASA launches space vehicle S-214
19890825::After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
19900825::Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8«")
19900825::UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
19910825::"Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs
19910825::43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig
19910825::91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
19910825::Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
19910825::Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
19910825::Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
19910825::Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament
19910825::Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps
19910825::Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
19910825::White-Russia declares it's independence
19920825::Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
19950825::Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6
19950825::Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
19960825::96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
19960825::Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
05800826::Chinese invents toilet paper
12780826::Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
13460826::Battle at Cr‚cy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle
15410826::Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
15450826::Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
15490826::Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
16290826::Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
16340826::Battle at N”rdlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
16410826::West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
16480826::People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
16520826::Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
17450826::England, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
17910826::John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
17940826::French troops occupy Lock
18430826::Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
18460826::Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
18460826::W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
18630826::Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
18730826::1st kindergarten public school opens in St Louis
18740826::16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
18830826::-27] Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
18940826::Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
18950826::Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
18960826::Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
19030826::Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
19070826::Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
19090826::Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs
19090826::Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
19120826::32nd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
19120826::Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
19130826::33rd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
19140826::-9/10] Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia
19140826::Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
19150826::German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
19160826::Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
19160826::Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
19180826::W Smith & F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in NYC
19200826::19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
19200826::Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
19220826::Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
19290826::1st US roller coaster built
19300826::Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
19330826::Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
19350826::CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
19370826::Franco's troops conquer Santander
19370826::Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
19380826::British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
19380826::Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
19390826::1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
19390826::Belgium mobilizes
19390826::Kroatia gets autonomous status
19400826::RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
19420826::7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
19420826::Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
19420826::Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
19420826::Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19440826::Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
19440826::De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elys‚es
19440826::US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
19450826::Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
19460826::George Orwell published "Animal Farm"
19470826::1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
19500826::39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
19510826::Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
19520826::Fluoridation of SF water begins
19550826::1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
19560826::KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
19560826::Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
19560826::Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
19570826::USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
19610826::Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
19620826::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
19620826::Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
19630826::W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
19640826::Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman
19640826::LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
19660826::Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
19660826::KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
19670826::Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
19670826::Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
19670826::Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
19710826::Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
19710826::NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
19710826::Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
19720826::20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
19720826::Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
19720826::NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
19720826::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19730826::David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
19730826::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
19730826::U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
19730826::10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
19740826::Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
19740826::Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
19770826::Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
19780826::Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
19780826::Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
19790826::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
19800826::Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
19810826::Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
19810826::Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
19820826::NASA launches Telesat-F
19840826::Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
19840826::Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
19840826::Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
19850826::Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs Calif Angels
19850826::French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
19860826::Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
19870826::Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
19890826::Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
19900826::2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
19900826::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
19900826::Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
19910826::Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
19920826::"Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
19950826::Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan
19950826::Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
12320827::Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation
15490827::Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
15690827::Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane
15850827::Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
16010827::Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
16100827::Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
16190827::Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
16260827::Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
16280827::Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
16340827::Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
16650827::"Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
16670827::Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
17760827::British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
17830827::1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
17880827::Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
17890827::French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
17980827::Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
17990827::English invasion army lands in North-Holland
18130827::Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
18160827::Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
18280827::Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
18320827::Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
18590827::1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
18610827::Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
18620827::Battle of Cub Run, VA
18810827::Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
18830827::Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
18920827::NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
18940827::Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
18950827::15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
18960827::England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
18970827::Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
19000827::Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
19030827::23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
19080827::Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
19090827::Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
19100827::Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
19100827::Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
19110827::Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
19120827::Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
19130827::Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
19140827::2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
19140827::US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
19160827::Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
19170827::Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
19180827::Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
19180827::Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
19210827::J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
19220827::Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
19270827::Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
19280827::16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
19280827::42nd US Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
19280827::Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
19320827::200,000 English textile workers strike
19320827::Intl anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
19330827::Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
19340827::Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
19370827::Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
19370827::George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
19380827::Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
19390827::Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
19390827::Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
19390827::Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
19390827::Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
19400827::Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
19410827::Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
19420827::Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
19440827::200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
19450827::US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
19480827::102øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
19500827::1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
19500827::General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
19520827::Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
19550827::"Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
19550827::Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
19560827::Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
19570827::Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
19570827::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19580827::Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
19580827::US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
19580827::USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
19600827::Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
19600827::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
19610827::Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
19610827::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
19620827::Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
19620827::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19650827::Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
19650827::Bob Dylan booed off stage in NY's Forest Hills
19650827::WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
19660827::Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
19660827::Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
19660827::Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
19660827::Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
19670827::Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
19670827::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
19690827::Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
19690827::Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
19720827::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
19720827::US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
19740827::NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
19750827::1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
19750827::Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
19760827::Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
19770827::"Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
19770827::Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
19770827::Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
19780827::Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
19780827::Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
19780827::Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
19780827::Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
19790827::18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
19800827::Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
19810827::Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
19810827::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19820827::Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
19820827::Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
19830827::Haiti adopts constitution
19830827::US performs nuclear test
19840827::President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
19840827::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19850827::20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
19850827::Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
19860827::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
19880827::Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Phila, 4-2
19890827::100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
19890827::89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
19890827::Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
19890827::Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
19900827::52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
19900827::Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
19900827::Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
19900827::WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
19910827::Moldavia declares independence from USSR
19920827::CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
19920827::Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
19930827::Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
19940827::"Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
19950827::"Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances
19950827::23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
19950827::95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
19950827::Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
04760828::German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
04760828::West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
15210828::Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
15650828::Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
16090828::Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
16190828::Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
16320828::Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
16370828::WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
16550828::New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
17890828::Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
18300828::1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Balt to Ellicotts Mill
18370828::Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
18400828::9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
18490828::Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
18500828::Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
18610828::Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
18620828::Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
18620828::Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000
18620828::Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
18670828::US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
18790828::Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz
18830828::Slavery banned throughout British Empire
18840828::1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
18840828::Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
19070828::United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
19080828::14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
19110828::45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
19130828::Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)
19140828::3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
19140828::Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
19140828::John French evacuate Amiens
19160828::Germany declares war on Romania
19160828::Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
19170828::10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
19180828::Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
19190828::General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
19200828::19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
19210828::2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
19210828::Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
19220828::1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
19220828::Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC
19220828::WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
19250828::Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
19260828::Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
19290828::Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
19380828::Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
19380828::Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
19380828::On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
19390828::"Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
19390828::Netherland mobilizes
19390828::Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
19400828::French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
19410828::8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
19410828::Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
19420828::9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
19420828::Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
19420828::Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19430828::Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
19430828::Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
19440828::Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
19440828::US air raid on Ambon
19490828::38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
19490828::Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
19500828::Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
19510828::Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
19510828::Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
19520828::German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
19520828::Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
19530828::"Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
19550828::1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
19550828::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
19560828::England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
19570828::Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
19580828::Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
19600828::White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
19620828::55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
19620828::Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
19620828::Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
19630828::200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
19630828::Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
19630828::Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
19640828::Race riot in Philadelphia
19640828::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19640828::US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
19640828::WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
19660828::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
19670828::Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng
19670828::Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
19680828::1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
19680828::Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
19700828::Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
19720828::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19730828::"Monster Mash" goes gold
19730828::"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
19730828::6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
19730828::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19730828::India & Pakistan sign POW accord
19730828::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19740828::Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
19760828::NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
19760828::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19770828::Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
19770828::NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
19770828::Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
19770828::NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
19780828::Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
19780828::Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
19790828::IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
19790828::Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
19810828::John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
19810828::Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
19810828::National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
19820828::"Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 perfs
19820828::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19830828::"Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances
19830828::Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
19830828::Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
19830828::Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
19830828::Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
19840828::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19860828::Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
19860828::Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
19860828::Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
19860828::US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
19870828::Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
19880828::40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years & Richard Kiley
19880828::70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
19880828::88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
19880828::Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
19880828::Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
19880828::Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
19890828::1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
19890828::Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0
19900828::Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
19900828::Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
19910828::Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
19910828::Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
19920828::Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
19930828::Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
19930828::Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
19930828::Long Beach Calif beats Panama for little league world championship
19930828::Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
19940828::1st Japanese gay pride parade
19940828::22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
19940828::94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
19950828::Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
19950828::Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 & 157
19960828::Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex
19970828::32nd Ryder Cup: at Sotogrande Spain
19970828::Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
02840829::Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
02840829::Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
11780829::Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
12610829::Jacques Pantal‚on elected as Pope Urban IV
14750829::Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts
14840829::Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
15260829::Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
15330829::Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
15400829::Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
16120829::Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
16400829::English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
16550829::Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw
16640829::Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
17080829::English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia
17080829::Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
17420829::Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
17560829::England & France meet in war
17560829::Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
17580829::New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
17760829::Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
17860829::Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
17920829::English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
17930829::Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
18310829::Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
18420829::Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
18440829::1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
18540829::Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
18620829::2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
18620829::Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
18620829::Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
18620829::US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
18640829::William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
18820829::Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"
18820829::Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 & 7-44)
18830829::Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
18850829::Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
18850829::Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
18850829::Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
18890829::1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
18960829::Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
19040829::3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
19050829::Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
19060829::Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
19060829::William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open
19080829::NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
19090829::AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
19090829::World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
19130829::Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch govt
19140829::4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
19140829::Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
19140829::Battle at St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac
19160829::Congress creates US Naval reserve
19160829::Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
19160829::Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
19160829::US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence
19160829::Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
19240829::German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
19250829::After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him
19290829::German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
19320829::International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
19320829::United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
19350829::2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
19370829::Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
19390829::Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
19400829::7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
19410829::German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
19430829::Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
19440829::15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
19440829::Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
19450829::British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
19450829::Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
19470829::Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
19490829::USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
19500829::Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
19530829::KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19530829::USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
19540829::SF International Airport (SFO) opens
19560829::French govt routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
19570829::Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
19570829::Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
19580829::Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
19580829::George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
19600829::Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
19620829::Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
19620829::US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
19630829::Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
19640829::"Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs
19640829::Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
19640829::On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
19650829::Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
19650829::Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
19660829::Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
19660829::Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
19670829::Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
19670829::Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
19680829::1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains)
19680829::Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
19680829::Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja
19690829::Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
19690829::KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19700829::Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
19720829::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
19740829::USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19750829::Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
19760829::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
19770829::St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
19780829::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19780829::USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
19790829::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19790829::Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
19810829::28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9
19810829::Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
19820829::38øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
19820829::George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
19820829::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19820829::Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1
19850829::Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
19850829::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
19850829::NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
19860829::Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
19860829::Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
19870829::Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
19870829::Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
19880829::Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
19880829::USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
19900829::C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
19900829::Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
19910829::JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney
19910829::USSR suspends Communist Party activities
19920829::Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
19920829::Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time  he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
19920829::Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout & decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
19930829::21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton
19930829::93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
19930829::Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
19930829::Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28)
02570830::St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
11250830::Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
11460830::European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
14640830::Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
14810830::2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
15630830::Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
16450830::Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
16730830::Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
16820830::William Penn left England to sail to New World
17210830::Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
17510830::Georg Friedrich H„ndel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
17570830::Battle at Gross J„gerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
17760830::US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
17810830::French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
17990830::Bataafse fleet surrender to English
18310830::Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
18430830::1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
18500830::Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
18540830::John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
18600830::1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
18620830::2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
18620830::Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
18620830::Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
18620830::Battle of Richmond, KY
18840830::Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
18850830::13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
18880830::Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
18930830::13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
18940830::Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
18950830::Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
19000830::Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
19010830::Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
19040830::Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
19050830::Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
19050830::Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
19060830::Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
19060830::NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
19100830::Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
19120830::St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
19130830::Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
19140830::1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
19140830::Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
19160830::Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
19160830::Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
19180830::Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
19180830::Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
19180830::Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot & wounded after speech
19190830::Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
19220830::Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
19250830::6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
19260830::Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
19270830::41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
19280830::Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
19320830::Hermann G”ring elected chairman (Reichstag)
19330830::Air France forms
19330830::Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
19370830::Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19390830::6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
19390830::General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
19390830::Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
19390830::NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
19390830::Poland mobilizes
19410830::Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
19410830::St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
19420830::Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
19440830::11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
19440830::Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in NYC
19440830::Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
19450830::12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
19450830::Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
19450830::Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
19450830::Hong Kong liberated from Japan
19490830::Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
19490830::WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
19510830::US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
19530830::Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
19540830::Hurricane Carol, kills 68
19560830::USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
19560830::White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
19570830::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19570830::US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
19580830::US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
19600830::Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
19600830::East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
19610830::1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
19610830::J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
19610830::Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
19610830::Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
19610830::USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
19630830::Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow begins
19640830::Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
19650830::Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
19650830::Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
19670830::US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
19680830::1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
19680830::John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG
19690830::120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
19690830::25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
19690830::69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
19690830::Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
19710830::WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
19720830::John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
19730830::Danny Seiwell quits Wings
19740830::Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
19740830::Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
19740830::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19750830::KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
19760830::Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
19760830::Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
19790830::-Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
19790830::1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
19790830::Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
19790830::Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
19790830::Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
19790830::Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
19800830::Polish government recognizes Solidarity
19810830::Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
19820830::PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
19830830::8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
19830830::Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
19830830::WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
19830830::Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
19840830::12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
19840830::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
19840830::Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
19840830::Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
19860830::Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
19860830::Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
19870830::87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
19870830::Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
19870830::Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
19870830::Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
19870830::Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10¬")
19870830::Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
19870830::Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
19880830::France performs nuclear test
19880830::Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
19880830::Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
19880830::Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
19890830::Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
19900830::Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
19910830::Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
19910830::France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«
19910830::Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4«" (8.95m)
19910830::Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
19920830::"2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
19920830::"Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
19920830::92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
19920830::David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
19920830::Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
19930830::150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
19930830::Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
19940830::Gund Arena in Cleve opens
19940830::Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
19950830::Cable News Network joins internet
19950830::Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
19970830::1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
19970830::Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
19980830::State Farm Rail Golf Classic
12300831::Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice
13100831::German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
15350831::Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
17450831::Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
17510831::English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
17720831::Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
17780831::British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
18290831::Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
18360831::HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
18420831::Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine
18420831::US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
18430831::Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
18500831::Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
18640831::Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
18810831::1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)
18860831::1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
18860831::Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
18870831::Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
18890831::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
18940831::Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
18950831::1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
18960831::Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in NYC
18970831::General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
18970831::Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph)
19000831::British troops over run Johannesburg
19000831::Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
19020831::Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
19030831::Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
19050831::25th US Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)
19050831::Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
19070831::Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
19070831::England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
19090831::A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
19090831::Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
19110831::Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"
19130831::Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
19140831::24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
19140831::General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
19140831::German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
19140831::Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
19150831::Chic White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
19160831::Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London
19180831::Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
19190831::John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
19190831::Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
19190831::Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
19200831::Belgium starts paying old age pensions
19200831::Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
19230831::League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
19230831::Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
19240831::Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
19280831::Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres
19340831::1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
19350831::1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
19350831::Chic White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0
19350831::FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
19350831::Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
19350831::White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
19370831::Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August
19380831::5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
19390831::Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
19390831::Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
19400831::1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
19400831::56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
19400831::Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
19400831::German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
19400831::US National Guard assembles
19410831::23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)
19410831::Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
19420831::Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
19420831::U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
19430831::1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
19430831::Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
19440831::Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy
19440831::French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
19440831::French troops liberate Bordeaux
19440831::Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
19470831::Hungarian communist party wins election
19470831::NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
19480831::Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
19500831::Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
19510831::1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dsseldorf
19530831::KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
19530831::WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
19540831::Census Bureau forms
19540831::Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
19540831::Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
19540831::WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
19550831::1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
19550831::1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
19550831::KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19570831::Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
19590831::48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
19590831::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19590831::Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
19600831::Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
19610831::Amsterdam National Ballet forms
19620831::Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
19630831::"Hot line" between Moscow-Washington, DC installed
19640831::Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
19650831::House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
19660831::Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
19680831::12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
19680831::68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
19680831::Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover
19680831::Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
19680831::Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
19690831::25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
19700831::59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
19700831::Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
19700831::Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
19700831::Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
19700831::WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
19710831::Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
19710831::Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon
19720831::Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
19720831::Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
19730831::1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
19730831::PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
19740831::Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor
19750831::Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
19760831::George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
19760831::Mexican peso devalued
19760831::Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
19760831::Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
19770831::Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
19770831::Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
19770831::Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
19780831::Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
19780831::Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
19780831::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19790831::16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open
19790831::Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
19790831::Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
19790831::Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
19800831::"Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
19800831::80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
19800831::Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
19810831::Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
19810831::Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser
19820831::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19830831::Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
19840831::Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
19850831::"Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
19850831::Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
19850831::Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
19860831::Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82
19860831::Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
19870831::Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
19870831::Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
19870831::South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
19880831::5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
19880831::Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
19880831::Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
19890831::Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground)
19890831::Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
19900831::Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
19900831::East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
19900831::Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
19910831::Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
19910831::Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip
19910831::Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19910831::Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
19910831::William H Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA
19920831::44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane
19920831::Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
19920831::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM
19930831::Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
19930831::Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
19940831::Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
19940831::Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
19940831::Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
19970831::"Gin Game," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
19970831::Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
19970831::Last episode of Rolanda airs
19970831::Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic
19970831::Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268