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Historical events on August 16
1290 - Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over themï¿½a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitated one hundred floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decided to pardon them, seeing as how their intention was not to tear up the money.
1477 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, weds Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy in Ghent, Belgium
1513 - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France
1570 - King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1625 - Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1691 - Yorktown Va founded
1717 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
1743 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1748 - "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1794 - Hungarian revolutionary Ignï¿½c Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1797 - Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1812 - Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
1819 - Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
1829 - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1834 - Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
1846 - Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pï¿½lissier in Paris
1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1863 - Chickamauga campaign GA
1864 - 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1864 - Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1869 - Battle of Acosta ï¿½u: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1882 - British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1898 - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1903 - Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
1904 - NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1905 - Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1906 - -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1907 - Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
1914 - German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1915 - KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
1918 - US troops overthrows Archangelsk
1920 - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
1922 - AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
1924 - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
1924 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1924 - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1927 - 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1934 - US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
1936 - 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1940 - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1942 - Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1943 - 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
1943 - Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944 - 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
1944 - Chartres freed
1944 - Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1946 - Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1947 - Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948 - Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1950 - West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
1953 - KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953 - Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954 - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1954 - 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1955 - Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1956 - Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1956 - Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
1959 - USSR introduces installment buying
1960 - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
1960 - Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
1961 - 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961 - Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr 1962 - Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1963 - Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 - St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1965 - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
1967 - WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
1969 - Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
1970 - 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
1970 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
1972 - 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1972 - Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
1972 - Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 - Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1975 - "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1975 - Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1976 - 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
1976 - St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
1980 - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980 - Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
1980 - Jools Holland quits Squeeze
1981 - Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
1983 - Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1984 - Andrea Doria's safe opened
1984 - LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984 - Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
1984 - NASA launches Ampte
1985 - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1986 - Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1986 - "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
1986 - Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
1987 - Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
1987 - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
1987 - Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987 - Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
1988 - IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988 - Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988 - Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1989 - Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
1990 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990 - Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1991 - Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
1991 - Pres Bush declares recession is near an end
1992 - 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur
1992 - 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
1992 - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
1994 - Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
1997 - For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1998 - 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA
1998 - Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
2008 - Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics.
2011 - Beginning of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid
Music history on August 16
1795 - Composer Heinrich August Marschner was born.
1863 - Composer Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne was born.
1940 - Frankie Masters and his orchestra recorded "Marching Along Together."
1962 - Ringo Starr was picked to replace Pete Best as the drummer for the Beatles. Best had been with the group for about 2 1/2 years.
1966 - The Monkees' first single, "Last Train to Clarksville," was released.
1974 - The Ramones played their first concert at New York's CBGB.
1975 - Peter Gabriel announced that he was leaving the group Genesis. Phil Collins would be the new lead singer after the group auditioned more than 400 potential musicians.
1977 - Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 in Memphis, TN. He died of coronary arrhythmia.
1983 - Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher were married. They divorced in 1985.
1984 - RCA Victor Records released the Elvis Presley single "Baby, Let's Play House."
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1985 - Madonna and Sean Penn were married in Malibu, CA. They were divorced in 1989.
2003 - A U.S. postage stamp featuring Henry Mancini was unveiled. The design showed Mancini conducting while titles of his works scroll past on a screen behind him.
2005 - "Tommy Lee Goes to College" debuted on NBC-TV. The classes were taken at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
2005 - At her home outside London, Madonna suffered serveral broken bones in a horse riding accident. She was treated and released after cracking three ribs and breaking her collarbone and hand.
Sports history on August 16
1920 - The only fatality to occur in a major league baseball game happened. Ray Chapman (Cleveland Indians) was hit in the head with a fastball from Carl Mays of the New York Yankees.
1948 - Babe Ruth died at the age of 53.
1954 - Sports Illustrated was published for the first time. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold before the first issue came off of the presses.
1981 - Cal Ripken Jr. got his first major league hit.
1996 - In Monterrey, Mexico, the New York Mets played the San Diego Padres. The Padres won the game 15-10. It was the first-ever regular season major league game to be played outside the United States and Canada.
2002 - The major league baseball players union announced that they would begin a strike on August 30th.
2002 - Curt Shilling (Arizona Diamondbacks) won his 20th game of the year.
2003 - The Canadian Football League announced that it had taken control of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats franchise until new ownership agreements were in place.
2003 - Jimmy Smith (Jacksonville Jaguars) was suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
2003 - Michael Vick (Atlanta Falcons) suffered a fractured right fibula in a 13-10 preseason loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Famous birthdays on August 16
Amos Alonzo Stagg 1862
Robert Lester (The Chi-Lites) 1942
Bob Balaban 1945
James J.T. Taylor (Kool and The Gang) 1953
Kevin Rowland (Dexy's Midnight Runners) 1953
James Cameron 1954
Madonna Louise Ciccone 1958 - Madonna Merchandise
Belinda Carlisle (Go-Go's) 1958
Maria McKee (Lone Justice) 1964
Donovan Leitch, Jr. 1968 - Actor, son of Donovan (the singer)
Emily Robinson (The Dixie Chicks) 1972
Vanessa Carlton 1980
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Bill Nye
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
Historical events on August 17
682 - St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1180 - Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against Kiyomori Taira who installed his grandson, Emperor Antoku, to the throne
1498 - Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows & office to marry a French princess
1544 - Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France
1563 - King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
1577 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1579 - Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I
1585 - Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, Virginia to find no trace of colonist's he had left there 3 yrs earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
1648 - -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
1717 - France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement
1743 - Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty
1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1795 - Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao
1796 - English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1808 - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1827 - Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1834 - Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
1835 - Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1836 - British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time
1846 - US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
1858 - 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1859 - 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1862 - Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
1863 - Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1863 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1866 - Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
1869 - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1877 - Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)
1879 - Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1892 - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1894 - Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
1896 - George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
1897 - W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1904 - Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
1905 - Dutch government of De Master begins
1907 - Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
1908 - B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in NYC
1908 - Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
1908 - Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by ï¿½mile Cohl.
1914 - French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins
1914 - Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1915 - German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1916 - Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
1917 - Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
1918 - British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
1918 - Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1918 - Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1920 - In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
1924 - French-German trade agreement signed
1926 - Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1933 - Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
1933 - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1938 - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1938 - Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
1940 - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
1940 - Greece mobilizes
1940 - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
1941 - German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
1942 - 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
1942 - 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
1942 - Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet
1942 - Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
1943 - 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde
1943 - Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1943 - US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
1944 - 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
1944 - Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
1944 - German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
1944 - Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1944 - US 12 Army corp occupies Orleans
1944 - US 320th regiment infantry occupies Chï¿½teaudun
1944 - Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
1945 - Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1945 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1946 - Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
1947 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1948 - Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
1950 - Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950 - Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
1951 - 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
1951 - Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1952 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1952 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1955 - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
1956 - Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
1957 - 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
1958 - Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1958 - World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959 - USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960 - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
1960 - Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1962 - Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1962 - E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
1963 - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
1963 - Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1964 - Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 - Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
1968 - Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
1969 - -18] Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss & Louisiana
1969 - 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
1970 - Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
1972 - Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
1973 - Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
1973 - Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
1975 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1976 - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976 - Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1977 - Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)
1978 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1979 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1980 - "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 - George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
1982 - South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany.
1983 - -19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1984 - Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1985 - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985 - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
1986 - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1986 - Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1986 - Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
1986 - Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
1987 - Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987 - Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
1988 - LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 - NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1989 - 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12ï¿½-11ï¿½
1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
1990 - "Exorcist 3" premieres
1990 - Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
1990 - Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1991 - Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
1992 - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
1994 - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1994 - NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
1997 - 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC
1997 - First of America Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Macy's Tap-o-mania
1997 - Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
Music history on August 17
1686 - Composer Nicola Antonio Porpora was born.
1838 - 138 singing teachers traveled to Boston, MA, to attend the first music convention.
1960 - The Beatles began their first engagement away from England.
1964 - The Kinks "You Really Got Me" was released.
1968 - Deep Purple's "Hush" was released.
1969 - After three days, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in New York came to an end.
1970 - Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac as the group's first female member.
1973 - Paul Williams (Temptations) was found dead by police. It was ruled a suicide.
1974 - Patrick Moraz replaced Rick Wakeman in Yes.
1974 - Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough" was released.
1977 - Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history.
1977 - The Police played their first gig without original guitarist Henri Padovani at Rebecca's Club in Birmingham, England.
1983 - Prince's song "Delirious" was released.
1984 - The first night of his Breaking Hearts Tour, Elton John announced that he was retiring from touring.
1984 - Motley Crue gave its performance debut at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England.
1986 - Rick Allen (Def Leppard) played his first concert with his band since losing his left arm in a car accident.
1986 - 42 people were beaten or stabbed at a Run D.M.C. concert in Long Beach, CA.
1995 - Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) attempted suicide by slashing his wrists at a Sunset Strip hotel. He was hospitalized and recovered.
1995 - Security guards carried Courtney Love offstage after she began fighting with Hole fans because they weren't cheering loud enough during the last night of the Lollapalooza tour in Mountain View, CA.
1998 - Eddie Serrano, a former member of Cannibal and the Headhunters, was injured in a hit-and-run accident. Serrano was on a bicycle or a motorcycle when a car hit him.
1998 - Carlos Santana received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sports history on August 17
1894 - John Wadsworth of Louisville set a major league record when he gave up 28 base hits in a single game.
1973 - Lee Trevino got the first hole in one of his career at the U.S.I. Golf Classic, in Sutton, MA.
1986 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) was struck out for his last at bat by San Diego Padres relief pitcher Rich "Goose" Gossage.
Famous birthdays on August 17
Davy Crockett 1786
Kevin Rowland (Dexy's Midnight Runners) 1953
Kevin Welch 1955
Gilby Clark (Guns N' Roses) 1962
Maria McKee 1964
Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) 1965
Jill Cunniff (Luscious Jackson) 1966
David Conrad 1967
Donnie Wahlberg (New Kids on the Block) 1969
Jim Courier 1970
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
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Historic events on August 18
293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
410 - King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies & plunders Rome
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
1289 - Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem"
1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1564 - Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
1572 - King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois
1587 - Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland, according to legend.
1591 - Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from England & found everyone in the colony had disappeared [or Aug 17, 1590]
1605 - Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.
1674 - Jean Racine's "Iphigï¿½nie," premieres in Versailles
1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
1700 - Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
1735 - Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1759 - -19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
1769 - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1795 - Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves
1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1838 - 1st US marine expedition
1840 - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1846 - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1858 - Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
1862 - General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
1862 - Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1864 - 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1870 - Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
1872 - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1873 - 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California (14,494')
1886 - Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
1891 - Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1896 - Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1914 - Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)
1914 - -20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
1914 - French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
1914 - Pres Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1915 - Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
1917 - Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1919 - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1920 - 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1920 - 19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified
1923 - 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1924 - France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
1925 - Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
1925 - Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
1926 - England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1926 - Weather map televised for 1st time
1930 - Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1931 - Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
1932 - Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1932 - Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64)
1934 - Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six
1934 - Ponsford & Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes v Eng
1936 - 106.5ï¿½F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1937 - 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1940 - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1941 - German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1941 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1942 - Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
1943 - Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants
1943 - Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1944 - Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 - US 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
1945 - Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
1946 - Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1947 - Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1949 - Hungary adopts constitution
1949 - Ralph Flanagan & his orchestra records "You're Breaking My Heart"
1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1951 - Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
1954 - James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
1955 - -19] Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 - 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1955 - Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
1956 - Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1957 - Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4ï¿½")
1957 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1957 - Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 - Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 - Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1958 - Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 - Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1959 - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1960 - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1960 - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1960 - Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1963 - James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1964 - Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
1964 - Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1964 - USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1965 - Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
1965 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
1967 - Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1967 - Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1967 - WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1969 - Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1972 - Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession
1973 - Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1973 - Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open
1976 - USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1977 - 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1977 - Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1978 - Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters
1979 - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 - Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
1981 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
1981 - Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1981 - Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1982 - 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 - NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
1982 - Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1982 - Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
1983 - Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 - Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1984 - Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1985 - Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 - Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
1986 - Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 - John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1986 - WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1987 - Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 - Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
1987 - Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 - Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 - Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1989 - Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 - Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galï¿½n is assassinated near Bogotï¿½ in Colombia.
1991 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1991 - Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
1991 - Pan Am games closes in Havana
1992 - "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
1993 - Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
1994 - 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
1995 - Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
1996 - Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 - Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
2000 - A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
2008 - President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition.
2011 - The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
Music history on August 18
1750 - Composer Antonio Salieri was born.
1849 - Composer Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was born.
1949 - Ralph Flanagan and his orchestra recorded "Youï¿½re Breaking My Heart."
1956 - The original version of "Hound Dog," by Big Mama Thornton, was released.
1962 - Ringo Starr made his first appearance as a Beatle at a Cavern Club show.
1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary's "If I Had A Hammer" was released.
1973 - Gene Krupa played for the final time with the original Benny Goodman Quartet.
1973 - The Doobie Brothers' "China Grove" was released.
1977 - Funeral services for Elvis Presley were held at Graceland.
1977 - The Police performed as a trio for the first time after guitarist Henri Padovani left the band.
1979 - Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter were married in Los Angeles, CA.
1986 - Bon Jovi released their "Slippery When Wet" album.
1991 - Billy Preston was arrested in Los Angeles, CA after a 16 year old boy reported being sexually attacked.
1992 - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and Courtney Love (Hole) became parents to daughter Frances Bean.
Sports history on August 18
1915 - Braves Field was inaugurated with Boston defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1.
1956 - The Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Braves combined for a National League record of 10 home runs. The Reds won 13-4. Bob Thurman (Cincinnati Reds) hit three of the home runs.
1960 - Lew Burdette threw a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies. The final score was 1-0.
1973 - Hank Aaron set a major league record with his 1,378th extra base.
1980 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals had his batting average reach the .400 mark.
1981 - Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia took out an insurance policy with Lloydï¿½s of London. The all-American was insured for one million dollars.
1982 - The longest baseball game played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL, went 21 innings before the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cubs 2-1.
1987 - Earl Campbell announced his retirement from the National Football League (NFL).
1992 - Larry Bird, after 13 years with the Boston Celtics, announced his retirement.
1995 - Tom Henke (St. Louis) became only the seventh major league player to record 300 saves.
1996 - Frank Thomas (Chicago White Sox) became the fourth player to reach 100 RBIs in each of his first six seasons.
1996 - Wade Boggs became the 41st major league player to get 2,000 career singles.
Famous birthdays on August 18
Merriwether Lewis 1774
Carl Wayne (The Move) 1944
Nona Hendryx 1945
Ron Strykert (Men at Work) 1957
Madeleine Stowe 1958
Zac Maloy (The Nixons) 1968
Everlast 1969
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
- John Keats
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
Historic events on August 19
43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
440 - St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1263 - King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing
1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
1458 - Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1477 - Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
1493 - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
1524 - Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy
1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France
1587 - Sigismund III becomes king of Poland
1591 - French king Henri IV occupies Rouen
1627 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1691 - Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
1692 - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
1702 - -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30]
1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government & restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1787 - W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
1791 - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
1796 - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
1812 - US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
1816 - Java again in Dutch hands
1821 - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
1839 - Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
1849 - NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
1861 - Confederacy Congress allies with government of MO
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
1888 - 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1897 - 1st electric taxi's drive in London
1900 - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1903 - Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
1905 - Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1909 - Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1911 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1912 - Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres
1913 - Frenchman Pï¿½goud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
1914 - Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC
1914 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914 - German fleet bombs English coast
1914 - Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
1915 - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
1915 - World War I: the Battle of Van begins
1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
1918 - Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC
1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK
1921 - Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1922 - 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
1931 - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
1932 - 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
1933 - 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
1934 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1936 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1939 - 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
1941 - Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
1942 - -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
1942 - Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
1942 - Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
1943 - Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
1943 - US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
1944 - Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
1944 - Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
1944 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944 - Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance
1944 - Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 - US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
1944 - US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
1945 - Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins
1947 - J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
1950 - ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
1951 - Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
1953 - England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1954 - Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1955 - 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1955 - Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
1955 - US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
1955 - 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)
1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1957 - NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
1957 - US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1959 - Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1959 - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
1959 - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1960 - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
36th US President Lyndon B Johnson 1961 - US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
1962 - Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1963 - NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1964 - Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1965 - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1966 - Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
1969 - Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1973 - Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open
1975 - Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1976 - Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1979 - "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
1979 - Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
1979 - Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
1979 - Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
1980 - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
1980 - Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
1980 - Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
1981 - 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1982 - Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
1982 - Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
1983 - LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
1983 - Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
1984 - 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
1984 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 - Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres
1984 - Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
1985 - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1986 - Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
1987 - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
1988 - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 - Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma
1988 - NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1990 - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1990 - Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
1991 - -20] Hurricane Bob hits US
1991 - Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 - Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
1992 - Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
1992 - Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
1993 - 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
1993 - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
1993 - Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
1993 - George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
1993 - Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
1993 - Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
1995 - After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
1995 - Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 - Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
1997 - NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim
1997 - STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Miloï¿½ević.
2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 - A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
2003 - A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2005 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2005 - A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.
2009 - A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 - Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
Music history on August 19
1881 - Composer Georges Enesco was born.
1918 - Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" opened in New York City at the Century Theater.
1939 - The Dick Jurgens Orchestra recorded, "Day Dreams Come True at Night."
1964 - The first American tour by the Beatles began in San Francisco, CA. The tour would cover 26 cities.
1972 - NBC-TV presented "The Midnight Special" for the first time with John Denver as the first host.
1973 - Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson were married.
1980 - 1,400 people riot in Toronto when Alice Cooper cancelled a show due to illness.
1997 - Fleetwood Mac's reunion album "The Dance" was released.
2001 - Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted made his first live appearance with EchoBrain.
2008 - Lady Gaga's album "The Fame" was released.
Sports history on August 19
1909 - The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1909 - The Philadelphia Phillies were rained out a major-league record 10th consecutive day.
1917 - Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City's blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing baseball on Sunday.
1921 - Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) recorded his 3,000 career hit.
1951 - The St. Louis Browns sent a midget to the plate against the Detroit Tigers. Eddie Gaedel, wearing the number 1/8 and standing only 3 feet, 7 inches tall, walked on four consecutive pitches and was then replaced by a pinch-runner.
1957 - The New York Giants Board of Directors voted to move the team to San Francisco in 1958.
1962 - Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held in Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf history.
1981 - In Zurich, Switzerland, Renaldo Nehemia set a new world record with 110 hurdles in 12.93 seconds.
1995 - Bobby Thigpen (Chicago White Sox) got his 40th save of season and became the eighth and fastest to record 40 saves in a season.
1995 - Mike Tyson knocked out Peter McNeeley after just 89 seconds.
1996 - Paul Molitor (Minnesota Twins) tied Lou Gherig by hitting his 534th career double.
2002 - John Madden debuted on "Monday Night Football."
2004 - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig received a contract extension through 2009.
Famous birthdays on August 19
Bernard Baruch 1870
Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith) 1939
Johnny Nash 1940
Billy J. Kramer (The Dakotas) 1943
Eddy Raven 1944
Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) 1945
Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (U.S.) 1946
Tipper Gore 1948
Deana (Dina) Martin 1948 - Singer, actor, daughter of Dean Martin
John Deacon (Queen) 1951
Matthew Perry 1969 - Actor ("Friends")
Fat Joe 1970
Lil' Romeo 1989
Today's quote:
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
- Edward Gardner
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
Forgot I didn't post yesterday's!
Historic events on August 20
2 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
573 - Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
636 - Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines [or August 15]
917 - Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1191 - Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1391 - Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1566 - Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1585 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1597 - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1604 - Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1619 - 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1641 - Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 - Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1672 - Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
1741 - Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1781 - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1791 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
1794 - Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1795 - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1828 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1856 - Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1861 - Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
1864 - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 - Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1879 - Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1888 - 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
1893 - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
1896 - Dial telephone patented
1900 - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1901 - Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1908 - Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1910 - US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 - Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 - Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pï¿½goud-France)
1913 - Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 - German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians
1914 - -24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons
1914 - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914 - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914 - Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
1914 - German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1915 - White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
1918 - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1919 - 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)
1920 - 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting
1920 - Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1920 - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920 - Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
1921 - 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1922 - 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1923 - London harbor strike ends
1925 - WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 - Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.
1929 - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 - Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
1930 - Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
1934 - Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1935 - Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
1939 - 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 - Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
1940 - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940 - 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"
1941 - Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 - Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 - "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1944 - 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash
1944 - Gen de Gaulle returns to France
1944 - Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 - US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1945 - Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1945 - Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
1945 - Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1945 - Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 - Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947 - Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 - 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948 - US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 - 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949 - Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1952 - Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1953 - General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 - 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 - Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 - "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1957 - Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 - USAAF balloon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 - White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 - Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1958 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 - Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1959 - Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1960 - Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960 - USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 - Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1961 - East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 - President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
1964 - Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1965 - Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
1966 - Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1967 - Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1968 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1970 - -21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1971 - FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
1974 - Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 - Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1975 - Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 - Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1977 - NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 - Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 - Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978 - Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1979 - India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 - Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1979 - The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1980 - Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 - NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 - Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 - Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 - Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1982 - Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
1982 - US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1983 - Miss National Teen-Ager
1985 - 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985 - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 - Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 - Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985 - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 - Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 - Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1988 - 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 - Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 - Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1989 - Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 - Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 - Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 - Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1990 - Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
1990 - George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
1991 - After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
1991 - Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1991 - Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
1991 - Estonia declares it's independence from USSR itself independent
1992 - England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1992 - Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
1993 - Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993 - Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
1993 - Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1994 - 109.8ï¿½F (43.2ï¿½C) in Cordoba Spain
1994 - Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994 - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1995 - "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995 - Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 - India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1997 - Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
1997 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2008 - Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, 8 more die afterwards. Only 18 people survive.
2011 - Socialite and model Kim Kardashian weds basketball player Kris Humphries at a private estate in Montecito, California
Famous birthdays on August 20
1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75)
1526 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)
1561 - Jacopo Peri, composer
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French playwright
1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
1637 - Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam
1665 - Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)
1666 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer
1702 - Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal
1710 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rules of Simpson)
1719 - Charles-Franï¿½ois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1720 - Bernard de Bury, composer
1756 - Bernardo Bittoni, composer
1764 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
1776 - Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
1778 - Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
1779 - Jï¿½ns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1788 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
1799 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician
1802 - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
1811 - Gilman Marston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1820 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
1824 - Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905
1832 - Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, ï¿½ 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
1842 - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
1847 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1847 - Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
1856 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1]
1856 - Jakub Bart-Ćiï¿½inski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
1860 - Raymond Poincarï¿½, France, president/PM (1912)
1865 - Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911)
1868 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 - Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
1873 - William Henry Bell, composer
1881 - Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
1881 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
1885 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
1886 - Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung)
1888 - George Sklavos, composer
1890 - H P Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
1890 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, US horror writer (Weird Tales)
1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author (Det Store Spelet)
1898 - G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
1898 - Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love)
1898 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
1899 - Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist (Church und Welt)
1900 - Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968)
1902 - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club owner
1904 - Jaap [Jacob AW] Burger, chairman (PvdA)
1905 - Duncan Macrae, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped)
1905 - Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, US trombonist/actor (Meet Band Leaders)
1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1907 - Alan Reed, NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve)/voice (Fred Flintstone), (d. 1977)
1907 - Anatole Fistoulari, conductor
1908 - Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
1908 - Jeanne Stern, writer
1908 - John Reginald Bevins, politician
1908 - Kingsley Davis, sociologist/demographer, coined (population explosion)
1909 - Albert Roberts, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 5 Tests 1932-37)
1909 - Andre Morell, London England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel)
1911 - Ronald Udell, England, production designer (Pinewood Studios)
1912 - Philip Kapleau, founder (Rochester Zen Center in New Haven)
1913 - Conrad Hermann Hubertius Maria Apollinaris Josten, jazz guitarist
1914 - Kitei Sohn, Korean marathon runner/coach (Olympic-gold-1936)
1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1984)
1918 - Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls), (d. 1974)
1921 - Jack Wilson, cricket slow left-armer (Test for Australia 1956)
1924 - Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)
1926 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1927 - Geriatric1927, English video blogger
1927 - Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
1929 - Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1931 - Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)
1931 - Don King, boxing promoter best known for his association with Mike Tyson and for his unusual hairstyles
1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
1933 - Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)
1933 - George John Mitchell, (Sen-D-ME, 1980-94/Senate Whip 1989- )
1933 - Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1935 - Charles Shere, composer
1935 - J J Malone, US soul singer (It's a shame)
1935 - Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1935 - Ron Paul, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate
1936 - Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina
1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 - George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Jim Bowen, English comedian
1937 - El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1938 - Jean-Loup Jaques Marie Chretien, France, cosmonaut (T-6, TM-7, STS 86)
1938 - Alain Vivien, French politician
1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
1940 - John Lantree, rocker
1940 - Rex Sellers, Aust cricketer leg-spinner (bowled 5 overs in Tests)
1940 - Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
1940 - Rubï¿½n Hinojosa, American politician
1941 - Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
1941 - William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-PA, 1978- )
1941 - Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
1941 - Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
1942 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 - Isaac Hayes, Covington TN, composer (Shaft)
1942 - Fred Norman, American baseball player
1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 - Graig Nettles, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
1944 - John Povey, rocker
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-89)
1946 - Connie Chung, TV news anchor (NBC, CBS)
1946 - Ralf Hï¿½tter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1947 - James Pankow, Chicago IL, rocker (Chicago)
1948 - Robert Plant, West Bromwich England, rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love)
1948 - John Noble, Australian actor
1949 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1949 - Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1949 - Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter
1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)
1951 - Phil Lynott, Dublin Ireland, rock bassist (Thin Lizzy)
1951 - Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1952 - John Emburey, England cricket off-spinner (1978-95, captain 1988)
1952 - John Hiatt, US singer/songwriter (Have a Little Faith in Me)
1952 - Rudy Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1953 - Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
1954 - Al Roker, Queens NY, weatherman (NBC, Today)
1954 - Theresa Saldana, Bkln NY, actress (Rachel Scali-Commish)
1954 - William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 - Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
1954 - Don Stark, American actor
1955 - Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
1955 - Ned Overend, Taipei Taiwan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1955 - Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist (Bob Color)
1956 - Alvin Greenidge, cricketer (WI opener, no relation to Gordon or Geoff)
1956 - Joan Allen, Ill, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country)
1956 - Rick Olsen, rock guitarist (Berlin-Take My Breath Away)
1957 - Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer (swam English Channel 19 times)
1957 - Doug Fleger, rocker
1957 - Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host
1957 - Mike Dodd, Manhattan Beach CA beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)
1957 - Scott Ayakatubby, beach volleyball champ
1958 - Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
1958 - Patricia Rozema, Canadian film director and screenwriter
1959 - Missie McGeorge, Pueblo CO, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One)
1959 - Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
1960 - Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
1960 - Mark Langston, San Diego CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1960 - Troy Young, horse trainer
1961 - Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
1961 - Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author
1961 - Joe Pasquale, English comedian
1962 - Duffy James Joseph Waldorf Jr, LA CA, PGA golfer (1995 LaCantera Tx)
1962 - Loretta Alderete, LA CA, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-14th)
1962 - Robert Meyer, Sacramento Cal, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morningstar)
1962 - James Marsters, American actor
1962 - Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
1963 - Bruce Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
1965 - Joe Durigon, jockey
1966 - Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
1966 - Greg Jackson, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1966 - Steven Finn, Laval, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1966 - Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist (Pantera)
1967 - Andy Benes, Evansville IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 - Michael "Sean" Hall, Williamsburg Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Colin Cunningham, American actor
1967 - Terri Poch, American yogini and former professional wrestler
1968 - Sandy Brondello, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 - Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer
1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969 - Bart Spark, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Francisco Torres, jockey
1969 - Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1970 - Els Callens, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1996 quarterfinalist Essen)
1970 - Jay McNeil, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 - Bernard Whittington, defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Brett Bech, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1971 - Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
1971 - Kevin Hickman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Oronde Gadsden, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Brad Avery, American musician (former guitarist for Third Day)
1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer
1971 - David Walliams, British comedian
1972 - Derrick Alston, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1973 - Todd Helton, American baseball player
1974 - Denesha Reid, Miss USA-Georgia (1997)
1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
1974 - Amy Adams, American actress
1974 - Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
1974 - Szabolcs Sï¿½fï¿½r, Hungarian footballer
1974 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 - Marianne Garvey, American reporter
1975 - Marcus Mastin, American author
1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player
1977 - Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 - Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 - Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
1977 - James Ormond, England cricketer
1978 - Sanna Lankosaari, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1979 - Tara Shaffer, Miss Ohio Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1980 - Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
1980 - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
1981 - Lauri Illy, Virginia Beach Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1981 - Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
1982 - Clï¿½ber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 - Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
1984 - Golan Yosef, Dutch actor
1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor
1987 - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
1990 - Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1991 - Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player
1992 - Demi Lovato, American Actress
1994 - White buffalo, Janesville Wisconsin
2003 - Prince Gabriel of Belgium
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
Historic events on August 21
959 - Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1560 - Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
1598 - -22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence
1673 - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
1680 - Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fï¿½ from Spanish
1689 - The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1703 - Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1718 - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagï¿½ez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1808 - Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1841 - John Hampton patents venetian blind
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
1864 - BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31]
1864 - Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1864 - Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
1864 - Battle of Summit Point, VA
1864 - Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1878 - Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1883 - Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
1887 - Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
1888 - William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
1891 - Dutch Mackay government resigns
1897 - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1901 - 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
1901 - Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
1912 - Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
1914 - 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
1914 - Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1914 - French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre
1915 - Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1920 - 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
1922 - Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1925 - BV Emmen soccer team forms
1926 - -22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos
1926 - White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
1927 - 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
1929 - Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1930 - Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
1932 - Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1933 - Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
1936 - Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
1938 - Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
1942 - Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
1942 - Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
1943 - Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
1943 - Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1944 - Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
1944 - Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
1944 - Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secrï¿½tan/St-Mandï¿½
1944 - US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
1945 - Pres Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1947 - 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
1948 - Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
1949 - 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
1953 - Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
1953 - Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
1953 - Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1956 - WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
1958 - KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1961 - Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
1962 - Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1963 - Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1963 - Martial law declared in S Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
1965 - Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1965 - Romania adopts constitution
1965 - The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1967 - China reports downing of 2 US bombers
1967 - Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
1967 - Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed
1967 - Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1968 - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
1968 - Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
1968 - Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1968 - Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1968 - Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1968 - William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1969 - Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
1972 - 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1972 - British harbor strike ends
1972 - Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
1972 - Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
1972 - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1975 - 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
1975 - Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
1975 - US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1976 - Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1976 - Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 - Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
1978 - 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs US Air Force
1979 - Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
1980 - Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway
1982 - Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
1982 - Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1983 - "La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances
1983 - 110ï¿½F (43ï¿½C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
1983 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
1985 - NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
1986 - "Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1986 - Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)
1986 - Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
1986 - Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians
1986 - Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials
1986 - Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000
1986 - With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
1987 - "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
1987 - Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
1987 - Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
1988 - Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1989 - Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
1991 - Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
1991 - Latvia declares it's independence from USSR
1993 - Lyricist Bernie Taupin weds Strephanie Haymes
1993 - NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
1994 - -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
1994 - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
1994 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge
1994 - Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
1995 - US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1996 - "Hughie," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1996 - Christie Lee Woods, 18, of Texas, crowned 14th Miss Teen USA
1996 - Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
1997 - Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
1997 - US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
2000 - Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 - Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
2017 - Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
Famous birthdays on August 21
1165 - Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1642 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
1643 - Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1689 - Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
1721 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
1751 - Johann Georg Witthauer, composer
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV, king of England (1830-37)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1780 - Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)
1789 - Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian
1806 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
1809 - Francesco Schira, composer
1810 - Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frï¿½dï¿½ric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1821 - William Barksdale, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1824 - John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1825 - Kate Fanny Loder, composer
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1829 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer
1847 - Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
1852 - Benedetto Junck, composer
1871 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
1874 - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27)
1875 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
1879 - Henry Ainley, Leeds England, actor (As You Like It)
1880 - Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, Rennes France, actor (Wages of Fear)
1893 - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer
1893 - Lili Boulanger, composer
1896 - Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family)
1896 - Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho)
1896 - Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
1900 - Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go)
1902 - Renato Fasano, composer
1904 - [William] Count Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles)
1905 - Isadore I Friz Freleng, KC MO, animator (Warner Bros cartoons)
1906 - Joachim Homs, composer
1906 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate
1907 - Miguel Torga, [Adolfo Correia da Rocha], Portuguese author
1907 - Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
1908 - David Farrar, Forest Gate England, actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1908 - Oversight (nom de plume), American philosopher
1909 - C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
1909 - Jon William Jr Haussermann, composer
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Bruce Trent, singer
1912 - Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1913 - Cornelius Johnson, LA California, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 - Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop, Housemaster)
1913 - Victor Rosow, writer
1914 - Doug Wright, cricketer (England's leg-spinning genius of 30's & 40's)
1915 - Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1916 - William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher R Milne, son of Alan A Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
1923 - Chris Schenkel, Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1924 - Gerald D Lascelles, son of English princess Mary
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1926 - Ben-Zion Orgad, composer
1927 - Wilhelm Jr Killmayer, composer
1927 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1928 - Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
1928 - Zdenek Lukas, composer
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 - Frank Perry, film director
1930 - Margaret Rose, princess of Engl (Sister of Queen Elizabeth) [or 4/21]
1931 - Gregg Smith, composer
1931 - Nancy Hadley, LA California, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)
1933 - Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1935 - Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)
1936 - Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP)
1936 - Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia
1937 - Robert Stone, US writer (Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA)
Country Singer Kenny Rogers (1938) 1938 - Kenny Rogers, Houston Texas, singer (Through the Years)
1939 - Clarence Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain)
1939 - Harold W Reid, Augusta County Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1939 - James Burton, American guitarist
1939 - Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1940 - Ana Isabel Anderson-Imbert, physician, rheumatologist
1940 - Robert Camac, horse trainer
1943 - Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 - Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now)
1944 - Peter Weir, Sydney Aust, director/writer (Witness, Dead Poets Society)
1944 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Patty McCormack, Bkln NY, actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers)
1945 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1946 - Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976)
1947 - Carl Giammarese, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (Buckinghams)
1948 - Taurean Blacque, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1949 - Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 - Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1950 - Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972.
1951 - Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1951 - Harry Smith, Hammond Ind, TV co-anchor (CBS Morning Show)
1951 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 - Char Margolis, American medium
1951 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 - Joe Strummer, lead singer of the British punk band The Clash (Rock the Casbah)
1952 - Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)
1952 - Jiřï¿½ Paroubek, former Czech prime minister
1953 - Ivan Stang, American writer
1954 - Archie Griffin, NFL runningback (won 2 Heisman Trophies, Ohio State)
1954 - Steve Smith, LA California, rock drummer (Journey)
1956 - Carol Charbonnier, LPGA golfer
Actress Kim Cattrall (1956) 1956 - Kim Cattrall, Liverpool England, actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI)
1957 - Budgie, rock drummer (Slits, Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
1957 - Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 - Kim Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1958 - Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
1959 - Anne Hobbs, England, tennis star
1959 - Bud Schultz, Meriden Conn, tennis star
1959 - Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 - Richard Zokol, Kitimat BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1982 BC Open)
1961 - Danny Sheaffer, Jacksonville FL, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1961 - Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower (Olympics-silver-96)
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1961 - V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1962 - Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 - Melvin Douglas, Topeka KS, 198 lbs/90 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 - Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 - Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 - Jim Bullinger, New Orleans LA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1965 - Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
1966 - John Wetteland, San Mateo CA, pitcher (NY Yanks, Rangers, Expos)
1967 - Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street)
1967 - Tuineau Alipate, NLF/WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 - Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1968 - Barbara Ann Moore, Spokane WA, playmate (Dec, 1992)
1968 - Shinichi Iwasaki, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1969 - Andujar Cedeno, La Romana Dom Rep, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1969 - Josee Chouinard, Rosemont Quebec, figure skater (Olymp-9th-1994)
1970 - Bill Roth, Yonkers NY, gymnast (Pan Am-gold-1995, Olympics-96)
1970 - Mark Hatfield, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1970 - Paulo Barrancos Guerra, Portugal, 10k runner
1970 - Steve Everitt, NFL center (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler
1971 - Shayne Edge, NFL/WLAF punter (Steelers, Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 - Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1972 - Johnnie Harris, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 - Ben Mann, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Ismael Valdes, Ciudad Victoria Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1974 - Amy Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco
1974 - Pietra Gay, WNBA guard/forward (Houston Comets)
1975 - Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 - Alicia Witt, actress (Cybill)
1976 - Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee, Irish footballer
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Buxton, English rugby union player
1979 - Aiesha Lee Hendrick, Miss New York Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Ashley Whitney, Nashville TN, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1979 - Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer
1980 - Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1980 - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1981 - Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
1981 - Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer
1983 - Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 - Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1983 - Brody Jenner, American actor
1983 - Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
1984 - Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1984 - Alizï¿½e Jacotey, French singer
1984 - Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 - B.J. Upton, American baseball player
Sprinter Usain Bolt (1986) 1986 - Usain Bolt, Trelawny Jamaica, sprinter (3x Olympic Gold 2008)
1987 - Kim Kibum, one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer
1988 - Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter
1988 - Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 - Hayden Panettiere, actress (One Life to Live)
1992 - Brad Kavanagh,English songwriter and actor
1996 - Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress
Music history on August 21
1893 - Composer Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger was born.
1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner.
1938 - The classic song "Ain't Misbehavin'" was recorded by Fats Waller.
1965 - Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction" was released.
1965 - The Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe In Magic" was released.
1976 - It was announced by RCA Victor records that the sales of Elvis Presley records passed the 400 million mark.
1980 - Linda Rondstadt made her debut on Broadway. The production was Gilber & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."
1990 - Prince released the soundtrack to "Graffiti Bridge."
1990 - Ratt released the album "Detonator."
1992 - Sting and Trudi Styler were married.
1993 - Bernie Taupin, Elton John's lyricist, married Stephanie Haymes.
1994 - John Denver was charged with drunken driving after crashing his Porsche into a tree.
1995 - R.E.M. sued Hershey Foods, claiming the company exploited its name when it ran a "Kit Kat - R.E.M. Concert" sweepstakes in Hershey candy bars. The suit was eventually dropped.
1996 - Former Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne sued to prevent the rest of the group from touring as "The Heads." The suit was settled out of court.
1997 - At a press conference in the San Francisco Hard Rock Cafe, Carlos Santana unveiled a limited-edition t-shirt bearing his artwork. He autographed 500 of the shirts for distribution to foreign and domestic markets.
2006 - German prosecutors announced that they had decided against opening an investigation into Madonna after she performed a controversial mock crucifixion scene at a concert on August 20.
Sports history on August 21
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals traveled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.
1971 - Laura Baugh, at the age of 16, won the United State's Women's Amateur Golf tournament. She was the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
1984 - Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.
2006 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 725th career homerun.
2009 - The Dallas Cowboys played their first game at their new stadium in Arlington, TX. During the preseason game, against the Tennessee Titans, the Titans' kicker hit the scoreboard hanging in the center of the stadium.
Today's quote:
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
- Johann S. Bach, composer and organist
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Historic events on August 22
392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
851 - Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
1543 - Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren
1559 - Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
1572 - Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
1582 - King James IV of Scotland captured
1603 - 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 - Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1632 - Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 - Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one ot the first Jewish colonists
1707 - Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
1707 - Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty
1715 - Handel's "Watermusic" premieres on Thames
1717 - Spanish troops lands on Sardinia
1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 - King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1780 - Resolution, without Capt Cook, returns to England
1787 - John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1788 - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1818 - Grand duchy of Bathe forms
1826 - Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1827 - Josï¿½ de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1849 - The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
Captain/Explorer James Cook 1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 - Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1862 - Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 - Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
1864 - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
1864 - International Red Cross forms
1867 - Fisk University forms, 1867
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1877 - Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1900 - Gabriel Faures opera "Promï¿½thï¿½e," premieres in Beziers
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1906 - 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1907 - Colin Buchanan, town planner
1907 - Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Montjustin France, photographer (Decisive Moment), (d. 2004)
1910 - Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
1911 - Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
1911 - Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1912 - England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1912 - Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
1913 - Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
1914 - Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French
1914 - 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
1914 - Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton
1914 - Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 - General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia
1914 - German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
1914 - Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
1917 - Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
1921 - J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1923 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1926 - Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1930 - Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
1932 - BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1933 - Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season
1933 - International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
1934 - Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes
1934 - Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1939 - Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939 - Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1941 - Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1942 - Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1943 - Soviet troops free Karkov
1944 - Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]
1944 - Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1945 - Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
1945 - England defeat Aust Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket
1945 - Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London
1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1946 - Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1946 - Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
1947 - 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
1950 - Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in natl tennis competition
1950 - Rotterdam harbor strike end
1951 - Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1953 - John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 - Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
1954 - WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)
1956 - Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
1957 - Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 - Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 - Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
1960 - Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
1961 - Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1962 - Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1963 - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1964 - Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 - Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
1965 - San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
1966 - Beatles arrive in NYC
1968 - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968 - Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
1968 - Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota
1969 - Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"
1969 - Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969 - Hurricane Camille strikes US Gulf Coast kills 255
1971 - Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
1971 - Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1971 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1972 - International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1973 - Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
1973 - Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
1975 - Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
1975 - McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 - Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1979 - 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
1980 - Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
1982 - Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1982 - Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 - Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
1984 - Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984 - Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1984 - Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1984 - South African election for parliament boycvotted
1985 - 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
1985 - Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
1986 - Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
1986 - NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 - Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
1988 - Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1988 - NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1990 - Pres Bush calls up military reserves
1991 - Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
1992 - Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1993 - "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs
1993 - Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1994 - Wim Cook government forms in Neth
1995 - FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2007 - The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
Famous birthdays on August 22
1530 - Bartolomeo Spontone, composer
1601 - Georges de Scudï¿½ry, French writer (d. 1667)
1615 - Christopher Gibbons, composer
1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1679 - Pierre Guï¿½rin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1681 - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer
1753 - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
1760 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italy, Pope (1823-29)
1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1766 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
1771 - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer
1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 - Aimï¿½ Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1788 - Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 - George Stoneman, US Union general-major/(Gov-California, 1883-87)
1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 - Edouard Silas, composer
1827 - Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria)
1827 - Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 - Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 - Archibald M Willard, US, artist (Spirit of '76)
1845 - William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1846 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
1847 - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1852 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia
1857 - Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award)
1860 - Eleonore of Reuss-Kï¿½stritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
(1862) 1862 - Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), (d. 1918)
1865 - Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist
1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer
1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte)
1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1882 - Harry Makepeace, cricketer (4 Tests for England v Australia 1920-21)
1888 - Violet Farebrother, Grimsby England, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue)
1890 - Floyd Henri Allport, US psychologist/sociologist
1891 - Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US painter/cubist sculptor
1892 - Percy Fender, cricketer (legendary Surrey & England all-rounder)
(1893) 1893 - Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967)
1894 - Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights)
1895 - Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1897 - Bill Woodfull, cricketer (Australian captain in the Bodyline series)
1898 - Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress (John Meade's Woman)
1900 - Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, actress (Tiefland)
1902 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex)
1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1903 - Renï¿½ Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983)
1905 - Wade Crosby, IA, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood)
1907 - Oliver F McGowan, Kipling AL, actor (Banning, Stagecoach)
(1908) 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chanteloup, France, photographer
1909 - Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
1909 - Sergius Kagen, composer
1909 - Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (A Farm)
1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1911 - Edith Atwater, Chic, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
1911 - Somerset de Chair, MP
1912 - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist
1913 - Robert Schollum, composer
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 - David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1916 - John Slater, London England, actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat)
1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1919 - Earl Cathcart, British major-general
1919 - Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
1920 - Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
1920 - Denton Cooley, Houston, heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
1920 - Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria)
1920 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012)
1920 - W Schnurre, writer
1921 - James Menter, principal (Queen Mary College)
1922 - Micheline Presle, Paris, actress (Nea, Donkey Skin)
1923 - Gerald Long, journalist/CEO (Reuters)
1924 - Andrzej Markowski, composer
1924 - James Kirkwood, LA CA, actor/writer (Hired Wife)
1924 - Peter Allsop, publisher
1926 - Bob Flannigan, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1926 - Honor Blackman, London, actress (*bleep* Galore-Goldfinger)
1926 - Marc Bohan, dress designer
1927 - Aleksandar Obradovic, composer
1928 - John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow)
1928 - Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1929 - Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
1929 - Harry McPherson, Tyler, Texas, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, (d. 2012)
1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 - Gerald P Carr, Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1932 - Theoni Vachliotis aldredge, award winning costume designer
1933 - Irmtraud Morgner, writer
1933 - Sylva Koscina, Zagreb Yugo, actress (Jessica, Hercules)
1934 - Diana Sands, NYC, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife)
1934 - H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War)
1934 - John M Chowning, composer
1934 - Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC)
1935 - Morton Dean, Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
1935 - Richard W Howard, Oklahoma City Ok, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 - Anne Downey, British circuit judge
1936 - Lex P Humphries, drummer
1937 - Donald MacLeary, dancer
1937 - Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
1938 - Dale Hawkins, music writer (Suzy Q)
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 - Candido Lima, composer
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
1939 - Fred Milano, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts) [or 8/26/40]
1940 - Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire
1940 - David Vance, horse trainer
1940 - George Reinholt, Phila, actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live)
1940 - John Banham, director-general (CBI)
1940 - Valerie Harper, Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie)
1941 - Bill Parcells, NFL coach (NY Giants, NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1941 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 - Kathy Lennon, Santa Monica California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 - Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 - Alun Michael, MP (Labour)
1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1944 - Henk Veldhoen, biochemist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 - Derek Fatchett, MP (Labour)
1945 - James G Richardson, Gainesville Fla, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra)
1945 - Ron Dante, Staten Island NY, rock vocalist (Archies-Sugar, Sugar)
1945 - Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes)
1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1946 - Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host
1947 - Bud Cramer, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1947 - Cindy Williams, Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)
1947 - Donna Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead)
1948 - Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor (Pink Medicine Show)
1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 - Diana Nyad, swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 - ï¿½ï¿½rarinn Eldjï¿½rn, Icelandic writer
1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
1950 - Teresa Davis, rocker
1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1951 - Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 - Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1954 - John Colwell, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1978 Simon Fraser)
1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 - Jeff Lloyd, jockey
1956 - Paul Molitor, St Paul MN, infielder (Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP)
1956 - Peter Taylor, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92)
1957 - Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands)
1957 - Randy Romero, Garden City NY, jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89)
1957 - Steve Davis, snooker player
1958 - Elhadjdia Ba, Dakar Senegal, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
1958 - Ian Mitchell, Edinburgh, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1958 - Colm Feore, American actor
1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 - Denise Curry, Daivs California, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Juan Croucier, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 - Debbi Peterson, LA California, rock drummer (Bangles-Eternal Flame)
1961 - Jay Ashton, rocker (Gene Loves Jezebel)
1961 - John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, rock vocalist (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels)
1962 - Gene Craig Sauers, Savannah GA, PGA golfer (1986 Bank of Boston)
1962 - James Debarge, Grand Rapids Mi, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Debarge)
1962 - Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, North American Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87)
1963 - Lily Yip, Canton China, US table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Terry Catledge, NBA star (Orlando Magic)
1963 - Thomas Ansberry, Okinawa Japan, US 10K runner
1963 - Tori Amos, [Myra Ellen Amos], NC, pianist/vocalist (Under The Pink,)
1964 - Dean Evason, Flin Flon, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 - Mats Wilander, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (1988-US, Aust, French)
1965 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Cambodia, tennis star (1994 Auckland doubles)
1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1966 - Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar)
1966 - Rob Witschge, Dutch soccer star (Ajax/Feyenoord)
1966 - GZA, American rapper
1967 - Layne Staley, US rock singer/guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt), (d. 2002)
1967 - Wale', Lagos Nigeria, model
1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 - Ant, American comedian
1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 - Henrik Holm, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Horst Skoff, Austria, tennis star
1968 - Michael Curry, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 - Paul Ereng, Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 - Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 - Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1969 - Hipolito Pichardo, Esperanza Dom Rep, pitcher (KC Royals)
1969 - Maurice Graef, soccer player (VVW, Roda JC)
1970 - Jean-Michel Bombardier, Brantford Ont Canada, ice pairs (1995, 96 Can)
1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1971 - Bernard Carter, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Jaguars, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 - Rick Yune, American actor
1972 - Marliece Andrada, Manteca California, playmate (March 1998)
1972 - Stephen Boyd, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 - Jennifer Makris, Miss USA-New Jersey (1997, top 10)
1973 - Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 - Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 - Agustï¿½n Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 - Charles C Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1975 - Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe (1997)
1975 - Robert Enes, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1976 - Jim Weaver, Northridge California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Lia Victoria Borrero, Miss Panama Universe (1997)
1977 - Heiï¿½ar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 - Lee Camp, English footballer
1986 - Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
Music history on August 22
1827 - Composer Josef Strauss was born.
1862 - Composer Achille-Claude Debussy was born.
1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ, began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
1938 - Count Basie recorded "Jumpinï¿½ at the Woodside."
1956 - Elvis began work on his first movie, "Love Me Tender." The film was originally entitled "The Reno Brothers."
1964 - Martha & The Vandellas' "Dancing In The Streets" was released.
1964 - The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. It was their first number-one single.
1964 - Liberty Records reported the album "The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles" was selling 25,000 copies a day.
1966 - Jerry Lee Lewis was signed to play Iago in "Catch My Soul," a rock version of Shakespeare's "Othello."
1968 - Cynthia Powell Lennon sued John Lennon for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
1969 - The Beatles filmed a film short for "The Long and Winding Road."
John Lennon Merchandise - Today in Beatles History - Beatles apparel and gear
1970 - Derek and the Dominoes began work on their first and only studio album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs."
1970 - Elton John signed with UNI, a division of MCA Records.
1979 - Led Zeppelin released their last album together, "In Through The Out Door."
1987 - Bon Jovi headlined the Mosters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England.
1997 - Tim Weisberg sued former partner Dan Fogelberg for alleged breach of contract and fraud over the recording of "No Resemblance Whatsoever."
1997 - Mark Wills made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry and performed his song "Jacob's Ladder."
1998 - Mark David Chapman said that he did not want any of the money that would be made from the sale of the signed "Double Fantasy" album that John Lennon signed for him the same day he was killed. Chapman was currently serving sentence for the December 8, 1980 murder.
2001 - Stevie Nicks postponed two concerts to undergo treatment for severe bronchitis.
2003 - The IRS confiscated personal belongings of Peabo Bryson to pay back taxes.
Sports history on August 22
1950 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition.
1951 - 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd to see a basketball game.
1972 - Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
1989 - Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.
2001 - Brett Hull signed a 2 year deal for $9 million with the Detroit Redwings.
2003 - Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals) went 0-5 to end a 30-game hitting streak.
Today's quote:
"Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity"
- Barney Kessel, jazz guitarist
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Historical events on August 23
79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
476 - Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
1046 - King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1328 - Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 - King Philip VI of France, crowned
1441 - Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1514 - Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1542 - Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1553 - Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1555 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1566 - Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566 - Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1582 - French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1595 - Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1614 - University of Groningen opens
1617 - 1st one-way streets open (London)
1708 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1711 - Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1784 - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
1796 - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1799 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1821 - Mexico declares independence
1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1838 - Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1839 - British capture Hong Kong from China
1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1862 - Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1872 - 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
1873 - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1879 - Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1883 - Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1896 - First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
1898 - 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1900 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1903 - 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1904 - Automobile tire chain patented
1906 - Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
1906 - Cuba's 1st president Tomï¿½s Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1907 - Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1910 - Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1911 - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1914 - -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1914 - Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
1914 - Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1915 - Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1916 - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1917 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1919 - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 - M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
1923 - Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1924 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1926 - 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1929 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1930 - 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1931 - Count Gyula Kï¿½rolyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 - Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1933 - 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1936 - 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
1938 - England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
1939 - John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin
1939 - USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1940 - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940 - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1942 - 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1942 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 - Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1942 - World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1943 - Red army recaptures Charkow
1943 - World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 - 94.5ï¿½F (34.7ï¿½C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5ï¿½F (38.6ï¿½C) in Warnsvelt
1944 - Allied troops capture Marseilles France
1944 - General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944 - General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944 - King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 - Romania liberated from Nazi occupation
1944 - Sammellager Drancy freed
1944 - US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 - US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1944 - World War II: Marseille liberated.
1946 - 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1946 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1947 - Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 - Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1948 - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1950 - Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1950 - West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1952 - Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952 - Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing
1953 - Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 - Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1953 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 - KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
1953 - USSR performs nuclear test
1954 - President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1954 - First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
1958 - Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1960 - World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1961 - Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961 - East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
1961 - US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1962 - 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
1962 - John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1963 - Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963 - Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1964 - St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1968 - Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1968 - Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1969 - Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno
1969 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1970 - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1970 - Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1971 - WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
1972 - Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched
1974 - John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
1974 - Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
1975 - Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975 - Communists take over Laos
1975 - Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1975 - Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975 - Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1977 - 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 - Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1979 - Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1979 - UN's Vienna office opens
1980 - Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1981 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1982 - Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 - Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985 - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985 - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1985 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1986 - "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1986 - Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1987 - 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987 - Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1988 - Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1989 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
1989 - Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1990 - Armenia declares independence
1990 - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1992 - Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1992 - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
1993 - NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1993 - Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1995 - Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becomes a category 5 hurricane
2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2006 - Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2010 - Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals.
2011 - Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2011 - 5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia
Music history on August 23
1947 - Margaret Truman, U.S. President Truman's daughter, gave her first public performance as a singer. The event was at the Hollywood Bowl and had an audience of 15,000.
1962 - John Lennon married Cynthia Powell at the Mount Pleasant Registry Office in Liverpool, England. They were divorced on November 8, 1968.
1968 - Ringo Starr temporarily quit The Beatles.
1988 - Good Question released their self-titled debut album.
1993 - The Los Angeles Police Department formally announced that Michael Jackson was the subject a criminal investigation.
1993 - Duran Duran received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
1994 - Prince released the home video "3 Chains O' Gold."
1995 - Natalie Merchant, former lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs, became the first guest in a series of live chats on the Elektra Entertainment Group's World Wide Web site.
1998 - "Scary Spice" Melanie Brown of the Spice Girls announced that she was pregnant.
2008 - Madonna began her "Sticky & Sweet" tour. When the tour ended it was the highest grossing tour on record.
Sports history on August 23
1970 - U.S. swimmer Gary Hall broke three world records at the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) outdoor swimming meet, held in Los Angeles, CA.
1982 - Gaylord Perry (Seattle Mariners) was tossed out of a game for throwing an illegal spitball.
1989 - Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball after being accused of gambling on baseball.
Famous birthdays on August 23
Louis XVI (France) 1754
Bob Crosby (The Bob Cats) 1913
Tex Williams 1917
Barbara Eden 1934 - Actress ("I Dream of Jeannie")
Sonny Jurgensen 1934
Keith Moon 1947 - Musician (The Who),
Shelley Long 1949 - Actress
Woody Paul (Riders in the Sky) 1949
Mark Hudson 1951
Jimi Jamison 1951 - Musician (Survivor)
Bobby G. (Bucks Fizz) 1953
Dean DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) 1961 -
Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays, Black Grape) 1962
River Phoenix 1970
Jay Mohr 1971
Quote of the day:
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Historical events on August 24
49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1200 - John of England, famous for issuing the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme at the Bordeaux Cathedral.
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1217 - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1391 - Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 - Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
1516 - Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1542 - Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1561 - Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1572 - King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1608 - 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1654 - Louis II Condï¿½ disbands ends of Atrecht
1658 - Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1662 - Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1690 - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1704 - Sea battle at Malaga
1751 - Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1787 - Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1814 - British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
1826 - Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1828 - Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1831 - John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1833 - HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1847 - Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY)
1854 - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1858 - Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1869 - Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1870 - The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1876 - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1893 - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die
1904 - 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1904 - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1905 - Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1906 - Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at Madison Square Garden
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1911 - Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1912 - NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
1912 - District Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
1912 - US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
1914 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914 - German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914 - Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
1918 - Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918 - Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1919 - Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
1921 - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
1921 - British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1922 - 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1923 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1925 - 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1929 - 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
1929 - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1929 - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
1931 - France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932 - 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1936 - Australian Antarctic Territory created
1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1937 - Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1937 - In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoï¿½a Agreement.
1938 - England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
1938 - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
1939 - Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs London
1940 - 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
1942 - Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942 - Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
1944 - Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1945 - Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
1950 - 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
1950 - Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
1950 - Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
1951 - Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on
1954 - Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 - International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1954 - William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1956 - 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1957 - British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958 - Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1959 - England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959 - Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1960 - -127ï¿½F (-88ï¿½C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1960 - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1961 - Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1961 - Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1962 - Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 - John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1964 - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
1966 - USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1967 - Liberian flag designed
1968 - France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1969 - Peru nationalizes US oil interests
1970 - Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1971 - India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1972 - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
1972 - Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia
1972 - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1973 - Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's
1973 - John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1975 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975 - SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
1975 - Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1976 - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - Cars play concert in NY Central Park
1979 - NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979 - UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1980 - Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 - Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1981 - American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1982 - KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1983 - Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1984 - Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1985 - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1986 - Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 - British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990 - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1991 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991 - Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1991 - Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991 - Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1992 - 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 - Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1992 - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
1993 - Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993 - Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
1994 - Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
1995 - Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
1995 - Windows 95 debuts
1997 - 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1997 - Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997 - Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
1997 - Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
1997 - Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
1997 - Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
1998 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
1998 - First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2000 - Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2004 - 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
Music history on August 24
1964 - The Beatles released "Matchbox/Slow Down."
1968 - Keith Moon (The Who) drove a Lincoln into the pool of a Holiday Inn in Flint, MI.
1969 - Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" premiered in both New York and Los Angeles.
1978 - Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone."
1979 - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" by Prince was released. It was his first U.S. hit.
1979 - B.B. King celebrated his 30th year in show business at a special celebration held at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
1979 - The Cars performed at New York's Central Park for an audience of a half million people.
1981 - Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
1982 - The Rolling Stones' live version of "Time Is On My Side," from their live LP "Still Life," was released as a single.
1983 - Jerry Lee Lewis' wife, Shawn, was found dead at the couple's home in Mississippi. An autopsy revealed she died of a methadone overdose.
1989 - The Who performed "Tommy" at the Universal Amphitheatre with special guests Steve Winwood, Elton John, Phil Collins, Patti LaBelle and Billy Idol.
1990 - It was ruled by a judge in Reno, NV, that the band Judas Priest was not responsible for the suicides of two youths after they had listened to the band's music.
1990 - Sinead O'Connor refused to perform if the United States National Anthem was played before her show at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Homdel, NJ, as is custom. A patriotic uproar ensued which led to several radio stations banning her music.
1994 - Dave Abruzzese quit Pearl Jam. He was replaced with drummer Jack Irons.
1998 - A Shania Twain concert in Syracuse, NY was halted when lightning hit the ground 40 yards behind the stage. The concert was almost over at the time of the lightning strike.
1998 - Ingrid Pederson came forward claiming to be the half-sister of John Lennon. The delay in information she said was to spare her adopted mother's feelings.
1999 - Warner Brothers released the album "The Vault...Old Friends 4 Sale" by Prince.
1999 - Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut album was released.
2001 - The Backstreet Boys resumed their "Black & Blue World Tour 2001." The tour had been put on hold on July 9, because A.J. McLean entered a treatment center for depression and alcohol abuse.
2004 - It was reported that the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum had acquired a Gibson L-5 accoustic guitar that had once been owned by "Mother Maybelle" Carter.
Sports history on August 24
1963 - John Pennel pole-vaulted 17 feet and 3/4 inches becoming the first to break the 17-foot barrier.
1975 - Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers set a major league baseball record when he stole his 38th consecutive base.
Famous birthdays on August 24
Joshua Lionel Cowen 1880
David Freiburg (Jefferson Starship) 1938
Ernest Wright (Little Anthony and the Imperials) 1941
Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) 1942
John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger) 1943
Gregory Jarvis 1944
Jim Brady (The Sandpipers) 1944
Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) 1945
Joe Regalbuto 1949
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace - it must be kept by men.
- U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1962.
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
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Historical events on August 25
325 - Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
357 - Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught
1212 - Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1330 - AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
1425 - Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
1485 - Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
1499 - Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1540 - Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1566 - Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1580 - Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1628 - Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia
1689 - Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French
1689 - Montreal taken by Iroquois
1698 - Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1704 - Battle at Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet
1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1758 - Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed
1768 - Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his 1st voyage onboard the Endeavour bound for the Pacific Ocean
1795 - Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
1802 - Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
1804 - Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
1829 - Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1830 - Belgium revolts against Netherlands
1830 - The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 - NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1864 - Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1886 - 1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
1888 - 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
1890 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1894 - -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1898 - 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
1904 - James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
1908 - National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1910 - 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1912 - Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
1912 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1914 - -26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp
1914 - Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1914 - German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914 - German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1915 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1916 - Dept of Interior forms National Park Service
1917 - 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1919 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1920 - 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1920 - Russia suffers a decisive defeat in the battle of Warsaw against Poland
1921 - US signs peace treaty with Germany
1921 - Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
1921 - The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
1922 - Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1924 - International maritime treaty drawn
1924 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1925 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
1925 - Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
1926 - Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
1928 - Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
1929 - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1932 - Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1936 - 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1937 - Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1940 - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1940 - 1st parachute wedding
1940 - Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1941 - English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941 - German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1942 - SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
1943 - 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
1943 - German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 - Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
1943 - Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
1943 - US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
1944 - France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1944 - Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris
1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
1944 - US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1946 - 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore
1947 - Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
1948 - Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1950 - Pres Harry Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
1951 - Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 - Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1954 - Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1955 - Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1956 - To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
1957 - Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1960 - 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1960 - AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 - Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
1961 - Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
1964 - Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression
1967 - Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 - Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1967 - Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 - Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1968 - NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered
1969 - Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 - Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
1973 - Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1973 - Zambia adopts constitution
1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 - LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1976 - Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1976 - Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1978 - Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs
1979 - California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1979 - Somali adopts constitution
1980 - "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
1980 - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
1980 - Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
1981 - Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1981 - Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
1981 - Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1983 - Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 - US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
1984 - French airship capsizes
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 - STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1986 - A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1987 - Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1987 - Madonna sings in Rotterdam
1988 - Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1988 - Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1988 - Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1989 - After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1990 - Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8ï¿½")
1990 - UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
1991 - "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs
1991 - 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig
1991 - 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
1991 - Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
1991 - Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
1991 - Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
1991 - Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament
1991 - Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps
1991 - Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
1991 - White-Russia declares it's independence
1991 - Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
1992 - Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
1995 - Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
1996 - 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 - Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
Music history on August 25
1941 - Skinnay Ennis and his orchestra recorded the tune, "Donï¿½t Let Julia Fool Ya."
1970 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer made their world debut at Plymouth Guild Hall in Plymouth, England.
1970 - Elton John made his first live appearance in the U.S. He opened for David Ackles at "The Troubadour" in Los Angeles, CA.
1973 - The Allman Brothers' "Ramblin' Man" was released.
1973 - Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers) broke a leg in a car crash in Macon, GA.
1975 - Bruce Springsteen's album "Born to Run" was released.
1976 - Boston released its self-titled debut album.
1979 - Gary Numan released "Cars."
1980 - The Broadway musical "42nd Street" opened.
1982 - The Time's second album "What Time Is It?" was released.
1986 - Paul Simon's "Graceland" was released.
1993 - 22-year-old Philip Woldemariam was shot in Los Angeles and Snoop Doggy Dogg was charged with first-degree murder as an accomplice. Dogg's bodyguard, McKinley Lee, was charged with first-degree murder. Lee and Dogg said the shooting was in self-defense after Woldemariam pulled a gun.
1994 - A New York judge formally dissolved the marriage between Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley.
1994 - Jimmy Buffett's plane flipped after taking off in Nantucket, MA. He swam to safety.
1994 - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page reunited in a London studio to record their MTV "Unplugged" show. The show was called "Unledded."
1995 - Dwayne Goettel (Skinny Puppy) was found dead of an apparent heroine overdose at the home of his parents in Canada.
1997 - Various artists recorded "Make a Miracle" to help the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
1998 - Dolly Parton released the album "Hungry Again."
2000 - It was announced that the Franklin Sullivan III (Survivor) would be asking a federal court in Chicago, IL, for a preliminary injunction against CBS Corp. and TVT Records LLC concerning the soon-to-be-released soundtrack from the CBS TV series "Survivor."
2001 - In the Bahamas, Aaliyah and eight others were killed when their plane crashed in Marsh Harbor, in the Abacos islands of the northern Bahamas. The cause appeared to be engine failure due to the plane being overloaded.
Sports history on August 25
1946 - Ben Hogan won the PGA in Portland, OR. It was his first major golf title.
1985 - Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher to win 20 major league baseball games in a season.
Famous birthdays on August 25
1530 - Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 - Franï¿½ois de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
1664 - Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent
1718 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
1724 - George Stubbs, England, animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion)
1741 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1744 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
1758 - Franz Teyber, composer
1767 - Antoine Louis Lï¿½on de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1775 - Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court in Rio de Janeiro)
1786 - [Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez)
1788 - Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
1796 - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1803 - Luï¿½s Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader
1811 - Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1812 - Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
1823 - John Newton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1825 - Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
1841 - Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
1845 - Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
1846 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
1851 - [Willem] Alexander KHF, prince of Orange/Netherlands
1860 - George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
1867 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1868 - Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
1877 - Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
1880 - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
1882 - Seï¿½n T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
1887 - Olav Fartein Valen, composer
1891 - Alberto Savinio, [Andrea de Chirico], Italian writer/composer
1891 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
1891 - Samuel Gardner, composer
1893 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1896 - Dick Ryan, CT, actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad)
1897 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer
1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1898 - Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
1900 - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
1901 - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director (Tivoli)
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco)
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment)
1903 - Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
1905 - Undine Smith Moore, composer
1905 - Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
1906 - Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
1906 - Mollie Panter-Downes, writer
1906 - William J Brennan, Newark, supreme court justice (1957-90) [or 4/25]
1906 - Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
1907 - Desmond Flower, publisher
1908 - Philip Coolidge, Concord MA, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler)
1909 - Arwel Hughes, composer
1909 - Michael Rennie, Engld, actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
1910 - Ruby Keeler, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (Dames, 42nd Street)
1910 - J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer
1910 - Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - Dorothea Tanning, Galesburg, Illinios, artist (Nachtmusik,1943, Night Shadow, 1945), (d. 2012)
1911 - Jacopo Napoli, composer
1911 - Vo Nguyen Giap (Vï¿½ Nguyï¿½n Giï¿½p), Vietnamese general and statesman
1912 - Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)
1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator (Pogo)
1913 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
1914 - Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
1915 - Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
1916 - Erich Von Stroheim Jr, actor/director (Napoleon, Sunset Blvd)
1916 - Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
1916 - Van Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1916 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1917 - Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
1917 - Mel Ferrer, Elberon New Jersey, American actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)
1918 - Richard Greene, Plymouth England, composer/actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
1919 - George C Wallace, Clio Ala, (gov-D-Ala)/pres candidate
1920 - Jef Diederen, Dutch painter
1921 - Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
1921 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer
1923 - Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
1925 - Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
1927 - Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
1928 - Karl Korte, composer
1928 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1930 - Ariana CE Amsberg, Dutch publicist/actress (Aside, Sekstant)
1930 - Graham Javis, Toronto Ontario, actor (Charlie-Mary Hartman)
1930 - Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
1930 - Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
1930 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1930 - Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1931 - Regis Philbin, host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1932 - Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut
1933 - Regis Philbin, TV talk show host (Joey Bishop, Regis & Kathie Lee)
1933 - Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
1933 - Wayne Shorter, rocker (Weather Report)
1934 - John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert (Dr No)
1934 - Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39)
1934 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
1934 - Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
1935 - David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
1935 - Lones Wigger, Great Falls Mont, shooter (Oly-gold/silver-1964, 72)
1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File)
1938 - David Canary, American actor
1939 - John Badham, Luton England, director (Dracula, Short Circuit)
1939 - Liselot[te JM] Beekmeyer, actress (Issue Blum)
1940 - Jose Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Francois d'Assisif)
1941 - Shirley Carter Burden, patrician
1942 - Imogen Hassall, Surrey England, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng)
1942 - Margaret L Thompson Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-76)
1942 - Nathen Deal, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1942 - Walter Williams, US, rock vocalist (O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl)
1944 - Anthony Heald, New Rochelle NY, actor (Orphans, Silence of Lambs)
1944 - Sherley Anne Williams, US literary (Dessa Rose)
1944 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1946 - Larry LaRocco, (Rep-D-Idaho)
1946 - Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981)
1946 - Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author
1946 - Charlie Sanders, American football player
1947 - Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1947 - Wim J van Gelder, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Anson Williams, actor (Happy Days)
1949 - Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1949 - John Savage, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
1949 - Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1950 - Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
1950 - Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1951 - Rob Halford, heavy metal (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing) [or Oct 25]
1952 - Duleep Mendis, cricketer (big-hitting Sri Lankan batsman of 80's)
1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1954 - Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], Lon, rock vocalist (Allison)
1954 - Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
1954 - Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1955 - Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician
1956 - Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1956 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d.1986)
1957 - Sikander Bakht, cricketer (Pakistani change bowler late 70's)
1958 - Christian LeBlanc, NC, actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
1958 - Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
1958 - Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1960 - Ashley Crow, American actress
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1961 - Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress (Kill Me Again)
1962 - Dan Turk, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1962 - Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
1962 - Ron Heller, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Shahid Mahboob, cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989)
1962 - Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
1962 - David Packer, American actor
1963 - James Backhouse, British artist
1964 - Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
1964 - Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
1964 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 - Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
1964 - Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
1965 - Cornelius Bennett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Kathleen Horvath, Chic Ill, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
1965 - Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Sanjeev Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89)
1965 - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
1966 - Albert Belle, Shreveport LA, outfielder (Indians, White Sox)
1966 - Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1966 - Robert Maschio, American Actor ("The Todd" in Scrubs)
1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1968 - Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 - Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 - Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1969 - Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1969 - Derek Fung, Hong Kong, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 - Elly Hakami, San Francisco CA, tennis star
1969 - Mike Gisler, corner (New England Patriots)
1969 - Mike Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Vivek Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90)
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
1970 - Debbie Graham, Walnut Creek California, tennis star (1993 Taranto doubles)
1970 - Doug Glanville, Hackensack NJ, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 - Katherine "Katie" Scanlon, Fairfield Ct, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Robert Horry, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Houston Rockets)
1970 - Ronald Waterreus, soccer player (Roda JC, PSV)
1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1971 - Makoto Kawahira, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1971 - Michael Chack, Toms River NJ, figure skater (1997 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1971 - Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host
1971 - Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1971 - Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1972 - Bryan Stoltenberg, corner (NY Giants)
1972 - Marlo Perry, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Marvin Harrison, wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Tony Dumas, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1974 - Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach Fla, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Mike Jenkins, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor
1974 - Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1975 - Molly Tuter, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1975 - Petria Thomas, Lismore NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1975 - Jeremy Horn, American MMA Fighter
1976 - Philippe Comtois, Montreal Quebec, Canadian 3m springboard diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Sam Mackinnon, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1976 - Sarah Nadeau, Portland Maine, Miss America-Maine (1997)
1976 - Alexander Skarsgï¿½rd, Swedish actor
1977 - Sophie Cadieux, Quebec actress
1977 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
1977 - Jonathan Togo, American actor
1978 - Kel Mitchell, American actor
1979 - Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1980 - Neal Musser, American baseball player
1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress
1981 - Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
1983 - James Righton, English musician (Klaxons)
1983 - James Rossiter, British racing driver
1983 - Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant
1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
1987 - James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
1987 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987 - Justin Upton, American baseball player
1988 - Angela Park, Brazilian/American golfer
1988 - Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
1994 - Josh Flitter, American actor
1997 - Holly Gibbs, English actress
1998 - China Anne McClain, American actress
Quote for today:
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
~Peter Lawrence
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
Historic events on August 26
580 - Chinese invents toilet paper
1071 - Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks.
1278 - Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
1303 - Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 - Battle at Crï¿½cy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle
1466 - A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietï¿½.
1541 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1545 - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
1549 - Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1634 - Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1641 - West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1648 - People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
1652 - Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
1745 - England, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1791 - John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
1794 - French troops occupy Lock
1839 - The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1843 - Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1846 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
1846 - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
1863 - Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1873 - 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
1874 - 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
1894 - Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1895 - Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
1896 - Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1903 - Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1907 - Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1909 - Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs
1909 - Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
1912 - 32nd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
1912 - Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1913 - 33rd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
1914 - -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1915 - German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1916 - Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
1916 - Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
1918 - W Smith & F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in NYC
1920 - Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
1922 - Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1924 - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
1929 - 1st US roller coaster built
1930 - Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
1933 - Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1935 - CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
1937 - Franco's troops conquer Santander
1937 - Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
1938 - British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1938 - Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
1939 - 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
1939 - Belgium mobilizes
1939 - Kroatia gets autonomous status
1940 - RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Fï¿½lix ï¿½bouï¿½, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 - 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
1942 - Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942 - Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 - Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
1944 - De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees
1944 - US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1945 - Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
1946 - George Orwell published "Animal Farm"
1947 - 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1950 - 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
1951 - Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1952 - Fluoridation of SF water begins
1955 - 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1956 - KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
1956 - Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
1957 - USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1961 - Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
1962 - Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
1963 - W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
1964 - Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman
1964 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1966 - Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1966 - KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 - Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
1967 - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1971 - Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1971 - NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
1971 - Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
1972 - 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
1972 - Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972 - NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 - U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1973 - 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
1974 - Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
1974 - Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1977 - Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1978 - Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1979 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 - Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
1980 - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1981 - Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1981 - Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
1982 - NASA launches Telesat-F
1983 - Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1984 - Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
1984 - Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
1985 - Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1985 - French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
1986 - Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1987 - Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
1988 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1989 - Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
1990 - 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
1990 - Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
1991 - Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
1992 - "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
1995 - Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan
1995 - Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
1996 - Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 - The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2008 - Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2011 - The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
Music history on August 26
1893 - Composer Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger was born.
1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner.
1938 - The classic song "Ain't Misbehavin'" was recorded by Fats Waller.
1965 - Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction" was released.
1965 - The Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe In Magic" was released.
1976 - It was announced by RCA Victor records that the sales of Elvis Presley records passed the 400 million mark.
1980 - Linda Rondstadt made her debut on Broadway. The production was Gilber & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."
1990 - Prince released the soundtrack to "Graffiti Bridge."
1990 - Ratt released the album "Detonator."
1992 - Sting and Trudi Styler were married.
1993 - Bernie Taupin, Elton John's lyricist, married Stephanie Haymes.
1994 - John Denver was charged with drunken driving after crashing his Porsche into a tree.
1995 - R.E.M. sued Hershey Foods, claiming the company exploited its name when it ran a "Kit Kat - R.E.M. Concert" sweepstakes in Hershey candy bars. The suit was eventually dropped.
1996 - Former Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne sued to prevent the rest of the group from touring as "The Heads." The suit was settled out of court.
1997 - At a press conference in the San Francisco Hard Rock Cafe, Carlos Santana unveiled a limited-edition t-shirt bearing his artwork. He autographed 500 of the shirts for distribution to foreign and domestic markets.
2006 - German prosecutors announced that they had decided against opening an investigation into Madonna after she performed a controversial mock crucifixion scene at a concert on August 20.
Sports history on August 26
1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1947 - Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball.
1961 - The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto opened. The project had been approved on September 11, 1943.
1998 - In east Bohemia, Buffalo Sabres goalie Dominik Hasek was fined $30 for speeding when he ran his Ferrari off the road and hit a tree.
Famous birthdays on August 26
1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1596 - Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
1627 - Thomas Bullis, composer
1676 - Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5]
1687 - Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph)
1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1726 - Karl Kohaut, composer
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romï¿½ de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
1743 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
1745 - Francois Guichard, composer
1749 - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer
1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1788 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
1789 - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1811 - Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1813 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks)
1819 - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria
1820 - James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)
1823 - Wilhelm Troszel, composer
1825 - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian
1826 - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1828 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1833 - Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1842 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)
1843 - George August Lumbye, composer
First Victim of Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols (1845) 1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
1854 - Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
1862 - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1870 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7]
1873 - Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 - John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
1882 - James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
1882 - Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian (Neth Archives)
1884 - Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
1885 - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
1887 - Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer
1890 - Tommy Andrews, cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920's)
1891 - Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author
1891 - Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright (Races)
1894 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 - Richard Hammond, composer
1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector
1899 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 - Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
1901 - Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP, 1959-63)
1901 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer (Fiat)
1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1903 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer
1904 - Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin)
1906 - Albert B Sabin, Russia, US microbiologist (oral polio vaccine)
1908 - Bill Hunt, cricketer (NSW slow left-armer, Test for Australia 1933)
1908 - W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1909 - Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler (5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39)
1909 - Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1909 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1910 - Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel Peace Prize 1979)
1911 - Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
1913 - Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier
1913 - Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist
1913 - Tschakowski, writer
1914 - Julio Cortï¿½zar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1915 - Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
1915 - William Bardwell, composer
1916 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian
1917 - Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
1917 - William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85)
1918 - Louis W "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor (Residence Orchestra)
1919 - Ronny Graham, Phila Pa, actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico & the Man)
1920 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1921 - Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive (Washington Post)
1921 - David Begelman, film producer
1921 - William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor (Fisher King, Waterworld)
1922 - Lazar Nikolov, composer
1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
1924 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1925 - Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
1927 - Francois Leydet, sierra club (Last Redwoods)
1927 - Sam Massell, (Mayor-Atlanta)
1927 - B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 - Naï¿½m Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 - Joe Solomon, cricketer (WI batsman of 50's Cap fell on wkt v Aust)
1931 - Dane Skerl, composer
1931 - Guy Vander Jagt, (Rep-R-MI, 1966- )
1932 - Joe H Engle, Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I)
1934 - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist
1935 - Cornelis B Vaandrager, [Cor Vaan], Dut poet (Long Live Joop Massaker)
1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female dem VP candidate (1984)
1936 - Yvette Vickers, KC, playmate (Jul 1959)/actress (Attack of 50' Woman)
1937 - Tom Heinsohn, NBA star/coach (Boston Celtic)
1938 - Francine York, Aurora Minn, actress (Slattery's People)
1938 - Maurice Williams, rocker
1938 - Jet Black, English drummer, one of the founding members of The Stranglers
1940 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director (Barfly, Single White Female, More)
1941 - Chris Curtis, [Chris Crummy], rock drummer/vocalist (Deep Purple)
1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1942 - John E Blaha, San Antonio, USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, 43, 58, 79/81)
1942 - Vic Dana, Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts)
1943 - Ulf Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 - Cornelia J "Corry" Arends, Dutch actress (Fool's Hat)
1944 - Richard A W G, English prince/duke of Gloucester
1944 - Stephen Greif, English actor
1945 - Melvin Watt, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1946 - Alison Steadman, Liverpool England, actress (Life is Sweet)
1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
1946 - Mark Snow, American composer
1946 - Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1947 - Candy Moore, Maplewood NJ, actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy & Champ)
1947 - Emiliano Dï¿½ez, Cuban actor
1948 - Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
1949 - John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1950 - Richard Cowsill, Newport RI, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
1950 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
1951 - Robert G Torricelli, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1983- )
1952 - Billy Rush, rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1952 - John Kinsella, USA, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - Michael Jeter, Lawrenceburg TN, actor (Fisher King)
1952 - Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 - Michael Chetwood, rocker
1954 - Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
1954 - Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ/actor (Funny Man)
1954 - Wally Murphy, rocker
1954 - Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player
1956 - Mark Mangino, American football coach
1957 - Alex Trevino, catcher (LA Dodgers)
1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 - Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1958 - Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
1959 - Jim Rutledge, Victoria, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Indian Open)
1959 - Joanne Gail Abbott, executive (MTV)
1959 - Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1960 - Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist (Bring on the Night, Tonight Show)
1960 - Nancy Martinez, rocker
1960 - Ola Ray, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jun, 1980)/actress (Thriller)
1961 - Jeff Parrett, Indianapolis IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1961 - Jimmy Olander, Palos Verdes Cal, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in Middle)
1962 - Roger Kingdom, US 60m hurdler (world record)
1962 - Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
1962 - Tariq Ramadan, Geneva, Switzerland, Islamic scholar
1963 - David Byas, cricketer (left-handed Yorkshire batsman)
1964 - Bobby Jurasin, CFL defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1964 - Chad Kreuter, Marin County CA, catcher (Chic White Sox)
1964 - Dave Boyes, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Karla Karch-Gailus, Vancouver BC, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1965 - Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome (Corky-Life Goes On)
1965 - Jon Hensley, Doylestown PA, actor (Holden Snyder-As the World Turns)
1965 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1966 - Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1967 - Myron Guyton, NFL full safety (NE Patriots)
1968 - Courtney Hall, NFL center (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Gavin Stratfold, Darwin NT, Australasia golfer
1968 - Byron Lawson, Canadian actor
1969 - Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Allentown Penn, wife of John Cougar
1969 - Mike Gisler, NFL guard/center (NE Patriots)
1969 - Nicole Arendt, Somerville NJ, tennis star (1996 Aust doubles finalist)
1969 - Ricky Bottalico, New Britain CT, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Brett Schultz, cricket pace bowler (South African Test)
1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Heerde Neth, tennis star (1993 ATP World Doubles)
1970 - Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete
1971 - Jocelyn Borgella, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Sharon Tina Jenkins, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Thalï¿½a, Mexican singer
1972 - Sherell Ford, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1973 - Barret Robbins, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Freddie Scott, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Kelvin Cato, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer
1975 - Shea Seals, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1975 - Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player
1976 - Carey Tally, Memphis Tenn, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1976 - Zemfira, Russian singer
1977 - Liam Botham, cricketer (son of Ian Hampshire all-rounder 1996)
1977 - Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyū
1977 - Morris Peterson, American basketball player
1978 - Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1979 - Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Rubï¿½n Pazos, Spanish footballer
1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
1980 - Macaulay Culkin, NYC, actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich)
1980 - Brendan Harris, American baseball player
1980 - Chris Pine, American actor
1981 - Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
1981 - Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 - Demetria McKinney, American actress
1981 - Tino Best, West Indian cricketer
1982 - David Long, New Zealand musician
1983 - Fï¿½lix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Cassie, American singer
1988 - Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
1988 - Danielle Savre, American actress
1988 - Evan Ross, American actor
1990 - Lil' Chris, British singer
1992 - Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast
1993 - Keke Palmer, American actress
Quote for today:
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
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Historical events on August 27
479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted.
663 - Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage the combined naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; the outcome is a significant Tang-Silla victory, while the Japanese would not attempt another invasion of Korea until the Japanese invasions of Korea of the late 16th century.
1232 - Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation
1232 - The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1549 - Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1569 - Pope Pius names Cosimo I de Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1585 - Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1601 - Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1610 - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1619 - Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1626 - Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1628 - Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1634 - Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
1665 - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1689 - The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1788 - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 - French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
1798 - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1799 - English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1813 - Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1816 - Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1828 - Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
1828 - The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
1832 - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1861 - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
1862 - Battle of Cub Run, VA
1881 - Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1892 - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1895 - 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1896 - England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1897 - Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1900 - Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
1903 - 23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1908 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 - Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1910 - Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1910 - Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1911 - Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1913 - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1914 - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914 - US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1916 - Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1917 - Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1918 - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918 - Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 - 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 - 42nd US Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1932 - 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 - Intl anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1933 - Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
1934 - Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1937 - Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1938 - Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 - Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 - Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 - Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939 - Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1940 - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1941 - Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1942 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1944 - 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1945 - US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1948 - 102ï¿½F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1950 - 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1950 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1952 - Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1955 - "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
1955 - Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1956 - Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
1957 - Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1958 - Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1960 - Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
1961 - Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1962 - Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 - Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965 - WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1966 - Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 - Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1966 - Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1967 - Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 - US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1974 - NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
1975 - 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1976 - Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1977 - "Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1977 - Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977 - Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1978 - Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 - Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 - Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1979 - 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1980 - Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
1981 - Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 - Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1983 - Haiti adopts constitution
1983 - US performs nuclear test
1984 - President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 - Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1986 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1988 - Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Phila, 4-2
1989 - 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 - 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 - Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1990 - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 - Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 - Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 - WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1991 - Moldavia declares independence from USSR
1992 - CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1992 - Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
1993 - Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1993 - The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
1994 - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
1995 - "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances
1995 - 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
1995 - 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 - Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
2000 - 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2006 - Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
Musical history on August 27
1889 - Charles G. Conn received a patent for the metal clarinet.
1939 - Allan Jones recorded "I'm Falling in Love with Someone."
1965 - Elvis Presley played host to the Beatles at his home in Bel-Air, CA.
1965 - Bob Dylan's second electric album, "Highway 61 Revisited," was released.
1966 - The Association's "Cherish" was released.
1967 - Brian Epstein was found dead in his home from an overdose of sleeping pills. Epstein was the manager of the Beatles.
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughn and three members of Eric Clapton's band were killed in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.
1992 - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day In The Life" sold for $87,000 at an auction.
1995 - Neil Young headlined the Redding Festival with Pearl Jam as his backing band.
1997 - Steven Seagal kicked off a North American music tour to promote his newest film "Fire Down Below."
Sports history on August 27
1889 - Boxer Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey was defeated for the first time of his career by George LaBlanche.
1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers.
1986 - Nolan Ryan, while with the Houston Astros, earned his 250th career win against the Chicago Cubs.
Famous birthdays on August 27
1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 - George von Saksen-Meissen, German potester of Frisia
1471 - George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
1487 - Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1545 - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer
1583 - Simon Besler, composer
1630 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch flower painter
1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1650 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1666 - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
1669 - Anne Marie of Orlï¿½ans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1677 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1698 - Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760)
1719 - John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79)
1724 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 - Hamann, writer
1752 - Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
1768 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1803 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, ï¿½ 15th VP (1861-65)
1824 - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1826 - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
1832 - James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1835 - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter
1837 - Heinrich Urban, composer
1839 - Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881
1847 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge
1849 - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno)
1856 - Iwan Franko, writer
1858 - Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician
1865 - Charles Gates Dawes, ï¿½ 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1867 - Umberto Giordano, composer
1870 - Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
1874 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
1877 - Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
1877 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1878 - Joseph John Richards, composer
1882 - Jaroslav Kricka, composer
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, [Gelbfisch], film magnate (MGM)
1884 - Harry Antrim, Chicago IL, actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway)
1884 - Vincent Auriol, president of France (1947-53)
1886 - Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
1886 - Rebecca Clarke, composer
1890 - Man Ray, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American artist and photographe (Dada)
1894 - Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1896 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor [o.s. 15-08]
1896 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1897 - Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter
1898 - Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols
1899 - Byron Foulger, Ogden UT, actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke)
1899 - Cecil Scott Forester, Engld, historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)
1899 - C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1901 - Al Ritz, [Joaquim], Newark NJ, actor (Ritz Brothers, Hi Ya Chum)
1901 - Roger Pryor, NYC, actor (Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown)
1902 - Herbert Menges, composer
1903 - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles)
1904 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1905 - Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
1905 - Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Donald [George] Bradman, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs)
1908 - Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 - Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall Tx, (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969), (d. 1973)
1908 - Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 - Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist
1909 - Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-IL, 1949-62, 65- )
1909 - Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist
1911 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 - Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
1913 - Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID
1913 - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher
1913 - Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1914 - Catherine Marshall, editor/writer
1915 - Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1916 - Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1916 - Tony Harris, cricketer (Springbok 5/8th, Test batsman))
1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1918 - Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP (Labour)
1919 - John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir (Museum of Fine Physician, Boston)
1919 - Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP (Labour)
1920 - James Molyneaux, MP (Ulster unionist)
1921 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 - David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 - Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW leg-spin all-rounder)
1925 - Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
1925 - Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1925 - Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1926 - Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 - Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
1927 - Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
1928 - Jack Thompson, MP (Labour)
1928 - Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Korc/owner (McDonalds & San Diego Padres)
1928 - Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, premier of Kwazulu (Shaka Zulu)
1928 - Peter Richard Tahourdin, composer
1929 - Ad J Hermes, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
1929 - Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1929 - Ira Levin, author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day)
1930 - John Daly, British trade union leader
1930 - John Watts, chief of defense (Omani Armed Forces)
1931 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931 - Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1932 - Antonia Fraser, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1932 - Francois Glorieux, composer
1932 - M N Burdayev, cosmonaut
1932 - Mikhail Nikolayevich Burdayev, cosmonaut
1933 - Joke Smit, Dutch feminist
1935 - Frank Yablans, NYC, writer (North Dallas Forty)
1935 - Michael Holroyd, author
1935 - Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1936 - Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 - Alice Coltrane, jazz musician
1937 - Mark Potter, British court judge
1937 - Phil Shulmon, rocker (Gentle Giant)
1937 - Tommy Sands, Chicago IL, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
1940 - David Hart, gen-sect (National Association of Head Teachers)
1940 - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, American jazz guitarist
1941 - Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1941 - Harrison Page, American actor
1941 - Ces
1942 - Daryl Dragon, Pasadena California, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
1942 - Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1943 - Bob Kerrey, (Sen-D Nebraska)
1943 - [Susan] Tuesday Weld, NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
1944 - Barry Conyngham, composer
1944 - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD)
1945 - G W Bailey, Port Arthur Tx, actor (Dr Beale-St Elsewhere)
1946 - Tony Howard, cricketer (WI off-spinner one Test v NZ 1972)
1947 - Jacques Arnold, MP (Conservative)
1947 - John Morrison, cricketer ("Mystery" NZ batsman 1973-82)
1947 - Susie McAllister, LPGA golfer
1947 - Harry Reems, American actor
1948 - Andy Turnell, horse trainer
1948 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1949 - Andrew McKay, conservative MP
1949 - Barbara Bach, [Goldbach], Queens NY, American actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
1949 - Douglas Fred Tewell, Baton Rouge LA, PGA golfer (1980 Sea Pines)
1949 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist
1949 - Edmund Weiner, lexicographer
1949 - Jeff Cook, Fort Payne Ala, country guitar/vocalist (Alabama-Mt Music)
1949 - Simon Kirke, rocker (Bad Company)
1950 - Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1950 - Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1951 - Don [Sheldon George] Pooley Jr, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1980 BC Open)
1952 - Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1953 - Alex Lifeson, Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Rush)
1953 - Willy "Mink" Deville, [Borsay], US blues/rock singer (Hey! Joe)
1953 - Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1954 - Derek Warwick, race car driver
1954 - John Lloyd, England, tennis star (former husband of Chris Everet)
1955 - Diana Scarwid, Savannah GA, actress (Extermites, Psycho 3, Heat)
1955 - Roderick Hopkins Davis, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96)
1955 - Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1955 - Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1956 - Glen Matlock, rock bassist (Sex Pistols)
1957 - Bernhard Langer, golfer
1958 - Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, Russia, cosmonaut (TM-7, TM-12, STS 60)
1958 - Yoshinori Mizumaki, Tokyo Japan, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson-2nd)
1958 - Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1958 - Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1959 - Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
1959 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1960 - Damon Keeve, SF California, heavyweight (209+ lbs) judoka (Olympics-92, 96)
1961 - "Downtown" Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
1961 - Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1962 - Scott Davis, Santa Monica CA, tennis star
1962 - Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
1963 - Patty Duffek, Woodland Hills California, playmate (May, 1984)
1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
1964 - Frankie Thorn, American actress
1965 - Michael Perry, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos)
1965 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Phnom Penh Kampuchea, Canada tennis (Oly-92, 96)
1965 - Wayne James, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test wicketkeeper v Pakistan 1993)
1966 - Deena Wigger, Colorado Springs CO, US shooter (Olympic-92)
1966 - Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 - Brian McRae, Bradenton FL, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Rob Burnett, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns/Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1968 - Christine Schaefer, Florence Ky, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1968 - Emanual Davis, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1968 - Martin Lowenfish, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1968 - Michael Long, Cromwell NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 - Kipp Vickers, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Mark Ealham, cricketer (Kent & England Test all-rounder 1996)
1969 - Steven Van Randwijck, Wash DC, field hockey player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Cesar Millan, professional dog trainer
1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress
1970 - Andy Bichel, cricketer (Australian pace bowler v WI 1997)
1970 - Dene Hills, cricketer (prolific Tasmanian batsman)
1970 - Greg Woodcroft, Hamilton Ontario, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1970 - Jim Thome, Peoria IL, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Mark Ilott, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler 1993-)
1970 - Reggie Slater, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
1970 - Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1971 - Ernest Faber, soccer player (PSV)
1971 - Jim Flanigan, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1971 - Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1972 - Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Donta Jones, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1972 - Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
1973 - Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1973 - Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1974 - Sean Woodson, safety (Buffalo Bills)
1974 - Josï¿½ Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 - Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 - Cartos Moya, Spain, tennis star
1976 - Craig Mills, Toronto, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 - Michelle Kathlene Cardamon, California, Miss Teen USA (1996-3rd)
1977 - Sarah Chalke, Ottawa, actress (Becky-Roseanne, Ernest Goes to School)
1977 - Trisha Williams, Hobbs New Mexico, Miss America-New Mexico (1997)
1977 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Ara Francis, Miss Colorado Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
1979 - Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1979 - Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1980 - Stephanie Michelle Steele, Abilene TX, country singer
1980 - Kyle Lowder, American actor
1983 - Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 - Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
1987 - Darren McFadden, American football player
1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress
Today's quote:
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
- Lydia Maria Child
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
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Historic events on August 28
475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
476 - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 - Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1542 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovï¿½o da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1619 - Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1632 - Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1637 - WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1640 - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 - 1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Balt to Ellicotts Mill
1830 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1840 - 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1850 - Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1861 - Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1862 - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 - Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000
1862 - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
1879 - Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz
1883 - Slavery banned throughout British Empire
1884 - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1884 - Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1907 - United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1908 - 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1911 - 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)
1914 - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914 - John French evacuate Amiens
1916 - Germany declares war on Romania
1916 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 - 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
1918 - Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
1919 - General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1921 - 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
1921 - Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1922 - 1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
1922 - Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC
1922 - WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1925 - Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1926 - Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1929 - Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1938 - Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1938 - Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1938 - On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
1939 - "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 - Netherland mobilizes
1939 - Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
1940 - French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
1941 - 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1941 - Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
1942 - 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1942 - Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
1942 - Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 - Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
1944 - US air raid on Ambon
1949 - 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1949 - Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1950 - Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
1951 - Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 - Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
1952 - German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 - Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1953 - "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
1955 - 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1956 - England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
1957 - Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1958 - Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1960 - White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
1962 - 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1962 - Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1963 - 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
1963 - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1964 - Race riot in Philadelphia
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 - WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
1965 - Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1967 - Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng
1967 - Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1968 - 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1968 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
1970 - Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 - "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 - "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
1973 - 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - India & Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1976 - NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1977 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1977 - NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1978 - Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1978 - Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1979 - IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1979 - Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1981 - John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
1981 - Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1981 - National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1982 - "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 perfs
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1983 - "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances
1983 - Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1983 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 - Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 - Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1986 - Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 - Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1986 - Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1987 - Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
1988 - 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years & Richard Kiley
1988 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 - 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 - Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
1988 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 - 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1989 - Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0
1990 - Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1990 - Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1991 - Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 - Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
1992 - Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
1993 - Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1993 - Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 - Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
1993 - Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1994 - 1st Japanese gay pride parade
1994 - 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
1994 - 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 - Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
1995 - Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 & 157
1996 - Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex
1997 - Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 - An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina hammers the south eastern United States, especially New Orleans, Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi.
Music history on August 28
1850 - Wagnerï¿½s opera, "Lohengrin," was performed for the first time.
1931 - "You Rascal You" was recorded by Henry Allen, with the Luis Russell Band.
1961 - "Please Mr. Postman" was released by the Marvelettes.
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary performed "Blowin' In The Wind" before Civil Rights marchers who had gathered in Washington to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak.
1964 - The Beatles appeared on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1967 - The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company played at the wake of a heck's Angels member who had been struck by a car in San Francisco, CA.
1972 - David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars made their debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.
1978 - Devo released their "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo" LP.
1984 - The Jacksonsï¿½ Victory Tour broke the record for concert ticket sales. The group surpassed the 1.1 million mark in only two months.
1986 - Tina Turner was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
1995 - Oingo Boingo announced they would break up following a series of Halloween shows in California.
1997 - The first Genesis album in six years was premiered live in an Album Network radio special and simultaneous webcast at www.atlantic-records.com.
Sports history on August 28
1922 - The Walker Cup was held for the first time at Southampton, NY. It is the oldest international team golf match in America.
1941 - The Football Writers Association of America was organized.
1972 - Mark Spitz captured the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He set a world record when he completed the 200-meter butterfly in 2 minutes and 7/10ths of a second.
Famous birthdays on August 28
865 - Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian physician
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1476 - Motonoboe, Japanese painter (Kano-school)
1582 - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM (1625-28)
1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Gï¿½strow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1673 - Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
1691 - Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbï¿½ttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1700 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer
1713 - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland
1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lï¿½neburg (d. 1774)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust), (d. 1832)
1754 - Peter Winter, composer
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975), (d. 1821)
1775 - Sophie Gail, composer
1789 - Stï¿½phanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1794 - Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
1795 - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
1798 - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
1801 - Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot)
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1824 - Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician
1826 - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
1827 - Teresa Milanollo, composer
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1828 - William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900
1829 - Albert Dietrich, composer
1831 - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer
1831 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
1833 - Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer
1840 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1842 - Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1853 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1860 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
1872 - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple, US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
1881 - Arne Eggen, composer
1882 - Carl W de Vries, Dutch jurist (Unknown Thorbecke)
1883 - E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor (Night Must Fall, Dark Hour)
1885 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
1885 - Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1887 - Daniel Zamudio, composer
1889 - Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
1890 - Ivor Gurney, composer
1891 - Stanley Andrews, Chicago IL, actor (Shine on Harvest Moon)
1894 - Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower)
1894 - Karl Bï¿½hm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1897 - Morris Ankrum, IL, actor (Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers)
1898 - Ludwig Turek, writer
1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1901 - Cornelis J Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet)
1901 - Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
1903 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer
1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 - Cyril Walters, cricketer (solid England batsman of 30's)
1905 - Sam Levene, Russia, actor (Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang)
1906 - John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
1907 - Philip A Edwards, Brit Guiana, runner (Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36)
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)
1910 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 - Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician
1911 - Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general (NATO)
1912 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
1913 - John Terence Reese, bridge master
1913 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (great Australian bat & capt after Bradman)
1913 - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera)
1914 - Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
1915 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 - C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) [or May 28]
1916 - Jack [Holbrook] Vance, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume)
1916 - Hï¿½lï¿½ne Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1917 - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)
1918 - Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician
1919 - Ernest H Martin, [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1920 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 - Joop Doderer, Velsen Netherlands, actor (Swiebertje)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, Harrisburg PA, actress (Miss Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies)
1921 - Fernando Fernï¿½n Gï¿½mez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1924 - Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, Long Beach California, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
1924 - Tony MacGibbon, NZ cricket fast bowler (took 70 wickets in 1950's)
1924 - Vilayat Khan, composer
1925 - Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
1925 - John Gillett, film researcher
1925 - Marvin Davis, Newark NJ, CEO (Davis Oil Company)
1925 - Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 - James Wild, music teacher
1928 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 - Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
1930 - Ben Gazzara, NYC, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII), (d. 2012)
1930 - Windsor Davies, British actor
1931 - John Perkins, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice)
1931 - Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canada, NY Ranger (1958 NHL MVP)
1932 - Carlene Polite, US dancer/activist/author (Sister X)
1932 - [Moriyuki] Pat Morita, Isleton CA, actor (Hiroshima, Karate Kid)
1935 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 - Harry McLevy, trade Unionist
1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1937 - 12th duke of Argyll, Scottish Campbell-captain/large landowner
1938 - Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1939 - Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
1939 - Clem Cattini, rocker
1939 - Edward Patten, US soul singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1940 - Richard Sanders, actor (Les Nessman-WKRP)
1940 - William S Cohen, (Sen-R Maine, 1979- )
1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 - Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1941 - Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens)
1941 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1943 - Anne "Honey" Lantree, rocker
1943 - David Soul, [Solberg] Chicago, actor (Starsky & Hutch)
1943 - Lou Pinella, Yankee manager (1969 AL rookie of the year)
1943 - Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1944 - Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1945 - Bruno Nuytten, director (Camille Claudel)
1945 - Bob Segarini, Musician and radio personality
1947 - Alice Playton, NYC, actress (Who Killed Mary Whats 'er Name)
1947 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1948 - Daniel Seraphine, Chicago, rock drummer (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1948 - Murray Parker, cricketer (brother of John Three Tests for NZ 1976)
1948 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV)
1949 - Hugh Cornwell, rocker (The Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1950 - Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry, Yankee pitcher (Cy Young 1978)
1951 - Dave Hlubek, rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet)
1951 - Wayne Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1951 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1952 - Rita Dove, American poet
1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 - Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 - Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1953 - Gates McFadden, Columbus Ohio, actress (Star Trek Next Generation)
1954 - George Church, American geneticist
1956 - Beverley Goddard-Callender, Barbados, 4x100m (Olympic-bronze-1980, 84)
1956 - Luis Guzmï¿½n, Puerto Rican actor
1957 - Daniel Stern, Stamford Ct, actor (City Slickers, Wonder Years)
1957 - Rick Rossovich, Palo Alto CA, actor (Top Gun, Roxanne, ER)
1958 - Scott Scovell Hamilton, Toledo Oh, ice skater (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Mary Murphy, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1990 US Women's Open-5th)
1960 - Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader
1960 - Emma Samms, [Samuels], London, actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
1960 - Leroy Chiao, Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut (STS 65, 72, sk: 92)
1961 - Kim Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
1961 - Kim Appleby, English singer
1962 - Richard Elliott Fehr, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1986 BC Open)
1962 - Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 - David Fincher, American music video and film director
1963 - Abe Button, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 - Regina Marie Jacobs, LA CA, 800m/1500m runner (Olympics-10th-1996)
1963 - Reyna Thompson, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1964 - Lee MacLeod Janzen, Austin MN, PGA golfer (1993 US Open)
1965 - James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
1965 - Shania Twain, Windsor Ontario, Canadian singer (You're Still the One)
1966 - Jerry Fehily, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1966 - Teresa Zarzeczny Bell, Washington Crossing NJ, rower (Oly-silver-1996)
1966 - Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1967 - Chris Armstrong, CFL slot back (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Darren Lewis, Berkeley CA, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1967 - Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 - Scarlet Annette Morgan, Pfafftown NC, Miss NC-America-1991
1968 - Tom Fitzgerald, Melrose, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 - Jason Priestley, Vancouver BC, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
1969 - Mary McCartney, daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney
1969 - Pierre Turgeon, Rouyn, NHL center (NY Islanders, Montreal Canadiens)
1969 - Jack Black, American actor
1970 - Gavin Maxwell, Mississauga Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Jaime Fields, NFL/WLAF linebacker (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1971 - Janet Evans, Fullerton CA, 400m/800m swimmer (Oly-4 gold-88, 92, 96)
1971 - Olaf Sheep, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 - Raul Marquez, Mexico, US boxer (Olympic-92)
1971 - Scott Eldredge, Chatham Mass, 1996 World Mens' Champion
1971 - Shane Andrews, Dallas TX, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Todd Eldredge, Chatham Mass, figure skater (1997 National Sr champ)
1972 - Darby Hendrickson, Richfield Minn, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Mike Cawley, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1973 - Eric Lindros, NHLer (Phila Flyers)
1973 - Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1973 - DJ Assault, American musician
1974 - Mark Smith, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1974 - Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 - Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1975 - Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975 - Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 - Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
1976 - Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1978 - Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979 - Markus Prï¿½ll, German footballer
1979 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 - Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1979 - Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 - Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1980 - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981 - Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981 - Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1981 - Agata Wrï¿½bel, Polish weightlifter
1981 - Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1981 - Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1982 - Le Ann Rimes, country singer (Blue, Holiday in Your Heart)
1982 - Anderson Silva de Franï¿½a, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1983 - Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 - Alfonso Herrera, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
1988 - Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
1990 - Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor
1991 - Sarah Jane Santos, Filipino singer
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
Today's quote:
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos
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Historical events in August 29
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1178 - Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1261 - Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 - Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts
1484 - Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nï¿½ndorfehï¿½rvï¿½r, now known as Belgrade.
1526 - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohï¿½cs
1533 - Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1540 - Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1612 - Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
1640 - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1655 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1664 - Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1708 - English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia
1708 - Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
1742 - Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
1756 - England & France meet in war
1756 - Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
1758 - New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
1776 - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1786 - Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1792 - English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1793 - Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1825 - Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
1842 - Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1844 - 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1854 - Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1861 - American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1862 - Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
1862 - US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1864 - William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1882 - Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"
1882 - Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 & 7-44)
1883 - Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885 - Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
1885 - Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1889 - 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
1896 - Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1905 - Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
1906 - Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
1906 - William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open
1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1908 - NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
1909 - AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909 - World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1913 - Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
1914 - 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914 - Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
1914 - Battle at St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac
1916 - Congress creates US Naval reserve
1916 - Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916 - Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
1916 - US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence
1916 - Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1918 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
1924 - German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
1925 - 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
1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1932 - International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932 - United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1935 - 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
1937 - Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1939 - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1940 - 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1941 - German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1943 - Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1944 - 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944 - Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
1945 - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 - Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1947 - Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1949 - USSR performs first nuclear test
1949 - USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1950 - Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
1953 - KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 - SF International Airport (SFO) opens
1956 - French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1957 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 - Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 - Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1958 - George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
1960 - Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1962 - Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962 - US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1963 - Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
1964 - "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs
1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1964 - On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
1965 - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1965 - Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
1966 - Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
1966 - Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
1967 - Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
1967 - 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
1968 - 1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains)
1968 - Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
1968 - Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja
1969 - Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1969 - KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
1972 - SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 - Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 - St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 - USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
1979 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1981 - 28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9
1981 - Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
1982 - 38ï¿½F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1982 - George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982 - Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft fï¿½r Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1985 - Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
1985 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1985 - NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
1986 - Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1986 - Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
1987 - Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
1987 - Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
1988 - Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 - USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1991 - JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney
1991 - USSR suspends Communist Party activities
1992 - Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
1992 - Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
1992 - 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
1993 - 21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton
1993 - 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
1993 - Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
1993 - Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28)
1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
2007 - A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.
Music history on August 29
1946 - Ella Fitzgerald and The Delta Rhythm Boys recorded "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight."
1958 - Alan Freed's "Big Beat Show" opened at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn, NY.
1958 - George Harrison joined the band Quarrymen. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also members.
1964 - Roy Orbison's single "Oh, Pretty Woman" was released. The song was Orbison's second #1 hit.
1966 - The Beatles ended their fourth American tour at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. It turned out that the show was their last public concert.
1970 - The Kinks' single "Lola" was released.
1977 - 3 people were arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis' body. As a result his body was moved to Graceland.
1984 - Prince's single "Let's Go Crazy"/"Erotic City" were released.
1986 - The former "American Bandstand" studio was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The studio is in Philadelphia, PA.
1990 - Elton John checked into a rehab center in Chicago, IL, for bulimia, drinking and drugs.
1995 - While shooting the music video for Meat Loaf's "I'd Lie for You," a pilot and cameraman were killed in a helicopter crash in the Sequoia National Forest about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, CA.
1996 - Isaac Hayes, who co-wrote the Stax classic "Soul Man," sent a protest letter to presidential candidate Bob Dole requesting Dole to stop using his song, which his supporters had changed to "I'm A Dole Man."
Sports history on August 29
1885 - The first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
1892 - Pop (Billy) Shriver (Chicago Cubs) caught a ball that was dropped from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.
1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
1977 - Lou Brock brought his total of stolen bases to 893. The record he beat was held by Ty Cobb for 49 years.
1994 - Mario Lemieux announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He would sit out the National Hockey Leagues (NHL) 1994-95 season.
1995 - At the O.J. Simpson trial, tapes of Mark Fuhrman were played. The recordings were of Fuhrman making racial comments.
Famous birthdays on August 29
1387 - Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1434 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator
1476 - Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)
1561 - Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)
1609 - Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)
1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 - John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance
1686 - Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer
1694 - Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lï¿½neburg (d. 1715)
1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 - Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1773 - Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)
1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1808 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
1811 - Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
1815 - Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
1842 - Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)
1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1849 - Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)
1851 - Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer
1855 - Emil Pauer, composer
1857 - Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Ghent Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), (d. 1949)
1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1874 - Walter Field
1876 - Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
1876 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1877 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)
1879 - Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher
1880 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117
1881 - Edvin Kallstenius, composer
1881 - Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
1884 - Ehm Welk, writer
1891 - Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody)
1894 - E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962
1898 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund P Biden], Chic, director (Sullivan's Travels)
1899 - George Macready, Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
1899 - Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general (WW II)
1900 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1903 - Ernst Kreuder, writer
1903 - Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive
1904 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956)
1905 - Lan Adomian, composer
1905 - Martinus A Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70)
1906 - Lurene Tuttle, Pleasant Lake Ind, actress (Father of Bride, Julia)
1907 - Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird)
1909 - Francis Henry Smith, librarian
1909 - Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
1910 - Robert Pineda-Duque, composer
1912 - Barry Sullivan, NYC, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man)
1912 - Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects)
1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1912 - Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
1913 - Len Butterfield, cricketer (NZ all-rounder, Test)
1915 - Denys Hay, historian
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Stockholm, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower), (d. 1982)
1915 - Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
1916 - George Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)
1916 - Leo Horn, Dutch soccer referee/columnist/businessman
1917 - Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)
1918 - Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/pres Netherlands Bank
1920 - Charles White, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Airpot 95, Serpico)
1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist
1920 - Susan Damante Shaw, London England, actress (Wilderness Family)
1920 - Joseph Lesniewski, Erie, Pennsylvania, Easy Company soldier in 101st Airborne, (d. 2012)
1922 - Emile Habibi, writer
1922 - Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic
1923 - Hirulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder (Test for India 1952-53)
1923 - Lester Albert Trimble, composer
1923 - Reinier Braams, Dutch biophysicist/MP (VVD)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, England, actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1924 - Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
1924 - James W Wood, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1924 - Consuelo Velï¿½zquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1925 - Donald O'Connor, Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1926 - Betty Lynn, American actress
1926 - Marï¿½a Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1927 - Marion Williams, US gospel singers (Stars of Faith)
1928 - Charles Gray, Bournemouth England, actor (Clay-Rawhide)
1928 - Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1929 - Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound)
1930 - Marius J J van Amelsvoort, Dutch undersecretary (CDA)
1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1933 - Jehan Sadat, 1st lady of Egypt
1933 - Ramses Shaffy, Dutch cabaret actor (Zaak MP, Liefdesbekentenissen)
1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1934 - David H Pryor, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1979- )
1934 - Gene Allison, US R&B-singer (You Can Make It If You Try)
1934 - Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer
1934 - John Guy, cricketer (solid left-handed batsman for NZ in late 1950's)
1935 - Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician
1936 - John McCain, (Rep-R-Arizona, 1983-86)
1937 - James J Florio, (Rep-D-NJ, 1975-90/Gov-D-NJ, 1990-94)
1938 - Elliott Gould, Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 - William Friedkin, Chic, dir (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection)
1940 - James Brady, press secretary (wounded during Reagan assassin attempt)
1940 - Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
1941 - Robin Leach, London England, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
1942 - Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician
1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 - John Heuser, Electron microscopist
1943 - Mohamed Amin, cameraman
1943 - Richard Halligan, Troy NY, rock vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945 - Chris Copping, Essex England, rock bassist (Procol Harum)
1945 - Wyomia Tyus, Griffin Ga, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1946 - Bob Beamon, Jamaica NY, high jumper (Olympics-gold-68, 29' 2ï¿½" 8.9m)
1947 - Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
1948 - Charles David Walker, astronaut (STS 12 STS 16 STS 23)
1949 - Peter John Wiegold, composer
1950 - Mark McHale, WLAF offensive line coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1950 - Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
1953 - Rick Downey, rocker drummer/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
1954 - Chet Catallo, guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1954 - Julio Fernandez, jazz guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1954 - Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, US, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery)
1955 - Diamanda Galas, composer
1955 - Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Edddie Murray, NFL kicker (Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings)
1956 - Kelly Murray, Vancouver, Canadian Tour golfer (985 Alberta Open)
1956 - GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
1957 - Pim Kops, rock musician (Dike, Bloedend Heart)
1957 - Therese Hession, LPGA golfer
1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1958 - Michael Jackson, Gary Indiana, recording artist and King of Pop (Thriller, Bad), (d. 2009)
1959 - Chris Hadfield, Sarnia Ontario Canada, RCAF/astronaut (STS 74, sk: 99)
1959 - Eddi Reader, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family
1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, Santa Rose Cal, actress (Hand that Rocks Cradle)
1961 - Tony MacAlpine, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity)
1962 - Carl Banks, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, NY Giants)
1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1963 - Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer
1963 - Greg Holmes, Covina Cal, tennis star
1963 - Greg Steele, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1964 - Jordi Arrese, Spain, tennis star
1965 - Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1965 - Will Perdue, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress
1966 - Dan Truman, St George Utah, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1967 - Shaun Van Allen, Shaunavon, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1968 - Darren Joseph, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Brady Katytman, Greece NY, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - Jerry Simons, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, Vitesse)
1969 - Me'Shell Ndegï¿½Ocello, American singer
1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1970 - Jacco Elringh, Netherlands, tennis star
1971 - Dennis de Brown, soccer player (Sparta)
1971 - Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
1972 - Michael Roan, NFL tight end/halfback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 - Devin Wyman, defensive tackle (New England Patriots)
1973 - Jermane Mayberry, guard/tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Joe Carollo, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Leigh Sherer, Jasper Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-Top 10-1996)
1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1974 - Brad Boston, Sarnia Ontario, soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
1976 - Chris Renaud, Fredericton New Brunswick, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Kasia Kulesza, Warsaw Poland, Canadian synchro swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1976 - Stephanie Worcester, Miss USA-Maine (1997)
1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1976 - Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American footballer
1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 - Devean George, American basketball player
1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 - Jo Weil, German actor
1978 - Larissa Meek, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Natasha Fisher, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1979 - Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)
1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
1980 - David West, American basketball player
1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 - Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1981 - Geneviï¿½ve Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
1981 - Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
1982 - A+, American rapper
1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 - Sam Stern, British chef and author
1992 - Mallu Magalhï¿½es, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Quote for today:
Life is like a riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
- Claude Pepper
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
1990 - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
What was the Las Vegas line on that?
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Historical events on August 30
257 - St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146 - European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leadersï¿½ Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhangï¿½are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1464 - Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1481 - 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
1563 - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1645 - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1682 - William Penn left England to sail to New World
1721 - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1751 - Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776 - US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1781 - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1791 - The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 - Bataafse fleet surrender to English
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1831 - Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1843 - 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1860 - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
1862 - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1862 - Battle of Richmond, KY
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1884 - Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 - Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1893 - 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1894 - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1895 - Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1900 - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1904 - Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1905 - Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905 - Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
1906 - Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1906 - NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1910 - Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 - St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 - Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1914 - 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1916 - Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1918 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918 - Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918 - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot & wounded after speech
1919 - Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
1922 - Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1925 - 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1926 - Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
1927 - 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1928 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1932 - Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1933 - Air France forms
1933 - Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1937 - Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 - General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939 - Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 - Poland mobilizes
1941 - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 - St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1942 - Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1944 - 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944 - Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in NYC
1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 - 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945 - Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
1945 - Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1949 - Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1949 - WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 - US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1953 - Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
1954 - Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 - Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 - East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1961 - 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1961 - J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
1961 - Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 - Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1961 - USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hot Line communications link between Moscow and Washington, DC installed
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1965 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1967 - US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1968 - 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1968 - John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden
1969 - 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969 - 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 - 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1971 - WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
1973 - Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1974 - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974 - Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976 - Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1979 - -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
1979 - 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 - Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979 - Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
1979 - Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 - 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
1980 - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1981 - Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1982 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1983 - Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
1983 - WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
1983 - Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1984 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1984 - Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984 - Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
1986 - Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986 - Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1987 - 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 - Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
1987 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10ï¿½")
1987 - Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1987 - Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 - Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1988 - Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
1989 - Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1990 - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991 - Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
1991 - Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4ï¿½" (8.95m)
1991 - Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1992 - "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
1992 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
1992 - 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1992 - David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
1993 - 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1993 - Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
1994 - Gund Arena in Cleve opens
1994 - Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1995 - Cable News Network joins internet
1995 - Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
1997 - 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
1997 - Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
1998 - State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
Music history on August 30
1922 - The New Orleans Rhythm Kings recorded "Tiger Rag."
1968 - The Beatles' "Hey Jude" was released.
1969 - The 3-day Texas International Pop Festival opened at the Dallas International Motor Speedway.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix performed at the Isle of Wright Pop Festival in England.
1972 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono played their "One To One" concert at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1980 - Cher made an unannounced appearance as vocalist with Black Rose at a concert in New York's Central Park.
1981 - The Rolling Stones released their "Tattoo You" LP.
1984 - Beatles fans paid $271,180 for memorabilia at an auction in London, England.
1989 - Izzy Stradlin (Guns 'N' Roses) was arrested for creating a disturbance on an airline flight.
1991 - Dottie West was critically injured in a car accident while en route to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. She died five days later.
1991 - Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) married Gertie Filip in Las Vegas, NV. The marriage took place onstage during a Jan & Dean performance.
1993 - Billy Joel became the first musical guest on CBS-TV's "The Late Show with David Letterman" when the show debuted.
1994 - Usher's first studio album, "Usher", was released.
1994 - Oasis' first studio album, "Definitely Maybe", was released.
1995 - James Taylor and ex-wife Carly Simon reunited for their first concert together in 16 years on Martha's Vineyard, MA.
1998 - Roberto Augusto Miranda Soares was shot four times when he refused to give up the keys to his Mercedes to robbers. Soares was the president of Sony Music/Brazil.
1998 - Marilyn Manson changed his appearance from blackened-eyes for lighter makeup and 70's outfits including platform shoes. The sound of his album "Mechanical Animals" was a radical change from the 1996 album "Antichrist Superstar."
2002 - Bjork's west London flat was burglarized while she slept. Valuable recording equipment had been stolen.
Sports history on August 30
1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1918 - The New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 1-0. The game only took 57 minutes to play.
1937 - Joe Louis won a 15-round decision over Tommy Farr in his first defense of his heavyweight title.
1966 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) hit home runs from both sides of the plate against St. Louis.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
1987 - Canada's Ben Johnson set the world record in the 100 meter race at 9.83. Johnson later lost the record due to steroid use.
2001 - Ashely Martin became the first woman to play in a Division I football game. She kicked three extra points in the game.
2002 - The major league baseball players union and the team owners came to an agreement that avoided a player's strike set to begin on this day.
Famous birthdays on August 30
580 - Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder (Islam)
1334 - Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1609 - Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1687 - Francesco Maria Vallara, composer
1693 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist
1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
1767 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1769 - Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
1772 - Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
1797 - Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein), (d. 1851)
1804 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS]
1805 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist
1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1809 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
1811 - Thomas Gautier, writer
1813 - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1820 - George Frederick Root, composer
1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1837 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer
1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1844 - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1849 - Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
1856 - Carle David Tolmï¿½ Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1866 - Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), (d. 1937)
1871 - Ernest Lord Rutherford, Engld, physicist (atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908)
1878 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian
1882 - Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi/writer
1883 - Theo Van Doesburg, [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect (Style)
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
1887 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer
1889 - Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor (You Can't Escape Forever)
1893 - Huey P Long, Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)
1896 - Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
1898 - Shirley Booth, NYC, American actress (Hazel)
1900 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
1901 - John C Stennis, (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
1901 - John Gunther, Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
1902 - Arnold Maria Walter, composer
1906 - Countess of Longford, biographer/historian
1907 - Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)
1908 - Leonor Fini, painter
1908 - Willie Bryant, New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times)
1909 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist
1909 - [Rose] Joan Blondell, NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides)
1910 - Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes)
1912 - Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1912 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 - Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)
1913 - Thomas Torrance, theologist
1914 - Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)
1914 - Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
1915 - Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor
1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1916 - John Thoday, geneticist
1916 - Kornelis M R van der Beek, reformed vicar (Arnhem)
1916 - Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
1917 - Denis Healey, English politician
1918 - Ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)
1918 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 - Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry), (d. 2012)
1920 - Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud)
1921 - Angelo Dundee [Angelo Mirena], Philadelphia, boxing trainer and cornerman (Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman), (d. 2012)
1922 - Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)
1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1923 - Elias Victor Seixas, US, mixed double tennis player (Wimbeld 1953-56)
1923 - Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove)
1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 - Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1924 - Kenny Dorham [McKinley], Fairfield, Texas, jazz trumpeter, (d. 1972)
1925 - Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea)
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1926 - Olgerts Gravitis, composer
1927 - Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
1927 - Pieter Willem Kee, composer
1928 - Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
1928 - Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
1928 - Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist (Dr Ruth)
1928 - Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 - Noel Harford, cricketer (brother of Roy NZ Test batsman in 1950's)
1930 - Warren Burger, US, author (The Midas Touch)
1930 - Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008)
1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Hartford CT)
1931 - John Leonard Swigert Jr, Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)
1933 - Arne Mellnas, composer
1934 - B P "Baloo" Gupte, cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie)
1934 - Eric Schneider, Dutch actor (Drop Out, Family, Flanagan)
1935 - John Phillips, singer/guitarist (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming)
1936 - Fabrizia Ramondino, writer
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1938 - Steve Delaney, Dobbs Ferry NY, newscaster (Monitor)
1939 - Elizabeth Ashley, [Cole], Ocala Florida, actress (Coma, Evening Shade)
1941 - John McNally, Liverpool, rock guitarist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 - Sue MacGregor, BBC-radio hostess
1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1942 - Jonathan Aitken, English MP
1942 - Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricket left-arm spinner (19 Tests 1964-73)
1943 - David Henry Maslanka, composer
1943 - Jean Claude Killy, Paris France, alpine skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
1943 - Robert Crumb, US, cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat)
1944 - Charles Colbert, Chicago Ill, rocker (American Breed)
1944 - Freek de Jonge, Dutch comedian (Neerlands Hoop)
1944 - John Surman, jazz musician
1944 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1945 - David Schiff, composer
1946 - Anne-Marie, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1947 - Peggy Lipton, Lawrence NY, actress (Julie-Mod Squad, Twin Peaks)
1947 - Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian
1948 - Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 - Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 - Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1949 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 - Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1951 - Dana, singer/actress (Flight of the Doves)
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden)
1953 - Robert Parish, NBA center (Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets)
1953 - Ron George, American politician
1954 - David Paymer, actor (Love Mary, Mr Saturday Night)
1954 - Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer (1991 children stamp)
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1955 - Martin Jackson, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
1955 - Richard "Butch" Johnson, Worcester Mass, archer (Olymp-gold-1992, 96)
1956 - Jayne Irving, English TV hostess (Live at 3)
1958 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 - Vic Wilk, Los Angeles CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Knoxville Open)
1960 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 - Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah
1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 - Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 - Ricky Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 - Joan Bennett, Chicago Ill, playmate (January, 1985)
1964 - Michael Chiklis, actor (Wired, Commish)
1964 - Stephen Baker, NFL receiver (NY Giants)
1964 - Steve Smith, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1964 - Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 - John Terry, CFL tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Michael Michele, Evansville In, actress (Nikki-Central Park West)
1966 - Simon Wheeldon, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1967 - Barbara Anne Kendall, Auckland NZ, mistral yachter (Oly-g/s-92, 96)
1967 - Catrin Nilsmark, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 PING Welch's-14th)
1967 - Frederique [Van derWal], Netherlands, model (Victoria Secrets)
1967 - Justin Vaughan, cricketer (New Zealand all-rounder 1992-)
1968 - Vladimir Malakhov, Sverdlovsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1969 - Jerold Jeffcoat, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 - Aubrey Beavers, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Joseph Fitzgerald, Bkln NY, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Tre Johnson, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, Long Beach Ca, actress (Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding)
1972 - Jose Herrera, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1972 - Ryan Leahy, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Shonte Peoples, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Jimmy Herndon, offensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 - Matt Bongiovi, heavy metal rocker (cousin of Jon Bon Jovi)
1974 - Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 - Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 - Natalia Nadtochey, Miss Ukraine Universe (1997)
1975 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 - Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 - Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 - Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1977 - Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977 - Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 - Elden Henson, American actor
1978 - Swizz Beatz, American rapper/producer
1978 - Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 - Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 - Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 - Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1982 - Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1983 - Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1983 - Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 - Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 - Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 - Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1985 - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1986 - Ryan Ross, American guitarist and lyricist (Panic at the Disco)
1988 - Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
Today's quote:
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
- John von Neumann
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Historic events on August 31
1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1142 - With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
1230 - Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice
1310 - German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1422 - Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1535 - Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1751 - English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
1772 - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1778 - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1829 - Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
1842 - Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine
1842 - US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1843 - Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
1850 - California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1881 - 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)
1886 - 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
1886 - Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1887 - Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
1894 - Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1895 - 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
1896 - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in NYC
1897 - General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
1897 - Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph)
1900 - British troops over run Johannesburg
1900 - Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1902 - Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1903 - Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
1905 - 25th US Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)
1905 - Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
1907 - Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
1907 - England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
1909 - A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
1909 - Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
1911 - Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"
1913 - Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
1914 - 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
1914 - General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
1914 - German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1914 - Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 - Chic White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1915 - Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1916 - Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London
1918 - Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1919 - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 - Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919 - Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1920 - Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1920 - Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1923 - League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923 - Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
1928 - Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres
1934 - 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
1935 - 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 - Chic White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0
1935 - FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1935 - Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
1935 - White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
1937 - Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August
1938 - 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
1939 - Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939 - Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
1940 - 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940 - 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
1940 - Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
1940 - German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
1940 - US National Guard assembles
1941 - 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)
1941 - Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1942 - Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
1942 - U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
1943 - 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
1943 - Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1944 - Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy
1944 - French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1944 - French troops liberate Bordeaux
1944 - Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1945 - The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1947 - Hungarian communist party wins election
1947 - NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
1950 - Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
1951 - 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1953 - KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
1954 - Census Bureau forms
1954 - Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 - Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
1954 - WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1955 - 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1955 - 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
1955 - KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Malaysia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
1959 - 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1959 - Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
1960 - Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1961 - Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1962 - Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 - Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
1965 - House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
1965 - The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1966 - Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1968 - 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 - 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1968 - Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover
1968 - Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
1968 - Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1968 - Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
1969 - 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1970 - 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1970 - Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 - Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1970 - Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
1970 - WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1972 - Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1973 - 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1973 - PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1974 - Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor
1975 - Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
1976 - George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
1976 - Mexican peso devalued
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
1976 - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
1977 - Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977 - Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1977 - Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1978 - Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 - Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open
1979 - Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979 - Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
1979 - Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1980 - "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
1980 - 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
1980 - The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.
1981 - Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
1981 - Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1984 - Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985 - Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
1985 - Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East LA
1986 - Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82
1986 - Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1987 - Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
1987 - Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
1987 - South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1988 - 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 - Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
1988 - Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1989 - Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground)
1989 - Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
1990 - Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
1990 - East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1990 - Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
1991 - Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
1991 - Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip
1991 - Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991 - Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
1991 - William H Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA
1992 - 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane
1992 - Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
1992 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM
1993 - Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1993 - HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
1994 - Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
1994 - Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997 - "Gin Game," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
1997 - Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
1997 - Last episode of Rolanda airs
1997 - Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268
1998 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 - A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
Music history on August 31
1775 - Composer Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa was born.
1834 - Composer Amilcare Ponchielli was born.
1928 - "Die Dreigoschenoper" ("Threepenny Opera") premiered in Berlin. The music was by Kurt Weill.
1939 - Frank Sinatra recorded "All or Nothing at All" with the Harry James Band.
1967 - The Beatles announced that they would handle their own affairs following the death of manager Brian Epstein.
1968 - Danny Kerwin joined Fleetwood Mac.
1969 - Bob Dylan made his first paid appearance at England's Isle of Wight Pop Festival since his motorcycle accident three years earlier.
1971 - A security guard was stabbed to death at a Who concert in Forest Hills, NY.
1974 - The Rolling Stones released "Goat's Head Soup."
1974 - "The Partridge Family" television show ended.
1974 - In federal court, John Lennon testified the Nixon administration tried to have him deported because of his involvement with the anti-war demonstrations at the 1972 Republican convention in Miami, FL.
1974 - Carole King's "Jazzman" was released.
1976 - A judge ruled that George Harrison was guilty of copying from the song "Heï¿½s So Fine" (by the Chiffons).
1987 - Michael Jackson's "Bad" video was televised for the first time on CBS-TV.
1988 - Julianne Phillips filed for divorce from Bruce Springsteen.
1988 - Bob Seger and his wife Annette Sinclair filed for a divorce.
1989 - The Rolling Stones began their first concert tour in eight years at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, PA.
1991 - Metallica's self-titled album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart.
1997 - James Brown became the first U.S. artist to appear in Lebanon following the recent lift of the ban on U.S. travel to the country.
1997 - The Microsoft Network netcast U2's performance in Dublin.
1998 - Noreaga, Vincent Santiago, of the musical group Capone-N-Noreaga was charged with assault of an unhappy fan in Harrisburg, PA.
1998 - Madonna filed suit against the YMCA to prevent it from building a high-rise residential tower near Lincoln Center in New York City, NY.
2005 - Toby Keith announced that he was starting his own label named Show Dog Nashville Records.
Sports history on August 31
1881 - The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played.
1950 - Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers.
1959 - Sandy Koufax set a National League record by striking out 18 batters.
1968 - At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mike Powell set a record when he jumped 29'4ï¿½" in the long jump.
1969 - The boxer Rocky Marciano died in an airplane crash in Iowa.
1995 - Judge Lance Ito ruled that only two tapes of racist comments by Mark Fuhrman could be played in the trial of O.J. Simpson.
Famous birthdays on August 31
12 - Caligula, [Gaius Caesar], 3rd Roman emperor (37-41 AD)
161 - Lucius A A Coomodus, emperor of Rome (180-91)
161 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1569 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India
1602 - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Gov Frederik Hendrik
1663 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist
1696 - Johann Paul Kunzen, composer
1721 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer
1741 - Husein Gradaï¿½čević, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
1748 - Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer
1755 - Johann Ignaz Walter, composer
1775 - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer
1811 - Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1811 - Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
1821 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer
1822 - Fitz John Porter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1823 - Galusha Aaron Grow, MC (Union), died in 1907
1828 - George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
1843 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1852 - Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister
1855 - Stefan Surzynski, composer
1856 - Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer
1864 - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer
1870 - Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response), (d. 1952)
1871 - James E. Ferguson, Texan governor (d. 1944)
1878 - Albert Riemenschneider, composer
1878 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 - Joshihito, emperor of Japan (1912-26)
1879 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer
1879 - Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
1880 - Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948)
1884 - George Al Sarton, Belgian/US historian
1885 - DuBose Heyward, novelist (Porgy)
1887 - Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian/British chemist
1888 - Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (La Obra de Trajano)
1889 - A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball
1892 - Claire DuBrey, Bonner's Ferry ID, actress (Lightnin' in the Forest)
1893 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
1894 - Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
1895 - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer
1896 - Fï¿½lix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897 - Frederic March, Wisc, actor (Dr Jeckyll-Acad Awards 1932/1946)
1897 - Marianne Bruns, writer
1897 - Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1899 - Paul E Garber, US founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum
1899 - Walter Muller von Kulm, composer
1900 - Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball, Encore)
1900 - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1903 - Arthur Godfrey, NYC, radio/TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout)
1903 - Vladimir Jankï¿½lï¿½vitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
1905 - Dore Schary, producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City)
1905 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist & CIA agent (Het Parool) [or 1897]
1905 - Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
1906 - Vivienne Byerley, publicist
1907 - August F Hawkins, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1907 - Ramon Magsaysay, Philippines, statesman (US Legion of Merit-1952)
1907 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
1907 - William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 - Altiero Spinelli, Italian citizen and advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
1908 - Lab Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell ouchere, local historian
1908 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer
1908 - William Saroyan, US, novelist/playwright (Time of Your Life)
1911 - Hilde Jarecki, educationist
1912 - Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone
1912 - Reinoud Anders, [Lady Blits], Dutch actor (Hamlet)
1913 - Michiel P Gorsira, 1st Dutch Antillean in charge of Curacao (1951-67)
1913 - Sir Bernard Lovell, Bristol England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank Observatory, (d. 2012)
1914 - Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
1916 - Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS)
1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist composer (Lerner & Loewe-My Fair Lady)
1918 - Lucrecia Roces Kasilag, composer
1919 - Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
1920 - James Lanphier, NY, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon)
1921 - Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
1923 - Larry White Grayson, British comedian (Generation Game)
1923 - Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author
1924 - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
1924 - Klaus Hashagen, composer
1926 - Georgiy Petrovich Katys, Russia, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1 backup)
1926 - Jan de Koning, minister of Agriculture/Social Businesses (CDA)
1928 - James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)
1928 - Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer
1929 - Julio Ramon Ribeyro, writer
1930 - Owen B Pickett, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1930 - Tiny Little Jr, Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1931 - Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)
1931 - Jean Marc Beliveau, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens, 10 Stanley Cups)
1931 - Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1932 - Benito Wogatzki, writer
1932 - Robert [Franklin] Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time)
1932 - Roy Castle, entertainer
1934 - Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
1935 - Frank Robinson, baseball player/manager (MVP 1961-NL 1966-AL)
1936 - Marva Nettles Collins, educator (west side preparatory school)
1937 - Guido de Moor, Dutch actor (Apart, Because the Cats)
1937 - Warren Berlinger, Bkln, actor (Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two)
1938 - Martin Bell, British journalist
1939 - Jerry Allison, Hillsboro Tx, rock drummer (Buddy Holly & Crickets)
1940 - Alain Calmat, France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964)
1940 - Jack Thompson, [John Pain], Sydney Australia, actor (Breaker Morant)
1941 - Emanuel Nunes, composer
1941 - Henk Terlingen, Dutch radio/TV-host (Paul Meier Show)
1941 - William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman
1942 - Carole Wells, Shreveport La, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1942 - Isao Aoki, Abiko Chiba Japan, PGA golfer (1983 Hawaiian Open)
1943 - Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
1944 - Clive Hubert Lloyd, cricketer ("Supercat", 110 Tests 1966-85)
1944 - Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim (14 Grammys)
1945 - Leonid Ivanovich Popov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 35/37, 40, T-7)
1945 - [George I] Van Morrison, Belfast, singer (Here Comes the Night)
1945 - Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1946 - Jerome Corsi, American writer
1947 - Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1947 - Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
1947 - Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
1948 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 - Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1948 - Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1948 - Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
(1949) 1949 - Richard Gere, Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman)
1949 - Rick Roberts, rocker (Firefall)
1952 - Bruce Soboroff, Chic Il, rocker (Buckinghams)
1952 - Rudolf Schenker, German rock guitarist (Scorpions-Virgin Killer)
1952 - Herbert Reul, German politician
1953 - Marcia Clark, [Kleks], Berkeley CA, LA DA (OJ Simpson Case)
1953 - Miguel ï¿½ngel Guerra, Argentine racing driver
1953 - Gyï¿½rgy Kï¿½roly, Hungarian author
1954 - Tula, [Barry Kenneth Cossey], Engld, transsexual (For Your Eyes Only)
1955 - Edwin Corley Moses, Dayton, 400m hurdler (Oly-2 gold/br-76, 84, 88)
1956 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957 - Gina Schock, rocker (Gogos-Our Lips Are Sealed)
1957 - Glenn Tilbrook, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1957 - Tom Candiotti, Walnut creek CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1957 - Colm O'Rourke, Former Gaelic footballer and Current panelist
1958 - David H Mattheisen, Blue Island Ill, PhD/astronaut (STS 73 alt)
1958 - Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer
1959 - Rachel Dennison, Knoxville Tn, actress (Doralee Rhodes-9 to 5)
1959 - Tony DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1960 - Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960 - Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1961 - David Chastain, heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland)
1962 - Wanda Guenette, Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963 - Reb Beach, heavy metal rocker (Winger-17)
1963 - Sonny Silooy, soccer player (Ajax)
1963 - Todd Carty, Irish actor
1964 - Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
1965 - Willie Watson, cricket pace bowler (NZ)
1965 - Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
1965 - Cï¿½line Bonnier, French Canadian actress
1966 - Jeff Frye, Oakland CA, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian Alpine skier
1967 - Diane Madl, Mountain Top PA, field hockey forward/midfielder (Oly-96)
1967 - Melanie Sullivan, Branford Ct, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994)
1968 - Glenroy Gilbert, Trinidad, Canadian 4X100m sprinter (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Hideo Nomo, Osaka Japan, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Jennifer Azzi, Oak Ridge Tenn, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Jim Bob Howard, Wichita Falls Texas, actor (Flash & Bone)
1968 - Jolene Watanabe, LA California, tennis star (1994 Futures-Evansville)
1969 - Andrei Trefilov, Kirovo Russia, NHL goalie (Buffalo Sabres, Oly-S-98)
1969 - Andrew Phillip Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versache)
1969 - Javagal Srinath, cricketer (Indian right-arm pace bowler since 1991)
1969 - Nathan Minchey, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1969 - Victor Alexander, NBA forward/center (NY Knicks)
1969 - Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1970 - Deborah (Debbie) Gibson, Brooklyn NY, singer (Only in My Dreams)
1970 - James Robinson, NBA guard (LA Clippers, Portland Trail Blazers)
1970 - Steve Nikataras, cricketer (left-arm pace bowler for NSW 1996-97)
1970 - Queen Rania of Jordan
1970 - Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1970 - Zack Ward, Canadian actor
1971 - Greg Jefferson, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Mike Caldwell, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Pï¿½draig Harrington, Irish golfer
1972 - Chris Tucker, American actor
1973 - Earl Scott, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - Priest Lauderdale, NBA center (Denver Nuggets)
1973 - Reggie Geary, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1973 - Scott Niedermayer, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1974 - Andrei Medvedev, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1991 French Open junior)
1974 - Jeremy O'day, CFL offensive linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1974 - Jessy Viceisza, Miss Universe-Bonaire (1996)
1975 - Raleigh Roundtree, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1975 - Daniel Harding, British conductor
1975 - Takahiro Suwa, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 - Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
1976 - Roque Jï¿½nior, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977 - Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978 - Philippe Christanval, French footballer
1978 - Phina Oruche, British actress
1979 - Clay Hensley, American baseball player
1979 - Mickie James, American professional wrestler
1979 - Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
1979 - Simon Neil, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1979 - Ramï¿½n Santiago, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 - Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
1981 - 40 Cal, American rapper
1981 - Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
1981 - Joe Swanberg, American filmmaker
1982 - Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
1982 - Josï¿½ Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 - Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1982 - Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1982 - Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1982 - Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
1982 - Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982 - Patrick Nuo, Swiss singer
1982 - G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
1983 - Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1984 - Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
1984 - Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1984 - Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
1986 - Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
1987 - Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer
Quote for the day:
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
- Lucius Accius
This post has been edited by wingsovernc: Aug 31 2012, 06:05 AM
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If you have one true friend in the world you are very rich.
~ Alistair Begg
Historic events on September 1
69 - Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem
462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1067 - Boudouin VI becomes earl of Flanders
1181 - Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
1267 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1355 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1482 - Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev
1511 - Council to Pisa opens
1535 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1547 - Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)
1598 - Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments
1609 - Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies
1614 - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1632 - Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses
1638 - -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
1647 - French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan
1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1689 - Russia began taxing men's beards
1695 - Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names
1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 yearsï¿½the longest of any major European monarch.
1730 - Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read
1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1752 - Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
1763 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1785 - Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1797 - 2nd National Meeting in Hague
1798 - England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1821 - 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1831 - Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1859 - 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1859 - R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1859 - A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1861 - Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861 - Skirmish at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
1862 - Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1862 - Federal tax levied on tobacco
1863 - 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
1863 - Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
1863 - RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
1864 - Battle of Petersburg VA
1864 - Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
1866 - Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate
1867 - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1874 - 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office
1874 - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1886 - Neth's New Code of Criminal law enforced
1887 - Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1888 - Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1898 - Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
1898 - Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan
1901 - Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
1902 - Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time
1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 - British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
1906 - Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 - NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs)
1906 - Papua placed under Australian administration
1906 - The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1911 - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1913 - George Bernard Shaws "Androcles & the Lion," premieres in London
1913 - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
1914 - 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1914 - Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1914 - Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army
1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1916 - Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 - Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich
1920 - France creates Lebanon
1920 - New townhall of Rotterdam opens
1921 - Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1923 - 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1923 - 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000
1923 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1924 - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1925 - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee
1926 - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1926 - Turkey allows civil marriage
1928 - Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
1930 - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
1931 - Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games
1932 - NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1933 - Soccer team DVS '33 forms
1934 - Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
1934 - SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1936 - Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1937 - 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
1937 - Battle of Gijon in Spain begins
1938 - Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1939 - Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
1939 - Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years
1939 - Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 - Switzerland proclaims neutrality
1939 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
1939 - Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1940 - Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of US army
1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1942 - Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942 - German troops land on Taman peninsula
1944 - Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1944 - King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal
1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1945 - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 - 1st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg
1946 - Greece votes for monarchy
1947 - NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six
1948 - Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 - UN's World Health Organization forms
1949 - 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres
1949 - KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2)
1950 - 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1950 - West Berlin granted a constitution
1951 - PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1951 - US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1952 - Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1952 - Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
1953 - 101ï¿½F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1953 - Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
1953 - WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins
1954 - Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68
1954 - Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cin Red to hit 40 HRs en route to 49
1955 - 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1955 - KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
1956 - KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1957 - WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1958 - St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1960 - Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London
1961 - 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1961 - The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
1962 - 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 - KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1963 - Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
1963 - St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate
1963 - WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets)
1965 - India & Pakistan border fights
1966 - KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1967 - WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 - Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
1968 - Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
1969 - Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 - Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1969 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.
1970 - Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
1970 - Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador
1971 - John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open
1971 - Qatar declares independence from Britain
1971 - Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1972 - Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1972 - Egypt & Libya form federation
1973 - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
1974 - Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1974 - Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
1974 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1975 - All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
1975 - Gunsmoke resigns the air
1975 - Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1975 - KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS
1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1975 - NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-197
1976 - NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1976 - Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1978 - Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt)
1978 - Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV
1978 - Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
1978 - #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
1979 - Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1979 - LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
1980 - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1980 - Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1980 - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1981 - Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1981 - Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, Pres Dacko flees
1981 - RKO radio network is 1st to offer 2 separate overnight services
1981 - RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show
1982 - Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," premieres in London
1982 - Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
1982 - Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1982 - Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1982 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1983 - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
1985 - Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
1985 - US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1986 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1986 - Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
1986 - Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1987 - 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1987 - Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
1988 - Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good," premieres in London
1989 - "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
1989 - Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
1990 - "Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs
1990 - "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs
1990 - Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02)
1990 - Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43
1991 - Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57)
1991 - Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
1992 - NYC police commisioner Brown resigns
1992 - Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
1993 - "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs
1993 - Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
1995 - Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
1995 - NYC reinstates the death penalty
1995 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio
1996 - Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
1997 - "Doll's House," closes at Belasco Theater
1997 - Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
1997 - Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic
1997 - Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2005 - Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation.
2006 - Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
Music history on September 1
1653 - Composer Johann Pachelbel was born.
1854 - Composer Engelbert Humperdinck was born.
1956 - Elvis Presley shared his success with his family by purchasing his mother a pink Cadillac.
1965 - James Brown and Booker T. & the MG's appeared on "Shindig!"
1967 - Boz Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band.
1967 - The movie "The Fastest Guitar Alive," starring Roy Orbison and Sheb Wooley, was released.
1972 - David Bowie released "John, I'm only Dancing" in the U.K. The song was not released in the U.S. until 1976.
1977 - Blondie signed its first major record company contract with Chrysalis.
1977 - Generation X released their debut single "Your Generation."
1978 - Styx released the album "Pieces of Eight."
1979 - INXS made their live debut in Sydney, Australia.
1979 - U2 released their first record "U2-3" in Ireland.
1983 - Mick Jones was fired from the Clash by Paul Simonon and Joe Strummer.
1986 - Paul McCartney released his "Press to Play" LP.
1987 - Mick Jagger's "Let's Work" single was released.
1989 - A judge in Dublin, Ireland, decided not to convict U2's Adam Clayton of marijuana possession, even though he had admitted to the crime. Clayton agreed to contribute money to a women's center in Dublin.
1992 - Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio, organized a relief project for victims of Hurricane Andrew in Miami.
1995 - Louis Armstrong was honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
1995 - Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum was opened with a seven-hour concert with dozens of stars.
1998 - David Bowie opened his on-line Internet service provider business, Bowienet. The service offers basic Internet services and exclusive Bowie news and releases.
1998 - Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) was charged with assault and battery for allegedly hitting a security guard in the head with a microphone during a concert in August.
1999 - Van Morrison became the first inductee to the Hot Press Irish Music Hall of Fame (IMHF) in Dublin.
2004 - The iTunes Music Store reached 125 million songs sold.
Sports history on September 1
1906 - Jack Coombs of the American Leagueï¿½s Philadelphia Athletics pitched 24 innings against the Boston Red Sox.
1971 - Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates gave his lineup card to the umpire with the names of nine black baseball players on it. This was a first for Major League Baseball.
1982 - J.R. Richard returned to major league baseball after a two year absence following a near-fatal stroke.
1998 - Mark McGwire, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his 56th and 57th homeruns to set a new National League record. He would eventually reach a total of 70 for the season on September 27.
1999 - Twenty-two of major league baseball's 68 permanent umpires were replaced. The problem arose from their union's failed attempt to force an early start to negotiations for a new labor contract.
2004 - In Colorado, the sexual assault charge against Kobe Bryant was dropped after the victim decided not to participate.
Famous birthdays on September 1
1286 - Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 - Gonzalo Fernï¿½ndez de Cï¿½rdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1529 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1549 - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc
1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condï¿½, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1608 - Giacomo Torelli, composer
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 - Johann Pachelbel, Nuremberg, composer (Canon in D), (d. 1706)
1689 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder (Prague)
1711 - Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau
1712 - Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator
1724 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General)
1732 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer
1732 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer
1751 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer [or Apr 9]
1758 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant
1768 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
1787 - John Bake, classical composer
1789 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
1791 - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1798 - Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
1803 - Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter
1816 - Gustav Schmidt, composer
1824 - Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1827 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen)
1829 - James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1845 - Paul S Methuen, English fieldmarshal/governor of Natal/Malta
1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1849 - Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1856 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania)
1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1862 - Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
1862 - Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
1864 - Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)
1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
1868 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1870 - Timotei Popovici, composer
1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1873 - Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)
1874 - Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer
1874 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)
1876 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 - Sigurd Wallï¿½n, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 - Othmar Schoeck, composer
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer
1887 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar
1888 - Andrija ï¿½tampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 - Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1893 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer
1895 - Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel)
1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898 - Marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford
1900 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)
1900 - Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer
1900 - Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)
1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail)
1904 - Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1905 - Gervase Hughes, composer
1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1907 - Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic
1907 - Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO)
1908 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist
1908 - Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1910 - Jack Hawkins, London, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
1911 - Komei Abe, composer
1911 - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1916 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner
1919 - Roy John Britten, Washington, molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes), (d. 2012)
1920 - Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, LA California, actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester)
1921 - Matt Higgins Doran, composer
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)
1922 - Melvin R Laird, (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress (10 Commandments, Munsters)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969)
1923 - Theo H Joekes, journalist/Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist
1925 - Ruth S White, composer
1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1927 - Tommy Evans, rocker (Drifters)
1928 - George Maharis, actor (Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66)
1928 - Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 - "Boxcar" Willie, singer
1931 - Matthew J Rinaldo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1973- )
1933 - Ann Richards, (Gov-D-Tx)
1933 - Conway Twitty, [Harold Jenkins], Miss, country singer (Hello Darlin')
1933 - Tom Vreugdenhil, Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
1934 - Terepai Maoate, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1999-2002), (d. 2012)
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1937 - Al Geiberger, Red Bluff CA, PGA golfer (1962 Ontario Open)
1937 - Ron O'Neal, Utica NY, actor (Superfly)
1938 - Alan Dershowitz, NYC, attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson)
1938 - Art Agnos, US, politician(?)
1938 - George Maharis, Astoria NY, actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game)
1939 - Heinrich Messner, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1939 - Katie Webster, [Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer
1939 - Lily Tomlin, Detroit, comedienne/actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me)
1941 - Sid Pye, drummer
1942 - C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy)
1942 - C. J. Cherryh, American writer
1943 - Pat Connolly-Daniels-Winslow-Banks, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1968)
1944 - Archie Bell, US singer (& the Drells-Tighten up)
1944 - Don Stroud, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story)
1944 - Leonard Slatkin, LA California, conductor (Concert Orch, Neth)
1945 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 - Barry Gibb, Manchester England, guitarist/singer (Bee Gees)
1946 - Greg Errico, US drummer (Sly & Family Stone-Stand!)
1946 - Gregg Errico, rocker (Sly & Family Stone)
1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
1947 - Al Green, American politician
1948 - Jï¿½zef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1951 - Timothy Zahn, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Cobra Strike)
1951 - David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1953 - Chuck Orton, US sysop, (Emerald BBS, Oregon)
1953 - Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
1953 - Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 - Gabor Ormai, viola Player
1954 - Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Bruce Foxton, rock guitarist (Jam)
1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1957 - Gloria Estefan, [Fajardo], Havana, singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga)
1957 - Duï¿½ko Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1958 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 - Keith Allen Clearwater, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1987 Colonial Natl)
1959 - Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, Secaucus NJ, WWF wrestler (Wrestlemania XI)
1962 - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer
1962 - Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star (Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan)
1962 - Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 - Carola Smit, Dutch singer (BZN-Bad bad woman)
1963 - David Zhuang, China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 - Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Cï¿½cilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 - Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1965 - Aldo Swager, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1965 - Hardy Nickerson, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1966 - Katja Bienert, Berlin Germany, actress (Praxis Bulowbogen)
1966 - Stephane Talbot, Greenfield Park Que, golfer (1992 Quebec PGA)
1966 - Tim Hardaway, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1967 - David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 - Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Australia, LPGA golfer (1994 McDonald's-17th)
1968 - Michelle Buckingham, LA California, Canadian 61 kg judoka (Olymp-20-92, 96)
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 - Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Barbara Paulus, Vienna Austria, tennis star
1970 - Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star
1970 - Jodi Lambert, Australian 100m/200m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 - Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
1971 - Gabe Wilkins, NFL defensive end (GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1971 - Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan 3K runner (world record)
1971 - Hakan Şï¿½kï¿½r, Turkish footballer
1971 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 - Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 - Lï¿½ï¿½m, French singer
1971 - Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1972 - Eiman Thakeb, Miss Egypt Universe (1997)
1972 - Josh Davis, US, 800m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Louise Dobson, Shepparton Aust, field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1972 - Matt O'Dwyer, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1972 - Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
1973 - Gillian Boxx, Fontana CA, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Trent Bray, NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 - Zach Thomas, American football player
1973 - Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1974 - Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 - Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 - Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1976 - Sebastiï¿½n Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 - Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 - Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1977 - Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 - Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1977 - Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 - David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1978 - Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1978 - Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 - Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer
1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 - Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1982 - Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 - Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 - Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 - Josï¿½ Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1984 - Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 - Nick Noble, American soccer player
1985 - Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1986 - H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1986 - Gaï¿½l Monfils, French tennis player
1986 - Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1987 - Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 - Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 - Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 - Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1993 - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 - Bianca Ryan, American singer
Quote for today:
"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors"
- Jonas Salk
Historic events on September 2 (a day late)
44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC - The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
31 BC - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
911 - Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 - Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
1519 - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1537 - King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
1644 - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 - Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
1686 - Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1743 - England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1752 - Last Julian calender day in US & England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1752 - Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
1792 - Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them
1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1796 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1806 - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
1807 - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1839 - Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
1856 - Tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta
1867 - 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
1870 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1894 - -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1894 - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1897 - "McCall-magazine 1st published
1898 - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 - Machine gun 1st used in battle
1900 - Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1902 - "A Trip To The Moon," the 1st science fiction film released
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
1911 - Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1913 - Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
1914 - -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
1917 - Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 - Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
1920 - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
1922 - Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1924 - 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
1924 - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
1926 - Italy signs treaty with Yemen
1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1929 - Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
1929 - WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 - A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1937 - US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1940 - 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
1940 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1941 - Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad
1944 - Belgium's Emissie bank closes
1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
1944 - US leaders meet in Belgium
1945 - 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1946 - Nehru forms government in India
1949 - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1951 - Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
1952 - Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1954 - Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1954 - WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1957 - 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
1958 - KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
1958 - National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 - U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
1959 - US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
1960 - Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
1960 - William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1960 - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
1964 - Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1964 - Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1965 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
1965 - Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
1967 - KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1968 - Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 - NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
1969 - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1970 - 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
1971 - Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1971 - Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
1971 - NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
1972 - Chic White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
1972 - Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1972 - Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1973 - Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1974 - Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 - Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia
1978 - Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
1978 - Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
1979 - "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1979 - 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
1980 - John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1984 - "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1985 - Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 - Philips introduces CD-video
1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1988 - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1989 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
1990 - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
1991 - Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1991 - US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
1992 - Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
1992 - US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
1993 - 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
1993 - Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
1993 - Day of Peace in South Africa
1994 - Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
1995 - Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
1995 - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 - Southern California begins using new area code 562
1996 - Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
1996 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1996 - Soyuz TM-24, lands
1996 - A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacaï¿½ang Palace.
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
Music history on September 2
1661 - Composer George Bohm was born.
1814 - The composer Mihaly Mosonyi was born.
1862 - Composer Alphons Diepenbrock was born.
1917 - Composer Laurindo Almeida was born.
1924 - The operetta "Rose Marie", by Rudolf Friml, opened on Broadway.
1927 - Sophie Tucker recorded her song "Some of These Days."
1931 - The radio show "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" debuted on CBS.
1935 - George Gershwin completed the orchestral score for the opera Porgy and Bess.
1963 - The Angels become the first white all-female group to have a No.1 record. The song was "My Boyfriend's Back."
1965 - The Beatles received a gold record for the song "Help!"
1965 - The Rolling Stones appeared on the British TV show "Ready Steady Go!" Mick Jagger and Andrew Loog Oldham performed a parody of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe."
1965 - The Beatles released "Yesterday."
1970 - An ad was run in "Melody Maker" by Genesis. Phil Collins answered the ad and eventually joined the group.
1971 - The Grateful Dead's ex-manager was arrested for embezzling $70,000 from the band.
1976 - The first issue of Musician magazine was published.
1978 - George Harrison married Olivia Trinidad Arias. She was a secretary at his Dark Horse record company.
1978 - The "Animal House" soundtrack was released.
1981 - The single "Controversy" was released by Prince.
1986 - Debbie Gibson, while still in school and only 16 years old, began recording the album "Out of the Blue."
1987 - The Amnesty International Tour started in London, starring Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Tracy Chapman.
1988 - The Amnesty International Tour started in London at Wembley Stadium.
1989 - Ric Ocasek, of the Cars, married Paulina Porizkova.
1997 - WAR released its 20th album, "Coleccion Latina."
2010 - At Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, Brooks & Dunn played their final show together at a fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Famous birthdays on September 2
Cleveland Amory 1917
1996 - Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime)
1997 - A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
2004 - The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.
Music history on September 3
1695 - Composer Pietro-Antonio Locatelli was born.
1940 - Artie Shaw and the Gramercy Five recorded "Summit Ridge Drive."
1942 - Frank Sinatra started his solo singing career.
1955 - Bill Haley & the Comets refused their first offer to tour outside the U.S. because of a fear of flying.
1963 - Reprise Records, owned by Frank Sinatra, became part of Warner Brothers Records.
1969 - The Four Seasons' "I've Got You Under My Skin" was released.
1970 - Rolling Stone reported that the Dave Clark Five had broken up.
1973 - "Angie" was released by The Rolling Stones.
1983 - Metallica ended their first tour entitled "Kill 'em all for one." The tour began on July 27, 1983.
1992 - David Bowie appeared on the cover of "Architectural Digest." He was the first human on the cover in 4 years.
1994 - Brian Setzer (formerly of the Stray Cats) married Christine Schmidt.
1994 - Prince/The Artist appeared on "Soul Train" as the bass player for Nona Gaye on the song "Love Sign."
1994 - "After the Storm" was released by Crosby, Stills and Nash.
2010 - In Devon, England, Mike Edwards (Electric Light Orcherstra) was killed when a giant bale of hay tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.
Sports history on September 3
1895 - 1895 - The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
1947 - The New York Yankees got 18 hits in an 11-2 win over Boston. All 18 hits were singles.
1957 - Warren Spahn (Milwaukee Braves) recorded his 41st career shutout.
1966 - Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) signed his first NHL contract. The two-year deal paid $70,000 plus a signing bonus, gave Orr the top salary in hockey.
1970 - Vince Lombardi died of cancer at the age of 57.
1970 - Billy Williams (Chicago Cubs) ended his National League record of 1,117 consecutive games played.
1981 - The Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners played the longest game in Fenway Park history. The game was ended in a 7-7 tie after 19 innings the previous day. The Mariners won the game 8-7.
1984 - Bruce Sutter of the St. Louis Cardinals set a National League record by earning his 38th save of the season.
1986 - The Houston Astros beat the Chicago Cubs 8-7 in the 18th inning. The game was ended the day before after 14 innings were played. The two teams had used a record 53 players the day before.
1990 - Bobby Thigpen set a major league record when he got his 47th save.
1999 - Mario Lemieux's ownership group officially took over the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. Lemieux became the first player in the modern era of sports to buy the team he had once played for.
2000 - Kenny Lofton tied a major league record when he scored in his 18th straight game.
2001 - Bud Smith became the 16th major league rookie to throw a no-hitter. It was his 11th career start.
Sports Quote:
I didn't like the '50s, you know. I appreciate Elvis, but I'm not a big fan. I'm not a rockabilly fan. And the '60s and early '70s were, to me, the greatest times to live.
- Brett Hull
Famous birthdays on September 3
1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (d. 1073)
1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
1568 - Adriano Banchieri, composer
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
1600 - Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk
1608 - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military
1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1693 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
1695 - Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer
1703 - Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
1719 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
1757 - Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1778 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
1781 - Eugï¿½ne de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (d. 1824)
1789 - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer
1803 - Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer
1803 - Prudence Crandall, founder (School for "young ladies of colour")
1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1820 - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1825 - Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1825 - William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1835 - William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 - Jacob Fabricius, composer
1841 - Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1851 - Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
1856 - Louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture
1859 - AAJ Jean Jaurï¿½s, French socialist (L'Humanitï¿½, Les Preuves)
1860 - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1864 - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer
1865 - Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
1866 - Alain Locke, famous African
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen)
1882 - Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
1887 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1889 - Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn)
1890 - J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City PA, actress (Courage of Black Beauty)
1891 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer
1893 - Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer/choreography/teacher (Schepelingen)
1897 - Cecil Parker, Hastings England, actor (Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities)
1897 - Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer
1897 - Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1900 - Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956-81)
1901 - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor
1902 - Mantan Moreland, Monroe LA, comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth)
1903 - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
Nobel Laureat Physicist Carl David Anderson (1905) 1905 - Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), (d. 1991)
1905 - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer
1907 - Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 - Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets)
1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
1910 - Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
1911 - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 - Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers)
1914 - Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
1915 - Abel Ehrlich, composer
1916 - Memphis Slim, [Peter Chatman], rocker
1917 - Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers)
1917 - Peter Winter, naval commander
1918 - Helen Wagner, Lubbock Tx, actress (Nancy-As The World Turns)
1921 - Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1921 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
1922 - Rosendo Ejercito Santos, composer
1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
1923 - Terry Wilson, California, actor (Bill-Wagon Train)
1925 - Bengt Lindstrï¿½m, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1925 - Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer
1925 - Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1926 - Alison Lurie, US, novelist (War Between the Tates)
1926 - Anne Jackson, Penn, actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine)
1926 - Bill Flemming, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1926 - Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek, Attila The Hun)
1926 - Joe Kolter, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- )
1926 - John R[obert] Jones, US, sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War)
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission(d. 2007)
1929 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
1930 - Cherry Barbara Grimm, [Lockett], NZ, sci-fi author (Nearest Fire)
1930 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1931 - Dick Motta, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over 'til the fat lady sings)
1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, Chicago IL, actress/vocalist (Les Girls, South Pacific)
1931 - Rudolf Kelterborn, composer
1931 - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1932 - Richard Tyler, NYC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1933 - Roland Kayn, composer
1933 - Tompall Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1934 - Xavier Darasse, composer
1934 - Freddie King, Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway)
1935 - Eileen Brennan, LA California, actress (Laugh-In, Pvt Benjamin)
1935 - Otto Ketting, trumpeter/composer (Passacaglia)
1936 - John W Olver, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1936 - Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia (1987- )
1938 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
1938 - Caryl Churchill, English playwright
1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 - Pauline Collins, London England, actress (Shirley Valentine)
1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
1941 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1942 - Al Jardine, Lima Oh, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-Surfin, In My Room)
1942 - John Shrapnel, English actor
1943 - Dave Eichelberger, Waco TX, PGA golfer (1971 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1943 - Don Brewer, rocker
1943 - Michael D Barnes, (Rep-D-MD, 1979-86)
1943 - Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author (Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid)
1943 - Frank Lister, English footballer
1944 - Gary Leeds, Glendale Ca, rocker (Walker Brothers)
1944 - Sherwood C "Woody" Spring, Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut (STS 61B)
1944 - Valerie Perrine, Galveston Tx, actress (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny)
1945 - George Biondo, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Mike Harrison, keyboardist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1946 - Peter Morris, historian of France
1947 - Eric Bell, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy Belfast, N Ireland
1947 - Michael Huffington, US oil millionaire (Rep-R-California, 1992-94)
1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
1948 - Donald Brewer, Flint Mich, rock drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 - Minouche Janmaat-Abee, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 - Ronald W Harris, Canton Oh, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 - Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1948 - Levy Mwanawasa - Zambian Politician (d. 2008)
1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
1949 - Josï¿½ Pekerman, Argentine football manager
1950 - Aaron Smith, rocker (Romeo Void)
1950 - Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X)
1953 - Khabib Munir, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3 backup)
1953 - M H Habib, Syria, cosmonaut
1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 - Steve Jones, London, rock guitarist (Sex Pistols)
1956 - Hans-Georg Beyer, German DR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Patrick McGeown, politician
1957 - Garth Ancier, American television executive
1959 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
1961 - Brian Thomas Kamm, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (1994 Bell Canadian-6th)
1961 - Greg Petersen, Iowa City IA, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Klondike-6th)
1961 - Rene Gonzales, Austin TX, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1962 - Dave Clark, Tupelo MS, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 - Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor
1963 - Eric Plunk, Wilmington CA, pitcher (Oakland A's, NY Yankees, Indians)
1963 - Mubarak Ghanim, UAE footballer
1964 - Ernest Givins, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 - Glenn Joyner, Ferntree Gully VIC, Australasia golfer
1964 - Toshiyuki Sakai, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
1964 - Spike Feresten, American television writer
1964 - Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
1964 - Holt McCallany, American actor
Actor Charlie Sheen (1965) 1965 - Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], NYC, actor (Wall St, Platoon)
1965 - Maurizio Mansi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 - Todd Lewis, musician (Toadies)
1966 - Bennie Blades, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1966 - Pat Eilers, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1966 - Shawn Daniels, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
1967 - Chris Gatling, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1967 - Luis Gonzalez, Tampa Fla, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - David Pichler, Butler Pa, diver (Olympics-6th-96)
1968 - Dawn Allinger, Salt Lake City UT, team handball back court (Oly-1996)
1968 - Matt Hamon, SF California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Robert Bailey, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Noah Baumbach, Brooklyn, New York, writer, director and independent film maker (The Squid and the Whale)
1969 - Keith Traylor, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1969 - John Fugelsang, American actor
1970 - George Lynch, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Uzooma Okeke, CFL guard (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer
1971 - Chabeli Iglesias, Madrid Spain, daughter of Julio Iglesias
1971 - Glen Housman, Rockhampton QLD Aust, swimmer (Olympics-silv-92, 96)
1971 - Tonja Marie Christensen, Salt Lake City Utah, playmate (Nov, 1991)
1971 - Trevor St. John, American actor
1972 - Antonius Bonner, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Martin Straka, Pizen CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, Florida)
1972 - Roland Ramoser, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1972 - Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
1973 - Brian Thure, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Chen Hsiao-Fen, Miss Universe-Taiwan ROC (1996)
1973 - Damon Stoudamire, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 - Joanette Kruger, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star
1973 - Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
1974 - Rebecca Bailey, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Sergei Yerkovich, hockey defenseman (Team Belarus 1998)
1974 - Clare Kramer, American actress
1975 - Ava Lovell, Miss Universe-Belize (1996)
1975 - Christobal Huet, hockey goalie (Team France 1998)
1976 - Ashley Jones, American actress
1976 - Jevon Kearse, American football player
1976 - Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
1977 - Tami Tyler, Santa Clara California, dance skater (& Jonathan Nichols)
1977 - Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
1977 - Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
1977 - Nate Robertson, American baseball player
1978 - John Curtis, English footballer
1978 - Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
1978 - Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
1978 - Nick Wechsler, American actor
1978 - Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)bn
1979 - Tomo Miličević, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 - The B.G., American rapper
1980 - Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
1980 - Cone McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
1980 - Jennie Finch, American softball player
1981 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
1982 - Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
1983 - Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Nicky Hunt, English footballer
1983 - Marcus McCauley, American football player
1983 - Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
1984 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
1985 - Scott Carson, English footballer
1985 - Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1986 - Shaun White, San Diego, California, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010)
1987 - Chris Fountain, English actor
1993 - Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
Quote of the day:
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper