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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1.8.860 | "Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II" |
| 1.8.902 | "Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily" |
| 1.8.1021 | Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest |
| 1.8.1086 | English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier |
| 1.8.1177 | Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III |
| 1.8.1203 | Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium |
| 1.8.1291 | "Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)" |
| 1.8.1404 | Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland |
| 1.8.1485 | Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England |
| 1.8.1498 | "Christopher Columbus lands on ""Isla Santa"" (Venezuela)" |
| 1.8.1588 | English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada |
| 1.8.1589 | Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III |
| 1.8.1619 | "1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia" |
| 1.8.1626 | Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal |
| 1.8.1628 | Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism |
| 1.8.1664 | Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu |
| 1.8.1690 | Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye |
| 1.8.1711 | Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov |
| 1.8.1714 | Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England |
| 1.8.1716 | 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) |
| 1.8.1716 | Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed |
| 1.8.1732 | Foundation laid for Bank of England |
| 1.8.1759 | "Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France" |
| 1.8.1774 | Priestly discovers oxygen |
| 1.8.1780 | Sweden declares neutrality |
| 1.8.1781 | "English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia" |
| 1.8.1785 | Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet |
| 1.8.1789 | U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act |
| 1.8.1790 | "1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214" |
| 1.8.1793 | France becomes 1st country to use the metric system |
| 1.8.1794 | Whiskey Rebellion begins |
| 1.8.1798 | Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet |
| 1.8.1812 | "Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York" |
| 1.8.1814 | Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat |
| 1.8.1831 | London Bridge opens to traffic |
| 1.8.1834 | Slavery abolished through out the British Empire |
| 1.8.1836 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil |
| 1.8.1838 | Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas |
| 1.8.1842 | Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens |
| 1.8.1852 | "San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist" |
| 1.8.1855 | Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants |
| 1.8.1861 | Brazil recognizes Confederacy |
| 1.8.1863 | Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign |
| 1.8.1863 | Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign |
| 1.8.1864 | "Battle of Petersburg, Virginia" |
| 1.8.1867 | Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South |
| 1.8.1869 | 1st voyage down Colorado River |
| 1.8.1873 | San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service |
| 1.8.1876 | Colorado becomes 38th state |
| 1.8.1881 | "U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay" |
| 1.8.1883 | "A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery" |
| 1.8.1883 | Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights |
| 1.8.1883 | Inland postal service begins in Great Britain |
| 1.8.1886 | Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand |
| 1.8.1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi |
| 1.8.1893 | Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat |
| 1.8.1896 | George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) |
| 1.8.1901 | Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited |
| 1.8.1902 | Building begins on Dutch public housing |
| 1.8.1902 | "Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die" |
| 1.8.1903 | 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed |
| 1.8.1906 | Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th |
| 1.8.1907 | "Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF" |
| 1.8.1907 | Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division |
| 1.8.1909 | "British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed" |
| 1.8.1911 | Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point |
| 1.8.1914 | British fleet reaches Scapa Flow |
| 1.8.1914 | Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I) |
| 1.8.1914 | France and Germany mobilize |
| 1.8.1914 | Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I |
| 1.8.1916 | Hawaii National Park forms |
| 1.8.1918 | British troops enter Vladivostok |
| 1.8.1918 | "Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings" |
| 1.8.1919 | Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam |
| 1.8.1919 | Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek |
| 1.8.1920 | Papendrecht soccer team forms |
| 1.8.1920 | Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia |
| 1.8.1922 | Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard |
| 1.8.1925 | Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies |
| 1.8.1926 | Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus |
| 1.8.1926 | Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona |
| 1.8.1927 | Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards |
| 1.8.1928 | Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace |
| 1.8.1933 | Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) |
| 1.8.1933 | Death penality for anti fascists in Germany |
| 1.8.1933 | Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno |
| 1.8.1936 | Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin |
| 1.8.1936 | Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College |
| 1.8.1941 | "New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St. L 0)" |
| 1.8.1941 | Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
| 1.8.1942 | Deurne soccer team forms |
| 1.8.1942 | German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers |
| 1.8.1942 | "Race riots in Harlem, New York" |
| 1.8.1943 | Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw |
| 1.8.1943 | Race riot in Harlem New York City |
| 1.8.1943 | Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 |
| 1.8.1944 | Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East |
| 1.8.1944 | Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested |
| 1.8.1944 | General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army |
| 1.8.1944 | U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt |
| 1.8.1944 | U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir |
| 1.8.1944 | Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
| 1.8.1945 | Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's |
| 1.8.1945 | Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx) |
| 1.8.1945 | SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld |
| 1.8.1946 | President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
| 1.8.1947 | """Medium and The Telephone"" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances" |
| 1.8.1947 | Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel |
| 1.8.1950 | 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) |
| 1.8.1950 | American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule |
| 1.8.1950 | Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) |
| 1.8.1950 | "King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King" |
| 1.8.1951 | David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| 1.8.1953 | "California introduces sales tax, for education" |
| 1.8.1953 | Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba |
| 1.8.1953 | "KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1953 | "KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1953 | Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
| 1.8.1953 | Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief |
| 1.8.1954 | Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France |
| 1.8.1954 | "WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1955 | 1st microgravity research begins |
| 1.8.1955 | Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government |
| 1.8.1955 | "WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1956 | "KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1957 | 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) |
| 1.8.1957 | Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) |
| 1.8.1957 | "Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10"")" |
| 1.8.1957 | U.S. and Canada create NORAD |
| 1.8.1958 | 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) |
| 1.8.1958 | U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole |
| 1.8.1959 | New Continental baseball league formed |
| 1.8.1959 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia |
| 1.8.1959 | "WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1960 | Aretha Franklins 1st recording session |
| 1.8.1960 | Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
| 1.8.1960 | "Chubby Checker releases ""The Twist""" |
| 1.8.1961 | Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford |
| 1.8.1961 | German DR limits traffic to West Berlin |
| 1.8.1961 | New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens |
| 1.8.1961 | "Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League" |
| 1.8.1962 | "Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0" |
| 1.8.1962 | Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
| 1.8.1963 | Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale |
| 1.8.1963 | Germany FR annexes Elten village |
| 1.8.1963 | "WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1964 | ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation |
| 1.8.1964 | "Beatles' ""Hard Day's Night, A,"" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks" |
| 1.8.1965 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 1.8.1966 | Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead |
| 1.8.1966 | Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas |
| 1.8.1967 | Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1.8.1967 | "WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1968 | Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins |
| 1.8.1968 | Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo |
| 1.8.1968 | "WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1969 | "110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival" |
| 1.8.1969 | "36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)" |
| 1.8.1969 | Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars |
| 1.8.1970 | "EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi" |
| 1.8.1970 | "KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.8.1970 | Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game |
| 1.8.1971 | Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison |
| 1.8.1971 | CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII |
| 1.8.1971 | George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City |
| 1.8.1971 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 1.8.1972 | 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) |
| 1.8.1972 | Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header |
| 1.8.1973 | H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF |
| 1.8.1973 | Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park |
| 1.8.1974 | "Virginia Squires trade Julius ""Dr. J"" Erving to New York Nets" |
| 1.8.1975 | 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord |
| 1.8.1975 | "41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)" |
| 1.8.1975 | Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees |
| 1.8.1975 | "Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations" |
| 1.8.1976 | 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada |
| 1.8.1976 | "Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139" |
| 1.8.1976 | Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) |
| 1.8.1976 | "Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)" |
| 1.8.1977 | San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer |
| 1.8.1978 | Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games |
| 1.8.1978 | "Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead" |
| 1.8.1978 | "Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)" |
| 1.8.1979 | Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal |
| 1.8.1980 | Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record |
| 1.8.1980 | Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03 |
| 1.8.1981 | MTV premieres at 12:01 AM |
| 1.8.1981 | Poland premier Jagielski resigns |
| 1.8.1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| 1.8.1982 | "Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives" |
| 1.8.1982 | Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut |
| 1.8.1982 | Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) |
| 1.8.1983 | New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England |
| 1.8.1985 | "15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)" |
| 1.8.1985 | Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time |
| 1.8.1985 | "Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74" |
| 1.8.1986 | "Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000" |
| 1.8.1986 | "Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934" |
| 1.8.1986 | Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma |
| 1.8.1986 | Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal |
| 1.8.1987 | Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart |
| 1.8.1987 | "Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9"") set by Harry Drake in Nevada" |
| 1.8.1987 | Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1.8.1987 | Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America |
| 1.8.1988 | "Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon" |
| 1.8.1989 | Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes |
| 1.8.1990 | """Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances" |
| 1.8.1990 | Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game |
| 1.8.1990 | Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait |
| 1.8.1990 | Soyuz TM-10 launches |
| 1.8.1990 | Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs |
| 1.8.1991 | "Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida" |
| 1.8.1991 | Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires |
| 1.8.1992 | "NBC's ""Saturday Today"" premieres" |
| 1.8.1992 | """Salome"" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances" |
| 1.8.1992 | USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica |
| 1.8.1993 | """In the Summer House"" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 25 performances" |
| 1.8.1993 | Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1.8.1993 | "Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York" |
| 1.8.1993 | """She Loves Me"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances" |
| 1.8.1993 | "Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack" |
| 1.8.1994 | 99.9 degrees F (37.7 degrees C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record |
| 1.8.1994 | The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour |
| 1.8.1994 | "Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed" |
| 1.8.1995 | Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network |
| 1.8.1996 | "M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched" |
| 1.8.1998 | Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam |
| 2.8.257 | St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 2.8.1057 | "Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]" |
| 2.8.1375 | 1st roller skating rink opens (London) |
| 2.8.1492 | Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
| 2.8.1542 | French troops leave Flanders |
| 2.8.1552 | Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion |
| 2.8.1578 | Battle of Rijmenam |
| 2.8.1581 | Leiden University names Snellius math professor |
| 2.8.1610 | "Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay" |
| 2.8.1665 | French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers |
| 2.8.1704 | Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim |
| 2.8.1718 | Austrian joins Triple Alliance |
| 2.8.1738 | France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey |
| 2.8.1776 | Formal signing of Declaration of Independence |
| 2.8.1782 | George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction |
| 2.8.1786 | Utrechtse Vroedschap flees |
| 2.8.1787 | Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc |
| 2.8.1791 | "Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine" |
| 2.8.1798 | British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile |
| 2.8.1802 | "Napoleon declared ""Counsel for Life""" |
| 2.8.1819 | 1st parachute jump in U.S. |
| 2.8.1831 | "Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium" |
| 2.8.1832 | "1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War" |
| 2.8.1832 | Black Hawk defeated in Iowa |
| 2.8.1832 | "Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin" |
| 2.8.1858 | 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets |
| 2.8.1858 | Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown |
| 2.8.1865 | "Lewis Carroll publishes ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland""" |
| 2.8.1865 | Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost |
| 2.8.1873 | "1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones" |
| 2.8.1875 | World 1st roller skating rink opens in London |
| 2.8.1877 | "San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes" |
| 2.8.1884 | Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent |
| 2.8.1887 | Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire |
| 2.8.1892 | Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator |
| 2.8.1894 | Death duties 1st introduced in Britain |
| 2.8.1894 | Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter |
| 2.8.1903 | Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey |
| 2.8.1906 | Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak |
| 2.8.1907 | "Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit" |
| 2.8.1909 | 1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
| 2.8.1909 | Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
| 2.8.1911 | Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica |
| 2.8.1912 | 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY |
| 2.8.1914 | Belgian government receives German ultimatum |
| 2.8.1914 | German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg |
| 2.8.1914 | German troops overthrows Luxembourg |
| 2.8.1914 | Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty |
| 2.8.1914 | Great Britain mobilizes |
| 2.8.1914 | Postdam Conference ended |
| 2.8.1914 | Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
| 2.8.1914 | "Sherlock Holmes Adventure ""His Last Bow"" takes place" |
| 2.8.1920 | "Marcus Garvey presents his ""Back To Africa"" program in New York City" |
| 2.8.1921 | Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox |
| 2.8.1922 | "China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die" |
| 2.8.1924 | Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game |
| 2.8.1928 | "Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia" |
| 2.8.1929 | Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR |
| 2.8.1931 | Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status |
| 2.8.1932 | Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs |
| 2.8.1934 | "1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it" |
| 2.8.1934 | Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany |
| 2.8.1934 | "William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour" |
| 2.8.1938 | 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) |
| 2.8.1939 | Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers |
| 2.8.1940 | Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death |
| 2.8.1940 | "KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia" |
| 2.8.1941 | German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
| 2.8.1941 | Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
| 2.8.1942 | "250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp" |
| 2.8.1942 | Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo |
| 2.8.1943 | Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka |
| 2.8.1943 | Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands |
| 2.8.1943 | RAF bombs Hamburg |
| 2.8.1943 | Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106 |
| 2.8.1943 | Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) |
| 2.8.1944 | "Amsterdam soccer team ""The Volewijckers"" plays in orange shirts" |
| 2.8.1944 | Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker |
| 2.8.1944 | Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany |
| 2.8.1945 | "Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill" |
| 2.8.1953 | "Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash" |
| 2.8.1953 | "KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.8.1954 | Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia |
| 2.8.1955 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 2.8.1958 | "Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months" |
| 2.8.1959 | 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC |
| 2.8.1959 | Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples |
| 2.8.1959 | San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs |
| 2.8.1961 | Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club |
| 2.8.1961 | Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo |
| 2.8.1961 | St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto |
| 2.8.1962 | "NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m" |
| 2.8.1963 | "30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)" |
| 2.8.1964 | Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees |
| 2.8.1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| 2.8.1964 | North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin |
| 2.8.1964 | "Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey" |
| 2.8.1965 | Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing |
| 2.8.1966 | Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting |
| 2.8.1967 | "New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77" |
| 2.8.1967 | U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 |
| 2.8.1968 | "35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)" |
| 2.8.1969 | Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minnesota 10th reunion |
| 2.8.1969 | President Nixon visits Romania |
| 2.8.1970 | "Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals" |
| 2.8.1970 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| 2.8.1970 | Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California |
| 2.8.1972 | Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London |
| 2.8.1973 | George Brett gets his 1st hit |
| 2.8.1975 | "104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)" |
| 2.8.1975 | "107 degrees F (42 degrees C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)" |
| 2.8.1979 | """Broadway Opry '79"" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 6 performances" |
| 2.8.1979 | Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway |
| 2.8.1980 | "Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed" |
| 2.8.1980 | U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships |
| 2.8.1981 | "Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs" |
| 2.8.1981 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 2.8.1982 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season |
| 2.8.1982 | Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network |
| 2.8.1983 | STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 2.8.1983 | U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination |
| 2.8.1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 2.8.1985 | 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo |
| 2.8.1985 | "Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die" |
| 2.8.1985 | NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
| 2.8.1986 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S.) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) |
| 2.8.1987 | 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) |
| 2.8.1987 | Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
| 2.8.1987 | Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 HR 30 steal man |
| 2.8.1987 | "Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3"")" |
| 2.8.1987 | Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season |
| 2.8.1987 | "Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game" |
| 2.8.1987 | Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) |
| 2.8.1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 2.8.1988 | Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo |
| 2.8.1988 | System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) |
| 2.8.1989 | "NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24" |
| 2.8.1990 | "Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia" |
| 2.8.1990 | Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats |
| 2.8.1991 | "Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges" |
| 2.8.1991 | Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles |
| 2.8.1991 | Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 |
| 2.8.1991 | Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched |
| 2.8.1992 | """Death and the Maiden"" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances" |
| 2.8.1992 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic |
| 2.8.1992 | Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick |
| 2.8.1992 | "Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame" |
| 2.8.1993 | New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes |
| 2.8.1993 | Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles |
| 2.8.1993 | "Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420" |
| 2.8.1993 | "Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed" |
| 2.8.1994 | Congressional hearings begin on White Water |
| 2.8.1994 | "Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed" |
| 2.8.1994 | New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure |
| 2.8.1994 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) |
| 2.8.1998 | 26th du Maurier Golf Classic |
| 3.8.881 | Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings |
| 3.8.1108 | "Louis VI, ""the Fat One,"" King of France, crowned" |
| 3.8.1312 | Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200 |
| 3.8.1492 | All Jews are expelled from Spain |
| 3.8.1492 | "Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for ""Indies""" |
| 3.8.1529 | """Ladies' Peace"" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V and King French I" |
| 3.8.1557 | Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes |
| 3.8.1596 | David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star) |
| 3.8.1640 | "2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka" |
| 3.8.1640 | "Zorilla's ""Bire el Ojo,"" premieres in Toledo" |
| 3.8.1645 | Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians |
| 3.8.1650 | Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army |
| 3.8.1676 | "Nathaniel Bacon publishes ""Declaration of People of Virginia""" |
| 3.8.1678 | "Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon" |
| 3.8.1692 | Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army |
| 3.8.1704 | English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar |
| 3.8.1708 | Battle at Trencsen: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army |
| 3.8.1745 | "Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides" |
| 3.8.1778 | Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan |
| 3.8.1797 | "Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in ""Countries of Bohemian Crown"" to marry non Jews" |
| 3.8.1829 | "Gioacchino Rossini's ""William Tell,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 3.8.1833 | HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro |
| 3.8.1852 | "1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths" |
| 3.8.1855 | Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens |
| 3.8.1861 | "Federal fleet bombs Galveston, Texas" |
| 3.8.1863 | Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York |
| 3.8.1863 | "Saratoga Racetrack, New York, opens" |
| 3.8.1880 | "American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York" |
| 3.8.1881 | Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous |
| 3.8.1881 | "U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes ""Nation"" from name" |
| 3.8.1882 | Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration |
| 3.8.1897 | "John McNally's musical ""Good Mr. Best,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.8.1904 | British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa |
| 3.8.1906 | Washington Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th |
| 3.8.1914 | 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal |
| 3.8.1914 | Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army |
| 3.8.1914 | French fleet sails to North-Africa |
| 3.8.1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina |
| 3.8.1914 | Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I |
| 3.8.1914 | Great Britain declares war on Germany |
| 3.8.1914 | Turkey signs military pact with Germany |
| 3.8.1914 | World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms |
| 3.8.1914 | Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning |
| 3.8.1921 | 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars) |
| 3.8.1921 | "Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball" |
| 3.8.1923 | Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding |
| 3.8.1923 | V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president |
| 3.8.1924 | Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist |
| 3.8.1925 | Last U.S. troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912) |
| 3.8.1926 | Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus |
| 3.8.1928 | Ray Barbuti saves U.S. team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) |
| 3.8.1930 | "2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games" |
| 3.8.1933 | "Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931)" |
| 3.8.1939 | "Jean Genets ""Ondine,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 3.8.1940 | German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies |
| 3.8.1940 | Italian troops invade British Somalia |
| 3.8.1940 | Lithuanian SSR is accepted into U.S.S.R. |
| 3.8.1940 | Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the U.S. |
| 3.8.1941 | Benzine sales limited in U.S. |
| 3.8.1941 | Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base |
| 3.8.1941 | Gas sales limited in U.S. |
| 3.8.1941 | German troops conquer Roslavl U.S.S.R. |
| 3.8.1943 | Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice |
| 3.8.1943 | "Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire" |
| 3.8.1944 | Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma |
| 3.8.1944 | "Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies" |
| 3.8.1944 | General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter |
| 3.8.1944 | Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma |
| 3.8.1944 | "Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers" |
| 3.8.1946 | "Belgian government of Huysmans, forms" |
| 3.8.1948 | Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start and goes 7 innings |
| 3.8.1948 | "Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a ""communist""" |
| 3.8.1949 | Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association |
| 3.8.1949 | Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire |
| 3.8.1951 | "William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA" |
| 3.8.1952 | 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland |
| 3.8.1953 | Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 3.8.1954 | "1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown" |
| 3.8.1955 | Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing |
| 3.8.1955 | Hurricane Connie begins pounding U.S. for 11 days |
| 3.8.1955 | Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) |
| 3.8.1956 | Willie Williams of U.S. sets 100 meter record at 10.1 |
| 3.8.1957 | British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman |
| 3.8.1958 | USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap |
| 3.8.1959 | "27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA" |
| 3.8.1959 | 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau |
| 3.8.1959 | AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium) |
| 3.8.1960 | Niger gains independence from France |
| 3.8.1962 | "29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)" |
| 3.8.1962 | New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games |
| 3.8.1963 | "Allan Sherman releases ""Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda""" |
| 3.8.1963 | Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool |
| 3.8.1963 | Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed |
| 3.8.1963 | """No Strings"" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 580 performances" |
| 3.8.1966 | South African government bans Beatle records |
| 3.8.1967 | "45,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam" |
| 3.8.1967 | James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes |
| 3.8.1968 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 3.8.1969 | Reds beats Phillies 19-17 |
| 3.8.1969 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| 3.8.1970 | 4 day NFL strike ends |
| 3.8.1970 | "Christopher Hampton's ""Philanthropist,"" premieres in London" |
| 3.8.1970 | "Hurricane ""Celia"" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history" |
| 3.8.1970 | "Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try" |
| 3.8.1971 | Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings |
| 3.8.1972 | British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike |
| 3.8.1972 | "Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii" |
| 3.8.1973 | "Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK" |
| 3.8.1973 | National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections |
| 3.8.1974 | Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan and joins Doobie Brothers |
| 3.8.1974 | """Little Night Music"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 601 performances" |
| 3.8.1974 | """Words and Music"" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 127 performances" |
| 3.8.1975 | 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River |
| 3.8.1975 | Louisiana Superdome is dedicated |
| 3.8.1975 | Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans |
| 3.8.1975 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 3.8.1977 | "Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered" |
| 3.8.1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.8.1980 | "22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, U.S.S.R." |
| 3.8.1980 | "Kaline, Snider, Klein, and Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame" |
| 3.8.1980 | Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 3.8.1981 | "13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike" |
| 3.8.1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 3.8.1982 | Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as New York Yankee manager |
| 3.8.1983 | "John Sain of South Bend, Indiana builds 3.91 m house of cards" |
| 3.8.1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.8.1984 | 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 3.8.1984 | "Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed" |
| 3.8.1985 | """Nihilator"" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ" |
| 3.8.1985 | "Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed" |
| 3.8.1986 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
| 3.8.1986 | "Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame" |
| 3.8.1987 | "Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)" |
| 3.8.1987 | Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 |
| 3.8.1987 | Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose |
| 3.8.1987 | Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected |
| 3.8.1988 | Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City |
| 3.8.1989 | "5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)" |
| 3.8.1989 | Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning |
| 3.8.1989 | Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river |
| 3.8.1989 | Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons |
| 3.8.1990 | "98.8 degrees F (37.1 degrees C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)" |
| 3.8.1990 | For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Philadelphia 11-0 |
| 3.8.1990 | """Little Night Music"" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 11 performances" |
| 3.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats |
| 3.8.1990 | "Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion" |
| 3.8.1990 | U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions |
| 3.8.1991 | "Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian" |
| 3.8.1991 | Pan Am games open in Havana |
| 3.8.1992 | "Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)" |
| 3.8.1992 | Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot |
| 3.8.1994 | 102.4 degrees F (39.1 degrees C) in Tokyo Japan: record |
| 3.8.1994 | 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) |
| 3.8.1995 | CNN en Espanol premieres |
| 3.8.1997 | 25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins |
| 3.8.1997 | BankBoston Senior Golf Classic |
| 3.8.1997 | Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park New York for HBO |
| 3.8.1997 | Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International |
| 4.8.1181 | Supernova seen in Cassiopia |
| 4.8.1265 | Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort |
| 4.8.1347 | English troops conquer Ft. Calais |
| 4.8.1351 | Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English |
| 4.8.1558 | 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) |
| 4.8.1578 | "Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed" |
| 4.8.1598 | London's head office of Hanze closed |
| 4.8.1636 | Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil |
| 4.8.1666 | "Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die" |
| 4.8.1666 | Sea battle between Netherlands and England |
| 4.8.1693 | Dom Perignon invents champagne |
| 4.8.1695 | French garrison of surrenders to Willem III |
| 4.8.1704 | "War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar" |
| 4.8.1730 | Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England |
| 4.8.1735 | Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) |
| 4.8.1753 | George Washington becomes a master mason |
| 4.8.1760 | Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia |
| 4.8.1777 | Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus |
| 4.8.1789 | French National Meeting ending feudal system |
| 4.8.1790 | U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service |
| 4.8.1791 | Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova |
| 4.8.1821 | 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) |
| 4.8.1830 | Plans for city of Chicago laid out |
| 4.8.1855 | "John Bartlett publishes ""Familiar Quotations""" |
| 4.8.1862 | U.S. government collects its 1st income tax |
| 4.8.1864 | "Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas" |
| 4.8.1870 | British Red Cross Society forms |
| 4.8.1879 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris |
| 4.8.1881 | "122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Seville, Spain (European record)" |
| 4.8.1886 | Colombia adopts constitution |
| 4.8.1892 | Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine |
| 4.8.1892 | "Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass" |
| 4.8.1897 | Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia |
| 4.8.1903 | Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X |
| 4.8.1909 | "Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment" |
| 4.8.1910 | A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie |
| 4.8.1914 | King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army |
| 4.8.1914 | Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War |
| 4.8.1914 | U.S. declares neutrality in WW I |
| 4.8.1914 | German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice |
| 4.8.1914 | German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast |
| 4.8.1914 | Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany |
| 4.8.1916 | "Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million" |
| 4.8.1917 | "Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers" |
| 4.8.1922 | Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team |
| 4.8.1925 | 1st Dutch Colijn government forms |
| 4.8.1925 | U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation |
| 4.8.1927 | Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens |
| 4.8.1929 | "60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich" |
| 4.8.1929 | "Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6" |
| 4.8.1929 | Jones Beach in New York opens |
| 4.8.1930 | Child labor laws established in Belgium |
| 4.8.1934 | New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4 |
| 4.8.1936 | Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece |
| 4.8.1941 | Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) |
| 4.8.1941 | Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US |
| 4.8.1942 | 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz |
| 4.8.1942 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo |
| 4.8.1942 | Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev |
| 4.8.1942 | German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed |
| 4.8.1943 | British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada |
| 4.8.1943 | Russian units reach suburbs of Orel |
| 4.8.1943 | USAF bombs Germans in Troina |
| 4.8.1944 | Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis |
| 4.8.1944 | British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy |
| 4.8.1945 | Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season |
| 4.8.1945 | Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
| 4.8.1948 | 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax |
| 4.8.1949 | NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association |
| 4.8.1953 | Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago |
| 4.8.1953 | Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0 |
| 4.8.1954 | Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning |
| 4.8.1955 | Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters |
| 4.8.1956 | 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) |
| 4.8.1956 | "Elvis Presley releases ""Hound Dog""" |
| 4.8.1956 | Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands |
| 4.8.1958 | Dumont TV Network crumbles |
| 4.8.1959 | """Billy Barnes Revue"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances" |
| 4.8.1960 | "Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH" |
| 4.8.1961 | "108 degrees F, Spokane, WA" |
| 4.8.1961 | "28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)" |
| 4.8.1962 | Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
| 4.8.1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| 4.8.1964 | "Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam" |
| 4.8.1964 | North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin |
| 4.8.1965 | Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand |
| 4.8.1967 | "34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)" |
| 4.8.1967 | Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) |
| 4.8.1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.8.1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 4.8.1968 | "100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California" |
| 4.8.1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open |
| 4.8.1968 | "WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.8.1969 | Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium |
| 4.8.1970 | Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness |
| 4.8.1971 | U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft |
| 4.8.1972 | Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace |
| 4.8.1974 | Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor |
| 4.8.1974 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| 4.8.1975 | Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes |
| 4.8.1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 4.8.1977 | President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
| 4.8.1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.8.1979 | Italian government of Cossiga begins |
| 4.8.1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 4.8.1980 | "Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean" |
| 4.8.1980 | "John and Yoko begin recording ""Double Fantasy""" |
| 4.8.1980 | Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills |
| 4.8.1981 | Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission |
| 4.8.1981 | Oliver North is assigned to White House duty |
| 4.8.1982 | "New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game" |
| 4.8.1983 | Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy |
| 4.8.1983 | France performs nuclear test |
| 4.8.1983 | Revolution in Burkina |
| 4.8.1983 | While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull |
| 4.8.1984 | Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics |
| 4.8.1984 | Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR |
| 4.8.1984 | "Prince's ""Purple Rain,"" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks" |
| 4.8.1984 | Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) |
| 4.8.1985 | "California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit" |
| 4.8.1985 | """Dreamgirls"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances" |
| 4.8.1985 | Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 4.8.1985 | "Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10" |
| 4.8.1985 | "Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits" |
| 4.8.1985 | "White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees" |
| 4.8.1986 | OPEC lowers oil production 20% |
| 4.8.1987 | "At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker" |
| 4.8.1987 | FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters |
| 4.8.1988 | "Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II" |
| 4.8.1988 | Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case |
| 4.8.1989 | Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by New York Yankee Roberto Kelly |
| 4.8.1990 | 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth) |
| 4.8.1990 | European community proposes a boycott of Iraq |
| 4.8.1991 | 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 |
| 4.8.1991 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| 4.8.1993 | Angolese air force bombs Huambo |
| 4.8.1993 | Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha |
| 4.8.1993 | "Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits" |
| 4.8.1994 | "Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered" |
| 4.8.1994 | Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race |
| 4.8.1994 | Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway |
| 4.8.1995 | Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees |
| 4.8.1996 | 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies |
| 4.8.1996 | "26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)" |
| 4.8.1996 | "J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, and N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame" |
| 4.8.1997 | """Keenan Ivory Wayan Show,"" premieres on Fox TV" |
| 5.8.135 | Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome |
| 5.8.1071 | Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe |
| 5.8.1264 | Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany |
| 5.8.1391 | "Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed" |
| 5.8.1391 | Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain |
| 5.8.1399 | Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers |
| 5.8.1420 | "Duke John VI of Bavaria visits ""Christ's bride""/virgin Liduina" |
| 5.8.1435 | Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen |
| 5.8.1543 | French and Turkish troops occupy Nice |
| 5.8.1583 | Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) |
| 5.8.1587 | Spanish troops conquer Lock |
| 5.8.1654 | French troops occupy Stenay |
| 5.8.1666 | English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter |
| 5.8.1667 | State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict |
| 5.8.1716 | Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks |
| 5.8.1745 | Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots |
| 5.8.1772 | "1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia" |
| 5.8.1775 | "1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay" |
| 5.8.1781 | Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet |
| 5.8.1837 | "1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, New York" |
| 5.8.1846 | Oregon country divided between U.S. and Britain at 49th parallel |
| 5.8.1858 | Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable |
| 5.8.1861 | Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years |
| 5.8.1861 | "Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade" |
| 5.8.1861 | U.S. Army abolishes flogging |
| 5.8.1861 | U.S. levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800) |
| 5.8.1862 | "Battle of Baton Rouge, LA" |
| 5.8.1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral |
| 5.8.1864 | "Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati" |
| 5.8.1877 | Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo |
| 5.8.1884 | Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (New York City) |
| 5.8.1890 | British and French accord to divide African colonization |
| 5.8.1901 | "Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4""" |
| 5.8.1914 | "1st traffic light installed, Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland" |
| 5.8.1914 | "Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I" |
| 5.8.1914 | Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money |
| 5.8.1914 | Massive German assault on forts around Luik |
| 5.8.1914 | Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I |
| 5.8.1914 | "U.S. beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup" |
| 5.8.1914 | "U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S." |
| 5.8.1914 | Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium |
| 5.8.1915 | German troops over run Warsaw |
| 5.8.1915 | "Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans" |
| 5.8.1917 | British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium |
| 5.8.1921 | "1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)" |
| 5.8.1921 | Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty |
| 5.8.1923 | "1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan" |
| 5.8.1924 | "Comic strip ""Little Orphan Annie,"" by Harold Gray, debuts" |
| 5.8.1926 | "1st talkie movie ""Don Juan"" at Warner Theatre, New York" |
| 5.8.1926 | French and German trade agreement signed |
| 5.8.1926 | Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 hrs |
| 5.8.1927 | Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats |
| 5.8.1931 | Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| 5.8.1936 | "At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal" |
| 5.8.1937 | Ranger (U.S.) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup |
| 5.8.1938 | 33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2) |
| 5.8.1940 | """Acquaintance"" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge" |
| 5.8.1940 | "St. Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings" |
| 5.8.1942 | British government cancels agreement of Munich |
| 5.8.1942 | German troops cross Kuban River |
| 5.8.1943 | Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter |
| 5.8.1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod |
| 5.8.1944 | US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne |
| 5.8.1944 | US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne |
| 5.8.1945 | Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) |
| 5.8.1947 | "Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to United Nations pressure" |
| 5.8.1948 | Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6) |
| 5.8.1949 | 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die |
| 5.8.1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title |
| 5.8.1950 | Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23) |
| 5.8.1951 | Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg |
| 5.8.1953 | "Operation ""Big Switch"" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom" |
| 5.8.1954 | Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers |
| 5.8.1954 | Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio |
| 5.8.1955 | "After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games" |
| 5.8.1956 | "KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.8.1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open |
| 5.8.1956 | "WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.8.1957 | """American Bandstand,"" begins network TV (ABC)" |
| 5.8.1957 | "Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million" |
| 5.8.1957 | "Comic strip ""Andy Capp"" made its debut" |
| 5.8.1957 | WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions |
| 5.8.1958 | Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole |
| 5.8.1958 | "Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi" |
| 5.8.1959 | "42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)" |
| 5.8.1959 | Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto |
| 5.8.1960 | Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France |
| 5.8.1960 | Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon |
| 5.8.1961 | "118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)" |
| 5.8.1961 | Chicago Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal |
| 5.8.1962 | 1st quasar located by radio |
| 5.8.1962 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 5.8.1962 | Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa |
| 5.8.1962 | U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports |
| 5.8.1963 | "Britain, U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign nuclear test ban treaty" |
| 5.8.1963 | Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH |
| 5.8.1963 | "U.S., U.S.S.R. and Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing" |
| 5.8.1964 | Actress Anne Bancroft and comedian Mel Brooks wed |
| 5.8.1964 | "Beatles record ""Leave My Kitten Alone""" |
| 5.8.1964 | Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville |
| 5.8.1964 | Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner |
| 5.8.1964 | U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam |
| 5.8.1965 | Dave Marr wins PGA title |
| 5.8.1966 | "33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)" |
| 5.8.1966 | Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus |
| 5.8.1966 | "Beatles release ""Yellow Submarine"" and ""Eleanor Rigby"" in UK" |
| 5.8.1966 | "Beatles' ""Revolver"" album is released" |
| 5.8.1966 | Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title |
| 5.8.1966 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. stoned during Chicago march" |
| 5.8.1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 5.8.1967 | "1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7" |
| 5.8.1967 | "Bobby Gentry releases her only hit ""Ode to Billy Joe""" |
| 5.8.1968 | "WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast" |
| 5.8.1969 | Mariner 7 flies past Mars |
| 5.8.1969 | Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium |
| 5.8.1970 | "Robert Morley's ""How the Other Half Loves,"" premieres in London" |
| 5.8.1970 | U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail |
| 5.8.1971 | "WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.8.1972 | Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue |
| 5.8.1972 | "Moody Blues release ""Nights in White Satin""" |
| 5.8.1972 | "Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians" |
| 5.8.1973 | "Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55" |
| 5.8.1973 | "Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0" |
| 5.8.1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
| 5.8.1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 6 |
| 5.8.1974 | Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways |
| 5.8.1974 | President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in |
| 5.8.1975 | "Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5" |
| 5.8.1975 | Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown |
| 5.8.1978 | New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo) |
| 5.8.1979 | """But Never Jam Today"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 7 performances" |
| 5.8.1979 | Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario |
| 5.8.1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open |
| 5.8.1979 | "Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single" |
| 5.8.1979 | "Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America" |
| 5.8.1979 | "Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame" |
| 5.8.1980 | "Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager" |
| 5.8.1980 | New York Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game |
| 5.8.1981 | "President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers" |
| 5.8.1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 5.8.1982 | "Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager" |
| 5.8.1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 5.8.1984 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 5.8.1984 | Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) |
| 5.8.1984 | Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium |
| 5.8.1984 | Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR |
| 5.8.1985 | Baseball players go on strike for 2 days |
| 5.8.1985 | Establishment of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced |
| 5.8.1985 | "Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor" |
| 5.8.1986 | Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33) |
| 5.8.1986 | "It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa" |
| 5.8.1986 | "Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout" |
| 5.8.1986 | "U.S. Senate votes for SDI-project, Star Wars" |
| 5.8.1988 | Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat |
| 5.8.1990 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 5.8.1990 | Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame |
| 5.8.1991 | "Sergeo Bubka of U.S.S.R. sets pole vault record (20'"") in Malmo Sweden" |
| 5.8.1992 | 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge |
| 5.8.1994 | "Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed" |
| 5.8.1994 | Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose |
| 5.8.1996 | Dallas Cowboys play Kansas City Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico |
| 5.8.1997 | "Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive" |
| 5.8.1997 | "Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial" |
| 5.8.1997 | "Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov, launched" |
| 6.8.258 | St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 6.8.523 | St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 6.8.768 | [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 6.8.939 | Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors |
| 6.8.1181 | Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers |
| 6.8.1497 | John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America |
| 6.8.1588 | Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors |
| 6.8.1600 | "Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588" |
| 6.8.1601 | Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius |
| 6.8.1623 | Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII |
| 6.8.1625 | Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen |
| 6.8.1661 | Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders |
| 6.8.1675 | Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut |
| 6.8.1726 | Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty |
| 6.8.1774 | "Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY" |
| 6.8.1787 | Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate |
| 6.8.1815 | "U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli" |
| 6.8.1821 | "1st edition of ""Courrier of Pays-Bas"" newspaper published in Brussels" |
| 6.8.1824 | Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish |
| 6.8.1825 | Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) |
| 6.8.1854 | Congress passes Confiscation Act |
| 6.8.1861 | Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state |
| 6.8.1862 | "Confederate Army ironclad ""Arkansas"" is badly damaged in Union attack" |
| 6.8.1864 | "Rebels evacuate Ft. Powell, Mobile Bayd" |
| 6.8.1870 | Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France |
| 6.8.1870 | White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature |
| 6.8.1890 | Cy Young pitches and wins 1st game |
| 6.8.1890 | "Denton True ""Cy"" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game" |
| 6.8.1896 | France annexes Madagascar |
| 6.8.1905 | "26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)" |
| 6.8.1908 | "St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn" |
| 6.8.1910 | New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt |
| 6.8.1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia |
| 6.8.1914 | French cavalry enter Belgium |
| 6.8.1914 | "German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed" |
| 6.8.1914 | Serbia declares war against Germany |
| 6.8.1918 | Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France |
| 6.8.1918 | In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends |
| 6.8.1919 | 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) |
| 6.8.1919 | Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest |
| 6.8.1921 | "Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins" |
| 6.8.1926 | Don Juan with John Barrymore shown |
| 6.8.1926 | New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel |
| 6.8.1926 | Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system |
| 6.8.1930 | "Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen" |
| 6.8.1930 | Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City |
| 6.8.1934 | "U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915" |
| 6.8.1936 | "1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs" |
| 6.8.1937 | Franco-artillery fire on Madrid |
| 6.8.1937 | Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest |
| 6.8.1937 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty |
| 6.8.1939 | "1st broadcast of ""Dinah Shore Show"" on NBC-radio" |
| 6.8.1940 | Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire |
| 6.8.1941 | Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning |
| 6.8.1942 | Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 |
| 6.8.1942 | Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant |
| 6.8.1942 | "Goering proclaims occupied areas ""thoroughly empty to plunder""" |
| 6.8.1942 | Riots by Dutch Jews |
| 6.8.1943 | U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily |
| 6.8.1944 | "All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died" |
| 6.8.1944 | Anti-German attack at Avranches fails |
| 6.8.1944 | "Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins" |
| 6.8.1944 | U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes |
| 6.8.1945 | "Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by ""Enola Gay""" |
| 6.8.1945 | Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
| 6.8.1946 | U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court |
| 6.8.1947 | "1st performance of Villa-Lobos' ""Bachianas Brasilieras No 8""" |
| 6.8.1948 | "Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics" |
| 6.8.1948 | Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms |
| 6.8.1948 | Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics |
| 6.8.1949 | "Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop" |
| 6.8.1951 | "Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria" |
| 6.8.1952 | "Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout" |
| 6.8.1953 | Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military |
| 6.8.1954 | WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 6.8.1958 | Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles |
| 6.8.1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 6.8.1960 | Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto |
| 6.8.1961 | 1st case of motion sickness in space reported |
| 6.8.1961 | "Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)" |
| 6.8.1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 6.8.1962 | Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule |
| 6.8.1964 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam |
| 6.8.1965 | "32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)" |
| 6.8.1965 | "Beatles release ""Help"" album in U.K." |
| 6.8.1965 | Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights |
| 6.8.1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan |
| 6.8.1965 | "Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks" |
| 6.8.1966 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London |
| 6.8.1966 | Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 6.8.1966 | Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) |
| 6.8.1966 | U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
| 6.8.1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 6.8.1967 | "Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings" |
| 6.8.1967 | Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play |
| 6.8.1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane |
| 6.8.1969 | "Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals" |
| 6.8.1970 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 6.8.1972 | Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament |
| 6.8.1972 | "Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team" |
| 6.8.1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic |
| 6.8.1973 | Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame |
| 6.8.1973 | "Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma" |
| 6.8.1974 | 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice |
| 6.8.1974 | "Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington" |
| 6.8.1977 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open |
| 6.8.1978 | 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA |
| 6.8.1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open |
| 6.8.1979 | 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich |
| 6.8.1979 | "Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel" |
| 6.8.1980 | University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses |
| 6.8.1981 | Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed |
| 6.8.1981 | "Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs" |
| 6.8.1981 | "NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed" |
| 6.8.1982 | "22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3" |
| 6.8.1982 | California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game |
| 6.8.1982 | "WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system" |
| 6.8.1983 | "Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)" |
| 6.8.1983 | Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa |
| 6.8.1984 | 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 6.8.1984 | Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics |
| 6.8.1985 | "19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB" |
| 6.8.1985 | Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) |
| 6.8.1985 | STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 6.8.1986 | "Orioles, Dwyer and Sheets, and Rangers, Harrah, hit record 3 grand slams" |
| 6.8.1986 | "Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM" |
| 6.8.1988 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases |
| 6.8.1988 | "Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies" |
| 6.8.1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
| 6.8.1989 | Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 |
| 6.8.1989 | Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia |
| 6.8.1989 | """Oh! Calcutta!"" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances" |
| 6.8.1989 | Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines |
| 6.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats |
| 6.8.1990 | President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan |
| 6.8.1990 | U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
| 6.8.1991 | "Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0" |
| 6.8.1992 | "Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500" |
| 6.8.1993 | Japan Hosokawa government begins |
| 6.8.1993 | Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical |
| 6.8.1994 | Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities |
| 6.8.1995 | """Damn Yankees"" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 510 performances" |
| 6.8.1995 | Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain |
| 6.8.1995 | "Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)" |
| 6.8.1995 | Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb |
| 6.8.1996 | NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars |
| 6.8.1997 | Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc |
| 6.8.1997 | "NHL Nashville, Tenne names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach" |
| 7.8.626 | Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated |
| 7.8.768 | Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 7.8.936 | Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany |
| 7.8.1409 | Council of Pisa closes |
| 7.8.1479 | Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI |
| 7.8.1485 | "Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales" |
| 7.8.1498 | Columbus arrives in Caribbean |
| 7.8.1573 | Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth |
| 7.8.1575 | "Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died" |
| 7.8.1588 | English assault on Spanish Armada |
| 7.8.1620 | "Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici" |
| 7.8.1620 | Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft |
| 7.8.1710 | Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance |
| 7.8.1750 | Slave uprising on Curacao |
| 7.8.1760 | "Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians" |
| 7.8.1782 | George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart |
| 7.8.1789 | Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service |
| 7.8.1802 | Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) |
| 7.8.1814 | Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits |
| 7.8.1819 | Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia |
| 7.8.1820 | 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii |
| 7.8.1867 | "Battle of Moorefield, WV" |
| 7.8.1882 | "Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die" |
| 7.8.1884 | Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) |
| 7.8.1885 | 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar |
| 7.8.1888 | Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door |
| 7.8.1893 | 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes |
| 7.8.1900 | Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike |
| 7.8.1904 | "Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96" |
| 7.8.1907 | "Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland" |
| 7.8.1909 | U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny |
| 7.8.1912 | Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres |
| 7.8.1914 | British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece |
| 7.8.1914 | French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross |
| 7.8.1914 | French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas |
| 7.8.1914 | German army occupies city of Liege Belgium |
| 7.8.1914 | "Lord Kitchner says ""Your country needs you,"" poster spreads over UK" |
| 7.8.1915 | "Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die" |
| 7.8.1915 | "St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores" |
| 7.8.1921 | Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter |
| 7.8.1925 | League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied |
| 7.8.1927 | Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated |
| 7.8.1927 | U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 |
| 7.8.1929 | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government |
| 7.8.1929 | Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
| 7.8.1930 | Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government |
| 7.8.1934 | "U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel ""Ulysses""" |
| 7.8.1935 | 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) |
| 7.8.1938 | 2 die in a New York City subway accident |
| 7.8.1938 | "Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run" |
| 7.8.1938 | Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university |
| 7.8.1940 | Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile |
| 7.8.1940 | "Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)" |
| 7.8.1941 | 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania |
| 7.8.1942 | "1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands" |
| 7.8.1942 | Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway |
| 7.8.1942 | Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 7.8.1943 | Red Army recaptures Bogodukov |
| 7.8.1944 | Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter |
| 7.8.1944 | Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation |
| 7.8.1944 | German counter attack at Avranches fails |
| 7.8.1944 | July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins |
| 7.8.1944 | U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany |
| 7.8.1947 | Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef |
| 7.8.1948 | 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns |
| 7.8.1948 | Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) |
| 7.8.1949 | """All after Love"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 121 performances" |
| 7.8.1950 | "Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League" |
| 7.8.1951 | "Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph" |
| 7.8.1951 | "U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record" |
| 7.8.1953 | "Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet" |
| 7.8.1954 | Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate |
| 7.8.1954 | """Golden Apple"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances" |
| 7.8.1955 | Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel |
| 7.8.1955 | "KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins" |
| 7.8.1956 | "Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans" |
| 7.8.1956 | British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt |
| 7.8.1956 | Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die |
| 7.8.1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 7.8.1959 | Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space |
| 7.8.1960 | "Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France" |
| 7.8.1960 | Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches |
| 7.8.1960 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 7.8.1961 | Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 |
| 7.8.1961 | Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. |
| 7.8.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 7.8.1963 | "Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland" |
| 7.8.1964 | "31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)" |
| 7.8.1964 | Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots |
| 7.8.1964 | U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
| 7.8.1966 | "Race riot in Lansing, Michigan" |
| 7.8.1970 | 1st computer chess tournament |
| 7.8.1970 | "4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)" |
| 7.8.1970 | Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac |
| 7.8.1970 | "WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.8.1971 | Apollo 15 returns to Earth |
| 7.8.1972 | "Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn" |
| 7.8.1974 | Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band |
| 7.8.1974 | Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers |
| 7.8.1976 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open |
| 7.8.1976 | "Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars" |
| 7.8.1976 | U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth |
| 7.8.1977 | """Shenandoah"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances" |
| 7.8.1978 | "Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame" |
| 7.8.1978 | Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI |
| 7.8.1980 | "Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed" |
| 7.8.1983 | 1st World Track and Field Championships |
| 7.8.1983 | 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA |
| 7.8.1983 | Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium |
| 7.8.1983 | "Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)" |
| 7.8.1983 | """Merlin"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances" |
| 7.8.1983 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 7.8.1983 | "Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T" |
| 7.8.1984 | "David Rabe's ""Hurlyburly,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.8.1984 | Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball |
| 7.8.1984 | "Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee" |
| 7.8.1985 | "Barbra Streisand records ""Broadway Album""" |
| 7.8.1985 | Baseball players end a 2 day strike |
| 7.8.1986 | "Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina" |
| 7.8.1986 | """Honky Tonk Nights"" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 4 performances" |
| 7.8.1987 | 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala |
| 7.8.1987 | "Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six" |
| 7.8.1987 | Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea |
| 7.8.1988 | Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament |
| 7.8.1988 | Writers guild end their 6 months strike |
| 7.8.1990 | Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia |
| 7.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome |
| 7.8.1991 | "Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 """ |
| 7.8.1991 | "Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents" |
| 7.8.1991 | Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR |
| 7.8.1991 | Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes |
| 7.8.1991 | U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds |
| 7.8.1992 | Cleveland Indians turn a triple play |
| 7.8.1992 | Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants |
| 7.8.1993 | """Camelot"" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 56 performances" |
| 7.8.1993 | "Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed" |
| 7.8.1994 | 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan |
| 7.8.1994 | Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain |
| 7.8.1994 | Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia |
| 7.8.1994 | """Hedda Gabler"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 33 performances" |
| 7.8.1997 | "STS 85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit" |
| 7.8.1997 | Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier |
| 8.8.70 | Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans |
| 8.8.870 | Kings Charles the Bare and Louis the German divide Lutherans |
| 8.8.936 | "German king Otto I the Great, crowned" |
| 8.8.1322 | "Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect" |
| 8.8.1502 | Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor |
| 8.8.1549 | France declares war on England |
| 8.8.1567 | Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium |
| 8.8.1570 | "Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots" |
| 8.8.1579 | Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory |
| 8.8.1585 | Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV) |
| 8.8.1588 | Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada |
| 8.8.1609 | Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope |
| 8.8.1619 | Duke Maximilian I and Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Munchen |
| 8.8.1673 | Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City |
| 8.8.1700 | Denmark and Sweden sign peace treaty |
| 8.8.1709 | "1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)" |
| 8.8.1758 | British troops occupy and plunder Cherbourg |
| 8.8.1786 | Congress adopts silver dollar and decimal system of money |
| 8.8.1786 | Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc |
| 8.8.1788 | King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together |
| 8.8.1796 | Boston African Society establishes with 44 members |
| 8.8.1809 | "70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)" |
| 8.8.1814 | "Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium" |
| 8.8.1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena |
| 8.8.1816 | Bavarian joins Saint Alliance |
| 8.8.1829 | French government of De Polignac forms |
| 8.8.1831 | Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army |
| 8.8.1843 | Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony |
| 8.8.1844 | Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death |
| 8.8.1853 | "Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan" |
| 8.8.1854 | Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges |
| 8.8.1860 | Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York City |
| 8.8.1864 | Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth |
| 8.8.1864 | Red Cross forms in Geneva |
| 8.8.1864 | "Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama" |
| 8.8.1868 | "Quake destroyes Arica, Chile" |
| 8.8.1870 | Magic (U.S.) defeats Cambria (England) in 2nd running of America's Cup |
| 8.8.1876 | Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m |
| 8.8.1876 | Thomas Edison patents mimeograph |
| 8.8.1890 | Daughters of American Revolution organizes |
| 8.8.1900 | "1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later" |
| 8.8.1902 | 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2) |
| 8.8.1903 | 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1) |
| 8.8.1903 | "In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game" |
| 8.8.1913 | "Richard Corfields ""Camel Corps"" opens ""Mad Mullah"" in Burao Somalia" |
| 8.8.1914 | "3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton ""Endurance""" |
| 8.8.1914 | French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas |
| 8.8.1914 | Montenegro declares war on Germany |
| 8.8.1916 | A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road |
| 8.8.1918 | "6 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more" |
| 8.8.1918 | Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens |
| 8.8.1919 | "Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence" |
| 8.8.1920 | "Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes" |
| 8.8.1922 | Italian general strike broken by fascist terror |
| 8.8.1922 | Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies) |
| 8.8.1924 | British-Russian trade agreement signed |
| 8.8.1925 | "1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C." |
| 8.8.1929 | German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
| 8.8.1929 | "Salem, Oregon airport dedicated" |
| 8.8.1930 | "St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant" |
| 8.8.1931 | "Washington Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0" |
| 8.8.1937 | Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power |
| 8.8.1940 | 31 German aircraft shot down over England |
| 8.8.1940 | Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks |
| 8.8.1941 | 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman |
| 8.8.1942 | 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. |
| 8.8.1942 | Dianthus sinks U-379 |
| 8.8.1942 | """Monty"" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein" |
| 8.8.1942 | Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko |
| 8.8.1943 | Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec |
| 8.8.1943 | U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily |
| 8.8.1943 | Vegetables and fruit rationed in Holland |
| 8.8.1944 | Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan |
| 8.8.1944 | "Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank and family" |
| 8.8.1944 | U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans |
| 8.8.1945 | England and Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test |
| 8.8.1945 | President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter |
| 8.8.1945 | "U.S., U.S.S.R., England and France sign Treaty of London" |
| 8.8.1945 | U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II |
| 8.8.1945 | U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea |
| 8.8.1946 | "Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million" |
| 8.8.1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles |
| 8.8.1948 | """Hold It!"" opens at National Theater New York City for 46 performances" |
| 8.8.1949 | "Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy" |
| 8.8.1950 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
| 8.8.1952 | Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
| 8.8.1953 | Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb |
| 8.8.1953 | U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact |
| 8.8.1955 | "Fidel Castro forms ""July 26th Movement""" |
| 8.8.1955 | Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy |
| 8.8.1956 | "Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium" |
| 8.8.1956 | "WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins" |
| 8.8.1957 | U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid |
| 8.8.1960 | """Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"" hits #1" |
| 8.8.1961 | "Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario" |
| 8.8.1961 | "Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ" |
| 8.8.1963 | "Kingsmen release ""Louie, Louie,"" radio stations label it obscene" |
| 8.8.1963 | Los Angeles Dodgers F Howard and B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
| 8.8.1963 | "Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ" |
| 8.8.1964 | """110 in the Shade"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 330 performances" |
| 8.8.1964 | Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam |
| 8.8.1964 | Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert |
| 8.8.1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
| 8.8.1965 | Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation |
| 8.8.1966 | South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
| 8.8.1967 | "Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)" |
| 8.8.1968 | Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos |
| 8.8.1968 | "Race riot in Miami, Florida" |
| 8.8.1968 | Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres |
| 8.8.1970 | "New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)" |
| 8.8.1971 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 8.8.1971 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
| 8.8.1972 | New York Yankees sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium |
| 8.8.1973 | "VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are ""damned lies"" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)" |
| 8.8.1974 | President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 |
| 8.8.1976 | Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts |
| 8.8.1977 | "Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi" |
| 8.8.1977 | Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's) |
| 8.8.1978 | Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus |
| 8.8.1979 | Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents |
| 8.8.1980 | LBV Conference Center and Club Lake Villas open |
| 8.8.1982 | 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| 8.8.1982 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 8.8.1983 | Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela |
| 8.8.1983 | "Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)" |
| 8.8.1983 | "Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees" |
| 8.8.1984 | Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer |
| 8.8.1984 | Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends |
| 8.8.1984 | """Rink"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 204 performances" |
| 8.8.1985 | Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993 |
| 8.8.1985 | "Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet" |
| 8.8.1986 | "Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets and Dwyer-Orioles)" |
| 8.8.1987 | Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game |
| 8.8.1987 | Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait |
| 8.8.1987 | "Pakistan all out 708 vs. England at The Oval, Botham 3-217" |
| 8.8.1988 | 9th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
| 8.8.1988 | "Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty" |
| 8.8.1988 | "Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed" |
| 8.8.1988 | "Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1" |
| 8.8.1988 | Discovery of most dostant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced |
| 8.8.1988 | Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl |
| 8.8.1988 | Goose Gossage registers 300th career save |
| 8.8.1988 | Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar |
| 8.8.1988 | Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season |
| 8.8.1988 | Matt Biondi swims U.S. record 200m freestyle (1:47.72) |
| 8.8.1988 | Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year and beat Cleveland 6-2 |
| 8.8.1988 | Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years |
| 8.8.1988 | Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
| 8.8.1988 | Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia |
| 8.8.1988 | South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
| 8.8.1988 | Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in New York City |
| 8.8.1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-28 launched |
| 8.8.1990 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland) |
| 8.8.1990 | Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 home runs as a catcher |
| 8.8.1990 | Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province |
| 8.8.1990 | Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp |
| 8.8.1991 | Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor |
| 8.8.1991 | Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge |
| 8.8.1991 | Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy |
| 8.8.1991 | "With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)" |
| 8.8.1992 | Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas |
| 8.8.1992 | Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR |
| 8.8.1993 | California state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40) |
| 8.8.1993 | Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt |
| 8.8.1993 | "Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed" |
| 8.8.1995 | Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning |
| 8.8.1997 | Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox |
| 9.8.378 | "Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army" |
| 9.8.1378 | Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil) |
| 9.8.1559 | Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht |
| 9.8.1596 | Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond |
| 9.8.1638 | Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx |
| 9.8.1655 | Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts |
| 9.8.1673 | Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures New York |
| 9.8.1673 | Dutch recapture New York from English; regained by English in 1674 |
| 9.8.1726 | Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover |
| 9.8.1757 | "English Ft. William Henry, New York, surrenders to French and Indians troops" |
| 9.8.1778 | "Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits" |
| 9.8.1790 | "Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry U.S. flag around the world" |
| 9.8.1803 | 1st horses arrive in Hawaii |
| 9.8.1829 | """Stourbridge Lion"" locomotive goes into service" |
| 9.8.1830 | "Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X" |
| 9.8.1831 | "1st U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York)" |
| 9.8.1832 | King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria |
| 9.8.1841 | Erie boat in Buffalo New York catches fire; 242 die |
| 9.8.1842 | U.S. - Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
| 9.8.1848 | Austria and Sardinia sign cease fire |
| 9.8.1848 | Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president |
| 9.8.1849 | Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia |
| 9.8.1854 | "Henry David Thoreau publishes ""Walden""" |
| 9.8.1855 | Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising |
| 9.8.1859 | Elevator patented |
| 9.8.1862 | "Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)" |
| 9.8.1862 | "Berlioz' opera ""Beatrice et Benedict,"" premieres in Baden-Baden" |
| 9.8.1862 | "Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed" |
| 9.8.1864 | Battle of Ft. Morgan AL |
| 9.8.1890 | "1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations" |
| 9.8.1893 | "1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York" |
| 9.8.1901 | 34-35 degrees N/98-99 degrees W open for U.S. colonization |
| 9.8.1902 | Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria |
| 9.8.1905 | "Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him" |
| 9.8.1910 | Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine |
| 9.8.1914 | German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser |
| 9.8.1915 | British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis |
| 9.8.1918 | "Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him ""for indifferent play""" |
| 9.8.1920 | Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect |
| 9.8.1923 | New York State Golf Association formed |
| 9.8.1925 | "Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out" |
| 9.8.1930 | "113 degrees F (45 degrees C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)" |
| 9.8.1930 | Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes |
| 9.8.1930 | Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec) |
| 9.8.1936 | Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics |
| 9.8.1941 | Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR |
| 9.8.1942 | 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland |
| 9.8.1942 | Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad |
| 9.8.1942 | "Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a ""quit India"" campaign by the All-India Congress" |
| 9.8.1942 | "Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island" |
| 9.8.1943 | "Bertolt Brecht's ""Leben des Galilei,"" premieres in Zurich" |
| 9.8.1944 | "12 workers of Dutch illegal paper ""Trouw,"" executed at Camp Vught" |
| 9.8.1944 | Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention |
| 9.8.1944 | US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans |
| 9.8.1945 | "US drops 2nd atomic bomb ""Fat Man"" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki" |
| 9.8.1946 | 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night |
| 9.8.1950 | Lusty Song wins Hambletonian |
| 9.8.1951 | Dutch Korea volunteers win U.S. Collective Unit Citation |
| 9.8.1952 | General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium |
| 9.8.1953 | "Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired" |
| 9.8.1956 | "1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama" |
| 9.8.1956 | South African women demonstrate against pass laws |
| 9.8.1957 | "24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)" |
| 9.8.1960 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
| 9.8.1961 | James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court |
| 9.8.1963 | "Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres" |
| 9.8.1963 | New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends |
| 9.8.1964 | 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands |
| 9.8.1964 | "Bunning continues pitching perfectly to New York Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings" |
| 9.8.1964 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| 9.8.1965 | "Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die" |
| 9.8.1965 | "Singapore gains independence from Malaysia, National Day" |
| 9.8.1967 | Biafran offensive against Nigerian army |
| 9.8.1967 | "KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.8.1968 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague |
| 9.8.1969 | Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders |
| 9.8.1969 | """Zorba"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 305 performances" |
| 9.8.1970 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 9.8.1970 | Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes |
| 9.8.1971 | Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 9.8.1972 | Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle |
| 9.8.1973 | Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit Wings |
| 9.8.1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 7 |
| 9.8.1974 | "Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th president" |
| 9.8.1975 | "1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7" |
| 9.8.1975 | Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught |
| 9.8.1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open |
| 9.8.1976 | "Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI vs. Glamorgan" |
| 9.8.1976 | "Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0" |
| 9.8.1976 | "U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth" |
| 9.8.1977 | "Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks vs. Warwicks" |
| 9.8.1977 | NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs |
| 9.8.1978 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| 9.8.1978 | Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7 |
| 9.8.1979 | English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach |
| 9.8.1980 | Belgian constitution revised |
| 9.8.1981 | "52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve" |
| 9.8.1981 | 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) |
| 9.8.1981 | 63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga |
| 9.8.1981 | All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) |
| 9.8.1981 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 9.8.1981 | NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium) |
| 9.8.1984 | "Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal" |
| 9.8.1984 | STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad |
| 9.8.1986 | """Honky Tonk Nights"" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 4 performances" |
| 9.8.1987 | 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach |
| 9.8.1987 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv" |
| 9.8.1987 | "Los Angeles Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)" |
| 9.8.1987 | Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 9.8.1988 | Just 1 day after 8/8/88 New York's daily number is 888 |
| 9.8.1988 | Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field |
| 9.8.1988 | Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles Kings for $15-$20 millions |
| 9.8.1990 | 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia |
| 9.8.1990 | Soyuz TM-10 lands |
| 9.8.1992 | "25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain" |
| 9.8.1992 | Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt |
| 9.8.1992 | Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower |
| 9.8.1992 | Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3 degrees F (37.4 degrees C) |
| 9.8.1992 | """Streetcar Named Desire"" closes at Ethel Barrymore New York City after 137 perf" |
| 9.8.1993 | "King Albert II of Belgium, crowned" |
| 9.8.1994 | Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night |
| 9.8.1994 | Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao |
| 9.8.1997 | "Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by New York City police" |
| 9.8.1997 | Yanks break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins |
| 9.8.1998 | Star Bank LPGA Classic |
| 10.8.70 | """2nd Temple"" of Jews is set aflame (approx)" |
| 10.8.654 | Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I |
| 10.8.843 | "Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France" |
| 10.8.955 | Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians |
| 10.8.1304 | Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet |
| 10.8.1461 | "Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain" |
| 10.8.1497 | "John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to ""Asia""" |
| 10.8.1500 | Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar |
| 10.8.1511 | Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka |
| 10.8.1512 | Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France |
| 10.8.1519 | Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth |
| 10.8.1557 | Battle at St. Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont and Philibert beat France |
| 10.8.1585 | English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth |
| 10.8.1622 | County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges |
| 10.8.1627 | Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle |
| 10.8.1628 | "Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed" |
| 10.8.1653 | "Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch" |
| 10.8.1664 | Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vasvar |
| 10.8.1675 | "King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich" |
| 10.8.1675 | Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam |
| 10.8.1678 | Netherlands and France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen |
| 10.8.1743 | Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated |
| 10.8.1759 | Carlos III becomes king of Spain |
| 10.8.1774 | 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing |
| 10.8.1787 | "Mozart completes his ""Eine small Nachtmusik""" |
| 10.8.1787 | Turkey declares war on Russia |
| 10.8.1790 | "Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage" |
| 10.8.1792 | Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI |
| 10.8.1809 | Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
| 10.8.1821 | Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state |
| 10.8.1822 | "Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die" |
| 10.8.1827 | "Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)" |
| 10.8.1831 | Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery |
| 10.8.1831 | "Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die" |
| 10.8.1833 | Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 |
| 10.8.1846 | "Congress charters ""nation's attic,"" Smithsonian Institution" |
| 10.8.1856 | "Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana" |
| 10.8.1861 | "Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed" |
| 10.8.1862 | "Battle of Nueces River, Texas" |
| 10.8.1866 | Transatlantic cable laid-President Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria |
| 10.8.1869 | O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector |
| 10.8.1877 | Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians |
| 10.8.1877 | Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM |
| 10.8.1885 | Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt) |
| 10.8.1887 | "Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)" |
| 10.8.1888 | New York Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record |
| 10.8.1889 | Dan Rylands patents screw cap |
| 10.8.1893 | Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act |
| 10.8.1895 | "1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners ""Rienzi"")" |
| 10.8.1897 | Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club) |
| 10.8.1900 | 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0) |
| 10.8.1901 | Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners |
| 10.8.1904 | Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest. |
| 10.8.1904 | Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock |
| 10.8.1904 | Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur |
| 10.8.1904 | Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games |
| 10.8.1906 | Pope Pius X bans Associations cults |
| 10.8.1907 | "Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally" |
| 10.8.1909 | Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins |
| 10.8.1911 | Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords |
| 10.8.1913 | "2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses" |
| 10.8.1914 | "At Luik, German 12""/16.5"" guns reach Belgian boundary" |
| 10.8.1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany |
| 10.8.1914 | German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas |
| 10.8.1914 | Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms |
| 10.8.1916 | Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia |
| 10.8.1919 | Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine |
| 10.8.1920 | "Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania" |
| 10.8.1920 | Treaty of Sevres (Allies and Turkey) |
| 10.8.1920 | "Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate" |
| 10.8.1921 | Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello |
| 10.8.1925 | "Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die" |
| 10.8.1926 | Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed |
| 10.8.1929 | Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last NL win |
| 10.8.1934 | Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player |
| 10.8.1936 | "114 degrees F (46 degrees C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)" |
| 10.8.1936 | "120 degrees F (49 degrees C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)" |
| 10.8.1938 | "119 degrees F (48 degrees C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)" |
| 10.8.1939 | 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats) |
| 10.8.1940 | Prince Bernhard Fund forms |
| 10.8.1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland |
| 10.8.1942 | Gen B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa |
| 10.8.1943 | Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali |
| 10.8.1943 | Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots |
| 10.8.1944 | Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0 |
| 10.8.1944 | Race riots in Athens Alabama |
| 10.8.1944 | U.S. recaptures Guam from Japanese |
| 10.8.1944 | U.S./French offensive at Aleneon |
| 10.8.1945 | Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged |
| 10.8.1948 | "ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York)" |
| 10.8.1948 | "Allen Funt's ""Candid Camera"" TV debut on ABC" |
| 10.8.1948 | "Bradman scores 133* Aust vs. Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours" |
| 10.8.1948 | "WABC TV channel 7 in New York, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.8.1949 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 10.8.1949 | Natl Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense |
| 10.8.1952 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament |
| 10.8.1954 | Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up |
| 10.8.1954 | "Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins" |
| 10.8.1956 | "23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)" |
| 10.8.1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 10.8.1958 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open |
| 10.8.1960 | Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space |
| 10.8.1960 | Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea |
| 10.8.1961 | England applies for membership in European Common Market |
| 10.8.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 10.8.1964 | "WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.8.1965 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km |
| 10.8.1966 | 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S. |
| 10.8.1966 | Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again |
| 10.8.1968 | "Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock" |
| 10.8.1968 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open |
| 10.8.1969 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open |
| 10.8.1969 | Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win |
| 10.8.1970 | "Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on ""lewd and lascivious behavior""" |
| 10.8.1971 | 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research |
| 10.8.1971 | "Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, and adds his 501st" |
| 10.8.1972 | 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada |
| 10.8.1972 | Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession |
| 10.8.1973 | 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station |
| 10.8.1974 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open |
| 10.8.1975 | 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron |
| 10.8.1975 | David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon |
| 10.8.1977 | "Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being ""Son of Sam"" 44 caliber killer" |
| 10.8.1977 | U.S. and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord |
| 10.8.1977 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| 10.8.1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 10.8.1979 | Ecuador adopts its constitution |
| 10.8.1979 | "Wings release ""Getting Closer"" and ""Baby's Request""" |
| 10.8.1980 | "62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill, New York" |
| 10.8.1980 | 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley |
| 10.8.1980 | "Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Texas" |
| 10.8.1981 | Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business |
| 10.8.1981 | "Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record" |
| 10.8.1981 | Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes |
| 10.8.1984 | "Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run" |
| 10.8.1985 | A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 home runs (off Matt Young at Seattle) |
| 10.8.1985 | Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million |
| 10.8.1985 | "Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles" |
| 10.8.1986 | Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 10.8.1986 | "Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired" |
| 10.8.1986 | Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway New York City |
| 10.8.1986 | """Me and My Girl"" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 1420 performances" |
| 10.8.1986 | Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates |
| 10.8.1987 | Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully |
| 10.8.1987 | Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball |
| 10.8.1988 | Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) |
| 10.8.1988 | Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador |
| 10.8.1988 | U.N. estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion |
| 10.8.1989 | A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning |
| 10.8.1989 | "Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge" |
| 10.8.1990 | U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus |
| 10.8.1991 | """Little Night Music"" closes at New York State New York City after 7 performances" |
| 10.8.1991 | NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53 |
| 10.8.1992 | Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched |
| 10.8.1992 | Soyuz TM-15 lands |
| 10.8.1993 | "Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA" |
| 10.8.1994 | Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) |
| 10.8.1995 | "Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly" |
| 10.8.1996 | Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate |
| 10.8.1996 | Dare and Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16 |
| 10.8.1996 | Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex |
| 10.8.1996 | Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24 |
| 10.8.1997 | "36th Walker Cup: U.S., 18-6" |
| 10.8.1997 | Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine |
| 10.8.1997 | "Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal" |
| 10.8.1997 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic |
| 10.8.1997 | Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic |
| 10.8.1997 | Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf |
| 11.8.117 | Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch |
| 11.8.1253 | Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen |
| 11.8.1304 | Sea battle of Zierikzee |
| 11.8.1492 | Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI |
| 11.8.1522 | Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails |
| 11.8.1597 | Germany throws out English sales people |
| 11.8.1611 | Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia |
| 11.8.1674 | 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) |
| 11.8.1695 | English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk |
| 11.8.1718 | Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish |
| 11.8.1772 | "Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000" |
| 11.8.1780 | Barbados hurricane begins |
| 11.8.1835 | George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal |
| 11.8.1860 | "Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada" |
| 11.8.1863 | Cambodia becomes French protectorate |
| 11.8.1874 | Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head |
| 11.8.1877 | Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos |
| 11.8.1884 | "1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust" |
| 11.8.1885 | "$100,000 raised in U.S. for pedestal for Statue of Liberty" |
| 11.8.1896 | Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain |
| 11.8.1904 | German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa |
| 11.8.1907 | "St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn" |
| 11.8.1909 | "Liner ""Arapahoe"" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call" |
| 11.8.1909 | "SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC" |
| 11.8.1909 | Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test |
| 11.8.1914 | France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 11.8.1914 | Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland |
| 11.8.1914 | John Wray patents animation |
| 11.8.1918 | "Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans" |
| 11.8.1919 | Weimar Republic begins in Germany |
| 11.8.1920 | 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia |
| 11.8.1923 | Dutch Premier de Geer resigns |
| 11.8.1924 | 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken |
| 11.8.1926 | Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double |
| 11.8.1928 | Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils |
| 11.8.1928 | Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists |
| 11.8.1929 | Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve) |
| 11.8.1929 | Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty |
| 11.8.1929 | Russian-Chinese border fights |
| 11.8.1933 | "Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record)" |
| 11.8.1934 | 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay |
| 11.8.1935 | Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
| 11.8.1936 | Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton |
| 11.8.1939 | Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe |
| 11.8.1940 | 38 German aircrafts shot down above England |
| 11.8.1940 | German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth |
| 11.8.1941 | FRD and PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter |
| 11.8.1942 | 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium |
| 11.8.1942 | British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks |
| 11.8.1942 | Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar |
| 11.8.1943 | "Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov" |
| 11.8.1943 | "Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres" |
| 11.8.1943 | U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily |
| 11.8.1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy |
| 11.8.1944 | French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees |
| 11.8.1944 | "Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz" |
| 11.8.1944 | U.S. air raid on Palembang |
| 11.8.1945 | Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito |
| 11.8.1948 | Summer Olympics opens in London |
| 11.8.1949 | "1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)" |
| 11.8.1949 | Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt |
| 11.8.1950 | "17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)" |
| 11.8.1950 | "Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0" |
| 11.8.1950 | "Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time" |
| 11.8.1950 | King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium |
| 11.8.1951 | "100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois" |
| 11.8.1951 | "1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC" |
| 11.8.1951 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa |
| 11.8.1951 | "New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant" |
| 11.8.1952 | "Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan" |
| 11.8.1954 | "BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0" |
| 11.8.1954 | "Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh" |
| 11.8.1955 | Indonesia government of Harahap forms |
| 11.8.1956 | 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 |
| 11.8.1956 | "Elvis Presley releases ""Don't Be Cruel""" |
| 11.8.1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
| 11.8.1957 | "Paul Hindemith' opera ""Harmonie der Welt,"" premieres in Munich" |
| 11.8.1960 | Chad declares Independence from France |
| 11.8.1961 | "Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1" |
| 11.8.1962 | "Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3" |
| 11.8.1962 | "Beach Boys release ""Surfin' Safari""" |
| 11.8.1962 | Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) |
| 11.8.1962 | Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down |
| 11.8.1963 | "Kingston Trio are mystery guest on ""What's My Line?""" |
| 11.8.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| 11.8.1964 | "Beatles' ""A Hard Days Night"" opens in New York City" |
| 11.8.1965 | 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles |
| 11.8.1965 | "Beatles movie ""Help"" opens in New York City" |
| 11.8.1965 | "Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days" |
| 11.8.1966 | Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins |
| 11.8.1967 | Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches |
| 11.8.1968 | "Beatles launch ""Apple Records"" label" |
| 11.8.1968 | "Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves" |
| 11.8.1969 | Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder |
| 11.8.1969 | Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
| 11.8.1970 | Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues |
| 11.8.1970 | Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront |
| 11.8.1971 | Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome |
| 11.8.1971 | Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501 |
| 11.8.1972 | """Cheech and Chong Day"" in San Antonio Texas" |
| 11.8.1974 | 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC |
| 11.8.1974 | Coup in East-Timor under UDT |
| 11.8.1974 | "Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)" |
| 11.8.1975 | Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game |
| 11.8.1975 | U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. |
| 11.8.1976 | "Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami" |
| 11.8.1976 | "Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die" |
| 11.8.1977 | "Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Aust at Headingley" |
| 11.8.1978 | Funeral of Pope Paul VI |
| 11.8.1978 | Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta |
| 11.8.1979 | 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota |
| 11.8.1979 | Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year |
| 11.8.1980 | Angola revises its constitution |
| 11.8.1980 | Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran |
| 11.8.1980 | Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns |
| 11.8.1982 | Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) |
| 11.8.1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 11.8.1984 | "101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France" |
| 11.8.1984 | "Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds" |
| 11.8.1984 | Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform |
| 11.8.1984 | "During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he ""signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes""" |
| 11.8.1984 | Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms |
| 11.8.1984 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| 11.8.1985 | 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver |
| 11.8.1985 | "Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz" |
| 11.8.1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 11.8.1985 | Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR |
| 11.8.1985 | "Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10""12)" |
| 11.8.1985 | """Tap Dance Kid"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 669 performances" |
| 11.8.1986 | 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo |
| 11.8.1987 | France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
| 11.8.1988 | "225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR" |
| 11.8.1988 | Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens |
| 11.8.1988 | Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament |
| 11.8.1989 | Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England |
| 11.8.1989 | """Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child"" premieres" |
| 11.8.1989 | Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune |
| 11.8.1990 | Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion |
| 11.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats) |
| 11.8.1991 | "400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed" |
| 11.8.1991 | 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind |
| 11.8.1991 | Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
| 11.8.1991 | Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy |
| 11.8.1991 | Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands |
| 11.8.1991 | Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start |
| 11.8.1992 | Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game |
| 11.8.1993 | Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth |
| 11.8.1993 | "New York Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke" |
| 11.8.1993 | Pope John Paul II visits Mexico |
| 11.8.1993 | "Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul-NY" |
| 11.8.1994 | "Joao B ""Nino"" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau" |
| 11.8.1996 | 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY |
| 11.8.1996 | Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
| 11.8.1996 | """Thousand Clowns,"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 32 performs" |
| 11.8.1997 | Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday |
| 11.8.1999 | Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) |
| 12.8.3 | Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem |
| 12.8.1071 | "Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes" |
| 12.8.1071 | "Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe" |
| 12.8.1099 | Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians |
| 12.8.1099 | Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon |
| 12.8.1332 | Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle |
| 12.8.1336 | English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders |
| 12.8.1492 | Christopher Columbus discovers Canary Islands |
| 12.8.1508 | Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico |
| 12.8.1530 | Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I |
| 12.8.1549 | French troops occupy Ambleteuse England |
| 12.8.1553 | Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud |
| 12.8.1588 | Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army |
| 12.8.1658 | 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam) |
| 12.8.1665 | English fleet beat Dutch fleet |
| 12.8.1676 | 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England |
| 12.8.1687 | Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders |
| 12.8.1687 | Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs |
| 12.8.1759 | Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians |
| 12.8.1812 | Dr. Joseph Lister is 1st surgeon to use disinfectant during surgery |
| 12.8.1812 | Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid |
| 12.8.1831 | Dutch troops conquer Leuven |
| 12.8.1831 | Netherlands and Belgium sign peace treaty |
| 12.8.1851 | 1st America's Cup-U.S. schooner America beats British yacht Aurora |
| 12.8.1851 | Isaac Singer patents sewing machine |
| 12.8.1856 | Anthony Fass patents accordion |
| 12.8.1861 | Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians |
| 12.8.1862 | "Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX" |
| 12.8.1863 | "1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)" |
| 12.8.1867 | President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton |
| 12.8.1876 | Madeline (U.S.) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup |
| 12.8.1877 | "Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device" |
| 12.8.1879 | 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago) |
| 12.8.1884 | "Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval" |
| 12.8.1886 | "W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, vs. Aust, The Oval" |
| 12.8.1888 | "Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour" |
| 12.8.1896 | Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson |
| 12.8.1896 | Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg |
| 12.8.1898 | Hawaii formally annexed to U.S. |
| 12.8.1898 | "Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed" |
| 12.8.1901 | Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony |
| 12.8.1905 | King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp |
| 12.8.1914 | "Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium (""Battle der Zilveren Helmen"")" |
| 12.8.1914 | "German 16.5""/12"" guns fires on forts round Luik" |
| 12.8.1914 | Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 12.8.1914 | Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa |
| 12.8.1915 | """Of Human Bondage,"" by William Somerset Maugham, published" |
| 12.8.1916 | "Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz and Paquerette photographed in Paris" |
| 12.8.1922 | Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington D.C. as national shrine |
| 12.8.1923 | Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances |
| 12.8.1923 | Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward |
| 12.8.1925 | KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions |
| 12.8.1927 | """Wings,"" the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens" |
| 12.8.1928 | 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam |
| 12.8.1931 | Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China |
| 12.8.1933 | Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup |
| 12.8.1935 | "Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand" |
| 12.8.1936 | "120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Seymour, Texas (state record)" |
| 12.8.1936 | "Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats U.S., 6-5" |
| 12.8.1936 | Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d) |
| 12.8.1940 | "Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts" |
| 12.8.1940 | Netherlands starts rationing textile |
| 12.8.1941 | French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
| 12.8.1942 | "British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin" |
| 12.8.1942 | "German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe" |
| 12.8.1942 | Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo |
| 12.8.1944 | Churchill and Tito meet in Naples |
| 12.8.1944 | Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating |
| 12.8.1948 | Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game |
| 12.8.1948 | Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years |
| 12.8.1949 | "16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)" |
| 12.8.1950 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa |
| 12.8.1950 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis |
| 12.8.1951 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 12.8.1952 | Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan |
| 12.8.1953 | "Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami" |
| 12.8.1953 | "Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed" |
| 12.8.1953 | Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb |
| 12.8.1954 | Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row |
| 12.8.1955 | "22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)" |
| 12.8.1955 | President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour |
| 12.8.1955 | "WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.8.1956 | "KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.8.1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 12.8.1959 | "1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island" |
| 12.8.1959 | Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
| 12.8.1960 | "27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)" |
| 12.8.1960 | "Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched" |
| 12.8.1960 | "Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 11""" |
| 12.8.1960 | "USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m" |
| 12.8.1962 | 1st time 2 people in space |
| 12.8.1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
| 12.8.1962 | "Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15" |
| 12.8.1963 | Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization |
| 12.8.1963 | Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year |
| 12.8.1964 | "10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet" |
| 12.8.1964 | Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th and final time in a game |
| 12.8.1965 | Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice |
| 12.8.1965 | "Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise" |
| 12.8.1967 | "New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14" |
| 12.8.1969 | Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million |
| 12.8.1970 | Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball |
| 12.8.1971 | Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
| 12.8.1972 | """Funny Thing Happened..."" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 156 performances" |
| 12.8.1972 | Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings |
| 12.8.1972 | Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam |
| 12.8.1972 | """Oh! Calcutta!"" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 1316 performances" |
| 12.8.1973 | 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve |
| 12.8.1973 | Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens |
| 12.8.1973 | WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris |
| 12.8.1974 | "Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2" |
| 12.8.1974 | Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day |
| 12.8.1976 | "Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed" |
| 12.8.1977 | "For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid" |
| 12.8.1977 | High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit |
| 12.8.1977 | Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight |
| 12.8.1978 | Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours |
| 12.8.1978 | China and Japan sign peace treaty |
| 12.8.1979 | Iran press censors start massive book burnings |
| 12.8.1979 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
| 12.8.1979 | """Whoopee!"" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 204 performances" |
| 12.8.1981 | IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0 |
| 12.8.1981 | Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27) |
| 12.8.1982 | Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut |
| 12.8.1983 | General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
| 12.8.1984 | "23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, California" |
| 12.8.1984 | "Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls and 19 ejections" |
| 12.8.1984 | "Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame" |
| 12.8.1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 12.8.1985 | 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 12.8.1985 | Baltimore Orioles W Gross and L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
| 12.8.1985 | "Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)" |
| 12.8.1986 | Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season |
| 12.8.1986 | Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single |
| 12.8.1987 | Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock |
| 12.8.1988 | Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23 |
| 12.8.1988 | "Movie ""Last Temptation of Christ"" is released" |
| 12.8.1988 | Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital |
| 12.8.1988 | Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home |
| 12.8.1988 | Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General |
| 12.8.1990 | 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania |
| 12.8.1990 | 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala |
| 12.8.1990 | Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
| 12.8.1990 | Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories |
| 12.8.1991 | Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan |
| 12.8.1991 | "Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall" |
| 12.8.1993 | Pope John Paul II begins visit of U.S. |
| 12.8.1994 | 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - San Francisco vs Denver) |
| 12.8.1994 | Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike |
| 12.8.1994 | Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed |
| 12.8.1994 | "Stephen G. Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice" |
| 12.8.1995 | "Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge" |
| 13.8.523 | St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 13.8.1099 | Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II |
| 13.8.1415 | King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River |
| 13.8.1516 | Kings Charles I and Francois I signs Treaty of Noyons |
| 13.8.1521 | Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs |
| 13.8.1578 | Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands |
| 13.8.1608 | John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication |
| 13.8.1624 | Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII |
| 13.8.1630 | Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein |
| 13.8.1642 | Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap |
| 13.8.1645 | Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Bromsebro |
| 13.8.1651 | "Litchfield, CT founded" |
| 13.8.1695 | French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels |
| 13.8.1696 | State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor |
| 13.8.1704 | "French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany" |
| 13.8.1713 | King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia |
| 13.8.1732 | "Voltaire's ""Zaire,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 13.8.1740 | Hunger strike in Rotterdam |
| 13.8.1784 | English parliament accept India Act |
| 13.8.1788 | Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 |
| 13.8.1792 | Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette |
| 13.8.1799 | English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname |
| 13.8.1814 | Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch |
| 13.8.1814 | Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves |
| 13.8.1831 | Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia |
| 13.8.1864 | Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA |
| 13.8.1868 | "Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador)" |
| 13.8.1876 | Reciprocity Treaty between U.S. and Hawaii ratified |
| 13.8.1876 | "Wagner's ""Of the Ring,"" premieres" |
| 13.8.1881 | Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch |
| 13.8.1889 | William Gray patents coin-operated telephone |
| 13.8.1892 | "U.S. black newspaper ""Afro-American"" begins publishing from Baltimore" |
| 13.8.1898 | U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war |
| 13.8.1902 | England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory |
| 13.8.1906 | Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas |
| 13.8.1906 | "Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning" |
| 13.8.1908 | "Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team" |
| 13.8.1910 | "Dodgers and Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball and 1 hit by pitch" |
| 13.8.1914 | "Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st U.S. bus line, in Minnesota" |
| 13.8.1914 | "France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I" |
| 13.8.1914 | German army occupies forts at Luik |
| 13.8.1917 | Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves |
| 13.8.1919 | British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 |
| 13.8.1919 | Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) |
| 13.8.1920 | 24th U.S. Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio |
| 13.8.1921 | "Simon Kaufman and Marc Connelly's ""Dulcy,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.8.1923 | Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government |
| 13.8.1923 | Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president |
| 13.8.1923 | U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day |
| 13.8.1928 | Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins |
| 13.8.1931 | Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 |
| 13.8.1932 | Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor |
| 13.8.1932 | Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers and wins game 1-0 in 10 tying |
| 13.8.1933 | 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee |
| 13.8.1933 | Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist |
| 13.8.1935 | Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) |
| 13.8.1937 | Japanese attack Shanghai |
| 13.8.1939 | Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco' |
| 13.8.1939 | Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's |
| 13.8.1940 | Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins) |
| 13.8.1940 | "Goering's ""Adler Tag"" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld" |
| 13.8.1941 | Red army evacuates Smolensk |
| 13.8.1943 | Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk |
| 13.8.1944 | British 8th army occupies Florence |
| 13.8.1944 | Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough |
| 13.8.1944 | Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio |
| 13.8.1945 | 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia |
| 13.8.1946 | "Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus" |
| 13.8.1948 | "Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game" |
| 13.8.1950 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 13.8.1950 | President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai |
| 13.8.1951 | Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract |
| 13.8.1953 | 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations |
| 13.8.1953 | President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
| 13.8.1953 | U.S. Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff |
| 13.8.1954 | "21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)" |
| 13.8.1955 | Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield |
| 13.8.1956 | "WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.8.1958 | "Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2" |
| 13.8.1959 | Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) |
| 13.8.1960 | Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France |
| 13.8.1960 | U.S.S.R. draws adviseors out of China |
| 13.8.1961 | Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany |
| 13.8.1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
| 13.8.1962 | Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously |
| 13.8.1963 | Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum |
| 13.8.1963 | "Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382" |
| 13.8.1964 | 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
| 13.8.1967 | "WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.8.1969 | "Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0" |
| 13.8.1969 | Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote |
| 13.8.1971 | "Paul and Linda McCartney release ""Back Seat of My Car""" |
| 13.8.1972 | "Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last ""Bonanza""" |
| 13.8.1972 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
| 13.8.1975 | Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval |
| 13.8.1977 | "Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband" |
| 13.8.1978 | "Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed" |
| 13.8.1978 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
| 13.8.1978 | "Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted and thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0" |
| 13.8.1979 | "Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits" |
| 13.8.1980 | Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted |
| 13.8.1980 | Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in U.S.S.R. |
| 13.8.1981 | "Last broadcast of ""Waltons"" on CBS-TV" |
| 13.8.1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) |
| 13.8.1984 | "Morocco and Libya sign ""Arabic-African Union"" treaty" |
| 13.8.1986 | "KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)" |
| 13.8.1987 | Cards outfie ld sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning |
| 13.8.1987 | "Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5 "" jump" |
| 13.8.1988 | Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games |
| 13.8.1988 | Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens |
| 13.8.1988 | "Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min" |
| 13.8.1988 | "U.S. beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup" |
| 13.8.1989 | "2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed" |
| 13.8.1989 | 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill |
| 13.8.1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands |
| 13.8.1991 | Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) |
| 13.8.1991 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford |
| 13.8.1993 | "Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24" |
| 13.8.1993 | "Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed" |
| 13.8.1993 | U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail |
| 13.8.1994 | "Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed" |
| 13.8.1995 | 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera California |
| 13.8.1995 | Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship |
| 13.8.1996 | Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 |
| 13.8.1997 | Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the New York Yankees |
| 13.8.1997 | San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels |
| 14.8.554 | Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy |
| 14.8.1248 | Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun |
| 14.8.1281 | Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan |
| 14.8.1385 | Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castilie |
| 14.8.1385 | "Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence" |
| 14.8.1395 | Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden |
| 14.8.1457 | Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg) |
| 14.8.1498 | Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela |
| 14.8.1551 | Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli |
| 14.8.1559 | "Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla" |
| 14.8.1585 | Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands |
| 14.8.1597 | Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java |
| 14.8.1624 | Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru |
| 14.8.1636 | Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens |
| 14.8.1642 | Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia |
| 14.8.1678 | Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange |
| 14.8.1743 | "Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War" |
| 14.8.1756 | "French capture Fort Oswego, New York" |
| 14.8.1758 | "Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed" |
| 14.8.1762 | English fleet occupies Havana |
| 14.8.1765 | Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree) |
| 14.8.1782 | Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies |
| 14.8.1790 | Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela |
| 14.8.1813 | British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus |
| 14.8.1816 | Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha |
| 14.8.1820 | "1st U.S. eye hospital, the New York Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City" |
| 14.8.1824 | General Lafayette returns to U.S. |
| 14.8.1825 | Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out |
| 14.8.1842 | Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma |
| 14.8.1846 | Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance |
| 14.8.1848 | Oregon Territory created |
| 14.8.1861 | 79th New York troops mutinies |
| 14.8.1862 | Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president |
| 14.8.1864 | 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault |
| 14.8.1864 | "Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia" |
| 14.8.1873 | """Field and Stream"" begins publishing" |
| 14.8.1875 | Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl |
| 14.8.1876 | Prairie View State University forms |
| 14.8.1880 | Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248) |
| 14.8.1882 | Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo |
| 14.8.1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria) |
| 14.8.1893 | "France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test" |
| 14.8.1900 | 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) |
| 14.8.1900 | "2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion" |
| 14.8.1901 | SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70 |
| 14.8.1903 | James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 14.8.1905 | Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa |
| 14.8.1907 | """Ha-Tikva"" adopted as official Zionist hymn" |
| 14.8.1908 | Race riot in Springfield Illinois |
| 14.8.1910 | "6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, D.C." |
| 14.8.1911 | General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti |
| 14.8.1912 | "2,500 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua; U.S. remains until 1925" |
| 14.8.1914 | British field marshal John French and Gen Wilson land in France |
| 14.8.1915 | British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 |
| 14.8.1917 | China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I |
| 14.8.1917 | Leeuwen soccer team forms |
| 14.8.1919 | White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game |
| 14.8.1919 | Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play |
| 14.8.1920 | Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia |
| 14.8.1920 | Olympic Games open in Antwerp |
| 14.8.1922 | "1st ""old time"" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)" |
| 14.8.1925 | Mount Rushmore 1st proposed |
| 14.8.1928 | "Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's ""Front Page,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 14.8.1929 | Jewish Agency for Palestine forms |
| 14.8.1932 | 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes |
| 14.8.1932 | "Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game" |
| 14.8.1932 | Philips makes 1 millionth radio |
| 14.8.1933 | Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle and sets AL record with 9 RBIs |
| 14.8.1935 | Social Security Act becomes law |
| 14.8.1936 | 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin) |
| 14.8.1937 | China declares war on Japan |
| 14.8.1937 | Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns |
| 14.8.1938 | BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague) |
| 14.8.1939 | "1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)" |
| 14.8.1940 | Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland |
| 14.8.1941 | Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill |
| 14.8.1942 | Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa |
| 14.8.1943 | 1st allied air raid on Borneo |
| 14.8.1943 | U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina |
| 14.8.1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica |
| 14.8.1944 | Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive |
| 14.8.1944 | Russian offensive at Weichsel |
| 14.8.1945 | V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II |
| 14.8.1947 | India granted independence within British Commonwealth |
| 14.8.1947 | "Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000" |
| 14.8.1947 | Pakistan gains independence from Britain |
| 14.8.1948 | "14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain" |
| 14.8.1948 | Bradman's last Test Cricket innings |
| 14.8.1948 | England all out for 52 vs. Australia at Cricket Oval |
| 14.8.1949 | Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria |
| 14.8.1952 | Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary |
| 14.8.1953 | "20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)" |
| 14.8.1953 | "KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.8.1954 | "WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, New York (NBC) begins" |
| 14.8.1958 | "Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)" |
| 14.8.1958 | "KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99" |
| 14.8.1959 | "26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)" |
| 14.8.1959 | "AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston" |
| 14.8.1961 | Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game |
| 14.8.1962 | French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel |
| 14.8.1962 | "NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m" |
| 14.8.1962 | "U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million" |
| 14.8.1964 | Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer |
| 14.8.1964 | Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market |
| 14.8.1965 | Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show |
| 14.8.1965 | Continental Football League plays 1st games |
| 14.8.1965 | "Sonny and Cher's ""I Got You Babe"" hits #1" |
| 14.8.1966 | 1st U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon |
| 14.8.1966 | "Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles" |
| 14.8.1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 14.8.1967 | "Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered" |
| 14.8.1967 | Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air |
| 14.8.1968 | Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 14.8.1968 | Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL |
| 14.8.1969 | British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland |
| 14.8.1969 | "New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant" |
| 14.8.1970 | City University of New York inaugurates open admissions |
| 14.8.1970 | Steven Stills arrested for drug possession |
| 14.8.1971 | Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule |
| 14.8.1971 | "Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0" |
| 14.8.1971 | France performs nuclear test |
| 14.8.1972 | "Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13" |
| 14.8.1972 | "East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156" |
| 14.8.1973 | "Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Baltimore Colts" |
| 14.8.1973 | U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia |
| 14.8.1974 | Congress authorizes U.S. citizens to own gold |
| 14.8.1974 | Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus |
| 14.8.1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.8.1974 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 14.8.1975 | "Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent" |
| 14.8.1975 | Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen |
| 14.8.1975 | Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman |
| 14.8.1976 | "10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast" |
| 14.8.1977 | 59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal |
| 14.8.1977 | "77,691 see New York Cosmos beat Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad" |
| 14.8.1977 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic |
| 14.8.1978 | "French TV announced a rating of ""0"" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)" |
| 14.8.1979 | Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration |
| 14.8.1980 | Democratic Convention in New York City nominates Jimmy Carter |
| 14.8.1980 | "In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike" |
| 14.8.1981 | George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront |
| 14.8.1981 | Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off New York Met Mike Scott |
| 14.8.1982 | Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres |
| 14.8.1982 | "Iran ""Ramadan-offensive"" in Iraq" |
| 14.8.1982 | "Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)" |
| 14.8.1983 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 14.8.1983 | Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03 |
| 14.8.1984 | IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0 |
| 14.8.1984 | West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England |
| 14.8.1986 | Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested |
| 14.8.1986 | Phillies and Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days |
| 14.8.1987 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary" |
| 14.8.1987 | "Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49" |
| 14.8.1988 | 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree GC Edmond |
| 14.8.1988 | "Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24" |
| 14.8.1989 | "President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns" |
| 14.8.1990 | Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam |
| 14.8.1990 | Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise |
| 14.8.1991 | Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37) |
| 14.8.1991 | Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR |
| 14.8.1993 | Dr. William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76) |
| 14.8.1993 | Nigerian presidential election |
| 14.8.1993 | Reggie Jackson Day - New York Yanks retire 13th # (#44) |
| 14.8.1993 | Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play) |
| 14.8.1993 | St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves |
| 14.8.1994 | 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| 14.8.1994 | Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center |
| 14.8.1994 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
| 14.8.1994 | Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic |
| 14.8.1995 | Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel |
| 14.8.1997 | """1776,"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City" |
| 14.8.1997 | Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death |
| 14.8.1997 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open |
| 14.8.1997 | Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh |
| 14.8.1997 | Soyuz TM-25 lands |
| 15.8.778 | Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great |
| 15.8.1308 | Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece |
| 15.8.1457 | "Earliest dated book, ""Mainz Psalter,"" completed" |
| 15.8.1519 | Panama City founded |
| 15.8.1534 | Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits |
| 15.8.1535 | "Asuncion, Paraguay founded" |
| 15.8.1548 | Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France |
| 15.8.1549 | Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan |
| 15.8.1620 | Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims |
| 15.8.1635 | 1st recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony |
| 15.8.1653 | "Dutch ship ""Sperwer"" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea" |
| 15.8.1658 | France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond |
| 15.8.1668 | Rijnbond disbands |
| 15.8.1684 | Spain and Germany sign cease fire with France |
| 15.8.1741 | French troops attack the Rhine |
| 15.8.1748 | United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized |
| 15.8.1760 | Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia |
| 15.8.1785 | French cardinal De Rohan arrested |
| 15.8.1795 | Joseph Haydn leaves England forever |
| 15.8.1824 | Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia |
| 15.8.1832 | Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism |
| 15.8.1843 | National black convention meets (Buffalo New York) |
| 15.8.1843 | Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens |
| 15.8.1848 | M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair |
| 15.8.1858 | Regular mail to Pacific coast begins |
| 15.8.1863 | "Submarine ""HL Hunley"" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars" |
| 15.8.1864 | "Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners" |
| 15.8.1867 | 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England |
| 15.8.1870 | Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado |
| 15.8.1876 | U.S. law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find |
| 15.8.1886 | Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game |
| 15.8.1892 | 4th and last British government of Gladstone forms |
| 15.8.1893 | U.S. no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea |
| 15.8.1899 | Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game |
| 15.8.1901 | "Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro" |
| 15.8.1905 | "Philadelphia A's Rube Waddell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings" |
| 15.8.1906 | "1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago" |
| 15.8.1911 | Procter and Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening |
| 15.8.1912 | Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game |
| 15.8.1914 | 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
| 15.8.1914 | Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs |
| 15.8.1914 | "German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured" |
| 15.8.1914 | Japan joins side of allies |
| 15.8.1914 | Panama Canal opens (under cost) |
| 15.8.1915 | "Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia" |
| 15.8.1918 | 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania) |
| 15.8.1918 | Russia severs diplomatic ties with U.S. |
| 15.8.1923 | Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State |
| 15.8.1923 | Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 |
| 15.8.1925 | Norway annexes Spitsbergen |
| 15.8.1925 | "White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919" |
| 15.8.1931 | "Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)" |
| 15.8.1931 | Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary |
| 15.8.1931 | Spakenburg soccer team forms |
| 15.8.1939 | "In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2" |
| 15.8.1939 | """Wizard of Oz"" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood" |
| 15.8.1940 | 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi) |
| 15.8.1940 | Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged |
| 15.8.1941 | Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto |
| 15.8.1942 | 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel |
| 15.8.1943 | Allies land on Kiska Aleutians |
| 15.8.1944 | "Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed" |
| 15.8.1944 | German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day |
| 15.8.1944 | Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast |
| 15.8.1944 | Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
| 15.8.1944 | U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans |
| 15.8.1944 | U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres |
| 15.8.1945 | A riot ensued in San Francisco while the city was celebrating the end of WW II |
| 15.8.1945 | "Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually" |
| 15.8.1945 | South Korea liberated from Japanese rule |
| 15.8.1945 | U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends |
| 15.8.1947 | "India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan" |
| 15.8.1947 | "Pakistan, formerly West Pakistan, declares independence from UK" |
| 15.8.1948 | 3rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias |
| 15.8.1948 | Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
| 15.8.1949 | "WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.8.1950 | "8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000" |
| 15.8.1950 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 15.8.1950 | Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium |
| 15.8.1950 | Indies Constitution goes into effect |
| 15.8.1950 | Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier |
| 15.8.1950 | President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia |
| 15.8.1950 | Rotterdam harbor strike begins |
| 15.8.1952 | "19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)" |
| 15.8.1952 | "9"" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34" |
| 15.8.1954 | Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay |
| 15.8.1954 | "WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins" |
| 15.8.1955 | "WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia (ABC) begins" |
| 15.8.1957 | "David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon" |
| 15.8.1957 | "USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter" |
| 15.8.1958 | "25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)" |
| 15.8.1958 | Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago |
| 15.8.1958 | Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank |
| 15.8.1958 | Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank |
| 15.8.1960 | CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium |
| 15.8.1960 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) |
| 15.8.1960 | Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
| 15.8.1960 | "Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0" |
| 15.8.1962 | Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia |
| 15.8.1962 | Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea |
| 15.8.1963 | "Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville" |
| 15.8.1964 | Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke) |
| 15.8.1964 | "Mayor Daley declares ""Ernie Banks Day"" in Chicago" |
| 15.8.1964 | Phillies triple-play New York Mets |
| 15.8.1964 | "Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 3""" |
| 15.8.1965 | 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA |
| 15.8.1965 | "Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium" |
| 15.8.1965 | Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues |
| 15.8.1965 | Mary Mills wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 15.8.1966 | Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
| 15.8.1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae |
| 15.8.1968 | Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague |
| 15.8.1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 15.8.1969 | Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) |
| 15.8.1970 | Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) |
| 15.8.1971 | Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0) |
| 15.8.1971 | "KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins" |
| 15.8.1971 | "President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents" |
| 15.8.1971 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
| 15.8.1973 | Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens |
| 15.8.1973 | "David Storey's ""Cromwell,"" premieres in London" |
| 15.8.1973 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 15.8.1974 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 15.8.1974 | "Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed" |
| 15.8.1974 | "Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))" |
| 15.8.1974 | South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
| 15.8.1975 | Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed |
| 15.8.1975 | Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges |
| 15.8.1976 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| 15.8.1977 | England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust |
| 15.8.1977 | SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome |
| 15.8.1978 | "House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA" |
| 15.8.1979 | Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador |
| 15.8.1981 | Botham scores a century in 86 balls vs. Australia at Old Trafford |
| 15.8.1981 | Robin Leamy of U.S. swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m |
| 15.8.1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
| 15.8.1982 | Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution |
| 15.8.1983 | "Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery" |
| 15.8.1985 | Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa |
| 15.8.1985 | Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg |
| 15.8.1986 | President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger |
| 15.8.1987 | U.S. beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball |
| 15.8.1988 | """Ain't Misbehavin'"" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 176 performances" |
| 15.8.1988 | "At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts" |
| 15.8.1988 | New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments |
| 15.8.1989 | Cancer sufferer/San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound |
| 15.8.1989 | Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
| 15.8.1989 | Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69) |
| 15.8.1989 | "In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines" |
| 15.8.1989 | U.S. Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle |
| 15.8.1990 | 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
| 15.8.1990 | Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 home runs in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
| 15.8.1990 | Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990) |
| 15.8.1991 | "750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park" |
| 15.8.1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 15.8.1992 | Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester |
| 15.8.1992 | "Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy" |
| 15.8.1993 | 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh |
| 15.8.1993 | Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament |
| 15.8.1993 | """Goodbye Girl"" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 188 performances" |
| 15.8.1993 | New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time |
| 15.8.1993 | "Nolan Ryan, 324th and final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1" |
| 15.8.1993 | Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte |
| 15.8.1994 | South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning |
| 15.8.1994 | "Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan" |
| 15.8.1995 | "Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA" |
| 15.8.1997 | "Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR" |
| 15.8.1997 | Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts |
| 15.8.1997 | Los Angeles Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2 |
| 16.8.1290 | Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou |
| 16.8.1465 | Battle at Montlhery |
| 16.8.1513 | Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian and Henry III beat France |
| 16.8.1570 | King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II |
| 16.8.1625 | Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe |
| 16.8.1691 | Yorktown Virginia founded |
| 16.8.1717 | Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade |
| 16.8.1743 | Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton) |
| 16.8.1745 | Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots |
| 16.8.1748 | """Geldermalsen"" sails to East-Indies" |
| 16.8.1777 | "Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt" |
| 16.8.1780 | "British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC" |
| 16.8.1794 | Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna |
| 16.8.1797 | Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth |
| 16.8.1812 | Gen Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England |
| 16.8.1819 | Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators |
| 16.8.1829 | Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited |
| 16.8.1834 | Charles Darwin climbs Mt. Campana in Chile |
| 16.8.1846 | Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pelissier in Paris |
| 16.8.1858 | Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan |
| 16.8.1861 | President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy |
| 16.8.1861 | "Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri" |
| 16.8.1863 | Chickamauga campaign GA |
| 16.8.1863 | Emancipation Proclamation signed |
| 16.8.1864 | "4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault" |
| 16.8.1864 | Battle of Front Royal Virginia (Guard Hill) |
| 16.8.1864 | Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam |
| 16.8.1870 | Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion |
| 16.8.1876 | "Opera ""Siegfried"" premieres in Bayreuth" |
| 16.8.1882 | British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria |
| 16.8.1890 | "Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia" |
| 16.8.1894 | Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith |
| 16.8.1896 | "Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala" |
| 16.8.1898 | Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster |
| 16.8.1903 | "Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8" |
| 16.8.1904 | New York City begins building Grand Central Station |
| 16.8.1905 | Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa |
| 16.8.1906 | "8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000" |
| 16.8.1907 | Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco |
| 16.8.1914 | "German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught" |
| 16.8.1914 | Zapata and Pancho Villa over run Mexico |
| 16.8.1915 | "KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0" |
| 16.8.1918 | U.S. troops overthrows Archangelsk |
| 16.8.1920 | "Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality" |
| 16.8.1922 | AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (New York City) |
| 16.8.1924 | 38th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63) |
| 16.8.1924 | Conference about German recovery payments opens in London |
| 16.8.1924 | Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed |
| 16.8.1927 | 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (New York Yankee Babe Ruth) |
| 16.8.1934 | "U.S. explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere" |
| 16.8.1936 | 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin |
| 16.8.1940 | 45 German aircrafts shot down over England |
| 16.8.1942 | Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow |
| 16.8.1943 | 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) |
| 16.8.1943 | Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler |
| 16.8.1944 | 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy |
| 16.8.1944 | Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London |
| 16.8.1944 | "U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux" |
| 16.8.1946 | "Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)" |
| 16.8.1947 | Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs |
| 16.8.1948 | Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem |
| 16.8.1948 | Israeli pound becomes legal tender |
| 16.8.1950 | West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England |
| 16.8.1953 | "KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins" |
| 16.8.1953 | Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome |
| 16.8.1954 | 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood |
| 16.8.1954 | Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing |
| 16.8.1955 | Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor |
| 16.8.1956 | Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate |
| 16.8.1956 | "Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4" |
| 16.8.1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open |
| 16.8.1959 | U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying |
| 16.8.1960 | Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
| 16.8.1960 | "Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')" |
| 16.8.1960 | "Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms" |
| 16.8.1961 | "250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin" |
| 16.8.1961 | Martin L. King protests for black voting right in Miami |
| 16.8.1962 | Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer |
| 16.8.1963 | Independence is restored to Dominican Republic |
| 16.8.1964 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational |
| 16.8.1964 | St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader |
| 16.8.1965 | AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins) |
| 16.8.1967 | "Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves" |
| 16.8.1967 | "WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 16.8.1969 | "WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting" |
| 16.8.1969 | Woodstock rock festival begins in New York |
| 16.8.1970 | 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK |
| 16.8.1970 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open |
| 16.8.1972 | 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich |
| 16.8.1972 | Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at |
| 16.8.1972 | Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches |
| 16.8.1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 16.8.1974 | Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) |
| 16.8.1975 | Peter Gabriel quits Genesis |
| 16.8.1975 | """Rodgers and Hart"" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 108 performances" |
| 16.8.1976 | 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD |
| 16.8.1976 | St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) |
| 16.8.1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 16.8.1977 | Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th |
| 16.8.1980 | Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath |
| 16.8.1980 | Cozy Powell quits Rainbow |
| 16.8.1980 | Jools Holland quits Squeeze |
| 16.8.1981 | "Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)" |
| 16.8.1981 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| 16.8.1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93) |
| 16.8.1983 | Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher |
| 16.8.1984 | Andrea Doria's safe opened |
| 16.8.1984 | L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges |
| 16.8.1984 | "Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)" |
| 16.8.1985 | Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday |
| 16.8.1986 | "Madonna's ""True Blue,"" album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single" |
| 16.8.1986 | """Papa Don't Preach,"" goes #1 for 2 weeks" |
| 16.8.1986 | "Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed" |
| 16.8.1987 | Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age |
| 16.8.1987 | "New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9" |
| 16.8.1987 | "Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)" |
| 16.8.1987 | Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
| 16.8.1988 | Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) |
| 16.8.1988 | IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence |
| 16.8.1988 | Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis |
| 16.8.1988 | Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers |
| 16.8.1989 | Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich |
| 16.8.1990 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 16.8.1990 | "Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq" |
| 16.8.1991 | "Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants" |
| 16.8.1991 | President Bush declares recession is near an end |
| 16.8.1992 | 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur |
| 16.8.1992 | 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St. Louis |
| 16.8.1992 | Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96) |
| 16.8.1994 | Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections |
| 16.8.1994 | "Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA" |
| 16.8.1997 | For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) |
| 16.8.1998 | "80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA" |
| 16.8.1998 | Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
| 17.8.682 | St. Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 17.8.1180 | Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira |
| 17.8.1498 | Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess |
| 17.8.1544 | Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France |
| 17.8.1563 | King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult |
| 17.8.1577 | Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots |
| 17.8.1579 | Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I |
| 17.8.1585 | Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma |
| 17.8.1648 | "Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish" |
| 17.8.1717 | "France, Russia and Prussia sign agreement" |
| 17.8.1743 | Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty |
| 17.8.1787 | Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups |
| 17.8.1788 | "Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded" |
| 17.8.1795 | "Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curaeao" |
| 17.8.1796 | English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay |
| 17.8.1807 | Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River |
| 17.8.1808 | Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain |
| 17.8.1827 | Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord |
| 17.8.1833 | "Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game" |
| 17.8.1834 | Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile |
| 17.8.1835 | Solymon Merrick patents wrench |
| 17.8.1836 | British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death |
| 17.8.1836 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time |
| 17.8.1846 | US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California |
| 17.8.1858 | 1st bank in Hawaii opens |
| 17.8.1859 | 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind |
| 17.8.1862 | Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky |
| 17.8.1863 | Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC |
| 17.8.1863 | "Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee" |
| 17.8.1866 | Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty |
| 17.8.1869 | "1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)" |
| 17.8.1870 | "1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington" |
| 17.8.1876 | "Opera ""Gotterdammerung"" premieres in Bayreuth" |
| 17.8.1877 | Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos |
| 17.8.1877 | Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall) |
| 17.8.1879 | Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company |
| 17.8.1891 | 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath) |
| 17.8.1891 | Electric self-starter for automobile patented |
| 17.8.1892 | Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance |
| 17.8.1894 | "Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4" |
| 17.8.1896 | George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon |
| 17.8.1897 | W B Purvis patents electric railway switch |
| 17.8.1903 | Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes |
| 17.8.1904 | "Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0" |
| 17.8.1905 | Dutch government of De Master begins |
| 17.8.1907 | Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union |
| 17.8.1908 | "B Tarkington and HL Wilson's ""Man from Home,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 17.8.1908 | Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery |
| 17.8.1914 | French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins |
| 17.8.1914 | Lithuiana surrenders to Germans |
| 17.8.1915 | German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana |
| 17.8.1915 | "Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed)" |
| 17.8.1915 | "Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life" |
| 17.8.1916 | Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia |
| 17.8.1917 | Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey |
| 17.8.1918 | British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan |
| 17.8.1918 | "Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000" |
| 17.8.1918 | Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus |
| 17.8.1920 | "In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians" |
| 17.8.1924 | French-German trade agreement signed |
| 17.8.1926 | Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed |
| 17.8.1933 | "Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game" |
| 17.8.1933 | "Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket (""Object 09"")" |
| 17.8.1938 | 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) |
| 17.8.1938 | Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship |
| 17.8.1939 | """Wizard of Oz"" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY" |
| 17.8.1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission |
| 17.8.1940 | Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain |
| 17.8.1941 | German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan |
| 17.8.1942 | 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces |
| 17.8.1942 | 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe |
| 17.8.1942 | Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet |
| 17.8.1942 | Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 17.8.1942 | "U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France" |
| 17.8.1943 | 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde |
| 17.8.1943 | "Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies" |
| 17.8.1943 | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt |
| 17.8.1944 | 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy |
| 17.8.1944 | Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy |
| 17.8.1944 | German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy |
| 17.8.1944 | Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border |
| 17.8.1944 | U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans |
| 17.8.1944 | U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun |
| 17.8.1944 | Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game |
| 17.8.1945 | Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands |
| 17.8.1945 | Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area |
| 17.8.1946 | "Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony ""Liturgique,"" premieres" |
| 17.8.1948 | Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent |
| 17.8.1948 | Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
| 17.8.1948 | Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season |
| 17.8.1950 | Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands |
| 17.8.1950 | Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs |
| 17.8.1951 | "18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)" |
| 17.8.1951 | "Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica" |
| 17.8.1952 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| 17.8.1955 | "Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage" |
| 17.8.1956 | Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany |
| 17.8.1957 | "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" |
| 17.8.1958 | Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
| 17.8.1958 | "World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec" |
| 17.8.1959 | 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park |
| 17.8.1959 | U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor |
| 17.8.1960 | Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow |
| 17.8.1960 | "Gabon gains independence from France, National Day" |
| 17.8.1960 | Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands |
| 17.8.1961 | Building of Berlin Wall begins |
| 17.8.1961 | Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress |
| 17.8.1962 | Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr |
| 17.8.1962 | "E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector" |
| 17.8.1963 | Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle |
| 17.8.1963 | Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief |
| 17.8.1964 | "Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Aust at the Oval" |
| 17.8.1966 | Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit |
| 17.8.1966 | Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list |
| 17.8.1968 | "Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ" |
| 17.8.1969 | 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio |
| 17.8.1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open |
| 17.8.1969 | "Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss and Louisiana" |
| 17.8.1969 | New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) |
| 17.8.1970 | "Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus" |
| 17.8.1972 | Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game |
| 17.8.1973 | Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one |
| 17.8.1973 | Willie Mays hits 660th and last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) |
| 17.8.1975 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 17.8.1976 | "An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000" |
| 17.8.1976 | Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match |
| 17.8.1977 | "Russian nuclear sub ""Artika"" is 1st to North Pole" |
| 17.8.1977 | Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) |
| 17.8.1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 17.8.1978 | 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) |
| 17.8.1979 | "2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed" |
| 17.8.1979 | "Monty Python's ""Life of Brian"" premieres" |
| 17.8.1980 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| 17.8.1980 | """Blackstone"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 104 performances" |
| 17.8.1980 | "George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401" |
| 17.8.1982 | "Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)" |
| 17.8.1982 | "South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin" |
| 17.8.1983 | "Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas" |
| 17.8.1984 | Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) |
| 17.8.1985 | "1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant" |
| 17.8.1985 | Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR |
| 17.8.1985 | Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India |
| 17.8.1985 | Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando |
| 17.8.1986 | Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market |
| 17.8.1986 | Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
| 17.8.1986 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| 17.8.1986 | Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson |
| 17.8.1986 | "Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured" |
| 17.8.1987 | Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games |
| 17.8.1987 | "Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)" |
| 17.8.1987 | "Mohammad Ali elected to ""Ring"" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame" |
| 17.8.1988 | Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) |
| 17.8.1988 | LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 |
| 17.8.1988 | New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) |
| 17.8.1988 | Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president |
| 17.8.1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 17.8.1989 | "32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12 -11" |
| 17.8.1989 | "Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)" |
| 17.8.1990 | Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR |
| 17.8.1990 | Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
| 17.8.1991 | Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983 |
| 17.8.1992 | "Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0" |
| 17.8.1994 | Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle |
| 17.8.1994 | New York Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis |
| 17.8.1995 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 17.8.1996 | "Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit" |
| 17.8.1997 | 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC |
| 17.8.1997 | First of America Senior Golf Classic |
| 17.8.1997 | Macy's Tap-o-mania |
| 17.8.1997 | Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open |
| 18.8.410 | King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome |
| 18.8.1289 | "Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree ""Supra montem""" |
| 18.8.1564 | Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente |
| 18.8.1572 | King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois |
| 18.8.1605 | Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen |
| 18.8.1674 | "Jean Racine's ""Iphigenie,"" premieres in Versailles" |
| 18.8.1686 | Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus |
| 18.8.1698 | Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam |
| 18.8.1700 | "Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark" |
| 18.8.1735 | Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass) |
| 18.8.1759 | 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France |
| 18.8.1769 | "Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000" |
| 18.8.1795 | Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves |
| 18.8.1817 | "Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore" |
| 18.8.1834 | Mt. Vesuvius erupts |
| 18.8.1835 | Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago |
| 18.8.1838 | 1st U.S. marine expedition |
| 18.8.1840 | Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York |
| 18.8.1846 | "Gen Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico" |
| 18.8.1858 | Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement |
| 18.8.1862 | General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured |
| 18.8.1862 | Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota |
| 18.8.1864 | "6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault" |
| 18.8.1864 | Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days |
| 18.8.1868 | Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse |
| 18.8.1870 | "Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties" |
| 18.8.1872 | 1st mail-order catalog issued by A. M. Ward |
| 18.8.1873 | "1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California, 14,494'" |
| 18.8.1886 | Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win U.S. Lawn Tennis Association doubles |
| 18.8.1891 | "Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die" |
| 18.8.1894 | Congress creates Bureau of Immigration |
| 18.8.1896 | Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times |
| 18.8.1914 | Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp |
| 18.8.1914 | French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg |
| 18.8.1914 | "President Wilson issues ""Proclamation of Neutrality""" |
| 18.8.1915 | Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 |
| 18.8.1917 | Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) |
| 18.8.1919 | "Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois" |
| 18.8.1920 | 1st class debut of Walter Hammond |