History of August

During the month of August the following events have happened in our world's history.

August 01, 1291 - Everlasting League forms basis of Swiss Confederation (Nat'l Day)
August 01, 1584 - Swiss Confederation Day
August 01, 1753 - Lammas Day
August 01, 1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
August 01, 1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
August 01, 1790 - 1st US census
August 01, 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
August 01, 1798 - Battle of Nile
August 01, 1852 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church Zion Methodist
August 01, 1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
August 01, 1876 - Colorado becomes 38th state
August 01, 1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island SF Bay
August 01, 1901 - Burial within SF City limits prohibited
August 01, 1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
August 01, 1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street SF
August 01, 1916 - Hawaii Natl Park established
August 01, 1946 - Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission
August 01, 1950 - Guam Territory created
August 01, 1953 - Cal introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education)
August 01, 1957 - 1st coml building heated by sun Albuquerque NM
August 01, 1958 - 1st Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
August 01, 1960 - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
August 01, 1961 - New SF Hall of Justice opens
August 01, 1966 - Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
August 01, 1971 - CBS presents 6 Wives of Henry VIII
August 01, 1973 - Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
August 01, 1975 - Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries rights signed by 35 nations
August 01, 1975 - Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager
August 01, 1981 - MTV premiers
August 02, 1776 - Formal signing of Dec of Ind
August 02, 1858 - 1st street mailboxes - Boston Mass
August 02, 1873 - 1st trial run of SF cable car Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
August 02, 1877 - SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes
August 02, 1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
August 02, 1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
August 02, 1923 - Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel SF
August 02, 1934 - Hitler takes over presidency when Paul Von Hindenburg died at 86
August 02, 1965 - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
August 02, 1975 - Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
August 02, 1979 - Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32
August 02, 1986 - TODAY/PC born today
August 03, 1492 - Columbus sets sail from Palos Spain for "Indies."
August 03, 1596 - David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira
August 03, 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America Griffon
August 03, 1933 - Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
August 03, 1958 - USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
August 03, 1960 - Niger gains independence from France
August 03, 1982 - Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
August 03, 1983 - John Sain of South Bend Ind. builds 3.91 m house of cards
August 03, 1984 - 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
August 04, 1693 - Dom Perignon invents champagne
August 04, 1790 - US Coast Guard founded
August 04, 1925 - US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
August 04, 1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
August 04, 1934 - NY Giant Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game
August 04, 1953 - Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
August 04, 1958 - Dumont TV Network crumbles
August 04, 1962 - Jamaica gains independence from Britain
August 04, 1971 - US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
August 04, 1984 - Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
August 04, 1985 - Phil Rizzuto Day Yanks retire #10
August 05, 1583 - Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
August 05, 1772 - 1st partition of Poland between Austria Prussia & Russia
August 05, 1775 - 1st Spanish ship San Carlos enters SF Bay
August 05, 1846 - Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
August 05, 1858 - 1st transatlantic telegraph cable completed by Cyrus W. Field
August 05, 1861 - US levies it's 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
August 05, 1864 - spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time by Giovanni Donati
August 05, 1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid
August 05, 1914 - US Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
August 05, 1921 - 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8 Phillies-0 (KDKA)
August 05, 1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
August 05, 1957 - American Bandstand goes on network TV
August 05, 1961 - 48ø C (118ø F) at Ice Harbor Dam Washington
August 05, 1962 - Marilyn Monroe dies at 36
August 05, 1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
August 05, 1964 - US begins bombing N Vietnam
August 05, 1966 - Beatles release "Revolver" album
August 05, 1969 - Mariner 7 flies past Mars
August 05, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 6
August 05, 1984 - Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
August 06, 1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
August 06, 1806 - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy Roman nor an empire
August 06, 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain (National Day)
August 06, 1926 - NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
August 06, 1934 - US troops leave Haiti which had been occupied since 1915
August 06, 1937 - Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
August 06, 1945 - Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'
August 06, 1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
August 06, 1961 - Gherman S Titov second Russian in space aboard Vostok 2
August 06, 1962 - Jamaica gains independence from Britain
August 06, 1965 - Beatles release "Help" album
August 06, 1965 - Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
August 06, 1974 - Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee Wash
August 06, 1984 - 203.05 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
August 06, 1985 - Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth
August 07, 1782 - George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart
August 07, 1789 - US War Department established.
August 07, 1807 - 1st servicable steamboat the Cleremont goes on 1st voyage
August 07, 1819 - Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
August 07, 1820 - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
August 07, 1882 - Feud between the Hatfield family of southern WV & McCoys of eastern Kentucky broke out. About 100 either killed or wounded.
August 07, 1912 - Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.
August 07, 1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
August 07, 1929 - Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
August 07, 1934 - US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel `Ulysses'
August 07, 1942 - US marines land in Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
August 07, 1946 - 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
August 07, 1947 - Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashed into a Polynesian archipelago reef
August 07, 1959 - Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of earth from space
August 07, 1961 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
August 07, 1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
August 07, 1970 - 1st computer chess tournament
August 07, 1971 - Apollo 15 returns to Earth
August 07, 1972 - Joi Lansing dies at 43
August 07, 1974 - Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers
August 07, 1976 - US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from earth
August 07, 1983 - Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium
August 07, 1984 - Jim Deshales became the 1000th playing Yankee
August 07, 1987 - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
August 07, 1987 - Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 4ø C (39ø F) Bering Sea
August 08, 1579 - Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
August 08, 1609 - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
August 08, 1709 - 1st known ascent in a hot-air balloon by Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao of Portugal (indoors!)
August 08, 1814 - Peace negotiations begin in Ghent Belgium
August 08, 1843 - Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
August 08, 1864 - Red Cross Anniversary
August 08, 1900 - 1st Davis Cup tennis matches held in Boston
August 08, 1920 - Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game 73 minutes
August 08, 1929 - Salem Oregon airport dedicated
August 08, 1937 - Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River begins producing power
August 08, 1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launched air attacks
August 08, 1963 - Great Train Robbery in England
August 08, 1972 - Yanks sign a 30 year lease with NY City
August 08, 1978 - US launches Pioneer Venus probe
August 08, 1980 - LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
August 09, 1332 - Battle of Dupplin Moor (in Scotland)
August 09, 1778 - Capt. Cook passes through Bering Strait
August 09, 1786 - 1st ascent of Mt. Blanc
August 09, 1803 - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
August 09, 1842 - US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
August 09, 1848 - Free-Soil Party nominates Martin Van Buren for president
August 09, 1849 - Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
August 09, 1854 - Henry David Thoreau published `Walden'
August 09, 1902 - Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria.
August 09, 1925 - Only time Babe Ruth was pinch hit for Bobby Veach flied out
August 09, 1930 - Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
August 09, 1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics
August 09, 1942 - Britain arrested Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi
August 09, 1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki
August 09, 1956 - 1st state-wide state-supported educational TV network Alabama
August 09, 1956 - South African women demonstrate against pass laws
August 09, 1965 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
August 09, 1969 - The Manson family commits the Tate-LaBianca murders
August 09, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 7
August 09, 1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency
August 09, 1978 - Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
August 10, 1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
August 10, 1821 - Missouri becomes 24th state
August 10, 1846 - Smithsonian Institute established
August 10, 1866 - Transatlantic cable laid - Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
August 10, 1945 - Robert Goddard father of American rocketry dies
August 10, 1948 - ABC enters network TV at 7 PM - WJZ NY
August 10, 1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
August 10, 1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
August 10, 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 launched
August 10, 1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
August 10, 1981 - Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record of 3630 hits
August 10, 1986 - Billy Martin day Yanks retire #1
August 11, 1835 - George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
August 11, 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
August 11, 1888 - California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
August 11, 1919 - Green Bay Packers founded
August 11, 1929 - Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
August 11, 1933 - temp. reaches 58ø (136ø F) at San Luis Potos¡ Mex. (world record)
August 11, 1951 - 1st color baseball game telecast
August 11, 1960 - Chad gains independence from France
August 11, 1962 - Andrian G Nikolayev third Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
August 11, 1962 - Vostok 3 launched; rendezvous with Vostok 4 next day
August 11, 1965 - Watts riots begin in LA last 6 days
August 11, 1967 - Al Downing becomes the 12th to strike out the side on 9 pitches
August 11, 1980 - Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
August 12, 1851 - Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
August 12, 1867 - Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
August 12, 1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to the US
August 12, 1898 - The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
August 12, 1915 - Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham published.
August 12, 1923 - K Reinmuth discovers 1 000th asteroid names it Giuseppe Piazzi
August 12, 1934 - Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park 41 766 on hand
August 12, 1936 - diver Marjorie Gestring becomes youngest Olympic gold medalist (13)
August 12, 1941 - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany.
August 12, 1953 - Ann Davidson -1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
August 12, 1953 - Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
August 12, 1955 - Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
August 12, 1959 - 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile Observation Island
August 12, 1960 - Echo 1 1st communications satellite is launched
August 12, 1962 - Russia launches Pavel Popovich. He lands safely Aug. 15.
August 12, 1964 - 10th time Mantle switch hits HR in a game one goes 502 feet
August 12, 1972 - Last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
August 12, 1974 - 1st time 2 teammates elected to Hall of Fame on same day they are Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford
August 12, 1977 - 1st test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
August 12, 1985 - World's worst single aircraft disaster-Japan Boeing 747 (520 die)
August 13, 1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
August 13, 1704 - English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
August 13, 1831 - Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
August 13, 1847 - English astronomer J.R. Hind discovers asteroid Iris
August 13, 1876 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
August 13, 1932 - Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins the game 1-0 in 10 tying the feat of Senator Tom Hughes who also won 1-0 in 10 in 1906
August 13, 1939 - Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over the A's
August 13, 1960 - Central African Republic proclaims independence from France
August 13, 1961 - Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
August 13, 3114 - BC The Mayan "long count" calendar system begins
August 14, 0410 - Alaric sacks Rome
August 14, 1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral is begun
August 14, 1385 - Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota retain independence
August 14, 1457 - Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
August 14, 1756 - French capture Ft. Oswego N.Y
August 14, 1846 - Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
August 14, 1848 - Oregon Territory created
August 14, 1880 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed
August 14, 1900 - Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners.
August 14, 1912 - 2 500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
August 14, 1917 - China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
August 14, 1919 - Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple play
August 14, 1935 - Social Security Act became law
August 14, 1941 - Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
August 14, 1945 - VJ Day - Japan unconditionally surrendered to end WW II
August 14, 1947 - Pakistan gains independence from Britain
August 14, 1951 - Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills
August 14, 1958 - Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29 Edmonton 21)
August 14, 1962 - US mail truck in Plymouth Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
August 14, 1966 - 1st US lunar orbiter
August 14, 1969 - British troops intervened militarily in Northern Ireland
August 14, 1973 - US bombs Cambodia
August 14, 1977 - 77 691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
August 15, 1057 - Macbeth King of Scotland slain by the son of King Duncan
August 15, 1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
August 15, 1886 - Guy Hecker scores seven times in 1 game
August 15, 1901 - Arch Rock danger to Bay shipping blasted with 30 tons of nitro
August 15, 1912 - Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice
August 15, 1914 - Panama Canal opens
August 15, 1918 - US & Russia severed diplomatic ties
August 15, 1935 - Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska
August 15, 1939 - The Wizard of Oz premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater Hollywood
August 15, 1945 - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule. Riot in SF celebrating end of WW II. US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ended
August 15, 1947 - India & Pakistan granted independence within British Commonwealth
August 15, 1948 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
August 15, 1960 - Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Nat'l Day)
August 15, 1965 - Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
August 15, 1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in NY State
August 15, 1970 - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
August 15, 1971 - Pres Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages prices & rents
August 15, 1971 - Bahrain gains independence from Britain
August 15, 1974 - South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escaped an assassination
August 15, 1981 - Robin Leamy of US swims a record 7.98 kph for 50 m
August 16, 1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington Vt
August 16, 1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden S.C
August 16, 1812 - Detroit fell to British & Indian forces in the War of 1812.
August 16, 1819 - Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
August 16, 1829 - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrived in Boston to be exhibited
August 16, 1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibit Union states from trading with Confederacy
August 16, 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed
August 16, 1896 - Gold found at Bonanza Creek Ala
August 16, 1903 - Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio Yanks win 12-8
August 16, 1920 - Norman Lockyer editor of NATURE discoverer of helium in sun dies
August 16, 1920 - Yanks Carl Mays' pitch hits Indian Ray Chapman in the head. Chapman dies the next day the only major league fatality
August 16, 1948 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in NY at the age of 53
August 16, 1956 - Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
August 16, 1960 - Britain grants independence to the crown colony of Cyprus
August 16, 1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon at 31 330 m (record)
August 16, 1965 - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise to Miami Dolphins
August 16, 1969 - Woodstock festival begins in NY
August 16, 1970 - Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
August 16, 1977 - Elvis Presley dies of heart ailment at Graceland at age 42
August 16, 1977 - Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
August 16, 1984 - LA federal jury acquits automaker John Z. De Lorean
August 16, 1987 - Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age
August 17, 1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
August 17, 1846 - US takes LA
August 17, 1858 - 1st bank in Hawaii opens
August 17, 1863 - Federal batteries & ships bombarded Ft Sumter in Charleston
August 17, 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
August 17, 1896 - Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek in Klondike region of the Yukon
August 17, 1908 - Bank of Italy opens it's new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
August 17, 1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County Ga. after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
August 17, 1939 - The Wizard of Oz opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
August 17, 1940 - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
August 17, 1942 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen France
August 17, 1943 - Allied forces gained completed control of Sicily
August 17, 1944 - Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 doubles in a game
August 17, 1945 - Indonesia declares independence from the Netherlands (National Day)
August 17, 1948 - Alger Hiss denied ever being a Communist agent
August 17, 1950 - Indonesia gains it's independence
August 17, 1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
August 17, 1960 - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
August 17, 1961 - Alliance for Progress established
August 17, 1962 - E German border guards shot & mortally wounded Peter Fechter 18 who attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector
August 17, 1969 - Hurricane Camille claimed more than 250 lives
August 17, 1970 - USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus
August 17, 1978 - 1st manned balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
August 17, 1987 - Nazi Rudolph Hess dies at 93 after 46 years in Spandau Prison
August 18, 1227 - Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
August 18, 1587 - Virginia Dare 1st child of English parents to be born in America
August 18, 1835 - The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
August 18, 1846 - US forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe NM
August 18, 1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
August 18, 1914 - Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
August 18, 1920 - Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment which guarantees the right of all American women to vote.
August 18, 1938 - FDR dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada.
August 18, 1954 - Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend Cabinet
August 18, 1958 - Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov published.
August 18, 1958 - Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal
August 18, 1960 - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite Cedar Rapids Iowa
August 18, 1963 - James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
August 18, 1976 - USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
August 18, 1982 - 1st time NYSE tops 100 million figure 132.69 million shares traded
August 18, 1986 - Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
August 19, 1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
August 19, 1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
August 19, 1942 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2 Guadalcanal Solomon Is
August 19, 1950 - ABC begins the tradition of Saturday morning kid shows
August 19, 1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (later recovered alive)
August 19, 1960 - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
August 19, 1977 - Groucho Marx died in LA at the age of 86.
August 19, 1979 - The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
August 19, 1982 - Soyuz T-7 is launched
August 20, 1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
August 20, 1914 - German forces occupied Brussels Belgium during WW I.
August 20, 1918 - Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during WW I
August 20, 1920 - US's 1st coml radio 8MK later WWJ Detroit began daily broadcasting
August 20, 1930 - Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception NY city
August 20, 1940 - Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City by agents of Stalin
August 20, 1940 - British PM Churchill said of the Royal Air Force `Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
August 20, 1942 - Dimout regulations implemented in SF
August 20, 1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
August 20, 1955 - 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes Palmdale Ca
August 20, 1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
August 20, 1956 - Republicans convene at the Cow Palace
August 20, 1960 - Senegal gains independence from France
August 20, 1964 - LBJ signs an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
August 20, 1968 - 650 000 Soviet-block troops invade Czechoslovakia
August 20, 1975 - Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars soft landing
August 20, 1977 - Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
August 20, 1980 - UN Security Council votes 14-0 US abstains condemning Israel's declaration that all of Jersualem was its capital.
August 20, 1986 - A mail carrier in Edmond Okla. shot 14 fellow workers dead
August 21, 1560 - Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
August 21, 1680 - Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe
August 21, 1831 - Former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection against slavery
August 21, 1841 - John Hampson patents the venetian blind
August 21, 1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate in Illinois
August 21, 1878 - American Bar Association organized at Sarasota N.Y
August 21, 1933 - Ruth homer leads the AL to a 4-2 win in the 1st All Star Game
August 21, 1940 - Leon Trotsky died of wounds inflicted by an assailant the day before
August 21, 1945 - Pres Truman ended the Lend-Lease program
August 21, 1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th US state
August 21, 1963 - Martial law declared in S Vietnam
August 21, 1965 - Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
August 21, 1968 - William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
August 21, 1972 - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
August 21, 1982 - Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
August 21, 1983 - Opposition leader Begnigno S. Aquino Jr. assassinated in Manila
August 21, 1986 - Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas killing 2000
August 21, 2017 - Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
August 22, 1485 - Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
August 22, 1787 - John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests years before Fulton
August 22, 1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia
August 22, 1864 - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
August 22, 1927 - Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
August 22, 1961 - Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
August 22, 1963 - NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles
August 22, 1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 106 km
August 23, 1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700 000 slaves freed
August 23, 1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF
August 23, 1872 - 1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF carrying tea
August 23, 1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US: US lightship
August 23, 1919 - Gasoline Alley cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
August 23, 1927 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Mass
August 23, 1944 - Rumania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
August 23, 1957 - Digital Equipment Corp. founded
August 23, 1963 - Beatles release "She Loves You"
August 23, 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
August 23, 1968 - Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
August 23, 1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched
August 23, 1977 - Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs 1/2 game in 1st place to stay
August 23, 1977 - 1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
August 24, 0079 - Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
August 24, 1572 - King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
August 24, 1583 - St. Bartholomew's Day
August 24, 1814 - British sack Washington DC White House burned
August 24, 1869 - the waffle iron is invented
August 24, 1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
August 24, 1912 - Territory of Alaska organized
August 24, 1932 - 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman AE Putnam
August 24, 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
August 24, 1950 - 1st US Negro delegate to United Nations appointed - ES Sampson
August 24, 1956 - 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
August 24, 1960 - temp. drops to -88ø (-127ø F) at Vostok Antarctica (world record)
August 24, 1964 - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 6-4
August 24, 1972 - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 2-1
August 24, 1976 - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
August 24, 1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
August 25, 1689 - Montreal taken by the Iroquois
August 25, 1822 - William Herschel discoverer of Uranus dies at age 85
August 25, 1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
August 25, 1830 - Belgium begins revolt against the Netherlands
August 25, 1835 - NY Sun publishes moon hoax story about John Herschel
August 25, 1864 - Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
August 25, 1875 - Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim the English Channel
August 25, 1919 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
August 25, 1921 - Yankee Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying the record
August 25, 1922 - Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
August 25, 1929 - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
August 25, 1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
August 25, 1952 - Tiger's Virgil Trucks no hits the Yankees
August 25, 1976 - Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
August 25, 1981 - Voyager 2 closest approach to Saturn & discovers thousands of rings
August 25, 1987 - Dow Jones average of industrial stocks reaches 2722.42 a record
August 26, 0055 - B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
August 26, 1346 - English longbows defeat French in Battle of Cr‚cy
August 26, 1629 - Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
August 26, 1791 - John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat
August 26, 1846 - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
August 26, 1847 - Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
August 26, 1883 - Krakatoa began erupting with increasingly large explosions.
August 26, 1907 - Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
August 26, 1914 - Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
August 26, 1916 - Yanks turn a triple play & beat the Browns 10-6
August 26, 1920 - 19th amendment passes -- women's suffrage granted (about time!)
August 26, 1937 - Pumping to build Treasure Island in S.F. Bay is finished
August 26, 1939 - 1st major league baseball telecast - Reds at Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
August 26, 1952 - Fluoridation of SF water begins
August 26, 1957 - USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
August 26, 1961 - Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
August 26, 1962 - Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
August 26, 1964 - LBJ nominated at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City N.J.
August 26, 1972 - Summer Olympics opened in Munich West Germany.
August 26, 1973 - Women's Equality Day
August 26, 1974 - Charles Lindbergh died at his home in Hawaii at 72.
August 26, 1974 - Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
August 26, 1977 - H.A. Rey author of a popular constellation book dies at age 78
August 26, 1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I. Also Soyuz 31 is launched
August 26, 1981 - Voyager's closest approach to Saturn enroute to Uranus & Neptune
August 27, 1776 - Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
August 27, 1783 - 1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
August 27, 1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville Penn
August 27, 1883 - Krakatoa west of Java blew apart; top that St. Helens!
August 27, 1909 - Jack Chesbro's final game as a Yankee
August 27, 1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
August 27, 1921 - Green Bay Packers granted NFL franchise
August 27, 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war
August 27, 1938 - Yanks Monte Pearson no hits the Indians 13-0 DiMaggio hits 3 triples
August 27, 1939 - Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
August 27, 1950 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
August 27, 1962 - Launch of Mariner 2 which makes 1st Venus flyby
August 27, 1977 - Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium Rangers won 8-2
August 27, 1978 - Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 78
August 27, 1982 - Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
August 27, 1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 launched
August 28, 1565 - St Augustine Fla established
August 28, 1609 - Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
August 28, 1789 - William Herschel discovers Enceladus satellite of Saturn
August 28, 1828 - Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
August 28, 1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
August 28, 1884 - Mickey Welsh strikesout the 1st 9 men he faces
August 28, 1907 - United Parcel Service begins service in Seattle
August 28, 1916 - Italy's declares war against Germany during WW I
August 28, 1917 - 10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
August 28, 1922 - WEAF in NYC aired the 1st radio commercial. Queensboro Realty Company of Jackson Heights paid $100 for 10 minutes of air time
August 28, 1957 - Sen. Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
August 28, 1963 - 200 000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington D.C
August 28, 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial
August 28, 1965 - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
August 28, 1968 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention - nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president
August 28, 1973 - More than 520 die as a strong earthquake shook central Mexico
August 28, 1974 - Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
August 28, 1977 - NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders 2-1 at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore. winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship.
August 28, 1977 - Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats the Rangers 1-0
August 28, 1981 - John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
August 28, 1983 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
August 29, 1526 - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
August 29, 1533 - Last Incan King of Peru Atahualpa murdered by Spanish conquerors
August 29, 1708 - Haverhill Mass. destroyed by French & Indians
August 29, 1769 - Edmond Hoyle games expert dies (birth date unknown)
August 29, 1786 - Shay's Rebellion in Springfield Mass
August 29, 1864 - William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
August 29, 1877 - 2nd president of the Mormon Church Brigham Young died.
August 29, 1896 - Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
August 29, 1914 - Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in S.F. via the Panama Canal
August 29, 1949 - USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
August 29, 1954 - SF Intl Airport (SFO) opens
August 29, 1957 - Strom Thurmond D-SC ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights
August 29, 1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" is released
August 29, 1965 - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
August 29, 1966 - Beatles public concert at Candlestick Park in SF.
August 29, 1967 - Yankees longest day The Red Sox take the 1st game 2-1 in 9 the Yanks win second game in 20 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
August 29, 1967 - Final television episode of The Fugitive
August 29, 1977 - Lou Brock - Cardinals - eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year old career stolen bases record to a total to 893. The Padres won game 4-3.
August 29, 1981 - Broadcaster Lowell Thomas died in Pawling N.Y. at age 89
August 30, 1645 - treaty of peace between Dutch & Indians
August 30, 1850 - Honolulu Hawaii becomes a city
August 30, 1906 - Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
August 30, 1910 - Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no hit innings but loses 5-0 in the 11th
August 30, 1961 - 1st Negro judge of a District Court confirmed - JB Parsons
August 30, 1979 - 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
August 30, 1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
August 30, 1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
August 31, 1842 - US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
August 31, 1850 - California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
August 31, 1886 - 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US at Charleston S.C
August 31, 1886 - Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
August 31, 1950 - Gil Hodges hits 4 homers in 1 game
August 31, 1955 - 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated Chicago Il
August 31, 1955 - 1st microwave television station operated - Lufkin Texas
August 31, 1957 - Malaysia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
August 31, 1962 - Trinidad & Tobago gains independence from Britain (National Day)
August 31, 1963 - Malaysia Day
August 31, 1977 - Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125 524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
August 31, 1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor union founded