1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1799 – Batavian fleet surrenders to British navy during Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
1906 – NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1932 – Hermann Goering elected President of the German Reichstag
1933 – Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1951 – US and Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1986 – 43rd Venice Film Festival: “Le rayon vert” directed by Eric Rohmer wins Golden Lion
2012 – A blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
2013 – 15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
Tag: This Day in History
Historical Events for 28th August 2024
1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1964 – Race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sparked by police reaction to domestic dispute fueled traffic tie-up; riot and looting continues for 3 days, with 2 killed, hundreds injured and $4M of damage in the city’s North Philadelphia neighborhood
1970 – “I’ll Be There” single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
1972 – American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich and Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1986 – Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1991 – Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1994 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann
1997 – Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
2004 – Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze
Historical Events for 27th August 2024
1569 – Pope Pius names Cosimo I de Medici as grand duke of Tuscany
1828 – Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talks
1902 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
1932 – 200,000 English textile workers strike
1955 – Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1965 – The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley, at his Los Angeles, California home
1979 – Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers killed when Provisional IRA explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passes Narrow Water Castle
2004 – German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500m and silver in K-2 500m in Athens; first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, gold 24 years apart, and 1st person to win 2 or more medals in 5 different Games
2013 – “Gravity”, directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney premieres at the Venice Film Festival
2015 – Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos names top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou caretaker Prime Minister – Greece’s 1st female Prime Minister
Historical Events for 26th August 2024
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1846 – Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah” premieres at the Birmingham Festival in England
1937 – Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is finished
1961 – Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1970 – Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament)
1980 – Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of American rock band Cheap Trick
1985 – French government denies knowledge of bombing of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland New Zealand
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed
2014 – Israel and Hamas accept another ceasefire
2019 – Meeting of the G7 agrees on $20 million aid package to fight fires in the Amazon in Biarritz
Historical Events for 25th August 2024
1922 – Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1940 – First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1944 – US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France
1960 – AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 – Somali adopts constitution
1988 – Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1991 – Carl Lewis runs 100m in a world record 9.86 seconds
2014 – 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC
2017 – President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling
Historical Events for 24th August 2024
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid
1217 – Battle of South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 – Black Death Massacre: 6,000 Jews, blamed for spreading the Bubonic Plague, are killed in Mainz, Electorate of Mainz; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon’s murder
1991 – Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
2008 – Dániel Varga and Péter Biros score 3 goals each as Hungary wins the men’s water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; third consecutive Olympic gold medal
2014 – Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting Ebola virus after attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
2019 – US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic
2021 – Beyoncé becomes first black woman and third person to wear the Tiffany Diamond in an advertising campaign for the company alongside her husband Jay-Z
Historical Events for 23rd August 2024
1566 – Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 – American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games
1944 – Sammellager Drancy freed
1948 – World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1970 – Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1975 – Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1979 – Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds
2004 – Winning pitcher Lisa Fernadez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
Historical Events for 22nd August 2024
1572 – Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion (killed 2 days later)
1914 – German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium
1939 – Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1952 – The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
1954 – WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 – Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
1979 – 200 black leaders meet in NY to support Andrew Young
1980 – Leaders of Port Elizabeth’s Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes
1993 – “In the Summer House” closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 performances
2018 – Forbes say George Clooney made more money in a single year ($239 million) than any actor ever ($239m), due to sale of alcohol company, followed by Dwayne Johnson ($124m)
Historical Events for 21st August 2024
959 – Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
1573 – Spain begin siege of Alkmaar in the Netherlands
1831 – Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1932 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell first to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1957 – The Soviet Union successfully tests the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, which flies over 6,000 km (3,700 mi)
2004 – South Africa clinch their 2nd Tri Nations Rugby Series on points differential with a 23-19 win over Australia in Durban; Wallabies score 3 tries to 2, but Percy Montgomery lands 5 goals for Springboks
2013 – 37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia
2016 – Brazil takes 3rd Olympic men’s indoor volleyball gold medal at the Rio Games with 25–22, 28–26, 26–24 win over Italy
2017 – Destroyer USS John S McCain collides with an oil tanker near Singapore leaving 10 missing and 5 injured
2018 – Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull calls for and wins a leadership vote 43-35 over Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton
Historical Events for 20th August 2024
1534 – Turkish admiral Chaireddin “Barbarossa” occupies Tunis
1619 – Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude
1648 – Battle of Lens: French Duc d’Enghien defeats Spaniards
1795 – Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford
1980 – UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.
2018 – Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany