- 70 The Tower of Antonia is destroyed by the Romans
- 1220 Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula
- 1303 The Crete earthquake strikes with an estimated magnitude of 8, triggering a major tsunami that damages the Lighthouse of Alexandria and sweeps ships two miles inland in Egypt
- 1322 Emperor Godaigo makes Sojiji the chief monastery of Soto Sect
- 1509 Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the rejuvenation of the Vijayanagara Empire in southern India
- 1549 Henry II of France declares war on England and orders the siege of Boulogne
- 1567 Duke of Alva’s army enters Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium)
- 1570 Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye grants more freedom to Huguenots
Uraniborg Observatory
1576 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe‘s observatory in Uraniborg, Denmark, which, when built, becomes the world’s most advanced research institution
- 1585 John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage
- 1605 The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden
Galileo Demonstrates Telescope
1609 Galileo Galilei presents his telescope to the Venetian Senate in Venice, Italy
- 1615 Dutch expedition of Joris van Spilbergen attacks and later pillages the Spanish-held town of Paita, north of Lima [1]
- 1647 The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces in the Battle of Dungan’s Hill
- 1655 City of Vilnius, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, falls to Muscovite forces, who pillage it with such ferocity that fires burn for two weeks
- 1673 Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of New York City
- 1703 Vienna-based newspaper Wienerisches Diarium (later called Wiener Zeitung) prints its first edition and publishes daily for almost 320 years
- 1709 First known ascent in a hot-air balloon by Bartolomeu de Gusmão (indoors)
- 1729 Town of Baltimore is founded in the British North American colony of the Province of Maryland
- 1758 British troops occupy and plunder Cherbourg
- 1786 Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard are the first to climb to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe
1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America
- 1793 The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution
- 1794 Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska
- 1796 Boston African Society is established with 44 members
- 1809 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius, arrive in Palestine
- 1814 Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, United Netherlands (now Belgium)
- 1816 Bavaria joins the Holy Alliance
- 1829 French government of Polignac forms
- 1829 The Stourbridge Lion steam locomotive, built by Foster, Rastrick and Co. in Stourbridge, England, goes into service for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in Honesdale, Pennsylvania
- 1831 Battle of Hasselt: Dutch army drives out the Belgians
- 1839 Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio
- 1843 Natal in South Africa becomes a British colony
Brigham Young Leads the Mormons
1844 Brigham Young is chosen as the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith
- 1853 Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan
- 1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
- 1860 Queen of the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, arrives in New York City
- 1863 American Civil War: Tennessee’s “military” Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves, celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans in the early 20th century
- 1864 Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) passes within 0.0964 AU (approximately 14.4 million km or 8.9 million miles) of Earth
- 1864 Union troops and fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
- 1868 Earthquake destroys the city of Arica, Chile
- 1870 New York Yacht Club’s first defense of America’s Cup: “Magic” (NYYC) defeats “Cambria” (Royal Thames YC, England; finishes 8th) and 16 fellow defenders from New York Harbor to Sandy Hook Light Vessel on the Atlantic and return (38 miles)
- 1870 The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal uprising against Domnitor Carol I of Romania
- 1876 Dan O’Leary completes a 500-mile walk in 139 hours and 32 minutes
Electric Pen
1876 Thomas Edison is granted the patent for autographic printing (US Patent 180,857)
- 1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
- 1894 Riccardo Drigo’s ballet “Le Réveil de Flore” premieres with the Imperial Mariinsky Ballet at the Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
- 1900 1st International Lawn Tennis Challenge (precursor to Davis Cup) begins at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, won 3-0 by the US over the British Isles
- 1910 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army’s Wright Flyer
- 1911 Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 and comes into effect in 1913
- 1911 The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire
- 1913 Richard Corfield’s “Camel Corps” opens against the “Mad Mullah” in Burao, Somalia
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
1914 Ernest Shackleton‘s ship “Endurance” leaves Plymouth, England, on the final major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
- 1914 French troops under Gen. Bonneau occupy Mulhouse in Alsace
- 1914 Montenegro declares war on Germany
- 1916 The A’s set an American League record with their 19th consecutive loss on the road
- 1918 World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens, where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attack German lines
- 1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi: British recognize Afghanistan’s independence
- 1920 Tigers beat Yankees 1-0 in the shortest American League game, lasting 73 minutes
- 1922 Pirates set a record of 46 hits in a doubleheader against the Phillies
- 1924 British-Russian trade agreement is signed
- 1925 First national march of the Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins the first round-the-world flight by airship, departing from Lakehurst, New Jersey
- 1929 Salem airport in Oregon dedicated
- 1930 MLB St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in the NL and go on to win the pennant
- 1931 Washington Senators pitcher Bobby Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D. C.
- 1936 A Finnish quinella in the 3,000 m steeplechase at the Berlin Olympics as Volmari Iso-Hollo beats teammate Kaarlo Tuominen in a world record time of 9:03.8
- 1936 American Glenn Morris’s decathlon total of 7,254 points is a world record; teammates Bob Clark and Jack Parker complete a US sweep in the grueling event at the Berlin Olympics
- 1936 Corbett National Park and Tiger Reserve is founded in Uttarakhand, British India, as Hailey National Park (later renamed) as India’s first national park [1]
- 1937 Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River begins producing power
- 1938 Great Trek Centenary Celebrations commence; the Great Trek was a migration involving Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa
1939 7th Venice Film Festival opens with a United States boycott due to Benito Mussolini‘s Fascist Italian regime
- 1940 31 German aircraft are shot down over England
1940 The German “Aufbau Ost” directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel to mobilize German forces in the East before the start of Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union
Montgomery Takes Charge
1942 General Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the British 8th Army at El Alamein
- 1942 Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who land in the US are executed in Washington, D.C.
- 1942 Soviet counteroffensive at Voronezh under Marshal Timoshenko
- 1943 Common Chiefs of Staff meet in Quebec
- 1943 US amphibians land at Sant’Agata on the north coast of Sicily
- 1943 Vegetables and fruit are rationed in the Netherlands
- 1944 Canadian and Polish troops occupy Cramesnil, Secqueville, Cintheaux, and St-Aignan
- 1944 First test flight of the Junkers Ju 287, a proposed German Luftwaffe jet bomber; it is never fully put into production
- 1944 US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans
- 1945 England and Australian armed services draw the fourth Victory Test
- 1945 The Soviet Union declares war against Japan in World War II and invades Manchuria the next day
1945 US, USSR, Britain, and France sign the Treaty of London, which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders
- 1946 Dreyfuss family, owners of MLB Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million
- 1946 First flight of Convair B-36
- 1946 India agrees to give Bhutan 32 square miles (82.88 square kilometers) of territory in the area of Dewangiri
- 1947 Pakistan’s national flag is approved
- 1949 Bhutan, Land of the Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
Chadwick Breaks Channel Record
1950 Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in a record time of 13 hours and 23 minutes [1]
- 1952 Syngman Rhee is re-elected as president of South Korea
- 1953 US and South Korea initial a mutual security pact
26th of July Movement
1955 Fidel Castro forms the “26th of July Movement,” a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization
- 1955 Geneva Conference is held to discuss the peaceful uses of atomic energy
- 1956 Fire and explosion kill 263 miners in Marcinelle, Belgium
- 1956 WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1957 USSR offers Syria economic and military aid
- 1960 “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
- 1960 Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa are dropped
- 1960 South Kasai secedes from the Congo
- 1961 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL) beat Buffalo Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
- 1961 Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis to become NWA champion
- 1963 Great Train Robbery in England involves the theft of £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
- 1963 The Kingsmen release “Louie, Louie;” some radio stations ban it due to rumors of obscene content
- 1963 Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo to become NWA Champion
- 1964 First Rolling Stones concert in the Netherlands at the Kurhaus of Scheveningen in The Hague
- 1964 The Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
South Africa Bans the Beatles
1966 South African Broadcasting bans the playing of all Beatles songs due to John Lennon‘s remark that the band is “more popular than Jesus”
Nixon Nominated
1968 Republican Convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for President
Yankees Retire #37
1970 MLB New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel by retiring his jersey number 37; Stengel manages the team from 1949 to 1960, winning 7 World Series titles in 10 appearances
Spiro Agnew’s Denial
1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew says reports he takes kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland are “damned lies” and vows not to resign
- 1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12 pm the next day
- 1975 As a result of rainfall from Typhoon Nina, the Banqiao Dam in China fails, causing the collapse of almost 6 million buildings and 229,000 deaths
Hussein Executes Opponents
1979 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
An Innocent Man
1983 Columbia Records releases “An Innocent Man,” singer-songwriter Billy Joel‘s ninth studio album; it features three Billboard Top 10 hit singles: “Tell Her About It,” “Uptown Girl,” and the title track
- 1983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in a sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
Lewis Wins 3rd Olympic Gold
1984 Carl Lewis wins his third gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics, joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200 m
Coutts Wins Sailing Gold
1984 Future five-time America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts of New Zealand wins the Finn Class sailing gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
- 1984 Milwaukee’s 10-game losing streak ends
- 1984 Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion from a Muslim nation and the first from her country in the 400 m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics
- 1985 Baseball’s new agreement permits two new National League teams in 1993
- 1985 Japan launches Planet-A, a probe to Halley’s Comet
- 1986 Altaf Hussain addresses Nishtar Park in Karachi, announcing the establishment of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political movement
- 1986 Texas paroles American rock singer David Crosby from state prison five months into his five-year prison sentence for drug and weapons convictions; he credits the reprieve with helping him break his cocaine addiction
- 1987 Brewers’ Rob Deer strikes out five times in a game
- 1987 Pakistan is all out for 708 against England at The Oval, with Botham taking 3-217
- 1988 Angola, Cuba and South Africa agree to a ceasefire in the Angolan Civil War
- 1988 Army in Rangoon, Myanmar fires on pro-democracy students, killing thousands during the “8888 Uprising”
- 1988 Astronomers announce the discovery of the most distant galaxy known, 4C41.17, a cluster of stars more than 10 billion light-years away [1]
- 1988 Ceasefire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
- 1988 Jennifer Levin’s parents file a $25 million lawsuit against Dorrian’s Red Hand Bar
- 1988 Minnesota Twins pull second triple play of year in 6-2 win over Cleveland
Straight Outta Compton
1988 Rap group N.W.A releases their debut studio album “Straight Outta Compton”
- 1988 Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years in New York City
- 1988 Russian troops begin to pull out of Afghanistan after 9 years of war
- 1988 Sarah, Duchess of York, gives birth to her first child, Beatrice, weighing 6 lb 12 oz (3.06 kg)
- 1988 Temperature hits a high of 88°F on 8/8/88 in NYC
- 1988 The Cubs and Phillies attempt to play the first night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in the fourth inning with Chicago leading 3-1
Shultz Escapes Assassination
1988 US Secretary of State George P. Shultz narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in Bolivia
PM David Lange Resigns
1989 New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange resigns after five years due to a no-confidence issue
- 1989 US space shuttle STS-28 is launched
- 1990 Baltimore Orioles pull off their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs. Oakland)
- 1990 Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench by hitting 327 home runs as a catcher
- 1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
Carlos Santana Pleads No Contest
1991 Rock guitar hero Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge in Houston, Texas
- 1991 Shiite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy
Bill Preston Charged
1991 Singer-keyboardist Billy Preston is charged with exhibiting pornography to a minor
- 1991 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses
- 1991 With two months left in the season, the White Sox set a new home attendance record of 2,150,951 attendees
- 1992 Bulgarian canoeist Nikolay Bukhalov completes the C-1 500/1,000 double, winning the latter at the Barcelona Olympics
- 1992 Fermín Cacho wins Spain’s first Olympic gold medal in a running event when he takes the 1,500 m at the Barcelona Games
- 1992 Germany goes through the field hockey competition undefeated to win gold with a 2-1 victory over Australia in the men’s final at the Barcelona Olympics
- 1992 Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career home run
James Hetfield Suffers Burns
1992 Metallica singer and guitarist James Hetfield suffers second and third-degree burns during a pyrotechnics explosion on stage at Olympic Stadium in Montreal
- 1992 Spanish center forward Kiko scores twice as the home team wins the Olympic football gold medal with a 3-2 victory over Poland in front of 95,000 at Camp Nou, Barcelona
- 1993 Tropical Storm Bret ravages Venezuela, killing about 100 people
- 1995 10.75 inches (27.305 cm) of rainfall at Lockington Dam, Lockington, Ohio (state record)
- 1995 Jeff King of the Pirates is the 16th National League player to hit two home runs in one inning
- 1996 American jazz artist Mel Tormé (70) suffers a stroke, ending his 65-year singing career
- 1997 Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox players
- 1997 The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan
- 2000 Confederate submarine CSS H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor off the coast of South Carolina [1]
Hall of Fame
2004 John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Lawsuit Over Rocky Inspiration Settled
2006 Actor Sylvester Stallone and former heavyweight boxing contender Chuck Wepner settle a lawsuit out of court for an undisclosed sum; Wepner claims he is the inspiration for the “Rocky” movies
Joe Lieberman Independent
2006 Joe Lieberman loses the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut to Ned Lamont and announces he will run as an independent candidate
- 2007 An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889
Carlos Slim World’s Richest
2007 Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world’s richest person with an estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to “Fortune”
- 2008 Russia launches a full-scale land, air, and sea invasion of Georgia, referring to it as a “peace enforcement” operation after Georgia responds to aggression from South Ossetia
- 2008 XXIX Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, China
- 2012 China announces plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
- 2012 Flooding due to heavy rain in Manila, Philippines, kills 16 people
- 2013 14 people are killed by a bomb explosion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan
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