05270801::Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium
06490801::Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
08600801::Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
09020801::Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
10210801::Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
10860801::English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier
11770801::Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III
12030801::Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
12910801::Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
14040801::Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
14850801::Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
14980801::Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
15880801::English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
15890801::Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
16190801::1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
16260801::Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
16280801::Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
16640801::Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed K”prl
16900801::Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
17110801::Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
17140801::Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
17160801::1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
17160801::Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
17320801::Foundation laid for Bank of England
17590801::Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
17740801::Priestly discovers oxygen
17800801::Sweden declares neutrality
17810801::English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
17850801::Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
17890801::US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
17900801::1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
17930801::France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
17940801::Whiskey Rebellion begins
17980801::Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
18120801::Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
18140801::Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
18310801::London Bridge opens to traffic
18340801::Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
18360801::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
18380801::Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
18420801::Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
18520801::SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
18550801::Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
18610801::Brazil recognizes Confederacy
18630801::Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
18630801::Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
18640801::Battle of Petersburg, VA
18670801::Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
18690801::1st voyage down Colorado River
18730801::SF's 1st cable car begins service
18760801::Colorado becomes 38th state
18810801::US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
18830801::A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for œ10,000 (forgery)
18830801::Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
18830801::Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
18860801::Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
18900801::Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
18930801::Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
18960801::George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
19010801::Burial within SF City limits prohibited
19020801::Building begins on Dutch public housing
19020801::Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
19030801::1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
19060801::Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
19070801::Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
19070801::Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
19090801::British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
19110801::Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
19140801::British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
19140801::Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
19140801::France & Germany mobilize
19140801::Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
19160801::Hawaii National Park forms
19170801::Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
19180801::British troops enter Vladivostok
19180801::Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
19190801::Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
19190801::Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
19200801::Papendrecht soccer team forms
19200801::Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
19220801::Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
19250801::Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
19260801::Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus
19260801::Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
19270801::Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
19280801::Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
19330801::Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
19330801::Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
19330801::Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
19330801::NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
19360801::Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
19360801::Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
19410801::Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
19410801::NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
19420801::Deurne soccer team forms
19420801::German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
19420801::Race riots in Harlem, New York
19430801::Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
19430801::Race riot in Harlem NYC
19430801::Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
19440801::Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
19440801::Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
19440801::General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
19440801::US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
19440801::US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
19440801::Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
19450801::Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
19450801::Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
19450801::SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
19460801::Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
19470801::"Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs
19470801::Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
19500801::1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
19500801::American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
19500801::Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
19500801::King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
19500801::Territory of Guam created
19510801::David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
19530801::Calif introduces sales tax (for education)
19530801::Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
19530801::KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
19530801::KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
19530801::Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
19530801::Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
19540801::Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
19540801::WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
19550801::1st microgravity research begins
19550801::Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca govt
19550801::WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560801::KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
19570801::1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
19570801::Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
19570801::Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
19570801::US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
19580801::1st class postage up to 4› (had been 3› for 26 years)
19580801::US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
19590801::New Continental baseball league formed
19590801::Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
19590801::WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19600801::Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
19600801::Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
19600801::Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
19610801::Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
19610801::German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
19610801::New SF Hall of Justice opens
19610801::Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
19620801::Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
19620801::Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
19630801::Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
19630801::Germany FR annexes Elten village
19630801::WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
19640801::ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
19640801::Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
19650801::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19660801::Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
19660801::Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 & wounds 31 at U of Texas
19670801::Iza„k Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
19670801::WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19680801::Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
19680801::Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
19680801::WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
19690801::110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
19690801::36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
19690801::Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
19700801::EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
19700801::KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
19700801::Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
19710801::Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
19710801::CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
19710801::George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
19710801::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
19720801::1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
19720801::Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
19730801::H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
19730801::Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
19740801::Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
19750801::38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
19750801::41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
19750801::Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
19750801::Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
19760801::21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
19760801::Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
19760801::Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
19760801::Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
19770801::SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
19780801::Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
19780801::Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
19780801::Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
19790801::Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms govt in Portugal
19800801::Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
19800801::Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
19810801::MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
19810801::Poland premier Jagielski resigns
19820801::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
19820801::Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
19820801::H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
19820801::Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
19820801::Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
19830801::New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
19850801::15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
19850801::Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
19850801::Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
19860801::Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
19860801::Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
19860801::Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
19860801::Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
19870801::Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
19870801::Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
19870801::Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
19870801::Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
19880801::Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
19890801::Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
19900801::"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 149 perfs
19900801::Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
19900801::Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
19900801::Soyuz TM-10 launches
19900801::Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
19910801::Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
19910801::Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
19920801::"Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
19920801::NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
19920801::USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
19930801::"In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
19930801::"She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
19930801::Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
19930801::Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
19930801::Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
19940801::99.9øF (37.7øC) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
19940801::The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
19940801::Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
19950801::Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
19960801::M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
19980801::-8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
02570802::St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
10570802::Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
13750802::1st roller skating rink opens (London)
14920802::Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
15420802::French troops leave Flanders
15520802::Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
15780802::Battle of Rijmenam
15810802::Leiden University names Snellius math professor
16100802::Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
16650802::French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
17040802::Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
17180802::Austrian joins Triple Alliance
17380802::France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
17760802::Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
17820802::George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
17860802::Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
17870802::Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
17910802::Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
17980802::British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
18020802::Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
18190802::1st parachute jump in US
18310802::Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
18320802::1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
18320802::Black Hawk defeated (IA)
18320802::Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
18580802::1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
18580802::Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
18610802::Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
18640802::2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
18650802::Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
18650802::Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
18730802::1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
18750802::World 1st roller skating rink opens in London
18770802::SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
18840802::Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
18870802::Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
18920802::Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
18940802::Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
18940802::Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
19030802::Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
19060802::Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
19070802::Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
19090802::1st Lincoln head pennies minted
19090802::Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
19110802::Ha‹ti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
19120802::18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY
19140802::Belgian govt receives German ultimatum
19140802::German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
19140802::German troops overthrows Luxembourg
19140802::Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
19140802::Great Britain mobilizes
19140802::Postdam Conference ended
19140802::Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
19140802::Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
19200802::Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
19210802::Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
19220802::China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
19240802::Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
19280802::Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
19290802::Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
19310802::Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
19320802::Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
19340802::1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
19340802::Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
19340802::William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
19380802::1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
19390802::Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
19400802::Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
19400802::KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
19410802::German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
19410802::Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
19410802::Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
19420802::250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
19420802::Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
19430802::Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
19430802::Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
19430802::RAF bombs Hamburg
19430802::Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
19430802::Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
19440802::Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
19440802::Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
19440802::Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
19450802::Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
19530802::Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
19530802::KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
19540802::Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
19550802::USSR performs nuclear test
19580802::Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
19590802::41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
19590802::Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
19590802::SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
19610802::Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
19610802::Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
19610802::St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
19620802::NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
19630802::30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)
19640802::Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
19640802::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
19640802::North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
19640802::Race riot in Jersey City NJ
19650802::Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
19660802::Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
19670802::New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
19670802::US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
19680802::35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)
19690802::Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
19690802::Pres Nixon visits Romania
19700802::Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
19700802::France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
19700802::Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
19720802::Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
19730802::George Brett gets his 1st hit
19750802::104øF (40øC) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
19750802::107øF (42øC) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
19790802::"Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs
19790802::Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
19800802::Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
19800802::US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
19810802::Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
19810802::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19820802::Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season
19820802::Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
19830802::STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
19830802::US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
19840802::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19850802::5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
19850802::Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
19850802::NASA launches space vehicle S-209
19860802::Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
19860802::TODAY/PC born today
19870802::25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
19870802::Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
19870802::Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
19870802::Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
19870802::Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season
19870802::Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
19870802::Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
19870802::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19880802::Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
19880802::System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
19890802::NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
19900802::Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
19900802::Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
19910802::Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
19910802::Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
19910802::Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
19910802::Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
19920802::"Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
19920802::Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
19920802::Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
19920802::Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
19930802::NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
19930802::Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
19930802::Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
19930802::Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
19940802::Congressional hearings begin on White Water
19940802::Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
19940802::NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
19940802::Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
19980802::26th du Maurier Golf Classic
19980802::30th Curtis Cup:
08810803::Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
11080803::Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned
13120803::Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
14920803::All Jews are expelled from Spain
14920803::Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"
15290803::"Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & King French I
15570803::Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes
15960803::David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
16400803::2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
16400803::Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo," premieres in Toledo
16450803::Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians
16500803::Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army
16760803::Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
16780803::Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
16920803::Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army
17040803::English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
17080803::Battle at Trencs‚n: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
17450803::Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
17780803::Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
17970803::Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
18290803::Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris
18330803::HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
18520803::1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
18550803::Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
18600803::American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
18610803::Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
18630803::Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
18630803::Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
18640803::Battle of Mobile AL
18810803::Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
18810803::US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
18820803::Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
18970803::John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best," premieres in NYC
19040803::British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
19060803::Wash Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th
19140803::1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
19140803::Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
19140803::French fleet sails to North-Africa
19140803::German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
19140803::Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
19140803::Great Britain declares war on Germany
19140803::Turkey signs military pact with Germany
19140803::World Alliance for Promoting Intl Friendship through Churches forms
19140803::Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
19210803::1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
19210803::Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
19230803::Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
19230803::VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
19240803::Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
19250803::Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
19260803::Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
19280803::Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
19300803::2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
19330803::Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931)
19390803::Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris
19400803::German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
19400803::Italian troops invade British Somalia
19400803::Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
19400803::Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
19410803::Benzine sales limited in US
19410803::Gas sales limited in US
19410803::German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
19410803::Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base
19430803::Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
19430803::Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
19440803::Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
19440803::Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
19440803::General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter
19440803::Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
19440803::Tommy Brown, just 16 years & 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers
19460803::Belgian govt of Huysmans, forms
19480803::Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings
19480803::FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
19490803::Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire
19490803::Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
19510803::William H Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19520803::15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
19530803::Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
19540803::1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
19550803::Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
19550803::Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
19550803::Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
19560803::Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
19570803::British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
19580803::USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
19590803::27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
19590803::50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
19590803::AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
19600803::Niger gains independence from France
19620803::29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)
19620803::NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
19630803::"No Strings" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 580 performances
19630803::Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
19630803::Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
19630803::Great Train Robbery-œ2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
19660803::S African govt bans Beatle records
19670803::45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
19670803::James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
19680803::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19690803::Reds beats Phillies 19-17
19690803::Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
19700803::4 day NFL strike ends
19700803::Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London
19700803::Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
19700803::Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
19710803::Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
19720803::British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
19720803::Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
19730803::Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
19730803::National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
19740803::"Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 perfs
19740803::"Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 perfs
19740803::Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
19750803::500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
19750803::Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
19750803::Poland & West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
19750803::Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
19770803::Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
19790803::Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
19790803::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19800803::22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
19800803::Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame
19800803::Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
19810803::13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
19810803::France performs nuclear test
19820803::Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as NY Yankee manager
19830803::John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
19830803::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840803::365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
19840803::Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
19850803::"Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
19850803::Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
19860803::Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
19860803::Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, & Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame
19870803::Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
19870803::Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
19870803::Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose
19870803::Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound & is ejected
19880803::Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
19890803::5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
19890803::Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
19890803::Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
19890803::Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning
19900803::"Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 perfs
19900803::98.8øF (37.1øC) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
19900803::NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
19900803::Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
19900803::US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
19900803::For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Phila 11-0
19910803::Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian
19910803::Pan Am games open in Havana
19920803::Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
19920803::Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
19940803::102.4øF (39.1øC) in Tokyo Japan: record
19940803::1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
19950803::CNN en Espanol premieres
19970803::25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins
19970803::BankBoston Senior Golf Classic
19970803::Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park NY for HBO
19970803::Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International
11810804::Supernova seen in Cassiopia
12650804::Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort
13470804::English troops conquer Ft Calais
13510804::Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English
15580804::1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
15780804::Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed
15980804::London's head office of Hanze closed
16360804::Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
16660804::Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands die
16660804::Sea battle between Netherlands & England
16930804::Dom Perignon invents champagne
16950804::French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
17040804::War of Spanish Succession, English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
17300804::Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England
17350804::Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
17530804::George Washington becomes a master mason
17600804::Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
17770804::Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
17890804::French National Meeting ending feudal system
17900804::US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
17910804::Austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova
18210804::1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
18300804::Plans for city of Chicago laid out
18550804::John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
18620804::US govt collects its 1st income tax
18640804::Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
18700804::British Red Cross Society forms
18790804::Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
18810804::122øF (50øC), Seville, Spain (European record)
18860804::Colombia adopts constitution
18920804::Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
18920804::Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
18970804::Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
19030804::Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
19090804::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
19100804::A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
19140804::German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
19140804::German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
19140804::Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
19140804::King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
19140804::Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
19140804::US declares neutrality in WW I
19160804::Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
19170804::Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
19220804::Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
19250804::1st Dutch Colijn govt forms
19250804::US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
19270804::Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens
19290804::60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
19290804::Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
19290804::Jones Beach in NY opens
19300804::Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
19340804::NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
19360804::Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
19410804::Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
19410804::Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
19420804::1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
19420804::British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
19420804::Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
19420804::German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
19430804::British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
19430804::Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
19430804::USAF bombs Germans in Troina
19440804::Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
19440804::British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
19450804::Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
19450804::Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
19480804::5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
19490804::NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
19530804::Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
19530804::Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
19540804::Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
19550804::Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
19560804::1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
19560804::Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
19560804::Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
19580804::Dumont TV Network crumbles
19590804::"Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs
19600804::Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
19610804::108øF, Spokane, WA
19610804::28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
19620804::Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
19630804::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
19640804::Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
19640804::North Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin
19650804::Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
19670804::34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
19670804::British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air
19670804::Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
19670804::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19670804::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19680804::100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
19680804::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
19680804::WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
19690804::Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
19700804::Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
19710804::US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
19720804::Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
19740804::Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
19740804::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
19750804::Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
19760804::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19770804::Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
19770804::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19790804::Italian govt of Cossiga begins
19790804::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19800804::-11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean
19800804::John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
19800804::Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
19810804::Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
19810804::Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
19820804::NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
19830804::Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
19830804::France performs nuclear test
19830804::Revolution in Burkina
19830804::While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull
19840804::Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
19840804::Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
19840804::Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
19840804::Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
19850804::"Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
19850804::Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
19850804::Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
19850804::Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
19850804::Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
19850804::White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
19860804::OPEC lowers oil production 20%
19870804::At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
19870804::FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
19880804::Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
19880804::Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
19890804::Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly
19900804::95.5øF (35.3øC) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
19900804::European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
19910804::1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
19910804::Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
19930804::Angolese air force bombs Huambo
19930804::Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
19930804::Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
19940804::Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
19940804::Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
19940804::Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
19950804::Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees
19960804::24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies
19960804::26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
19960804::J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, & N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame
19970804::"Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV
01350805::Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
10710805::Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
12640805::Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
13910805::Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
13910805::Jews are massacred in Toledo & Barcelona Spain
13990805::Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians & Litouwers
14200805::Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina
14350805::Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag¢n captured by Genuezen
15430805::French & Turkish troops occupy Nice
15830805::Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
15870805::Spanish troops conquer Lock
16540805::French troops occupy Stenay
16660805::English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
16670805::State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
17160805::Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks
17450805::Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
17720805::1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
17750805::1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
17810805::Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet
18370805::1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
18460805::Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
18580805::Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
18610805::Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
18610805::Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
18610805::US Army abolishes flogging
18610805::US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
18620805::Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
18640805::Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral
18640805::Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
18770805::Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo
18840805::Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
18900805::British & French accord to divide African colonization
18910805::1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
19010805::Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
19140805::1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland)
19140805::Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico & Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I
19140805::Dutch Cort Van de Linden govt issues silver bonds as money
19140805::Massive German assault on forts around Luik
19140805::Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
19140805::US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup
19140805::US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
19140805::Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
19150805::German troops over run Warsaw
19150805::Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
19170805::British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium
19210805::1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
19210805::Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty
19230805::1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
19240805::Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
19260805::1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY
19260805::French & German trade agreement signed
19260805::Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1« hrs
19270805::Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats
19310805::Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
19360805::At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
19370805::Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
19380805::33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2)
19400805::"Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
19400805::St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
19420805::British govt cancels agreement of Munich
19420805::German troops cross Kuban River
19430805::Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarter
19430805::Soviet forces reconquer Orel & Bjelgorod
19440805::US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
19440805::US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne
19450805::Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
19470805::Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
19480805::Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6)
19490805::6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die
19500805::Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title
19500805::Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23)
19510805::Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
19530805::Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
19540805::Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
19540805::Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio
19550805::After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games
19560805::KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19560805::Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open
19560805::WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19570805::"American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC)
19570805::Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut
19570805::WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
19570805::Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million
19580805::Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
19580805::Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi
19590805::42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
19590805::Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
19600805::Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
19600805::Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
19610805::118øF (48øC), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
19610805::Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal
19620805::1st quasar located by radio
19620805::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19620805::Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
19620805::UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
19630805::Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
19630805::Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH
19630805::US, USSR & Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing
19640805::Actress Anne Bancroft & comedian Mel Brooks wed
19640805::Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
19640805::Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville
19640805::Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner
19640805::US begins bombing North Vietnam
19650805::Dave Marr wins PGA title
19660805::33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)
19660805::Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus
19660805::Beatles' "Revolver" album is released
19660805::Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title
19660805::Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
19660805::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19660805::Beatles release "Revolver" album in US
19660805::Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
19670805::1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7
19670805::Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
19670805::Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down
19680805::WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
19690805::Mariner 7 flies past Mars
19690805::Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium
19700805::Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London
19700805::US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
19710805::WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
19720805::Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
19720805::Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
19720805::Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances without a miscue
19730805::Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55
19730805::Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
19730805::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
19730805::USSR launches Mars 6
19740805::Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
19740805::Pres Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
19750805::Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5
19750805::Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown
19780805::New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
19790805::"But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 7 perfs
19790805::Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario
19790805::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open
19790805::Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single
19790805::Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
19790805::Willie Mays, Warren Giles, & Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame
19800805::Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager
19800805::NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
19810805::Federal govt began firing striking air traffic controllers
19810805::Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
19810805::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19820805::Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
19820805::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840805::Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
19840805::Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52)
19840805::Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium
19840805::Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR
19850805::Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
19850805::Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
19850805::Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
19860805::Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33)
19860805::Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout
19860805::US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
19860805::It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
19880805::Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
19900805::Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19900805::Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame
19910805::Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record (20'¬") in Malm” Sweden
19920805::4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
19940805::Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed
19940805::Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
19960805::Dallas Cowboys play KC Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico
19970805::Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
19970805::Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
19970805::Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov, launched
02580806::St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05230806::St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
07680806::[Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
09390806::Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
11810806::Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
14970806::John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America
15880806::Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
16000806::Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
16010806::Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
16230806::Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
16250806::Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
16610806::Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
16750806::Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
17260806::Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty
17740806::Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
17870806::Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
18060806::Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
18150806::US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
18210806::1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
18240806::Battle at Jun n - Sim¢n Bol¡vars army beats Spanish
18250806::Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
18540806::Congress passes Confiscation Act
18610806::Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state
18620806::Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
18640806::Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
18700806::Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
18700806::White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
18900806::Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
18900806::Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game
18960806::France annexes Madagascar
19050806::26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
19080806::St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
19100806::NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
19140806::Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
19140806::French cavalry enter Belgium
19140806::German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
19140806::Serbia declares war against Germany
19180806::Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
19180806::In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends
19190806::1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
19190806::Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
19210806::Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
19260806::NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel
19260806::Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
19260806::Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
19300806::Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
19300806::Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit íya Spitsbergen
19340806::US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
19360806::1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs
19370806::Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
19370806::Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
19370806::US & USSR sign trade treaty
19390806::1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
19400806::Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
19410806::Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
19420806::-8] Riots by Dutch Jews
19420806::Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
19420806::Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
19420806::G”ring proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
19430806::US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
19440806::All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
19440806::Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
19440806::Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
19440806::US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
19450806::Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
19450806::Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
19460806::US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
19470806::1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"
19480806::Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
19480806::Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
19480806::Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
19490806::Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
19510806::Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
19520806::Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
19530806::Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
19540806::WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
19580806::Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
19580806::US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
19600806::Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
19610806::Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
19610806::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19610806::1st case of motion sickness in space reported
19620806::Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
19640806::Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
19650806::32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
19650806::Beatles release "Help" album in UK
19650806::Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
19650806::Indian troops invade Pakistan
19650806::LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
19660806::Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
19660806::Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
19660806::Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
19660806::US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
19670806::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
19670806::Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
19670806::Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play
19670806::Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
19690806::Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
19700806::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19720806::Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
19720806::Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team)
19720806::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic
19730806::Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame
19730806::Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma
19740806::6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
19740806::Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
19770806::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open
19780806::60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA
19780806::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open
19790806::61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich
19790806::Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
19800806::University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
19810806::Argentina ex-president Isabel Per¢n freed
19810806::Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st « champs
19810806::NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
19810806::crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
19820806::22nd Curtis Cup: US, 14«-3«
19820806::Calif Doug DeCinces hits 3 HRs again in game (did it 5 days ago also)
19820806::WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
19830806::Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
19830806::Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
19840806::203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
19840806::Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
19850806::19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
19850806::Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
19850806::Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
19850806::STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
19860806::Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
19860806::Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
19860806::Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
19880806::Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
19880806::Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
19890806::"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
19890806::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
19890806::Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
19890806::Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
19890806::Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
19900806::NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
19900806::Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
19900806::UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
19910806::Debbie Doom (US) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0
19920806::Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
19930806::Japan Hosokawa govt begins
19930806::Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
19940806::Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
19950806::"Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances
19950806::Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
19950806::Indians & Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
19950806::Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
19960806::NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars (ALH84001)
19970806::Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
19970806::NHL Nashville Tenn names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach
06260807::Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
07680807::Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
09360807::Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
14090807::Council of Pisa closes
14790807::Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
14850807::Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
14980807::Columbus arrives in Caribbean
15730807::Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
15750807::Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
15880807::-8] English assault on Spanish Armada
16200807::Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
16200807::Battle at Ponts-the-C‚, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
17100807::Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
17500807::Slave uprising on Cura‡ao
17600807::Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
17820807::George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
17890807::Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service
18020807::Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
18140807::Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
18190807::Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
18200807::1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
18670807::Battle of Moorefield, WV
18820807::Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
18840807::Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
18850807::5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
18880807::Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
18930807::53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
19000807::Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
19040807::Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
19070807::Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
19090807::US issues 1st Lincoln penny
19120807::Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
19140807::British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
19140807::French govt awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
19140807::French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
19140807::German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
19140807::Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
19150807::Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die
19150807::St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, & Card runner scores
19210807::Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
19250807::League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
19270807::Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
19270807::US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
19290807::Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch govt
19290807::Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
19300807::2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
19300807::Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
19340807::US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
19350807::60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
19380807::2 die in a NYC subway accident
19380807::Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
19380807::Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university
19400807::Churchill recognizes De Gaulle govt in exile
19400807::Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1› 1856 British Guiana)
19410807::551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
19420807::1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
19420807::Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
19420807::Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19430807::Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
19440807::Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
19440807::Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
19440807::German counter attack at Avranches fails
19440807::July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
19440807::US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
19460807::1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
19470807::Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
19480807::1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
19480807::Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
19490807::"All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 perfs
19500807::Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
19510807::Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
19510807::US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
19530807::Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
19540807::"Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
19540807::Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
19550807::Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
19550807::KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
19560807::Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
19560807::British govt sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
19560807::Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
19570807::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19590807::Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
19600807::Ivory Coast (C“te d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
19600807::Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
19600807::Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
19610807::Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
19610807::Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
19620807::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19630807::Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
19640807::31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
19640807::Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
19640807::US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
19660807::Race riot in Lansing Michigan
19700807::1st computer chess tournament
19700807::Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
19700807::WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
19700807::4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
19710807::Apollo 15 returns to Earth
19720807::Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn
19740807::Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
19740807::Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
19760807::Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
19760807::US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
19760807::Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
19770807::"Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
19780807::Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
19780807::Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
19800807::Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
19830807::"Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
19830807::1st World Track & Field Championships
19830807::65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA
19830807::Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
19830807::Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
19830807::Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19830807::Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
19840807::David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in NYC
19840807::Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
19840807::Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
19850807::Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
19850807::Baseball players end a 2 day strike
19860807::"Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
19860807::Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
19870807::5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
19870807::Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
19870807::Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39øF (4øC) Bering Sea
19880807::Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
19880807::Writers guild end their 6 months strike
19900807::Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
19900807::NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
19910807::Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10«"
19910807::Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
19910807::Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
19910807::Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
19910807::US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
19920807::Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
19920807::Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
19930807::"Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
19930807::Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
19940807::"Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
19940807::1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
19940807::Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
19940807::Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
19970807::STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
19970807::Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
00700808::Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
08700808::Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans
09360808::German king Otto I the Great, crowned
13220808::Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect
15020808::Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor
15490808::France declares war on England
15670808::Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium
15700808::Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots
15790808::Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
15850808::Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV)
15880808::Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
16090808::Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
16190808::Duke Maximilian I & Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Mnchen
16730808::Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC
17000808::Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty
17090808::1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
17580808::British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg
17860808::Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
17860808::Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc
17880808::King Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together
17960808::Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
18090808::70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
18140808::Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
18150808::Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
18160808::Bavarian joins Saint Alliance
18290808::French govt of De Polignac forms
18310808::Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army
18430808::Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
18440808::Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
18530808::Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki Japan
18540808::Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
18600808::Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
18640808::Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
18640808::Red Cross forms in Geneva
18640808::Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
18680808::Quake destroyes Arica Chile
18700808::Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup
18760808::Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
18760808::Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
18820808::Snow falls on Lake Michigan
18900808::Daughters of American Revolution organizes
19000808::1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
19020808::2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
19030808::3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
19030808::In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park & forfeits game
19130808::Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
19140808::3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"
19140808::French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas
19140808::Montenegro declares war on Germany
19160808::A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road
19180808::Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens
19180808::6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
19190808::Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
19200808::Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
19220808::Italian general strike broken by fascist terror
19220808::Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
19240808::British-Russian trade agreement signed
19250808::1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC
19290808::1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
19290808::German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
19290808::Salem Oregon airport dedicated
19300808::St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
19310808::Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
19370808::Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
19400808::31 German aircrafts shot down over England
19400808::Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
19410808::20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman
19420808::"Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
19420808::6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
19420808::Dianthus sinks U-379
19420808::Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
19430808::Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
19430808::US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily
19430808::Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
19440808::Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan
19440808::Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank & family
19440808::US 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans
19450808::England & Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test
19450808::Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
19450808::US, USSR, England & France sign Treaty of London
19450808::USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
19450808::USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
19460808::India agrees to give Bhutan 32ý miles
19460808::Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John Galbreath for $25 million
19480808::"Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances
19490808::Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
19500808::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
19520808::Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea
19530808::Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb
19530808::US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
19550808::Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement"
19550808::Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
19560808::Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
19560808::WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
19570808::USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
19600808::"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
19600808::Ivory Coast declares independence
19610808::Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
19610808::Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
19630808::Great Train Robbery in England, œ2.6 million ($7.3 million)
19630808::Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
19630808::LA Dodgers F Howard & B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
19630808::Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ
19640808::"110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 perfs
19640808::Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
19640808::Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert
19650808::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
19650808::Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation
19660808::Beatles' release "Revolver"
19660808::South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)
19670808::Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Assn of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
19680808::Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
19680808::Race riot in Miami Florida
19680808::Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres
19700808::NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
19710808::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19710808::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
19720808::NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
19730808::VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)
19740808::Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
19760808::Chic White Sox suit up in shorts
19770808::Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
19770808::Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)
19780808::Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
19790808::Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
19800808::LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
19820808::64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa
19820808::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
19830808::Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
19830808::Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
19830808::Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees
19840808::"Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances
19840808::Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer
19840808::Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
19850808::Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
19850808::Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
19860808::Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
19870808::Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
19870808::Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
19870808::Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
19880808::-11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed
19880808::9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
19880808::Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty
19880808::Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
19880808::Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
19880808::Goose Gossage registers career save #300
19880808::Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
19880808::Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season
19880808::Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72)
19880808::Minn Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2
19880808::Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years
19880808::Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
19880808::Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
19880808::South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
19880808::Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
19880808::Cubs & Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1
19890808::US space shuttle STS-28 launched
19900808::Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
19900808::Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
19900808::Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
19900808::Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
19910808::Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
19910808::Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge
19910808::Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving
19910808::Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy
19910808::With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)
19920808::Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
19920808::Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
19930808::Calif state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40)
19930808::Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt
19930808::Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
19950808::Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
19970808::Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chic White Sox
03780809::Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army
13780809::Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil)
15590809::Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
15960809::Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond
16380809::Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
16550809::Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts
16730809::Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures NY
16730809::Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
17260809::Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
17570809::English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
17780809::Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
17900809::Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world
18030809::1st horses arrive in Hawaii
18290809::"Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
18300809::Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X
18310809::1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
18320809::King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria
18410809::Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
18420809::US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
18480809::Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire
18480809::Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president
18490809::Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
18540809::Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
18550809::Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
18590809::Elevator patented
18620809::Battle of Cedar Mountain VA (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)
18620809::Berlioz' opera "B‚atrice et B‚n‚dict," premieres in Baden-Baden
18620809::Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
18640809::Battle of Ft Morgan AL
18900809::1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
18930809::1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
19010809::34-35øN/98-99øW open for US colonization
19020809::Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
19050809::Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
19100809::Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
19140809::German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
19150809::British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
19180809::Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, & suspends him "for indifferent play"
19200809::Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
19230809::NY State Golf Assoc formed
19250809::Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
19300809::113øF (45øC) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
19300809::Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
19300809::Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
19360809::Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
19410809::Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
19420809::200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
19420809::Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
19420809::Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
19420809::Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after  passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
19430809::Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei," premieres in Zrich
19440809::12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught
19440809::Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention
19440809::US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans
19450809::US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
19460809::1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
19500809::Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
19510809::Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
19520809::General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
19530809::Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired
19560809::1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
19560809::South African women demonstrate against pass laws
19570809::24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
19600809::Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
19610809::James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
19630809::Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
19630809::NY Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends
19640809::1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands
19640809::Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
19640809::Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings
19650809::Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
19650809::Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
19670809::Biafran offensive against Nigerian army
19670809::KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
19680809::Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague
19690809::"Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances
19690809::Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
19700809::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
19700809::Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
19710809::Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
19720809::Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
19730809::Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings
19730809::USSR launches Mars 7
19740809::Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
19750809::1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
19750809::Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught
19750809::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open
19760809::Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
19760809::Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
19760809::USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
19770809::Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks v Warwicks
19770809::NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs
19780809::USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
19780809::Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
19790809::English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
19800809::Belgian constitution revised
19810809::52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
19810809::6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
19810809::63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga
19810809::All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
19810809::Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic
19810809::NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
19840809::Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal
19840809::STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
19860809::"Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 perfs
19870809::"Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
19870809::69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA Natl Palm Beach
19870809::LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
19870809::Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19880809::Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
19880809::Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
19880809::Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
19900809::12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
19900809::Soyuz TM-10 lands
19920809::"Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 perf
19920809::25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
19920809::Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt
19920809::Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
19920809::Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3øF (37.4øC)
19930809::King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
19940809::Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
19940809::Stanley Betrian put in charge of Cura‡ao
19970809::Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
19970809::Yanks break Minn Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins
19980809::Star Bank LPGA Classic
00700810::"2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
06540810::Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
08430810::Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
09550810::Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians
13040810::-11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
14610810::Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
14970810::John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
15000810::Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar
15110810::Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka
15120810::Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
15190810::Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
15570810::Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France
15660810::Iconoclasm begins
15850810::English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth
16220810::County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
16270810::Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
16280810::Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed
16530810::Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
16640810::Austria/Turkey signs Peace of V sv r
16750810::King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
16750810::Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
16780810::Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
16800810::In N Mex, Pop‚ leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
17430810::Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
17590810::Carlos III becomes king of Spain
17740810::1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
17870810::Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
17870810::Turkey declares war on Russia
17900810::Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
17920810::Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
18090810::Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
18210810::Missouri admitted as 24th US state
18220810::Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
18270810::Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
18310810::Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
18310810::Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
18330810::Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
18350810::Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
18460810::Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
18560810::Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
18610810::Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
18620810::Battle of Nueces River TX
18660810::Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
18690810::O B Brown patents moving picture projector
18760810::1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
18770810::Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perc‚ indians
18770810::Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
18850810::Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
18870810::Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
18880810::NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
18890810::Dan Rylands patents screw cap
18930810::Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
18950810::1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
18970810::Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
19000810::1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
19010810::Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
19040810::Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
19040810::Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
19040810::Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
19040810::Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
19060810::Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
19070810::Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
19090810::Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
19110810::Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
19130810::2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
19140810::At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
19140810::German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
19140810::German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
19140810::Royal Nationally Steuncomit‚ forms
19160810::Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
19190810::Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
19200810::Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
19200810::Treaty of SŠvres (Allies & Turkey)
19200810::Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
19210810::FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
19250810::Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
19260810::Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
19290810::Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
19340810::Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
19360810::114øF (46øC) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
19360810::120øF (49øC) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
19380810::119øF (48øC), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
19390810::2nd Dutch De Geer govt forms (1st with Social Democrats)
19400810::Prince Bernhard Fund forms
19410810::FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland
19420810::Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
19430810::Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
19430810::Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
19430810::Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
19440810::Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
19440810::Race riots in Athens Alabama
19440810::US recaptures Guam from Japanese
19440810::US/French offensive at Alen‡on
19450810::Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
19480810::ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
19480810::Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
19480810::Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
19480810::WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
19490810::Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
19490810::Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
19520810::Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
19540810::Neth Indonesian Union breaks up
19540810::Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
19560810::23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
19570810::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19580810::Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
19600810::Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
19600810::Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
19610810::England applies for membership in European Common Market
19620810::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19640810::WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19650810::Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
19660810::1st lunar orbiter launched by US
19660810::Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
19680810::Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
19680810::Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
19690810::Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
19690810::Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open
19700810::Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
19710810::16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
19710810::Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
19720810::1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
19720810::Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
19730810::1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
19740810::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
19750810::57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
19750810::David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
19770810::US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
19770810::USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
19770810::Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
19780810::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19790810::Ecuador adopts its constitution
19790810::Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
19800810::62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
19800810::8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
19800810::Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
19810810::Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
19810810::Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
19810810::Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
19840810::Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
19850810::A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
19850810::Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47« million
19850810::Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
19860810::"Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
19860810::Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19860810::Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
19860810::Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
19860810::Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
19870810::Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
19870810::Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
19880810::Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
19880810::Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
19880810::UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
19890810::A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
19890810::Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
19900810::US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
19910810::"Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs
19910810::NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
19920810::Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
19920810::Soyuz TM-15 lands
19930810::Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
19940810::Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
19950810::Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
19960810::Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
19960810::Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
19960810::Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
19960810::Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
19970810::36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
19970810::Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
19970810::Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
19970810::Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic
19970810::Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic
19970810::Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
01170811::Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch
12530811::Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen
13040811::Sea battle of Zierikzee
14920811::Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
15220811::Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails
15970811::Germany throws out English sales people
16110811::Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia
16740811::1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Cond‚ vs Willem III)
16950811::English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
17180811::Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
17720811::Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
17800811::Barbados hurricane begins
18350811::George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
18600811::Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
18630811::Cambodia becomes French protectorate
18660811::World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
18740811::Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
18770811::Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
18840811::1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
18850811::$100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
18850811::Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR
18880811::California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
18960811::Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
19040811::German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
19070811::St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
19090811::Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
19090811::SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
19090811::Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
19140811::France declares war on Austria-Hungary
19140811::Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
19140811::John Wray patents animation
19140811::Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews
19180811::Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
19190811::Green Bay Packers football club founded
19190811::Weimar Republic begins in Germany
19200811::1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
19230811::Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
19240811::1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
19240811::US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
19260811::Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
19280811::Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils
19280811::Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
19290811::Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
19290811::Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
19290811::Russian-Chinese border fights
19330811::Temp reaches 136øF (57.8øC) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
19340811::1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
19350811::Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
19360811::Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
19390811::Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
19400811::38 German aircrafts shot down above England
19400811::German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
19410811::FRD & PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
19420811::- Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland
19420811::999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
19420811::British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks
19420811::Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
19430811::Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
19430811::Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres
19430811::US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
19440811::British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
19440811::French 5th Armour division recaptures S‚es
19440811::Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
19440811::US air raid on Palembang
19450811::Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
19480811::Summer Olympics opens in London
19490811::1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
19490811::Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt
19500811::17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
19500811::Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
19500811::Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time
19500811::King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium
19510811::100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Okla, Mo & Ill
19510811::1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
19510811::NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
19510811::NY Giants lose to go 13« games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant
19520811::Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
19540811::BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
19540811::Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
19550811::Indonesia govt of Harahap forms
19560811::1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
19560811::Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
19570811::Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
19570811::Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
19600811::Chad declares Independence from France
19600811::French colony of Chad became independent
19610811::Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
19620811::Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
19620811::Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
19620811::Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
19620811::Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
19630811::Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
19630811::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
19640811::Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
19640811::Race riot in Paterson NJ
19650811::6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
19650811::Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
19650811::Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
19660811::Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
19670811::Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
19680811::Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
19680811::Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
19690811::Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
19690811::Pitts Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
19700811::Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
19700811::Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
19710811::Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
19710811::Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
19720811::"Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
19740811::56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC
19740811::Coup in East-Timor under UDT
19740811::Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
19750811::Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
19750811::US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
19760811::Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
19760811::Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
19770811::Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingley
19780811::Funeral of Pope Paul VI
19780811::Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
19790811::28øF in Embarrass Minnesota
19790811::Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
19800811::Angola revises its constitution
19800811::Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
19800811::Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
19820811::Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
19820811::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19840811::101,799 fans at soccer match Brazili‰-France
19840811::Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
19840811::Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
19840811::During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
19840811::Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
19840811::USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
19850811::"Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
19850811::67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
19850811::Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
19850811::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19850811::Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
19860811::68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
19870811::France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
19880811::225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
19880811::Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
19880811::Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
19890811::"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
19890811::Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England
19890811::Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
19900811::Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
19900811::NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
19910811::400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
19910811::73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind
19910811::Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
19910811::Shite Moslems release US hostage Edward Tracy
19910811::Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
19910811::Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
19920811::Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
19930811::Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
19930811::NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
19930811::Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
19930811::Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
19940811::Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
19960811::"Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
19960811::78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY
19960811::Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
19970811::Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
19990811::Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
00030812::Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
10710812::Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
10710812::Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe
10990812::Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians
10990812::Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon
13320812::Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
13360812::English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders
14920812::Christopher Columbus discovers Canary Islands
15080812::Juan Ponce de Le¢n arrives in Puerto Rico
15300812::Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I
15490812::French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
15530812::Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
15880812::Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
16580812::1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
16650812::English fleet beat Dutch fleet
16760812::1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England
16870812::Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
16870812::Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs
17590812::Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
18120812::Dr Joseph Lister is 1st surgeon to use disinfectant during surgery
18120812::Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
18310812::Dutch troops conquer Leuven
18310812::Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
18510812::1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
18510812::Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
18560812::Anthony Fass patents accordion
18610812::Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
18620812::Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
18630812::1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
18670812::Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
18760812::Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
18770812::Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
18790812::1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
18840812::Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
18860812::W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval
18880812::Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
18960812::Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
18960812::Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
18980812::Hawaii formally annexed to US
18980812::Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
19010812::Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
19050812::King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
19140812::Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
19140812::German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
19140812::Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
19140812::Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa
19150812::"Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
19160812::Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Pƒquerette photographed in Paris
19220812::Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
19230812::Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
19230812::Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
19250812::KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
19270812::"Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
19280812::9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
19310812::Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
19330812::Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
19350812::Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
19360812::120øF (49øC), Seymour, Texas (state record)
19360812::Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
19360812::Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
19400812::Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
19400812::Netherlands starts rationing textile
19410812::French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
19420812::British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
19420812::German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
19420812::Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo
19440812::Churchill & Tito meet in Naples
19440812::Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
19480812::Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
19480812::Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
19490812::16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
19500812::NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
19500812::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
19510812::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19520812::Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
19530812::Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
19530812::Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed
19530812::Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
19540812::Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
19550812::22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
19550812::Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75› to $1 an hour
19550812::WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19560812::Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Brink
19560812::KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
19560812::Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19560812::William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
19590812::1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
19590812::Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
19600812::27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
19600812::Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
19600812::Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11¬"
19600812::USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
19620812::1st time 2 people in space
19620812::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
19620812::Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
19630812::Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
19630812::Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
19640812::10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
19640812::Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game
19640812::Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
19650812::Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
19650812::Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
19650812::Race riot in West Side of Chicago
19670812::New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
19690812::Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
19700812::Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
19710812::Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
19720812::"Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs
19720812::"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
19720812::Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
19720812::Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
19730812::55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve
19730812::Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens
19730812::WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
19740812::Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
19740812::Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
19760812::1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
19760812::Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
19770812::For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
19770812::High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
19770812::Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
19780812::Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
19780812::China & Japan sign peace treaty
19780812::ICE is launched
19790812::"Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
19790812::Iran press censors start massive book burnings
19790812::Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
19810812::IBM introduces PC & PC-DOS version 1.0
19810812::Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
19820812::Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut
19830812::General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
19840812::23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif
19840812::Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
19840812::Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame
19840812::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
19850812::7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
19850812::Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
19850812::Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
19860812::Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
19860812::Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
19870812::Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
19880812::Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
19880812::Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
19880812::Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
19880812::Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
19880812::Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
19900812::12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
19900812::72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
19900812::Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
19900812::Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
19910812::Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
19910812::Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
19930812::Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
19940812::1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
19940812::Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
19940812::Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
19940812::Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
19950812::Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
19960812::"Breakfast on Fox" premieres
20010812::38th Walker Cup:
05230813::St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
10990813::Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
14150813::King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
15160813::Kings Charles I & Fran‡ois I signs Treaty of Noyons
15210813::Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
15780813::Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
16080813::John Smith's story of Jamestown's  1st days submitted for publication
16240813::Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
16300813::Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
16420813::Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
16450813::Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Br”msebro
16510813::Litchfield, CT founded
16950813::-15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
16960813::State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
17040813::French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
17130813::King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
17320813::Voltaire's "Za‹re," premieres in Paris
17400813::Hunger strike in Rotterdam
17840813::English parliament accept India Act
17880813::Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
17920813::Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
17990813::English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
18140813::Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
18140813::Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
18310813::Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
18640813::Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
18680813::Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
18760813::Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
18760813::Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
18810813::Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
18890813::William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
18920813::US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
18980813::US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
19020813::England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
19060813::Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
19060813::Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning
19070813::1st taxicab (NYC)
19080813::Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
19100813::Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
19140813::-14] German army occupies forts at Luik
19140813::Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
19140813::France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
19170813::Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
19190813::British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
19190813::Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
19200813::24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
19210813::Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in NYC
19230813::Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition govt
19230813::Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
19230813::US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
19280813::Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
19310813::Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
19320813::Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
19320813::Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
19330813::16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee
19330813::Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
19350813::Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
19370813::Japanese attack Shanghai
19390813::Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
19390813::Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
19400813::Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
19400813::G”ring's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
19410813::Red army evacuates Smolensk
19430813::Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
19440813::British 8th army occupies Florence
19440813::Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
19440813::Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
19450813::35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
19460813::Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
19480813::Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
19500813::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
19500813::P