663 - Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; - a significant Tang-Silla victory. Japanese won't attempt another Korean invasion until late 16th century.
1232 - The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1549 - Battle of Dussindale: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett's army, ending Kett's rebellion
1569 - Pope Pius names Cosimo I de Medici as grand duke of Tuscany
1585 - Duke of Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1601 - Olivier van Noort completes first Dutch exploration of new world
1610 - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1619 - Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1626 - Battle of Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1628 - Java sultan Agung of Mataram attacks Batavia
1634 - Battle of Nordingen: Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar loses Duchy of Franconia
1665 - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is first play performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in North America (Jamestown Virginia)
1689 - The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 - First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1788 - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 - French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen"
1798 - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts the English
1799 - British invasion army lands in North-Holland
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
1813 - Battle of Dresden; Napoleon defeats Austrians1816 - Lord Exmouth bombards Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1828 - Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talks
1828 - The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
1832 - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1861 - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
1862 - Battle of Cub Run, VA
1881 - Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1884 - 4th U.S. National Championship: Richard Sears beats Howard Taylor (6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2)
1890 - 10th U.S. National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Henry Slocum (6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1)
1892 - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1894 - 14th U.S. National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Manliff Goodbody (6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4)
1895 - 15th US Men's Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (6-3 6-2 6-4)
1896 - Britain defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1897 - Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1900 - Gabriel Faures opera/cantata "Prométhée" premieres in Beziers
1900 - Battle of Bergendal: General Buller defeats the Boer under general Louis Botha
1901 - 21st U.S. National Championship: William Larned beats Beals Wright (6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4)
1902 - 22nd U.S. National Championship: William Larned beats Reginald Doherty (4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6)
1903 - 23rd US Men's Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (6-0 6-3 10-8)
1908 - Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 - Jack Chesbro's final Higlander game
1909 - 29th U.S. National Championship: William Larned beats William Clothier (6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1)
1910 - Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1910 - Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1911 - Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1913 - Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper
1913 - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1914 - Second day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Germans bombard Usdau
1914 - US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1916 - Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1917 - Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1918 - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918 - Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
Runner nicknamed the "Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 - 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 - 42nd US Women's Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (6-2 6-1)
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1928 - 42nd U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills beats Helen Jacobs (6-2, 6-1)
1932 - 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 - International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1933 - Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
1934 - Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1937 - Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg
1938 - Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 511938 - Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 - Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 - Heinkel He-178 makes first manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 - Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1940 - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1941 - Shah of Iran abdicates throne favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1942 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1944 - 200 Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg
1945 - US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1948 - 102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1950 - 1st transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC
Last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1950 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist1952 - Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1953 - "Roman Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released
1955 - "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
1955 - Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1956 - Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
1957 - Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1958 - Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 - US performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
1960 - Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open1961 - Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 2461407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 - George the Bearded, Meissen, Germany, Duke of Saxony (1500-39) (d. 1539)
1487 - Anna of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1545 - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer
1583 - Simon Besler, composer
1630 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch flower painter
1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1650 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1666 - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
1669 - Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1677 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1698 - Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760)
1719 - John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79)
1724 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 - Hamann, writer
1739 - Michel Delalande, composer
1752 - Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
1768 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1803 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
1824 - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1826 - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
1832 - James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)
1835 - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter
1837 - Heinrich Urban, composer
1839 - Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1881)
1847 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge
1849 - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno)
1856 - Iwan Franko, writer
1858 - Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician
1865 - Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1867 - Umberto Giordano, composer
1869 - Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
1870 - Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
1874 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
1877 - Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
1877 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1878 - Joseph John Richards, composer
1882 - Jaroslav Kricka, composer
1884 - Harry Antrim, actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway), born in Chicago, Illinois
1884 - Vincent Auriol, president of France (1947-53)
1886 - Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
1886 - Rebecca Clarke, composer
1890 - Man Ray, American artist and photographe (Dada), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1894 - Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1896 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor [o.s. 15-08]
1896 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1897 - Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter
1898 - Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols
1899 - Byron Foulger, Ogden UT, actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke)
1899 - Cecil Scott Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower) (d. 1966)
1901 - Al Ritz, [Joaquim], Newark NJ, actor (Ritz Brothers, Hi Ya Chum)
1901 - Roger Pryor, actor (Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown), born in NYC, New York
1902 - Herbert Menges, composer
1903 - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles)
1904 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1905 - Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
1905 - Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
Murderer and Body Snatcher Ed Gein (1906)
1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (inspired Psycho & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, (d. 1984)1908 - Donald [George] Bradman, Cootamundra New South Wales, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs)
1908 - Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, Stonewall Texas, (D) 36th US President (1963-1969), (d. 1973)
1908 - Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 - Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist
1909 - Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-IL, 1949-62, 65- )
1909 - Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist
1911 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 - Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908)
1913 - Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID1913 - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher
1913 - Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1914 - Catherine Marshall, editor/writer
1915 - Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1916 - Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1916 - Tony Harris, cricketer (Springbok 5/8th, Test batsman))
1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1918 - Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP (Labour)
1919 - John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir (Museum of Fine Physician, Boston)
1919 - Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP (Labour)
1920 - James Molyneaux [Baron Molyneaux of Killead], MP (Ulster unionist), born in Killead, Ireland
1921 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 - David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 - Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW leg-spin all-rounder)
1925 - Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
1925 - Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1925 - Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1926 - Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 9 of 9
Journalist and Critic H. L. Mencken (1930)
1930 - Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church1956 - Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32)
1966 - American sportscaster Al Michaels (21) weds Linda Stamaton
1977 - "Coral Reefer Band" singer Jimmy Buffett (30) weds Jane Slagsvol
1994 - TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York
2005 - Actor Robert Downey Jr (40) weds producer Susan Levin (31) at the Windy Dune Estat in Amagansett, New York
2011 - Oscar winner Sofia Coppola (41) weds vocalist of French indie rock band "Phoenix" Thomas Mars at the family villa, Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy
2011 - British heiress Petra Ecclestone (22) weds entrepreneur James Stunt at Orsini Odescalchi Castle near City of Rome
Actor Robert Downey Jr (2005)
2011 - Lisa Vanderpump's daughter Pandora Vanderpump (24) weds Jason Sabo in Beverly HillsFamous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 124542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 - Pope Eugene II
1208 - Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies
1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1522 - Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75
1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
Duke of Brittany Arthur II (1312)
1576 - Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague1590 - Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
1608 - Hendrik van Kinschot, [Henricus Kinschotus], lawyer, dies at 66
1611 - Tomés L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1651 - Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1667 - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33
1746 - Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
1748 - James Thomson, dies
1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1827 - Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1828 - Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1830 - Louis H J Condé, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1840 - William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1841 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65
1846 - Franciszek Ścigalski, Polish composer, dies at 64
1846 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63
1855 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36
1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
1865 - Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64
1867 - Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51
1868 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82
1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1874 - Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
1874 - John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1879 - Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1883 - August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76
1887 - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
1898 - John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law) dies with three of his children in a mountaineering accident in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland at 49
1910 - Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1914 - John Weiss, German new testament, dies
1919 - Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies at 56
1922 - Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83
1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1930 - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
1931 - Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1943 - Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 - Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74
1948 - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1949 - Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
1950 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1953 - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53
1955 - Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
1958 - Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1962 - Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79
Civil Rights Activist W.E.B. Du Bois (1963)
1963 - W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1964 - Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59
1964 - Gracie Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1965 - Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68
1965 - Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies
1965 - Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1965 - Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66
1967 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 - Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63
1968 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1969 - Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79
1969 - Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies
Architect/ City Planner Le Corbusier (1965)
1969 - Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
1971 - Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1975 - Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1977 - George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
1977 - Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1978 - Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1979 - Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, is assassinated by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland
1979 - Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1980 - Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1981 - Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984 - Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1987 - Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
1988 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1990 - Raymond St Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
Musician, Singer and Songwriter Stevie Ray Vaughan (1990)
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 351991 - Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
1991 - Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1993 - Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
Post a Comment
One way to contribute to the development of this website is by always dropping your comment whenever you read a post.
Don't leave without dropping yours