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| Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.8.860 | "Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II" | |
| 1.8.902 | "Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily" | |
| 1.8.1021 | Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest | |
| 1.8.1086 | English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier | |
| 1.8.1177 | Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III | |
| 1.8.1203 | Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium | |
| 1.8.1291 | "Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)" | |
| 1.8.1404 | Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland | |
| 1.8.1485 | Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England | |
| 1.8.1498 | "Christopher Columbus lands on ""Isla Santa"" (Venezuela)" | |
| 1.8.1588 | English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada | |
| 1.8.1589 | Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III | |
| 1.8.1619 | "1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia" | |
| 1.8.1626 | Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal | |
| 1.8.1628 | Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism | |
| 1.8.1664 | Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu | |
| 1.8.1690 | Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye | |
| 1.8.1711 | Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov | |
| 1.8.1714 | Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England | |
| 1.8.1716 | 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) | |
| 1.8.1716 | Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed | |
| 1.8.1732 | Foundation laid for Bank of England | |
| 1.8.1759 | "Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France" | |
| 1.8.1774 | Priestly discovers oxygen | |
| 1.8.1780 | Sweden declares neutrality | |
| 1.8.1781 | "English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia" | |
| 1.8.1785 | Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet | |
| 1.8.1789 | U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act | |
| 1.8.1790 | "1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214" | |
| 1.8.1793 | France becomes 1st country to use the metric system | |
| 1.8.1794 | Whiskey Rebellion begins | |
| 1.8.1798 | Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet | |
| 1.8.1812 | "Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York" | |
| 1.8.1814 | Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat | |
| 1.8.1831 | London Bridge opens to traffic | |
| 1.8.1834 | Slavery abolished through out the British Empire | |
| 1.8.1836 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil | |
| 1.8.1838 | Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas | |
| 1.8.1842 | Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens | |
| 1.8.1852 | "San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist" | |
| 1.8.1855 | Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants | |
| 1.8.1861 | Brazil recognizes Confederacy | |
| 1.8.1863 | Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign | |
| 1.8.1863 | Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign | |
| 1.8.1864 | "Battle of Petersburg, Virginia" | |
| 1.8.1867 | Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South | |
| 1.8.1869 | 1st voyage down Colorado River | |
| 1.8.1873 | San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service | |
| 1.8.1876 | Colorado becomes 38th state | |
| 1.8.1881 | "U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay" | |
| 1.8.1883 | "A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery" | |
| 1.8.1883 | Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights | |
| 1.8.1883 | Inland postal service begins in Great Britain | |
| 1.8.1886 | Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand | |
| 1.8.1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi | |
| 1.8.1893 | Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat | |
| 1.8.1896 | George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) | |
| 1.8.1901 | Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited | |
| 1.8.1902 | Building begins on Dutch public housing | |
| 1.8.1902 | "Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die" | |
| 1.8.1903 | 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed | |
| 1.8.1906 | Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th | |
| 1.8.1907 | "Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF" | |
| 1.8.1907 | Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division | |
| 1.8.1909 | "British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed" | |
| 1.8.1911 | Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point | |
| 1.8.1914 | British fleet reaches Scapa Flow | |
| 1.8.1914 | Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I) | |
| 1.8.1914 | France and Germany mobilize | |
| 1.8.1914 | Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I | |
| 1.8.1916 | Hawaii National Park forms | |
| 1.8.1918 | British troops enter Vladivostok | |
| 1.8.1918 | "Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings" | |
| 1.8.1919 | Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam | |
| 1.8.1919 | Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek | |
| 1.8.1920 | Papendrecht soccer team forms | |
| 1.8.1920 | Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia | |
| 1.8.1922 | Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard | |
| 1.8.1925 | Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies | |
| 1.8.1926 | Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus | |
| 1.8.1926 | Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona | |
| 1.8.1927 | Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards | |
| 1.8.1928 | Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace | |
| 1.8.1933 | Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) | |
| 1.8.1933 | Death penality for anti fascists in Germany | |
| 1.8.1933 | Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno | |
| 1.8.1936 | Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin | |
| 1.8.1936 | Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College | |
| 1.8.1941 | "New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St. L 0)" | |
| 1.8.1941 | Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division | |
| 1.8.1942 | Deurne soccer team forms | |
| 1.8.1942 | German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers | |
| 1.8.1942 | "Race riots in Harlem, New York" | |
| 1.8.1943 | Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw | |
| 1.8.1943 | Race riot in Harlem New York City | |
| 1.8.1943 | Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 | |
| 1.8.1944 | Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East | |
| 1.8.1944 | Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested | |
| 1.8.1944 | General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army | |
| 1.8.1944 | U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt | |
| 1.8.1944 | U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir | |
| 1.8.1944 | Uprising in Warsaw ghetto | |
| 1.8.1945 | Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's | |
| 1.8.1945 | Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx) | |
| 1.8.1945 | SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld | |
| 1.8.1946 | President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) | |
| 1.8.1947 | """Medium and The Telephone"" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances" | |
| 1.8.1947 | Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel | |
| 1.8.1950 | 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) | |
| 1.8.1950 | American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule | |
| 1.8.1950 | Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) | |
| 1.8.1950 | "King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King" | |
| 1.8.1951 | David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election | |
| 1.8.1953 | "California introduces sales tax, for education" | |
| 1.8.1953 | Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba | |
| 1.8.1953 | "KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1953 | "KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1953 | Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
| 1.8.1953 | Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief | |
| 1.8.1954 | Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France | |
| 1.8.1954 | "WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1955 | 1st microgravity research begins | |
| 1.8.1955 | Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government | |
| 1.8.1955 | "WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1956 | "KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1957 | 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) | |
| 1.8.1957 | Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) | |
| 1.8.1957 | "Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10"")" | |
| 1.8.1957 | U.S. and Canada create NORAD | |
| 1.8.1958 | 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) | |
| 1.8.1958 | U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole | |
| 1.8.1959 | New Continental baseball league formed | |
| 1.8.1959 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia | |
| 1.8.1959 | "WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1960 | Aretha Franklins 1st recording session | |
| 1.8.1960 | Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France | |
| 1.8.1960 | "Chubby Checker releases ""The Twist""" | |
| 1.8.1961 | Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford | |
| 1.8.1961 | German DR limits traffic to West Berlin | |
| 1.8.1961 | New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens | |
| 1.8.1961 | "Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League" | |
| 1.8.1962 | "Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0" | |
| 1.8.1962 | Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana | |
| 1.8.1963 | Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale | |
| 1.8.1963 | Germany FR annexes Elten village | |
| 1.8.1963 | "WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1964 | ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation | |
| 1.8.1964 | "Beatles' ""Hard Day's Night, A,"" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks" | |
| 1.8.1965 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open | |
| 1.8.1966 | Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead | |
| 1.8.1966 | Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas | |
| 1.8.1967 | Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam | |
| 1.8.1967 | "WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1968 | Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins | |
| 1.8.1968 | Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo | |
| 1.8.1968 | "WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1969 | "110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival" | |
| 1.8.1969 | "36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)" | |
| 1.8.1969 | Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars | |
| 1.8.1970 | "EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi" | |
| 1.8.1970 | "KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.8.1970 | Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game | |
| 1.8.1971 | Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison | |
| 1.8.1971 | CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII | |
| 1.8.1971 | George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City | |
| 1.8.1971 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational | |
| 1.8.1972 | 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) | |
| 1.8.1972 | Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header | |
| 1.8.1973 | H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF | |
| 1.8.1973 | Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park | |
| 1.8.1974 | "Virginia Squires trade Julius ""Dr. J"" Erving to New York Nets" | |
| 1.8.1975 | 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord | |
| 1.8.1975 | "41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)" | |
| 1.8.1975 | Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees | |
| 1.8.1975 | "Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations" | |
| 1.8.1976 | 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada | |
| 1.8.1976 | "Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139" | |
| 1.8.1976 | Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) | |
| 1.8.1976 | "Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)" | |
| 1.8.1977 | San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer | |
| 1.8.1978 | Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games | |
| 1.8.1978 | "Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead" | |
| 1.8.1978 | "Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)" | |
| 1.8.1979 | Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal | |
| 1.8.1980 | Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record | |
| 1.8.1980 | Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03 | |
| 1.8.1981 | MTV premieres at 12:01 AM | |
| 1.8.1981 | Poland premier Jagielski resigns | |
| 1.8.1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic | |
| 1.8.1982 | "Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives" | |
| 1.8.1982 | Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut | |
| 1.8.1982 | Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) | |
| 1.8.1983 | New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England | |
| 1.8.1985 | "15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)" | |
| 1.8.1985 | Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time | |
| 1.8.1985 | "Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74" | |
| 1.8.1986 | "Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000" | |
| 1.8.1986 | "Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934" | |
| 1.8.1986 | Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma | |
| 1.8.1986 | Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal | |
| 1.8.1987 | Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart | |
| 1.8.1987 | "Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9"") set by Harry Drake in Nevada" | |
| 1.8.1987 | Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 1.8.1987 | Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America | |
| 1.8.1988 | "Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon" | |
| 1.8.1989 | Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes | |
| 1.8.1990 | """Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances" | |
| 1.8.1990 | Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game | |
| 1.8.1990 | Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait | |
| 1.8.1990 | Soyuz TM-10 launches | |
| 1.8.1990 | Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs | |
| 1.8.1991 | "Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida" | |
| 1.8.1991 | Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires | |
| 1.8.1992 | "NBC's ""Saturday Today"" premieres" | |
| 1.8.1992 | """Salome"" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances" | |
| 1.8.1992 | USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica | |
| 1.8.1993 | """In the Summer House"" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 25 performances" | |
| 1.8.1993 | Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship | |
| 1.8.1993 | "Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York" | |
| 1.8.1993 | """She Loves Me"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances" | |
| 1.8.1993 | "Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack" | |
| 1.8.1994 | 99.9 degrees F (37.7 degrees C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record | |
| 1.8.1994 | The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour | |
| 1.8.1994 | "Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed" | |
| 1.8.1995 | Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network | |
| 1.8.1996 | "M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched" | |
| 1.8.1998 | Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam | |
| 2.8.257 | St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 2.8.1057 | "Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]" | |
| 2.8.1375 | 1st roller skating rink opens (London) | |
| 2.8.1492 | Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | |
| 2.8.1542 | French troops leave Flanders | |
| 2.8.1552 | Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion | |
| 2.8.1578 | Battle of Rijmenam | |
| 2.8.1581 | Leiden University names Snellius math professor | |
| 2.8.1610 | "Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay" | |
| 2.8.1665 | French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers | |
| 2.8.1704 | Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim | |
| 2.8.1718 | Austrian joins Triple Alliance | |
| 2.8.1738 | France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey | |
| 2.8.1776 | Formal signing of Declaration of Independence | |
| 2.8.1782 | George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction | |
| 2.8.1786 | Utrechtse Vroedschap flees | |
| 2.8.1787 | Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc | |
| 2.8.1791 | "Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine" | |
| 2.8.1798 | British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile | |
| 2.8.1802 | "Napoleon declared ""Counsel for Life""" | |
| 2.8.1819 | 1st parachute jump in U.S. | |
| 2.8.1831 | "Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium" | |
| 2.8.1832 | "1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War" | |
| 2.8.1832 | Black Hawk defeated in Iowa | |
| 2.8.1832 | "Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin" | |
| 2.8.1858 | 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets | |
| 2.8.1858 | Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown | |
| 2.8.1865 | "Lewis Carroll publishes ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland""" | |
| 2.8.1865 | Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost | |
| 2.8.1873 | "1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones" | |
| 2.8.1875 | World 1st roller skating rink opens in London | |
| 2.8.1877 | "San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes" | |
| 2.8.1884 | Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent | |
| 2.8.1887 | Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire | |
| 2.8.1892 | Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator | |
| 2.8.1894 | Death duties 1st introduced in Britain | |
| 2.8.1894 | Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter | |
| 2.8.1903 | Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey | |
| 2.8.1906 | Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak | |
| 2.8.1907 | "Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit" | |
| 2.8.1909 | 1st Lincoln head pennies minted | |
| 2.8.1909 | Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers | |
| 2.8.1911 | Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica | |
| 2.8.1912 | 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY | |
| 2.8.1914 | Belgian government receives German ultimatum | |
| 2.8.1914 | German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg | |
| 2.8.1914 | German troops overthrows Luxembourg | |
| 2.8.1914 | Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty | |
| 2.8.1914 | Great Britain mobilizes | |
| 2.8.1914 | Postdam Conference ended | |
| 2.8.1914 | Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia | |
| 2.8.1914 | "Sherlock Holmes Adventure ""His Last Bow"" takes place" | |
| 2.8.1920 | "Marcus Garvey presents his ""Back To Africa"" program in New York City" | |
| 2.8.1921 | Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox | |
| 2.8.1922 | "China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die" | |
| 2.8.1924 | Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game | |
| 2.8.1928 | "Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia" | |
| 2.8.1929 | Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR | |
| 2.8.1931 | Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status | |
| 2.8.1932 | Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs | |
| 2.8.1934 | "1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it" | |
| 2.8.1934 | Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany | |
| 2.8.1934 | "William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour" | |
| 2.8.1938 | 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) | |
| 2.8.1939 | Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers | |
| 2.8.1940 | Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death | |
| 2.8.1940 | "KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia" | |
| 2.8.1941 | German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman | |
| 2.8.1941 | Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia | |
| 2.8.1942 | "250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp" | |
| 2.8.1942 | Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo | |
| 2.8.1943 | Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka | |
| 2.8.1943 | Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands | |
| 2.8.1943 | RAF bombs Hamburg | |
| 2.8.1943 | Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106 | |
| 2.8.1943 | Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) | |
| 2.8.1944 | "Amsterdam soccer team ""The Volewijckers"" plays in orange shirts" | |
| 2.8.1944 | Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker | |
| 2.8.1944 | Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany | |
| 2.8.1945 | "Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill" | |
| 2.8.1953 | "Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash" | |
| 2.8.1953 | "KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting" | |
| 2.8.1954 | Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia | |
| 2.8.1955 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test | |
| 2.8.1958 | "Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months" | |
| 2.8.1959 | 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC | |
| 2.8.1959 | Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples | |
| 2.8.1959 | San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs | |
| 2.8.1961 | Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club | |
| 2.8.1961 | Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo | |
| 2.8.1961 | St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto | |
| 2.8.1962 | "NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m" | |
| 2.8.1963 | "30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)" | |
| 2.8.1964 | Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees | |
| 2.8.1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open | |
| 2.8.1964 | North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin | |
| 2.8.1964 | "Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey" | |
| 2.8.1965 | Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing | |
| 2.8.1966 | Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting | |
| 2.8.1967 | "New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77" | |
| 2.8.1967 | U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 | |
| 2.8.1968 | "35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)" | |
| 2.8.1969 | Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minnesota 10th reunion | |
| 2.8.1969 | President Nixon visits Romania | |
| 2.8.1970 | "Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals" | |
| 2.8.1970 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island | |
| 2.8.1970 | Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California | |
| 2.8.1972 | Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London | |
| 2.8.1973 | George Brett gets his 1st hit | |
| 2.8.1975 | "104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)" | |
| 2.8.1975 | "107 degrees F (42 degrees C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)" | |
| 2.8.1979 | """Broadway Opry '79"" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 6 performances" | |
| 2.8.1979 | Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway | |
| 2.8.1980 | "Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed" | |
| 2.8.1980 | U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships | |
| 2.8.1981 | "Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs" | |
| 2.8.1981 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic | |
| 2.8.1982 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season | |
| 2.8.1982 | Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network | |
| 2.8.1983 | STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad | |
| 2.8.1983 | U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination | |
| 2.8.1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 2.8.1985 | 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo | |
| 2.8.1985 | "Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die" | |
| 2.8.1985 | NASA launches space vehicle S-209 | |
| 2.8.1986 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S.) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) | |
| 2.8.1987 | 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) | |
| 2.8.1987 | Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am | |
| 2.8.1987 | Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 HR 30 steal man | |
| 2.8.1987 | "Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3"")" | |
| 2.8.1987 | Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season | |
| 2.8.1987 | "Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game" | |
| 2.8.1987 | Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) | |
| 2.8.1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 2.8.1988 | Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo | |
| 2.8.1988 | System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) | |
| 2.8.1989 | "NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24" | |
| 2.8.1990 | "Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia" | |
| 2.8.1990 | Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats | |
| 2.8.1991 | "Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges" | |
| 2.8.1991 | Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles | |
| 2.8.1991 | Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 | |
| 2.8.1991 | Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched | |
| 2.8.1992 | """Death and the Maiden"" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances" | |
| 2.8.1992 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic | |
| 2.8.1992 | Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick | |
| 2.8.1992 | "Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame" | |
| 2.8.1993 | New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes | |
| 2.8.1993 | Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles | |
| 2.8.1993 | "Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420" | |
| 2.8.1993 | "Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed" | |
| 2.8.1994 | Congressional hearings begin on White Water | |
| 2.8.1994 | "Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed" | |
| 2.8.1994 | New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure | |
| 2.8.1994 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) | |
| 2.8.1998 | 26th du Maurier Golf Classic | |
| 3.8.881 | Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings | |
| 3.8.1108 | "Louis VI, ""the Fat One,"" King of France, crowned" | |
| 3.8.1312 | Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200 | |
| 3.8.1492 | All Jews are expelled from Spain | |
| 3.8.1492 | "Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for ""Indies""" | |
| 3.8.1529 | """Ladies' Peace"" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V and King French I" | |
| 3.8.1557 | Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes | |
| 3.8.1596 | David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star) | |
| 3.8.1640 | "2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka" | |
| 3.8.1640 | "Zorilla's ""Bire el Ojo,"" premieres in Toledo" | |
| 3.8.1645 | Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians | |
| 3.8.1650 | Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army | |
| 3.8.1676 | "Nathaniel Bacon publishes ""Declaration of People of Virginia""" | |
| 3.8.1678 | "Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon" | |
| 3.8.1692 | Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army | |
| 3.8.1704 | English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar | |
| 3.8.1708 | Battle at Trencsen: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army | |
| 3.8.1745 | "Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides" | |
| 3.8.1778 | Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan | |
| 3.8.1797 | "Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in ""Countries of Bohemian Crown"" to marry non Jews" | |
| 3.8.1829 | "Gioacchino Rossini's ""William Tell,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 3.8.1833 | HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro | |
| 3.8.1852 | "1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths" | |
| 3.8.1855 | Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens | |
| 3.8.1861 | "Federal fleet bombs Galveston, Texas" | |
| 3.8.1863 | Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York | |
| 3.8.1863 | "Saratoga Racetrack, New York, opens" | |
| 3.8.1880 | "American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York" | |
| 3.8.1881 | Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous | |
| 3.8.1881 | "U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes ""Nation"" from name" | |
| 3.8.1882 | Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration | |
| 3.8.1897 | "John McNally's musical ""Good Mr. Best,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 3.8.1904 | British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa | |
| 3.8.1906 | Washington Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th | |
| 3.8.1914 | 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal | |
| 3.8.1914 | Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army | |
| 3.8.1914 | French fleet sails to North-Africa | |
| 3.8.1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina | |
| 3.8.1914 | Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I | |
| 3.8.1914 | Great Britain declares war on Germany | |
| 3.8.1914 | Turkey signs military pact with Germany | |
| 3.8.1914 | World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms | |
| 3.8.1914 | Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning | |
| 3.8.1921 | 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars) | |
| 3.8.1921 | "Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball" | |
| 3.8.1923 | Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding | |
| 3.8.1923 | V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president | |
| 3.8.1924 | Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist | |
| 3.8.1925 | Last U.S. troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912) | |
| 3.8.1926 | Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus | |
| 3.8.1928 | Ray Barbuti saves U.S. team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) | |
| 3.8.1930 | "2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games" | |
| 3.8.1933 | "Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931)" | |
| 3.8.1939 | "Jean Genets ""Ondine,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 3.8.1940 | German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies | |
| 3.8.1940 | Italian troops invade British Somalia | |
| 3.8.1940 | Lithuanian SSR is accepted into U.S.S.R. | |
| 3.8.1940 | Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the U.S. | |
| 3.8.1941 | Benzine sales limited in U.S. | |
| 3.8.1941 | Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base | |
| 3.8.1941 | Gas sales limited in U.S. | |
| 3.8.1941 | German troops conquer Roslavl U.S.S.R. | |
| 3.8.1943 | Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice | |
| 3.8.1943 | "Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire" | |
| 3.8.1944 | Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma | |
| 3.8.1944 | "Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies" | |
| 3.8.1944 | General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter | |
| 3.8.1944 | Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma | |
| 3.8.1944 | "Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers" | |
| 3.8.1946 | "Belgian government of Huysmans, forms" | |
| 3.8.1948 | Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start and goes 7 innings | |
| 3.8.1948 | "Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a ""communist""" | |
| 3.8.1949 | Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association | |
| 3.8.1949 | Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire | |
| 3.8.1951 | "William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA" | |
| 3.8.1952 | 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland | |
| 3.8.1953 | Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show | |
| 3.8.1954 | "1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown" | |
| 3.8.1955 | Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing | |
| 3.8.1955 | Hurricane Connie begins pounding U.S. for 11 days | |
| 3.8.1955 | Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) | |
| 3.8.1956 | Willie Williams of U.S. sets 100 meter record at 10.1 | |
| 3.8.1957 | British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman | |
| 3.8.1958 | USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap | |
| 3.8.1959 | "27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA" | |
| 3.8.1959 | 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau | |
| 3.8.1959 | AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium) | |
| 3.8.1960 | Niger gains independence from France | |
| 3.8.1962 | "29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)" | |
| 3.8.1962 | New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games | |
| 3.8.1963 | "Allan Sherman releases ""Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda""" | |
| 3.8.1963 | Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool | |
| 3.8.1963 | Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed | |
| 3.8.1963 | """No Strings"" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 580 performances" | |
| 3.8.1966 | South African government bans Beatle records | |
| 3.8.1967 | "45,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam" | |
| 3.8.1967 | James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes | |
| 3.8.1968 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 3.8.1969 | Reds beats Phillies 19-17 | |
| 3.8.1969 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational | |
| 3.8.1970 | 4 day NFL strike ends | |
| 3.8.1970 | "Christopher Hampton's ""Philanthropist,"" premieres in London" | |
| 3.8.1970 | "Hurricane ""Celia"" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history" | |
| 3.8.1970 | "Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try" | |
| 3.8.1971 | Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings | |
| 3.8.1972 | British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike | |
| 3.8.1972 | "Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii" | |
| 3.8.1973 | "Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK" | |
| 3.8.1973 | National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections | |
| 3.8.1974 | Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan and joins Doobie Brothers | |
| 3.8.1974 | """Little Night Music"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 601 performances" | |
| 3.8.1974 | """Words and Music"" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 127 performances" | |
| 3.8.1975 | 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River | |
| 3.8.1975 | Louisiana Superdome is dedicated | |
| 3.8.1975 | Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans | |
| 3.8.1975 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open | |
| 3.8.1977 | "Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered" | |
| 3.8.1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 3.8.1980 | "22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, U.S.S.R." | |
| 3.8.1980 | "Kaline, Snider, Klein, and Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame" | |
| 3.8.1980 | Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic | |
| 3.8.1981 | "13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike" | |
| 3.8.1981 | France performs nuclear test | |
| 3.8.1982 | Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as New York Yankee manager | |
| 3.8.1983 | "John Sain of South Bend, Indiana builds 3.91 m house of cards" | |
| 3.8.1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 3.8.1984 | 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange | |
| 3.8.1984 | "Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed" | |
| 3.8.1985 | """Nihilator"" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ" | |
| 3.8.1985 | "Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed" | |
| 3.8.1986 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am | |
| 3.8.1986 | "Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame" | |
| 3.8.1987 | "Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)" | |
| 3.8.1987 | Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 | |
| 3.8.1987 | Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose | |
| 3.8.1987 | Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected | |
| 3.8.1988 | Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City | |
| 3.8.1989 | "5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)" | |
| 3.8.1989 | Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning | |
| 3.8.1989 | Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river | |
| 3.8.1989 | Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons | |
| 3.8.1990 | "98.8 degrees F (37.1 degrees C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)" | |
| 3.8.1990 | For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Philadelphia 11-0 | |
| 3.8.1990 | """Little Night Music"" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 11 performances" | |
| 3.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats | |
| 3.8.1990 | "Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion" | |
| 3.8.1990 | U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions | |
| 3.8.1991 | "Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian" | |
| 3.8.1991 | Pan Am games open in Havana | |
| 3.8.1992 | "Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)" | |
| 3.8.1992 | Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot | |
| 3.8.1994 | 102.4 degrees F (39.1 degrees C) in Tokyo Japan: record | |
| 3.8.1994 | 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) | |
| 3.8.1995 | CNN en Espanol premieres | |
| 3.8.1997 | 25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins | |
| 3.8.1997 | BankBoston Senior Golf Classic | |
| 3.8.1997 | Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park New York for HBO | |
| 3.8.1997 | Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International | |
| 4.8.1181 | Supernova seen in Cassiopia | |
| 4.8.1265 | Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort | |
| 4.8.1347 | English troops conquer Ft. Calais | |
| 4.8.1351 | Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English | |
| 4.8.1558 | 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) | |
| 4.8.1578 | "Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed" | |
| 4.8.1598 | London's head office of Hanze closed | |
| 4.8.1636 | Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil | |
| 4.8.1666 | "Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die" | |
| 4.8.1666 | Sea battle between Netherlands and England | |
| 4.8.1693 | Dom Perignon invents champagne | |
| 4.8.1695 | French garrison of surrenders to Willem III | |
| 4.8.1704 | "War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar" | |
| 4.8.1730 | Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England | |
| 4.8.1735 | Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) | |
| 4.8.1753 | George Washington becomes a master mason | |
| 4.8.1760 | Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia | |
| 4.8.1777 | Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus | |
| 4.8.1789 | French National Meeting ending feudal system | |
| 4.8.1790 | U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service | |
| 4.8.1791 | Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova | |
| 4.8.1821 | 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) | |
| 4.8.1830 | Plans for city of Chicago laid out | |
| 4.8.1855 | "John Bartlett publishes ""Familiar Quotations""" | |
| 4.8.1862 | U.S. government collects its 1st income tax | |
| 4.8.1864 | "Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas" | |
| 4.8.1870 | British Red Cross Society forms | |
| 4.8.1879 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris | |
| 4.8.1881 | "122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Seville, Spain (European record)" | |
| 4.8.1886 | Colombia adopts constitution | |
| 4.8.1892 | Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine | |
| 4.8.1892 | "Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass" | |
| 4.8.1897 | Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia | |
| 4.8.1903 | Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X | |
| 4.8.1909 | "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" | |
| 4.8.1910 | A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie | |
| 4.8.1914 | King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army | |
| 4.8.1914 | Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War | |
| 4.8.1914 | U.S. declares neutrality in WW I | |
| 4.8.1914 | German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice | |
| 4.8.1914 | German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast | |
| 4.8.1914 | Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany | |
| 4.8.1916 | "Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million" | |
| 4.8.1917 | "Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers" | |
| 4.8.1922 | Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team | |
| 4.8.1925 | 1st Dutch Colijn government forms | |
| 4.8.1925 | U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation | |
| 4.8.1927 | Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens | |
| 4.8.1929 | "60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich" | |
| 4.8.1929 | "Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6" | |
| 4.8.1929 | Jones Beach in New York opens | |
| 4.8.1930 | Child labor laws established in Belgium | |
| 4.8.1934 | New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4 | |
| 4.8.1936 | Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece | |
| 4.8.1941 | Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) | |
| 4.8.1941 | Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US | |
| 4.8.1942 | 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz | |
| 4.8.1942 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo | |
| 4.8.1942 | Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 4.8.1942 | German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed | |
| 4.8.1943 | British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada | |
| 4.8.1943 | Russian units reach suburbs of Orel | |
| 4.8.1943 | USAF bombs Germans in Troina | |
| 4.8.1944 | Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis | |
| 4.8.1944 | British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy | |
| 4.8.1945 | Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season | |
| 4.8.1945 | Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) | |
| 4.8.1948 | 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax | |
| 4.8.1949 | NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association | |
| 4.8.1953 | Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago | |
| 4.8.1953 | Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0 | |
| 4.8.1954 | Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning | |
| 4.8.1955 | Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters | |
| 4.8.1956 | 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) | |
| 4.8.1956 | "Elvis Presley releases ""Hound Dog""" | |
| 4.8.1956 | Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands | |
| 4.8.1958 | Dumont TV Network crumbles | |
| 4.8.1959 | """Billy Barnes Revue"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances" | |
| 4.8.1960 | "Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH" | |
| 4.8.1961 | "108 degrees F, Spokane, WA" | |
| 4.8.1961 | "28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)" | |
| 4.8.1962 | Nelson Mandela captured by South African police | |
| 4.8.1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open | |
| 4.8.1964 | "Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam" | |
| 4.8.1964 | North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin | |
| 4.8.1965 | Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand | |
| 4.8.1967 | "34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)" | |
| 4.8.1967 | Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) | |
| 4.8.1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 4.8.1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 4.8.1968 | "100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California" | |
| 4.8.1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open | |
| 4.8.1968 | "WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting" | |
| 4.8.1969 | Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium | |
| 4.8.1970 | Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness | |
| 4.8.1971 | U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft | |
| 4.8.1972 | Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace | |
| 4.8.1974 | Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor | |
| 4.8.1974 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic | |
| 4.8.1975 | Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes | |
| 4.8.1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 4.8.1977 | President Carter establishes Department of Energy | |
| 4.8.1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 4.8.1979 | Italian government of Cossiga begins | |
| 4.8.1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 4.8.1980 | "Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean" | |
| 4.8.1980 | "John and Yoko begin recording ""Double Fantasy""" | |
| 4.8.1980 | Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills | |
| 4.8.1981 | Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission | |
| 4.8.1981 | Oliver North is assigned to White House duty | |
| 4.8.1982 | "New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game" | |
| 4.8.1983 | Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy | |
| 4.8.1983 | France performs nuclear test | |
| 4.8.1983 | Revolution in Burkina | |
| 4.8.1983 | While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull | |
| 4.8.1984 | Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics | |
| 4.8.1984 | Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR | |
| 4.8.1984 | "Prince's ""Purple Rain,"" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks" | |
| 4.8.1984 | Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) | |
| 4.8.1985 | "California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit" | |
| 4.8.1985 | """Dreamgirls"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances" | |
| 4.8.1985 | Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic | |
| 4.8.1985 | "Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10" | |
| 4.8.1985 | "Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits" | |
| 4.8.1985 | "White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees" | |
| 4.8.1986 | OPEC lowers oil production 20% | |
| 4.8.1987 | "At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker" | |
| 4.8.1987 | FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters | |
| 4.8.1988 | "Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II" | |
| 4.8.1988 | Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case | |
| 4.8.1989 | Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by New York Yankee Roberto Kelly | |
| 4.8.1990 | 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth) | |
| 4.8.1990 | European community proposes a boycott of Iraq | |
| 4.8.1991 | 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 | |
| 4.8.1991 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament | |
| 4.8.1993 | Angolese air force bombs Huambo | |
| 4.8.1993 | Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha | |
| 4.8.1993 | "Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits" | |
| 4.8.1994 | "Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered" | |
| 4.8.1994 | Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race | |
| 4.8.1994 | Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway | |
| 4.8.1995 | Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees | |
| 4.8.1996 | 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies | |
| 4.8.1996 | "26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)" | |
| 4.8.1996 | "J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, and N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame" | |
| 4.8.1997 | """Keenan Ivory Wayan Show,"" premieres on Fox TV" | |
| 5.8.135 | Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome | |
| 5.8.1071 | Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe | |
| 5.8.1264 | Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany | |
| 5.8.1391 | "Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed" | |
| 5.8.1391 | Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain | |
| 5.8.1399 | Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers | |
| 5.8.1420 | "Duke John VI of Bavaria visits ""Christ's bride""/virgin Liduina" | |
| 5.8.1435 | Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen | |
| 5.8.1543 | French and Turkish troops occupy Nice | |
| 5.8.1583 | Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) | |
| 5.8.1587 | Spanish troops conquer Lock | |
| 5.8.1654 | French troops occupy Stenay | |
| 5.8.1666 | English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter | |
| 5.8.1667 | State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict | |
| 5.8.1716 | Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks | |
| 5.8.1745 | Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots | |
| 5.8.1772 | "1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia" | |
| 5.8.1775 | "1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay" | |
| 5.8.1781 | Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet | |
| 5.8.1837 | "1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, New York" | |
| 5.8.1846 | Oregon country divided between U.S. and Britain at 49th parallel | |
| 5.8.1858 | Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable | |
| 5.8.1861 | Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years | |
| 5.8.1861 | "Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade" | |
| 5.8.1861 | U.S. Army abolishes flogging | |
| 5.8.1861 | U.S. levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800) | |
| 5.8.1862 | "Battle of Baton Rouge, LA" | |
| 5.8.1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral | |
| 5.8.1864 | "Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati" | |
| 5.8.1877 | Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo | |
| 5.8.1884 | Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (New York City) | |
| 5.8.1890 | British and French accord to divide African colonization | |
| 5.8.1901 | "Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4""" | |
| 5.8.1914 | "1st traffic light installed, Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland" | |
| 5.8.1914 | "Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I" | |
| 5.8.1914 | Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money | |
| 5.8.1914 | Massive German assault on forts around Luik | |
| 5.8.1914 | Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I | |
| 5.8.1914 | "U.S. beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup" | |
| 5.8.1914 | "U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S." | |
| 5.8.1914 | Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium | |
| 5.8.1915 | German troops over run Warsaw | |
| 5.8.1915 | "Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans" | |
| 5.8.1917 | British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium | |
| 5.8.1921 | "1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)" | |
| 5.8.1921 | Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty | |
| 5.8.1923 | "1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan" | |
| 5.8.1924 | "Comic strip ""Little Orphan Annie,"" by Harold Gray, debuts" | |
| 5.8.1926 | "1st talkie movie ""Don Juan"" at Warner Theatre, New York" | |
| 5.8.1926 | French and German trade agreement signed | |
| 5.8.1926 | Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 hrs | |
| 5.8.1927 | Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats | |
| 5.8.1931 | Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th | |
| 5.8.1936 | "At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal" | |
| 5.8.1937 | Ranger (U.S.) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup | |
| 5.8.1938 | 33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2) | |
| 5.8.1940 | """Acquaintance"" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge" | |
| 5.8.1940 | "St. Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings" | |
| 5.8.1942 | British government cancels agreement of Munich | |
| 5.8.1942 | German troops cross Kuban River | |
| 5.8.1943 | Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter | |
| 5.8.1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod | |
| 5.8.1944 | US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne | |
| 5.8.1944 | US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne | |
| 5.8.1945 | Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) | |
| 5.8.1947 | "Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to United Nations pressure" | |
| 5.8.1948 | Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6) | |
| 5.8.1949 | 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die | |
| 5.8.1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title | |
| 5.8.1950 | Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23) | |
| 5.8.1951 | Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg | |
| 5.8.1953 | "Operation ""Big Switch"" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom" | |
| 5.8.1954 | Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers | |
| 5.8.1954 | Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio | |
| 5.8.1955 | "After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games" | |
| 5.8.1956 | "KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 5.8.1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open | |
| 5.8.1956 | "WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 5.8.1957 | """American Bandstand,"" begins network TV (ABC)" | |
| 5.8.1957 | "Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million" | |
| 5.8.1957 | "Comic strip ""Andy Capp"" made its debut" | |
| 5.8.1957 | WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions | |
| 5.8.1958 | Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole | |
| 5.8.1958 | "Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi" | |
| 5.8.1959 | "42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)" | |
| 5.8.1959 | Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto | |
| 5.8.1960 | Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France | |
| 5.8.1960 | Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon | |
| 5.8.1961 | "118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)" | |
| 5.8.1961 | Chicago Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal | |
| 5.8.1962 | 1st quasar located by radio | |
| 5.8.1962 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open | |
| 5.8.1962 | Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa | |
| 5.8.1962 | U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports | |
| 5.8.1963 | "Britain, U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign nuclear test ban treaty" | |
| 5.8.1963 | Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH | |
| 5.8.1963 | "U.S., U.S.S.R. and Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing" | |
| 5.8.1964 | Actress Anne Bancroft and comedian Mel Brooks wed | |
| 5.8.1964 | "Beatles record ""Leave My Kitten Alone""" | |
| 5.8.1964 | Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville | |
| 5.8.1964 | Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner | |
| 5.8.1964 | U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam | |
| 5.8.1965 | Dave Marr wins PGA title | |
| 5.8.1966 | "33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)" | |
| 5.8.1966 | Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus | |
| 5.8.1966 | "Beatles release ""Yellow Submarine"" and ""Eleanor Rigby"" in UK" | |
| 5.8.1966 | "Beatles' ""Revolver"" album is released" | |
| 5.8.1966 | Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title | |
| 5.8.1966 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. stoned during Chicago march" | |
| 5.8.1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 5.8.1967 | "1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7" | |
| 5.8.1967 | "Bobby Gentry releases her only hit ""Ode to Billy Joe""" | |
| 5.8.1968 | "WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast" | |
| 5.8.1969 | Mariner 7 flies past Mars | |
| 5.8.1969 | Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium | |
| 5.8.1970 | "Robert Morley's ""How the Other Half Loves,"" premieres in London" | |
| 5.8.1970 | U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail | |
| 5.8.1971 | "WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 5.8.1972 | Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue | |
| 5.8.1972 | "Moody Blues release ""Nights in White Satin""" | |
| 5.8.1972 | "Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians" | |
| 5.8.1973 | "Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55" | |
| 5.8.1973 | "Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0" | |
| 5.8.1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic | |
| 5.8.1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 6 | |
| 5.8.1974 | Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways | |
| 5.8.1974 | President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in | |
| 5.8.1975 | "Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5" | |
| 5.8.1975 | Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown | |
| 5.8.1978 | New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo) | |
| 5.8.1979 | """But Never Jam Today"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 7 performances" | |
| 5.8.1979 | Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario | |
| 5.8.1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open | |
| 5.8.1979 | "Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single" | |
| 5.8.1979 | "Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America" | |
| 5.8.1979 | "Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame" | |
| 5.8.1980 | "Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager" | |
| 5.8.1980 | New York Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game | |
| 5.8.1981 | "President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers" | |
| 5.8.1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 5.8.1982 | "Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager" | |
| 5.8.1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 5.8.1984 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic | |
| 5.8.1984 | Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) | |
| 5.8.1984 | Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium | |
| 5.8.1984 | Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR | |
| 5.8.1985 | Baseball players go on strike for 2 days | |
| 5.8.1985 | Establishment of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced | |
| 5.8.1985 | "Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor" | |
| 5.8.1986 | Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33) | |
| 5.8.1986 | "It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa" | |
| 5.8.1986 | "Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout" | |
| 5.8.1986 | "U.S. Senate votes for SDI-project, Star Wars" | |
| 5.8.1988 | Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat | |
| 5.8.1990 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic | |
| 5.8.1990 | Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame | |
| 5.8.1991 | "Sergeo Bubka of U.S.S.R. sets pole vault record (20'"") in Malmo Sweden" | |
| 5.8.1992 | 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge | |
| 5.8.1994 | "Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed" | |
| 5.8.1994 | Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose | |
| 5.8.1996 | Dallas Cowboys play Kansas City Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico | |
| 5.8.1997 | "Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive" | |
| 5.8.1997 | "Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial" | |
| 5.8.1997 | "Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov, launched" | |
| 6.8.258 | St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 6.8.523 | St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 6.8.768 | [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 6.8.939 | Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors | |
| 6.8.1181 | Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers | |
| 6.8.1497 | John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America | |
| 6.8.1588 | Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors | |
| 6.8.1600 | "Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588" | |
| 6.8.1601 | Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius | |
| 6.8.1623 | Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII | |
| 6.8.1625 | Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen | |
| 6.8.1661 | Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders | |
| 6.8.1675 | Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut | |
| 6.8.1726 | Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty | |
| 6.8.1774 | "Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY" | |
| 6.8.1787 | Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate | |
| 6.8.1815 | "U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli" | |
| 6.8.1821 | "1st edition of ""Courrier of Pays-Bas"" newspaper published in Brussels" | |
| 6.8.1824 | Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish | |
| 6.8.1825 | Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) | |
| 6.8.1854 | Congress passes Confiscation Act | |
| 6.8.1861 | Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state | |
| 6.8.1862 | "Confederate Army ironclad ""Arkansas"" is badly damaged in Union attack" | |
| 6.8.1864 | "Rebels evacuate Ft. Powell, Mobile Bayd" | |
| 6.8.1870 | Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France | |
| 6.8.1870 | White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature | |
| 6.8.1890 | Cy Young pitches and wins 1st game | |
| 6.8.1890 | "Denton True ""Cy"" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game" | |
| 6.8.1896 | France annexes Madagascar | |
| 6.8.1905 | "26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)" | |
| 6.8.1908 | "St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn" | |
| 6.8.1910 | New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt | |
| 6.8.1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia | |
| 6.8.1914 | French cavalry enter Belgium | |
| 6.8.1914 | "German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed" | |
| 6.8.1914 | Serbia declares war against Germany | |
| 6.8.1918 | Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France | |
| 6.8.1918 | In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends | |
| 6.8.1919 | 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) | |
| 6.8.1919 | Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest | |
| 6.8.1921 | "Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins" | |
| 6.8.1926 | Don Juan with John Barrymore shown | |
| 6.8.1926 | New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel | |
| 6.8.1926 | Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system | |
| 6.8.1930 | "Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen" | |
| 6.8.1930 | Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City | |
| 6.8.1934 | "U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915" | |
| 6.8.1936 | "1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs" | |
| 6.8.1937 | Franco-artillery fire on Madrid | |
| 6.8.1937 | Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest | |
| 6.8.1937 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty | |
| 6.8.1939 | "1st broadcast of ""Dinah Shore Show"" on NBC-radio" | |
| 6.8.1940 | Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire | |
| 6.8.1941 | Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning | |
| 6.8.1942 | Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 | |
| 6.8.1942 | Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant | |
| 6.8.1942 | "Goering proclaims occupied areas ""thoroughly empty to plunder""" | |
| 6.8.1942 | Riots by Dutch Jews | |
| 6.8.1943 | U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily | |
| 6.8.1944 | "All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died" | |
| 6.8.1944 | Anti-German attack at Avranches fails | |
| 6.8.1944 | "Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins" | |
| 6.8.1944 | U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes | |
| 6.8.1945 | "Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by ""Enola Gay""" | |
| 6.8.1945 | Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's | |
| 6.8.1946 | U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court | |
| 6.8.1947 | "1st performance of Villa-Lobos' ""Bachianas Brasilieras No 8""" | |
| 6.8.1948 | "Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics" | |
| 6.8.1948 | Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms | |
| 6.8.1948 | Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics | |
| 6.8.1949 | "Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop" | |
| 6.8.1951 | "Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria" | |
| 6.8.1952 | "Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout" | |
| 6.8.1953 | Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military | |
| 6.8.1954 | WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting | |
| 6.8.1958 | Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles | |
| 6.8.1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island | |
| 6.8.1960 | Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto | |
| 6.8.1961 | 1st case of motion sickness in space reported | |
| 6.8.1961 | "Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)" | |
| 6.8.1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open | |
| 6.8.1962 | Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule | |
| 6.8.1964 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam | |
| 6.8.1965 | "32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)" | |
| 6.8.1965 | "Beatles release ""Help"" album in U.K." | |
| 6.8.1965 | Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights | |
| 6.8.1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan | |
| 6.8.1965 | "Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks" | |
| 6.8.1966 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London | |
| 6.8.1966 | Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 6.8.1966 | Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) | |
| 6.8.1966 | U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam | |
| 6.8.1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open | |
| 6.8.1967 | "Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings" | |
| 6.8.1967 | Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play | |
| 6.8.1967 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane | |
| 6.8.1969 | "Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals" | |
| 6.8.1970 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 6.8.1972 | Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament | |
| 6.8.1972 | "Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team" | |
| 6.8.1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic | |
| 6.8.1973 | Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame | |
| 6.8.1973 | "Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma" | |
| 6.8.1974 | 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice | |
| 6.8.1974 | "Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington" | |
| 6.8.1977 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open | |
| 6.8.1978 | 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA | |
| 6.8.1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open | |
| 6.8.1979 | 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich | |
| 6.8.1979 | "Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel" | |
| 6.8.1980 | University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses | |
| 6.8.1981 | Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed | |
| 6.8.1981 | "Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs" | |
| 6.8.1981 | "NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed" | |
| 6.8.1982 | "22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3" | |
| 6.8.1982 | California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game | |
| 6.8.1982 | "WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system" | |
| 6.8.1983 | "Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)" | |
| 6.8.1983 | Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa | |
| 6.8.1984 | 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange | |
| 6.8.1984 | Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics | |
| 6.8.1985 | "19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB" | |
| 6.8.1985 | Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) | |
| 6.8.1985 | STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad | |
| 6.8.1986 | "Orioles, Dwyer and Sheets, and Rangers, Harrah, hit record 3 grand slams" | |
| 6.8.1986 | "Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM" | |
| 6.8.1988 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases | |
| 6.8.1988 | "Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies" | |
| 6.8.1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open | |
| 6.8.1989 | Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 | |
| 6.8.1989 | Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia | |
| 6.8.1989 | """Oh! Calcutta!"" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances" | |
| 6.8.1989 | Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines | |
| 6.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats | |
| 6.8.1990 | President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan | |
| 6.8.1990 | U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq | |
| 6.8.1991 | "Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0" | |
| 6.8.1992 | "Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500" | |
| 6.8.1993 | Japan Hosokawa government begins | |
| 6.8.1993 | Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical | |
| 6.8.1994 | Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities | |
| 6.8.1995 | """Damn Yankees"" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 510 performances" | |
| 6.8.1995 | Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain | |
| 6.8.1995 | "Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)" | |
| 6.8.1995 | Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb | |
| 6.8.1996 | NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars | |
| 6.8.1997 | Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc | |
| 6.8.1997 | "NHL Nashville, Tenne names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach" | |
| 7.8.626 | Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated | |
| 7.8.768 | Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 7.8.936 | Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany | |
| 7.8.1409 | Council of Pisa closes | |
| 7.8.1479 | Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI | |
| 7.8.1485 | "Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales" | |
| 7.8.1498 | Columbus arrives in Caribbean | |
| 7.8.1573 | Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth | |
| 7.8.1575 | "Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died" | |
| 7.8.1588 | English assault on Spanish Armada | |
| 7.8.1620 | "Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici" | |
| 7.8.1620 | Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft | |
| 7.8.1710 | Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance | |
| 7.8.1750 | Slave uprising on Curacao | |
| 7.8.1760 | "Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians" | |
| 7.8.1782 | George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart | |
| 7.8.1789 | Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service | |
| 7.8.1802 | Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) | |
| 7.8.1814 | Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits | |
| 7.8.1819 | Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia | |
| 7.8.1820 | 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii | |
| 7.8.1867 | "Battle of Moorefield, WV" | |
| 7.8.1882 | "Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die" | |
| 7.8.1884 | Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) | |
| 7.8.1885 | 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar | |
| 7.8.1888 | Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door | |
| 7.8.1893 | 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes | |
| 7.8.1900 | Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike | |
| 7.8.1904 | "Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96" | |
| 7.8.1907 | "Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland" | |
| 7.8.1909 | U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny | |
| 7.8.1912 | Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres | |
| 7.8.1914 | British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece | |
| 7.8.1914 | French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross | |
| 7.8.1914 | French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas | |
| 7.8.1914 | German army occupies city of Liege Belgium | |
| 7.8.1914 | "Lord Kitchner says ""Your country needs you,"" poster spreads over UK" | |
| 7.8.1915 | "Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die" | |
| 7.8.1915 | "St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores" | |
| 7.8.1921 | Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter | |
| 7.8.1925 | League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied | |
| 7.8.1927 | Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated | |
| 7.8.1927 | U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 | |
| 7.8.1929 | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government | |
| 7.8.1929 | Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games | |
| 7.8.1930 | Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government | |
| 7.8.1934 | "U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel ""Ulysses""" | |
| 7.8.1935 | 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) | |
| 7.8.1938 | 2 die in a New York City subway accident | |
| 7.8.1938 | "Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run" | |
| 7.8.1938 | Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university | |
| 7.8.1940 | Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile | |
| 7.8.1940 | "Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)" | |
| 7.8.1941 | 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania | |
| 7.8.1942 | "1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands" | |
| 7.8.1942 | Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway | |
| 7.8.1942 | Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany | |
| 7.8.1943 | Red Army recaptures Bogodukov | |
| 7.8.1944 | Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter | |
| 7.8.1944 | Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation | |
| 7.8.1944 | German counter attack at Avranches fails | |
| 7.8.1944 | July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins | |
| 7.8.1944 | U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany | |
| 7.8.1947 | Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef | |
| 7.8.1948 | 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns | |
| 7.8.1948 | Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) | |
| 7.8.1949 | """All after Love"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 121 performances" | |
| 7.8.1950 | "Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League" | |
| 7.8.1951 | "Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph" | |
| 7.8.1951 | "U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record" | |
| 7.8.1953 | "Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet" | |
| 7.8.1954 | Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate | |
| 7.8.1954 | """Golden Apple"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances" | |
| 7.8.1955 | Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel | |
| 7.8.1955 | "KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins" | |
| 7.8.1956 | "Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans" | |
| 7.8.1956 | British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt | |
| 7.8.1956 | Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die | |
| 7.8.1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 7.8.1959 | Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space | |
| 7.8.1960 | "Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France" | |
| 7.8.1960 | Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches | |
| 7.8.1960 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open | |
| 7.8.1961 | Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 | |
| 7.8.1961 | Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. | |
| 7.8.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 7.8.1963 | "Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland" | |
| 7.8.1964 | "31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)" | |
| 7.8.1964 | Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots | |
| 7.8.1964 | U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution | |
| 7.8.1966 | "Race riot in Lansing, Michigan" | |
| 7.8.1970 | 1st computer chess tournament | |
| 7.8.1970 | "4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)" | |
| 7.8.1970 | Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac | |
| 7.8.1970 | "WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 7.8.1971 | Apollo 15 returns to Earth | |
| 7.8.1972 | "Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn" | |
| 7.8.1974 | Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band | |
| 7.8.1974 | Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers | |
| 7.8.1976 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open | |
| 7.8.1976 | "Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars" | |
| 7.8.1976 | U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth | |
| 7.8.1977 | """Shenandoah"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances" | |
| 7.8.1978 | "Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame" | |
| 7.8.1978 | Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI | |
| 7.8.1980 | "Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed" | |
| 7.8.1983 | 1st World Track and Field Championships | |
| 7.8.1983 | 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA | |
| 7.8.1983 | Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium | |
| 7.8.1983 | "Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)" | |
| 7.8.1983 | """Merlin"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances" | |
| 7.8.1983 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic | |
| 7.8.1983 | "Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T" | |
| 7.8.1984 | "David Rabe's ""Hurlyburly,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 7.8.1984 | Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball | |
| 7.8.1984 | "Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee" | |
| 7.8.1985 | "Barbra Streisand records ""Broadway Album""" | |
| 7.8.1985 | Baseball players end a 2 day strike | |
| 7.8.1986 | "Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina" | |
| 7.8.1986 | """Honky Tonk Nights"" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 4 performances" | |
| 7.8.1987 | 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala | |
| 7.8.1987 | "Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six" | |
| 7.8.1987 | Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea | |
| 7.8.1988 | Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament | |
| 7.8.1988 | Writers guild end their 6 months strike | |
| 7.8.1990 | Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia | |
| 7.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome | |
| 7.8.1991 | "Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 """ | |
| 7.8.1991 | "Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents" | |
| 7.8.1991 | Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR | |
| 7.8.1991 | Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes | |
| 7.8.1991 | U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds | |
| 7.8.1992 | Cleveland Indians turn a triple play | |
| 7.8.1992 | Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants | |
| 7.8.1993 | """Camelot"" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 56 performances" | |
| 7.8.1993 | "Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed" | |
| 7.8.1994 | 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan | |
| 7.8.1994 | Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain | |
| 7.8.1994 | Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia | |
| 7.8.1994 | """Hedda Gabler"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 33 performances" | |
| 7.8.1997 | "STS 85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit" | |
| 7.8.1997 | Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier | |
| 8.8.70 | Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans | |
| 8.8.870 | Kings Charles the Bare and Louis the German divide Lutherans | |
| 8.8.936 | "German king Otto I the Great, crowned" | |
| 8.8.1322 | "Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect" | |
| 8.8.1502 | Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor | |
| 8.8.1549 | France declares war on England | |
| 8.8.1567 | Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium | |
| 8.8.1570 | "Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots" | |
| 8.8.1579 | Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory | |
| 8.8.1585 | Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV) | |
| 8.8.1588 | Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada | |
| 8.8.1609 | Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope | |
| 8.8.1619 | Duke Maximilian I and Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Munchen | |
| 8.8.1673 | Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City | |
| 8.8.1700 | Denmark and Sweden sign peace treaty | |
| 8.8.1709 | "1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)" | |
| 8.8.1758 | British troops occupy and plunder Cherbourg | |
| 8.8.1786 | Congress adopts silver dollar and decimal system of money | |
| 8.8.1786 | Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc | |
| 8.8.1788 | King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together | |
| 8.8.1796 | Boston African Society establishes with 44 members | |
| 8.8.1809 | "70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)" | |
| 8.8.1814 | "Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium" | |
| 8.8.1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena | |
| 8.8.1816 | Bavarian joins Saint Alliance | |
| 8.8.1829 | French government of De Polignac forms | |
| 8.8.1831 | Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army | |
| 8.8.1843 | Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony | |
| 8.8.1844 | Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death | |
| 8.8.1853 | "Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan" | |
| 8.8.1854 | Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges | |
| 8.8.1860 | Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York City | |
| 8.8.1864 | Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth | |
| 8.8.1864 | Red Cross forms in Geneva | |
| 8.8.1864 | "Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama" | |
| 8.8.1868 | "Quake destroyes Arica, Chile" | |
| 8.8.1870 | Magic (U.S.) defeats Cambria (England) in 2nd running of America's Cup | |
| 8.8.1876 | Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m | |
| 8.8.1876 | Thomas Edison patents mimeograph | |
| 8.8.1890 | Daughters of American Revolution organizes | |
| 8.8.1900 | "1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later" | |
| 8.8.1902 | 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2) | |
| 8.8.1903 | 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1) | |
| 8.8.1903 | "In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game" | |
| 8.8.1913 | "Richard Corfields ""Camel Corps"" opens ""Mad Mullah"" in Burao Somalia" | |
| 8.8.1914 | "3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton ""Endurance""" | |
| 8.8.1914 | French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas | |
| 8.8.1914 | Montenegro declares war on Germany | |
| 8.8.1916 | A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road | |
| 8.8.1918 | "6 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more" | |
| 8.8.1918 | Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens | |
| 8.8.1919 | "Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence" | |
| 8.8.1920 | "Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes" | |
| 8.8.1922 | Italian general strike broken by fascist terror | |
| 8.8.1922 | Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies) | |
| 8.8.1924 | British-Russian trade agreement signed | |
| 8.8.1925 | "1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C." | |
| 8.8.1929 | German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight | |
| 8.8.1929 | "Salem, Oregon airport dedicated" | |
| 8.8.1930 | "St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant" | |
| 8.8.1931 | "Washington Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0" | |
| 8.8.1937 | Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power | |
| 8.8.1940 | 31 German aircraft shot down over England | |
| 8.8.1940 | Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks | |
| 8.8.1941 | 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman | |
| 8.8.1942 | 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. | |
| 8.8.1942 | Dianthus sinks U-379 | |
| 8.8.1942 | """Monty"" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein" | |
| 8.8.1942 | Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko | |
| 8.8.1943 | Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec | |
| 8.8.1943 | U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily | |
| 8.8.1943 | Vegetables and fruit rationed in Holland | |
| 8.8.1944 | Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan | |
| 8.8.1944 | "Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank and family" | |
| 8.8.1944 | U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans | |
| 8.8.1945 | England and Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test | |
| 8.8.1945 | President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter | |
| 8.8.1945 | "U.S., U.S.S.R., England and France sign Treaty of London" | |
| 8.8.1945 | U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II | |
| 8.8.1945 | U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea | |
| 8.8.1946 | "Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million" | |
| 8.8.1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles | |
| 8.8.1948 | """Hold It!"" opens at National Theater New York City for 46 performances" | |
| 8.8.1949 | "Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy" | |
| 8.8.1950 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open | |
| 8.8.1952 | Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea | |
| 8.8.1953 | Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb | |
| 8.8.1953 | U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact | |
| 8.8.1955 | "Fidel Castro forms ""July 26th Movement""" | |
| 8.8.1955 | Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy | |
| 8.8.1956 | "Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium" | |
| 8.8.1956 | "WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins" | |
| 8.8.1957 | U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid | |
| 8.8.1960 | """Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"" hits #1" | |
| 8.8.1961 | "Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario" | |
| 8.8.1961 | "Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ" | |
| 8.8.1963 | "Kingsmen release ""Louie, Louie,"" radio stations label it obscene" | |
| 8.8.1963 | Los Angeles Dodgers F Howard and B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs | |
| 8.8.1963 | "Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ" | |
| 8.8.1964 | """110 in the Shade"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 330 performances" | |
| 8.8.1964 | Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam | |
| 8.8.1964 | Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert | |
| 8.8.1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open | |
| 8.8.1965 | Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation | |
| 8.8.1966 | South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) | |
| 8.8.1967 | "Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)" | |
| 8.8.1968 | Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos | |
| 8.8.1968 | "Race riot in Miami, Florida" | |
| 8.8.1968 | Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres | |
| 8.8.1970 | "New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)" | |
| 8.8.1971 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 8.8.1971 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open | |
| 8.8.1972 | New York Yankees sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium | |
| 8.8.1973 | "VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are ""damned lies"" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)" | |
| 8.8.1974 | President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 | |
| 8.8.1976 | Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts | |
| 8.8.1977 | "Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi" | |
| 8.8.1977 | Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's) | |
| 8.8.1978 | Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus | |
| 8.8.1979 | Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents | |
| 8.8.1980 | LBV Conference Center and Club Lake Villas open | |
| 8.8.1982 | 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa | |
| 8.8.1982 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic | |
| 8.8.1983 | Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela | |
| 8.8.1983 | "Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)" | |
| 8.8.1983 | "Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees" | |
| 8.8.1984 | Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer | |
| 8.8.1984 | Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends | |
| 8.8.1984 | """Rink"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 204 performances" | |
| 8.8.1985 | Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993 | |
| 8.8.1985 | "Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet" | |
| 8.8.1986 | "Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets and Dwyer-Orioles)" | |
| 8.8.1987 | Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game | |
| 8.8.1987 | Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait | |
| 8.8.1987 | "Pakistan all out 708 vs. England at The Oval, Botham 3-217" | |
| 8.8.1988 | 9th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player | |
| 8.8.1988 | "Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty" | |
| 8.8.1988 | "Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed" | |
| 8.8.1988 | "Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1" | |
| 8.8.1988 | Discovery of most dostant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced | |
| 8.8.1988 | Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl | |
| 8.8.1988 | Goose Gossage registers 300th career save | |
| 8.8.1988 | Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar | |
| 8.8.1988 | Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season | |
| 8.8.1988 | Matt Biondi swims U.S. record 200m freestyle (1:47.72) | |
| 8.8.1988 | Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year and beat Cleveland 6-2 | |
| 8.8.1988 | Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years | |
| 8.8.1988 | Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war | |
| 8.8.1988 | Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia | |
| 8.8.1988 | South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola | |
| 8.8.1988 | Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in New York City | |
| 8.8.1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-28 launched | |
| 8.8.1990 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland) | |
| 8.8.1990 | Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 home runs as a catcher | |
| 8.8.1990 | Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province | |
| 8.8.1990 | Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp | |
| 8.8.1991 | Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor | |
| 8.8.1991 | Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge | |
| 8.8.1991 | Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy | |
| 8.8.1991 | "With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)" | |
| 8.8.1992 | Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas | |
| 8.8.1992 | Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR | |
| 8.8.1993 | California state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40) | |
| 8.8.1993 | Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt | |
| 8.8.1993 | "Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed" | |
| 8.8.1995 | Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning | |
| 8.8.1997 | Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox | |
| 9.8.378 | "Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army" | |
| 9.8.1378 | Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil) | |
| 9.8.1559 | Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht | |
| 9.8.1596 | Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond | |
| 9.8.1638 | Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx | |
| 9.8.1655 | Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts | |
| 9.8.1673 | Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures New York | |
| 9.8.1673 | Dutch recapture New York from English; regained by English in 1674 | |
| 9.8.1726 | Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover | |
| 9.8.1757 | "English Ft. William Henry, New York, surrenders to French and Indians troops" | |
| 9.8.1778 | "Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits" | |
| 9.8.1790 | "Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry U.S. flag around the world" | |
| 9.8.1803 | 1st horses arrive in Hawaii | |
| 9.8.1829 | """Stourbridge Lion"" locomotive goes into service" | |
| 9.8.1830 | "Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X" | |
| 9.8.1831 | "1st U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York)" | |
| 9.8.1832 | King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria | |
| 9.8.1841 | Erie boat in Buffalo New York catches fire; 242 die | |
| 9.8.1842 | U.S. - Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty | |
| 9.8.1848 | Austria and Sardinia sign cease fire | |
| 9.8.1848 | Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president | |
| 9.8.1849 | Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia | |
| 9.8.1854 | "Henry David Thoreau publishes ""Walden""" | |
| 9.8.1855 | Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising | |
| 9.8.1859 | Elevator patented | |
| 9.8.1862 | "Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)" | |
| 9.8.1862 | "Berlioz' opera ""Beatrice et Benedict,"" premieres in Baden-Baden" | |
| 9.8.1862 | "Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed" | |
| 9.8.1864 | Battle of Ft. Morgan AL | |
| 9.8.1890 | "1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations" | |
| 9.8.1893 | "1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York" | |
| 9.8.1901 | 34-35 degrees N/98-99 degrees W open for U.S. colonization | |
| 9.8.1902 | Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria | |
| 9.8.1905 | "Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him" | |
| 9.8.1910 | Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine | |
| 9.8.1914 | German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser | |
| 9.8.1915 | British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis | |
| 9.8.1918 | "Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him ""for indifferent play""" | |
| 9.8.1920 | Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect | |
| 9.8.1923 | New York State Golf Association formed | |
| 9.8.1925 | "Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out" | |
| 9.8.1930 | "113 degrees F (45 degrees C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)" | |
| 9.8.1930 | Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes | |
| 9.8.1930 | Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec) | |
| 9.8.1936 | Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics | |
| 9.8.1941 | Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR | |
| 9.8.1942 | 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland | |
| 9.8.1942 | Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad | |
| 9.8.1942 | "Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a ""quit India"" campaign by the All-India Congress" | |
| 9.8.1942 | "Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island" | |
| 9.8.1943 | "Bertolt Brecht's ""Leben des Galilei,"" premieres in Zurich" | |
| 9.8.1944 | "12 workers of Dutch illegal paper ""Trouw,"" executed at Camp Vught" | |
| 9.8.1944 | Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention | |
| 9.8.1944 | US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans | |
| 9.8.1945 | "US drops 2nd atomic bomb ""Fat Man"" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki" | |
| 9.8.1946 | 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night | |
| 9.8.1950 | Lusty Song wins Hambletonian | |
| 9.8.1951 | Dutch Korea volunteers win U.S. Collective Unit Citation | |
| 9.8.1952 | General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium | |
| 9.8.1953 | "Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired" | |
| 9.8.1956 | "1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama" | |
| 9.8.1956 | South African women demonstrate against pass laws | |
| 9.8.1957 | "24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)" | |
| 9.8.1960 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida | |
| 9.8.1961 | James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court | |
| 9.8.1963 | "Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres" | |
| 9.8.1963 | New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends | |
| 9.8.1964 | 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands | |
| 9.8.1964 | "Bunning continues pitching perfectly to New York Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings" | |
| 9.8.1964 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational | |
| 9.8.1965 | "Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die" | |
| 9.8.1965 | "Singapore gains independence from Malaysia, National Day" | |
| 9.8.1967 | Biafran offensive against Nigerian army | |
| 9.8.1967 | "KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting" | |
| 9.8.1968 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague | |
| 9.8.1969 | Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders | |
| 9.8.1969 | """Zorba"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 305 performances" | |
| 9.8.1970 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open | |
| 9.8.1970 | Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes | |
| 9.8.1971 | Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame | |
| 9.8.1972 | Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle | |
| 9.8.1973 | Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit Wings | |
| 9.8.1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 7 | |
| 9.8.1974 | "Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th president" | |
| 9.8.1975 | "1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7" | |
| 9.8.1975 | Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught | |
| 9.8.1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open | |
| 9.8.1976 | "Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI vs. Glamorgan" | |
| 9.8.1976 | "Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0" | |
| 9.8.1976 | "U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth" | |
| 9.8.1977 | "Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks vs. Warwicks" | |
| 9.8.1977 | NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs | |
| 9.8.1978 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test | |
| 9.8.1978 | Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7 | |
| 9.8.1979 | English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach | |
| 9.8.1980 | Belgian constitution revised | |
| 9.8.1981 | "52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve" | |
| 9.8.1981 | 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) | |
| 9.8.1981 | 63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga | |
| 9.8.1981 | All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) | |
| 9.8.1981 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic | |
| 9.8.1981 | NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium) | |
| 9.8.1984 | "Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal" | |
| 9.8.1984 | STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad | |
| 9.8.1986 | """Honky Tonk Nights"" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 4 performances" | |
| 9.8.1987 | 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach | |
| 9.8.1987 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv" | |
| 9.8.1987 | "Los Angeles Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)" | |
| 9.8.1987 | Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic | |
| 9.8.1988 | Just 1 day after 8/8/88 New York's daily number is 888 | |
| 9.8.1988 | Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field | |
| 9.8.1988 | Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles Kings for $15-$20 millions | |
| 9.8.1990 | 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia | |
| 9.8.1990 | Soyuz TM-10 lands | |
| 9.8.1992 | "25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain" | |
| 9.8.1992 | Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt | |
| 9.8.1992 | Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower | |
| 9.8.1992 | Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3 degrees F (37.4 degrees C) | |
| 9.8.1992 | """Streetcar Named Desire"" closes at Ethel Barrymore New York City after 137 perf" | |
| 9.8.1993 | "King Albert II of Belgium, crowned" | |
| 9.8.1994 | Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night | |
| 9.8.1994 | Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao | |
| 9.8.1997 | "Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by New York City police" | |
| 9.8.1997 | Yanks break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins | |
| 9.8.1998 | Star Bank LPGA Classic | |
| 10.8.70 | """2nd Temple"" of Jews is set aflame (approx)" | |
| 10.8.654 | Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I | |
| 10.8.843 | "Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France" | |
| 10.8.955 | Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians | |
| 10.8.1304 | Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet | |
| 10.8.1461 | "Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain" | |
| 10.8.1497 | "John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to ""Asia""" | |
| 10.8.1500 | Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar | |
| 10.8.1511 | Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka | |
| 10.8.1512 | Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France | |
| 10.8.1519 | Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth | |
| 10.8.1557 | Battle at St. Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont and Philibert beat France | |
| 10.8.1585 | English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth | |
| 10.8.1622 | County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges | |
| 10.8.1627 | Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle | |
| 10.8.1628 | "Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed" | |
| 10.8.1653 | "Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch" | |
| 10.8.1664 | Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vasvar | |
| 10.8.1675 | "King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich" | |
| 10.8.1675 | Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam | |
| 10.8.1678 | Netherlands and France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen | |
| 10.8.1743 | Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated | |
| 10.8.1759 | Carlos III becomes king of Spain | |
| 10.8.1774 | 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing | |
| 10.8.1787 | "Mozart completes his ""Eine small Nachtmusik""" | |
| 10.8.1787 | Turkey declares war on Russia | |
| 10.8.1790 | "Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage" | |
| 10.8.1792 | Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI | |
| 10.8.1809 | Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) | |
| 10.8.1821 | Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state | |
| 10.8.1822 | "Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die" | |
| 10.8.1827 | "Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)" | |
| 10.8.1831 | Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery | |
| 10.8.1831 | "Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die" | |
| 10.8.1833 | Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 | |
| 10.8.1846 | "Congress charters ""nation's attic,"" Smithsonian Institution" | |
| 10.8.1856 | "Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana" | |
| 10.8.1861 | "Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed" | |
| 10.8.1862 | "Battle of Nueces River, Texas" | |
| 10.8.1866 | Transatlantic cable laid-President Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria | |
| 10.8.1869 | O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector | |
| 10.8.1877 | Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians | |
| 10.8.1877 | Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM | |
| 10.8.1885 | Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt) | |
| 10.8.1887 | "Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)" | |
| 10.8.1888 | New York Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record | |
| 10.8.1889 | Dan Rylands patents screw cap | |
| 10.8.1893 | Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act | |
| 10.8.1895 | "1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners ""Rienzi"")" | |
| 10.8.1897 | Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club) | |
| 10.8.1900 | 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0) | |
| 10.8.1901 | Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners | |
| 10.8.1904 | Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest. | |
| 10.8.1904 | Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock | |
| 10.8.1904 | Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur | |
| 10.8.1904 | Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games | |
| 10.8.1906 | Pope Pius X bans Associations cults | |
| 10.8.1907 | "Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally" | |
| 10.8.1909 | Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins | |
| 10.8.1911 | Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords | |
| 10.8.1913 | "2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses" | |
| 10.8.1914 | "At Luik, German 12""/16.5"" guns reach Belgian boundary" | |
| 10.8.1914 | German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany | |
| 10.8.1914 | German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas | |
| 10.8.1914 | Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms | |
| 10.8.1916 | Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia | |
| 10.8.1919 | Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine | |
| 10.8.1920 | "Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania" | |
| 10.8.1920 | Treaty of Sevres (Allies and Turkey) | |
| 10.8.1920 | "Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate" | |
| 10.8.1921 | Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello | |
| 10.8.1925 | "Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die" | |
| 10.8.1926 | Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed | |
| 10.8.1929 | Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last NL win | |
| 10.8.1934 | Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player | |
| 10.8.1936 | "114 degrees F (46 degrees C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)" | |
| 10.8.1936 | "120 degrees F (49 degrees C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)" | |
| 10.8.1938 | "119 degrees F (48 degrees C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)" | |
| 10.8.1939 | 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats) | |
| 10.8.1940 | Prince Bernhard Fund forms | |
| 10.8.1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland | |
| 10.8.1942 | Gen B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa | |
| 10.8.1943 | Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali | |
| 10.8.1943 | Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots | |
| 10.8.1944 | Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0 | |
| 10.8.1944 | Race riots in Athens Alabama | |
| 10.8.1944 | U.S. recaptures Guam from Japanese | |
| 10.8.1944 | U.S./French offensive at Aleneon | |
| 10.8.1945 | Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged | |
| 10.8.1948 | "ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York)" | |
| 10.8.1948 | "Allen Funt's ""Candid Camera"" TV debut on ABC" | |
| 10.8.1948 | "Bradman scores 133* Aust vs. Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours" | |
| 10.8.1948 | "WABC TV channel 7 in New York, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 10.8.1949 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 10.8.1949 | Natl Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense | |
| 10.8.1952 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament | |
| 10.8.1954 | Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up | |
| 10.8.1954 | "Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins" | |
| 10.8.1956 | "23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)" | |
| 10.8.1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 10.8.1958 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open | |
| 10.8.1960 | Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space | |
| 10.8.1960 | Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea | |
| 10.8.1961 | England applies for membership in European Common Market | |
| 10.8.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. | |
| 10.8.1964 | "WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 10.8.1965 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km | |
| 10.8.1966 | 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S. | |
| 10.8.1966 | Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again | |
| 10.8.1968 | "Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock" | |
| 10.8.1968 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open | |
| 10.8.1969 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open | |
| 10.8.1969 | Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win | |
| 10.8.1970 | "Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on ""lewd and lascivious behavior""" | |
| 10.8.1971 | 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research | |
| 10.8.1971 | "Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, and adds his 501st" | |
| 10.8.1972 | 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada | |
| 10.8.1972 | Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession | |
| 10.8.1973 | 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station | |
| 10.8.1974 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open | |
| 10.8.1975 | 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron | |
| 10.8.1975 | David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon | |
| 10.8.1977 | "Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being ""Son of Sam"" 44 caliber killer" | |
| 10.8.1977 | U.S. and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord | |
| 10.8.1977 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test | |
| 10.8.1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. | |
| 10.8.1979 | Ecuador adopts its constitution | |
| 10.8.1979 | "Wings release ""Getting Closer"" and ""Baby's Request""" | |
| 10.8.1980 | "62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill, New York" | |
| 10.8.1980 | 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley | |
| 10.8.1980 | "Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Texas" | |
| 10.8.1981 | Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business | |
| 10.8.1981 | "Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record" | |
| 10.8.1981 | Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes | |
| 10.8.1984 | "Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run" | |
| 10.8.1985 | A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 home runs (off Matt Young at Seattle) | |
| 10.8.1985 | Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million | |
| 10.8.1985 | "Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles" | |
| 10.8.1986 | Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic | |
| 10.8.1986 | "Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired" | |
| 10.8.1986 | Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway New York City | |
| 10.8.1986 | """Me and My Girl"" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 1420 performances" | |
| 10.8.1986 | Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates | |
| 10.8.1987 | Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully | |
| 10.8.1987 | Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball | |
| 10.8.1988 | Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) | |
| 10.8.1988 | Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador | |
| 10.8.1988 | U.N. estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion | |
| 10.8.1989 | A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning | |
| 10.8.1989 | "Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge" | |
| 10.8.1990 | U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus | |
| 10.8.1991 | """Little Night Music"" closes at New York State New York City after 7 performances" | |
| 10.8.1991 | NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53 | |
| 10.8.1992 | Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched | |
| 10.8.1992 | Soyuz TM-15 lands | |
| 10.8.1993 | "Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA" | |
| 10.8.1994 | Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) | |
| 10.8.1995 | "Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly" | |
| 10.8.1996 | Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate | |
| 10.8.1996 | Dare and Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16 | |
| 10.8.1996 | Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex | |
| 10.8.1996 | Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24 | |
| 10.8.1997 | "36th Walker Cup: U.S., 18-6" | |
| 10.8.1997 | Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine | |
| 10.8.1997 | "Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal" | |
| 10.8.1997 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic | |
| 10.8.1997 | Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic | |
| 10.8.1997 | Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf | |
| 11.8.117 | Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch | |
| 11.8.1253 | Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen | |
| 11.8.1304 | Sea battle of Zierikzee | |
| 11.8.1492 | Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI | |
| 11.8.1522 | Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails | |
| 11.8.1597 | Germany throws out English sales people | |
| 11.8.1611 | Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia | |
| 11.8.1674 | 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) | |
| 11.8.1695 | English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk | |
| 11.8.1718 | Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish | |
| 11.8.1772 | "Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000" | |
| 11.8.1780 | Barbados hurricane begins | |
| 11.8.1835 | George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal | |
| 11.8.1860 | "Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada" | |
| 11.8.1863 | Cambodia becomes French protectorate | |
| 11.8.1874 | Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head | |
| 11.8.1877 | Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos | |
| 11.8.1884 | "1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust" | |
| 11.8.1885 | "$100,000 raised in U.S. for pedestal for Statue of Liberty" | |
| 11.8.1896 | Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain | |
| 11.8.1904 | German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa | |
| 11.8.1907 | "St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn" | |
| 11.8.1909 | "Liner ""Arapahoe"" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call" | |
| 11.8.1909 | "SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC" | |
| 11.8.1909 | Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test | |
| 11.8.1914 | France declares war on Austria-Hungary | |
| 11.8.1914 | Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland | |
| 11.8.1914 | John Wray patents animation | |
| 11.8.1918 | "Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans" | |
| 11.8.1919 | Weimar Republic begins in Germany | |
| 11.8.1920 | 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia | |
| 11.8.1923 | Dutch Premier de Geer resigns | |
| 11.8.1924 | 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken | |
| 11.8.1926 | Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double | |
| 11.8.1928 | Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils | |
| 11.8.1928 | Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists | |
| 11.8.1929 | Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve) | |
| 11.8.1929 | Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty | |
| 11.8.1929 | Russian-Chinese border fights | |
| 11.8.1933 | "Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record)" | |
| 11.8.1934 | 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay | |
| 11.8.1935 | Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews | |
| 11.8.1936 | Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton | |
| 11.8.1939 | Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe | |
| 11.8.1940 | 38 German aircrafts shot down above England | |
| 11.8.1940 | German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth | |
| 11.8.1941 | FRD and PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter | |
| 11.8.1942 | 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium | |
| 11.8.1942 | British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks | |
| 11.8.1942 | Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar | |
| 11.8.1943 | "Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov" | |
| 11.8.1943 | "Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres" | |
| 11.8.1943 | U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily | |
| 11.8.1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy | |
| 11.8.1944 | French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees | |
| 11.8.1944 | "Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz" | |
| 11.8.1944 | U.S. air raid on Palembang | |
| 11.8.1945 | Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito | |
| 11.8.1948 | Summer Olympics opens in London | |
| 11.8.1949 | "1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)" | |
| 11.8.1949 | Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt | |
| 11.8.1950 | "17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)" | |
| 11.8.1950 | "Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0" | |
| 11.8.1950 | "Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time" | |
| 11.8.1950 | King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium | |
| 11.8.1951 | "100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois" | |
| 11.8.1951 | "1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC" | |
| 11.8.1951 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa | |
| 11.8.1951 | "New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant" | |
| 11.8.1952 | "Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan" | |
| 11.8.1954 | "BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0" | |
| 11.8.1954 | "Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh" | |
| 11.8.1955 | Indonesia government of Harahap forms | |
| 11.8.1956 | 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 | |
| 11.8.1956 | "Elvis Presley releases ""Don't Be Cruel""" | |
| 11.8.1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open | |
| 11.8.1957 | "Paul Hindemith' opera ""Harmonie der Welt,"" premieres in Munich" | |
| 11.8.1960 | Chad declares Independence from France | |
| 11.8.1961 | "Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1" | |
| 11.8.1962 | "Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3" | |
| 11.8.1962 | "Beach Boys release ""Surfin' Safari""" | |
| 11.8.1962 | Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) | |
| 11.8.1962 | Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down | |
| 11.8.1963 | "Kingston Trio are mystery guest on ""What's My Line?""" | |
| 11.8.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational | |
| 11.8.1964 | "Beatles' ""A Hard Days Night"" opens in New York City" | |
| 11.8.1965 | 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles | |
| 11.8.1965 | "Beatles movie ""Help"" opens in New York City" | |
| 11.8.1965 | "Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days" | |
| 11.8.1966 | Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins | |
| 11.8.1967 | Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches | |
| 11.8.1968 | "Beatles launch ""Apple Records"" label" | |
| 11.8.1968 | "Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves" | |
| 11.8.1969 | Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder | |
| 11.8.1969 | Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) | |
| 11.8.1970 | Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues | |
| 11.8.1970 | Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront | |
| 11.8.1971 | Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome | |
| 11.8.1971 | Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501 | |
| 11.8.1972 | """Cheech and Chong Day"" in San Antonio Texas" | |
| 11.8.1974 | 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC | |
| 11.8.1974 | Coup in East-Timor under UDT | |
| 11.8.1974 | "Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)" | |
| 11.8.1975 | Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game | |
| 11.8.1975 | U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. | |
| 11.8.1976 | "Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami" | |
| 11.8.1976 | "Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die" | |
| 11.8.1977 | "Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Aust at Headingley" | |
| 11.8.1978 | Funeral of Pope Paul VI | |
| 11.8.1978 | Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta | |
| 11.8.1979 | 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota | |
| 11.8.1979 | Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year | |
| 11.8.1980 | Angola revises its constitution | |
| 11.8.1980 | Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran | |
| 11.8.1980 | Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns | |
| 11.8.1982 | Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) | |
| 11.8.1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 11.8.1984 | "101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France" | |
| 11.8.1984 | "Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds" | |
| 11.8.1984 | Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform | |
| 11.8.1984 | "During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he ""signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes""" | |
| 11.8.1984 | Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms | |
| 11.8.1984 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test | |
| 11.8.1985 | 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver | |
| 11.8.1985 | "Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz" | |
| 11.8.1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic | |
| 11.8.1985 | Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR | |
| 11.8.1985 | "Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10""12)" | |
| 11.8.1985 | """Tap Dance Kid"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 669 performances" | |
| 11.8.1986 | 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo | |
| 11.8.1987 | France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf | |
| 11.8.1988 | "225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR" | |
| 11.8.1988 | Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens | |
| 11.8.1988 | Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament | |
| 11.8.1989 | Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England | |
| 11.8.1989 | """Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child"" premieres" | |
| 11.8.1989 | Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune | |
| 11.8.1990 | Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion | |
| 11.8.1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats) | |
| 11.8.1991 | "400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed" | |
| 11.8.1991 | 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind | |
| 11.8.1991 | Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic | |
| 11.8.1991 | Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy | |
| 11.8.1991 | Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands | |
| 11.8.1991 | Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start | |
| 11.8.1992 | Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game | |
| 11.8.1993 | Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth | |
| 11.8.1993 | "New York Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke" | |
| 11.8.1993 | Pope John Paul II visits Mexico | |
| 11.8.1993 | "Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul-NY" | |
| 11.8.1994 | "Joao B ""Nino"" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau" | |
| 11.8.1996 | 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY | |
| 11.8.1996 | Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship | |
| 11.8.1996 | """Thousand Clowns,"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 32 performs" | |
| 11.8.1997 | Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday | |
| 11.8.1999 | Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) | |
| 12.8.3 | Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem | |
| 12.8.1071 | "Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes" | |
| 12.8.1071 | "Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe" | |
| 12.8.1099 | Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians | |
| 12.8.1099 | Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon | |
| 12.8.1332 | Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle | |
| 12.8.1336 | English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders | |
| 12.8.1492 | Christopher Columbus discovers Canary Islands | |
| 12.8.1508 | Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico | |
| 12.8.1530 | Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I | |
| 12.8.1549 | French troops occupy Ambleteuse England | |
| 12.8.1553 | Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud | |
| 12.8.1588 | Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army | |
| 12.8.1658 | 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam) | |
| 12.8.1665 | English fleet beat Dutch fleet | |
| 12.8.1676 | 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England | |
| 12.8.1687 | Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders | |
| 12.8.1687 | Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs | |
| 12.8.1759 | Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians | |
| 12.8.1812 | Dr. Joseph Lister is 1st surgeon to use disinfectant during surgery | |
| 12.8.1812 | Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid | |
| 12.8.1831 | Dutch troops conquer Leuven | |
| 12.8.1831 | Netherlands and Belgium sign peace treaty | |
| 12.8.1851 | 1st America's Cup-U.S. schooner America beats British yacht Aurora | |
| 12.8.1851 | Isaac Singer patents sewing machine | |
| 12.8.1856 | Anthony Fass patents accordion | |
| 12.8.1861 | Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians | |
| 12.8.1862 | "Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX" | |
| 12.8.1863 | "1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)" | |
| 12.8.1867 | President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton | |
| 12.8.1876 | Madeline (U.S.) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup | |
| 12.8.1877 | "Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device" | |
| 12.8.1879 | 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago) | |
| 12.8.1884 | "Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval" | |
| 12.8.1886 | "W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, vs. Aust, The Oval" | |
| 12.8.1888 | "Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour" | |
| 12.8.1896 | Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson | |
| 12.8.1896 | Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg | |
| 12.8.1898 | Hawaii formally annexed to U.S. | |
| 12.8.1898 | "Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed" | |
| 12.8.1901 | Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony | |
| 12.8.1905 | King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp | |
| 12.8.1914 | "Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium (""Battle der Zilveren Helmen"")" | |
| 12.8.1914 | "German 16.5""/12"" guns fires on forts round Luik" | |
| 12.8.1914 | Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary | |
| 12.8.1914 | Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa | |
| 12.8.1915 | """Of Human Bondage,"" by William Somerset Maugham, published" | |
| 12.8.1916 | "Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz and Paquerette photographed in Paris" | |
| 12.8.1922 | Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington D.C. as national shrine | |
| 12.8.1923 | Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances | |
| 12.8.1923 | Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward | |
| 12.8.1925 | KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions | |
| 12.8.1927 | """Wings,"" the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens" | |
| 12.8.1928 | 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam | |
| 12.8.1931 | Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China | |
| 12.8.1933 | Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup | |
| 12.8.1935 | "Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand" | |
| 12.8.1936 | "120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Seymour, Texas (state record)" | |
| 12.8.1936 | "Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats U.S., 6-5" | |
| 12.8.1936 | Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d) | |
| 12.8.1940 | "Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts" | |
| 12.8.1940 | Netherlands starts rationing textile | |
| 12.8.1941 | French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany | |
| 12.8.1942 | "British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin" | |
| 12.8.1942 | "German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe" | |
| 12.8.1942 | Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo | |
| 12.8.1944 | Churchill and Tito meet in Naples | |
| 12.8.1944 | Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating | |
| 12.8.1948 | Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game | |
| 12.8.1948 | Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years | |
| 12.8.1949 | "16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)" | |
| 12.8.1950 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa | |
| 12.8.1950 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis | |
| 12.8.1951 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship | |
| 12.8.1952 | Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan | |
| 12.8.1953 | "Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami" | |
| 12.8.1953 | "Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed" | |
| 12.8.1953 | Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb | |
| 12.8.1954 | Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row | |
| 12.8.1955 | "22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)" | |
| 12.8.1955 | President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour | |
| 12.8.1955 | "WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 12.8.1956 | "KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 12.8.1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship | |
| 12.8.1959 | "1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island" | |
| 12.8.1959 | Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa | |
| 12.8.1960 | "27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)" | |
| 12.8.1960 | "Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched" | |
| 12.8.1960 | "Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 11""" | |
| 12.8.1960 | "USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m" | |
| 12.8.1962 | 1st time 2 people in space | |
| 12.8.1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament | |
| 12.8.1962 | "Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15" | |
| 12.8.1963 | Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization | |
| 12.8.1963 | Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year | |
| 12.8.1964 | "10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet" | |
| 12.8.1964 | Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th and final time in a game | |
| 12.8.1965 | Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice | |
| 12.8.1965 | "Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise" | |
| 12.8.1967 | "New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14" | |
| 12.8.1969 | Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million | |
| 12.8.1970 | Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball | |
| 12.8.1971 | Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan | |
| 12.8.1972 | """Funny Thing Happened..."" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 156 performances" | |
| 12.8.1972 | Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings | |
| 12.8.1972 | Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam | |
| 12.8.1972 | """Oh! Calcutta!"" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 1316 performances" | |
| 12.8.1973 | 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve | |
| 12.8.1973 | Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens | |
| 12.8.1973 | WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris | |
| 12.8.1974 | "Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2" | |
| 12.8.1974 | Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day | |
| 12.8.1976 | "Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed" | |
| 12.8.1977 | "For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid" | |
| 12.8.1977 | High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit | |
| 12.8.1977 | Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight | |
| 12.8.1978 | Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours | |
| 12.8.1978 | China and Japan sign peace treaty | |
| 12.8.1979 | Iran press censors start massive book burnings | |
| 12.8.1979 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin | |
| 12.8.1979 | """Whoopee!"" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 204 performances" | |
| 12.8.1981 | IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0 | |
| 12.8.1981 | Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27) | |
| 12.8.1982 | Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut | |
| 12.8.1983 | General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army | |
| 12.8.1984 | "23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, California" | |
| 12.8.1984 | "Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls and 19 ejections" | |
| 12.8.1984 | "Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame" | |
| 12.8.1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic | |
| 12.8.1985 | 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation | |
| 12.8.1985 | Baltimore Orioles W Gross and L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs | |
| 12.8.1985 | "Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)" | |
| 12.8.1986 | Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season | |
| 12.8.1986 | Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single | |
| 12.8.1987 | Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock | |
| 12.8.1988 | Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23 | |
| 12.8.1988 | "Movie ""Last Temptation of Christ"" is released" | |
| 12.8.1988 | Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital | |
| 12.8.1988 | Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home | |
| 12.8.1988 | Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General | |
| 12.8.1990 | 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania | |
| 12.8.1990 | 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala | |
| 12.8.1990 | Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic | |
| 12.8.1990 | Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories | |
| 12.8.1991 | Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan | |
| 12.8.1991 | "Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall" | |
| 12.8.1993 | Pope John Paul II begins visit of U.S. | |
| 12.8.1994 | 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - San Francisco vs Denver) | |
| 12.8.1994 | Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike | |
| 12.8.1994 | Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed | |
| 12.8.1994 | "Stephen G. Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice" | |
| 12.8.1995 | "Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge" | |
| 13.8.523 | St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 13.8.1099 | Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II | |
| 13.8.1415 | King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River | |
| 13.8.1516 | Kings Charles I and Francois I signs Treaty of Noyons | |
| 13.8.1521 | Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs | |
| 13.8.1578 | Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands | |
| 13.8.1608 | John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication | |
| 13.8.1624 | Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII | |
| 13.8.1630 | Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein | |
| 13.8.1642 | Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap | |
| 13.8.1645 | Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Bromsebro | |
| 13.8.1651 | "Litchfield, CT founded" | |
| 13.8.1695 | French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels | |
| 13.8.1696 | State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor | |
| 13.8.1704 | "French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany" | |
| 13.8.1713 | King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia | |
| 13.8.1732 | "Voltaire's ""Zaire,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 13.8.1740 | Hunger strike in Rotterdam | |
| 13.8.1784 | English parliament accept India Act | |
| 13.8.1788 | Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 | |
| 13.8.1792 | Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette | |
| 13.8.1799 | English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname | |
| 13.8.1814 | Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch | |
| 13.8.1814 | Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves | |
| 13.8.1831 | Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia | |
| 13.8.1864 | Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA | |
| 13.8.1868 | "Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador)" | |
| 13.8.1876 | Reciprocity Treaty between U.S. and Hawaii ratified | |
| 13.8.1876 | "Wagner's ""Of the Ring,"" premieres" | |
| 13.8.1881 | Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch | |
| 13.8.1889 | William Gray patents coin-operated telephone | |
| 13.8.1892 | "U.S. black newspaper ""Afro-American"" begins publishing from Baltimore" | |
| 13.8.1898 | U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war | |
| 13.8.1902 | England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory | |
| 13.8.1906 | Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas | |
| 13.8.1906 | "Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning" | |
| 13.8.1908 | "Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team" | |
| 13.8.1910 | "Dodgers and Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball and 1 hit by pitch" | |
| 13.8.1914 | "Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st U.S. bus line, in Minnesota" | |
| 13.8.1914 | "France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I" | |
| 13.8.1914 | German army occupies forts at Luik | |
| 13.8.1917 | Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves | |
| 13.8.1919 | British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 | |
| 13.8.1919 | Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) | |
| 13.8.1920 | 24th U.S. Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio | |
| 13.8.1921 | "Simon Kaufman and Marc Connelly's ""Dulcy,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 13.8.1923 | Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government | |
| 13.8.1923 | Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president | |
| 13.8.1923 | U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day | |
| 13.8.1928 | Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins | |
| 13.8.1931 | Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 | |
| 13.8.1932 | Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor | |
| 13.8.1932 | Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers and wins game 1-0 in 10 tying | |
| 13.8.1933 | 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee | |
| 13.8.1933 | Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist | |
| 13.8.1935 | Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) | |
| 13.8.1937 | Japanese attack Shanghai | |
| 13.8.1939 | Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco' | |
| 13.8.1939 | Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's | |
| 13.8.1940 | Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins) | |
| 13.8.1940 | "Goering's ""Adler Tag"" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld" | |
| 13.8.1941 | Red army evacuates Smolensk | |
| 13.8.1943 | Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk | |
| 13.8.1944 | British 8th army occupies Florence | |
| 13.8.1944 | Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough | |
| 13.8.1944 | Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio | |
| 13.8.1945 | 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia | |
| 13.8.1946 | "Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus" | |
| 13.8.1948 | "Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game" | |
| 13.8.1950 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship | |
| 13.8.1950 | President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai | |
| 13.8.1951 | Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract | |
| 13.8.1953 | 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations | |
| 13.8.1953 | President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee | |
| 13.8.1953 | U.S. Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff | |
| 13.8.1954 | "21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)" | |
| 13.8.1955 | Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield | |
| 13.8.1956 | "WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 13.8.1958 | "Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2" | |
| 13.8.1959 | Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) | |
| 13.8.1960 | Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France | |
| 13.8.1960 | U.S.S.R. draws adviseors out of China | |
| 13.8.1961 | Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany | |
| 13.8.1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open | |
| 13.8.1962 | Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously | |
| 13.8.1963 | Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum | |
| 13.8.1963 | "Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382" | |
| 13.8.1964 | 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire | |
| 13.8.1967 | "WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 13.8.1969 | "Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0" | |
| 13.8.1969 | Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote | |
| 13.8.1971 | "Paul and Linda McCartney release ""Back Seat of My Car""" | |
| 13.8.1972 | "Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last ""Bonanza""" | |
| 13.8.1972 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic | |
| 13.8.1975 | Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval | |
| 13.8.1977 | "Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband" | |
| 13.8.1978 | "Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed" | |
| 13.8.1978 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin | |
| 13.8.1978 | "Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted and thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0" | |
| 13.8.1979 | "Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits" | |
| 13.8.1980 | Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted | |
| 13.8.1980 | Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in U.S.S.R. | |
| 13.8.1981 | "Last broadcast of ""Waltons"" on CBS-TV" | |
| 13.8.1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) | |
| 13.8.1984 | "Morocco and Libya sign ""Arabic-African Union"" treaty" | |
| 13.8.1986 | "KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)" | |
| 13.8.1987 | Cards outfie ld sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning | |
| 13.8.1987 | "Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5 "" jump" | |
| 13.8.1988 | Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games | |
| 13.8.1988 | Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens | |
| 13.8.1988 | "Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min" | |
| 13.8.1988 | "U.S. beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup" | |
| 13.8.1989 | "2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed" | |
| 13.8.1989 | 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill | |
| 13.8.1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands | |
| 13.8.1991 | Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) | |
| 13.8.1991 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford | |
| 13.8.1993 | "Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24" | |
| 13.8.1993 | "Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed" | |
| 13.8.1993 | U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail | |
| 13.8.1994 | "Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed" | |
| 13.8.1995 | 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera California | |
| 13.8.1995 | Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship | |
| 13.8.1996 | Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 | |
| 13.8.1997 | Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the New York Yankees | |
| 13.8.1997 | San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels | |
| 14.8.554 | Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy | |
| 14.8.1248 | Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun | |
| 14.8.1281 | Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan | |
| 14.8.1385 | Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castilie | |
| 14.8.1385 | "Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence" | |
| 14.8.1395 | Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden | |
| 14.8.1457 | Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg) | |
| 14.8.1498 | Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela | |
| 14.8.1551 | Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli | |
| 14.8.1559 | "Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla" | |
| 14.8.1585 | Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands | |
| 14.8.1597 | Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java | |
| 14.8.1624 | Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru | |
| 14.8.1636 | Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens | |
| 14.8.1642 | Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia | |
| 14.8.1678 | Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange | |
| 14.8.1743 | "Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War" | |
| 14.8.1756 | "French capture Fort Oswego, New York" | |
| 14.8.1758 | "Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed" | |
| 14.8.1762 | English fleet occupies Havana | |
| 14.8.1765 | Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree) | |
| 14.8.1782 | Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies | |
| 14.8.1790 | Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela | |
| 14.8.1813 | British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus | |
| 14.8.1816 | Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha | |
| 14.8.1820 | "1st U.S. eye hospital, the New York Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City" | |
| 14.8.1824 | General Lafayette returns to U.S. | |
| 14.8.1825 | Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out | |
| 14.8.1842 | Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma | |
| 14.8.1846 | Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance | |
| 14.8.1848 | Oregon Territory created | |
| 14.8.1861 | 79th New York troops mutinies | |
| 14.8.1862 | Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president | |
| 14.8.1864 | 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault | |
| 14.8.1864 | "Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia" | |
| 14.8.1873 | """Field and Stream"" begins publishing" | |
| 14.8.1875 | Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl | |
| 14.8.1876 | Prairie View State University forms | |
| 14.8.1880 | Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248) | |
| 14.8.1882 | Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo | |
| 14.8.1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria) | |
| 14.8.1893 | "France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test" | |
| 14.8.1900 | 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) | |
| 14.8.1900 | "2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion" | |
| 14.8.1901 | SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70 | |
| 14.8.1903 | James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title | |
| 14.8.1905 | Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa | |
| 14.8.1907 | """Ha-Tikva"" adopted as official Zionist hymn" | |
| 14.8.1908 | Race riot in Springfield Illinois | |
| 14.8.1910 | "6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, D.C." | |
| 14.8.1911 | General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti | |
| 14.8.1912 | "2,500 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua; U.S. remains until 1925" | |
| 14.8.1914 | British field marshal John French and Gen Wilson land in France | |
| 14.8.1915 | British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 | |
| 14.8.1917 | China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I | |
| 14.8.1917 | Leeuwen soccer team forms | |
| 14.8.1919 | White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game | |
| 14.8.1919 | Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play | |
| 14.8.1920 | Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia | |
| 14.8.1920 | Olympic Games open in Antwerp | |
| 14.8.1922 | "1st ""old time"" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)" | |
| 14.8.1925 | Mount Rushmore 1st proposed | |
| 14.8.1928 | "Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's ""Front Page,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 14.8.1929 | Jewish Agency for Palestine forms | |
| 14.8.1932 | 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes | |
| 14.8.1932 | "Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game" | |
| 14.8.1932 | Philips makes 1 millionth radio | |
| 14.8.1933 | Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle and sets AL record with 9 RBIs | |
| 14.8.1935 | Social Security Act becomes law | |
| 14.8.1936 | 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin) | |
| 14.8.1937 | China declares war on Japan | |
| 14.8.1937 | Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns | |
| 14.8.1938 | BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague) | |
| 14.8.1939 | "1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)" | |
| 14.8.1940 | Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland | |
| 14.8.1941 | Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill | |
| 14.8.1942 | Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa | |
| 14.8.1943 | 1st allied air raid on Borneo | |
| 14.8.1943 | U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina | |
| 14.8.1944 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica | |
| 14.8.1944 | Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive | |
| 14.8.1944 | Russian offensive at Weichsel | |
| 14.8.1945 | V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II | |
| 14.8.1947 | India granted independence within British Commonwealth | |
| 14.8.1947 | "Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000" | |
| 14.8.1947 | Pakistan gains independence from Britain | |
| 14.8.1948 | "14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain" | |
| 14.8.1948 | Bradman's last Test Cricket innings | |
| 14.8.1948 | England all out for 52 vs. Australia at Cricket Oval | |
| 14.8.1949 | Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria | |
| 14.8.1952 | Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary | |
| 14.8.1953 | "20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)" | |
| 14.8.1953 | "KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 14.8.1954 | "WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, New York (NBC) begins" | |
| 14.8.1958 | "Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)" | |
| 14.8.1958 | "KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99" | |
| 14.8.1959 | "26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)" | |
| 14.8.1959 | "AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston" | |
| 14.8.1961 | Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game | |
| 14.8.1962 | French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel | |
| 14.8.1962 | "NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m" | |
| 14.8.1962 | "U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million" | |
| 14.8.1964 | Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer | |
| 14.8.1964 | Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market | |
| 14.8.1965 | Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show | |
| 14.8.1965 | Continental Football League plays 1st games | |
| 14.8.1965 | "Sonny and Cher's ""I Got You Babe"" hits #1" | |
| 14.8.1966 | 1st U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon | |
| 14.8.1966 | "Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles" | |
| 14.8.1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open | |
| 14.8.1967 | "Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered" | |
| 14.8.1967 | Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air | |
| 14.8.1968 | Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 14.8.1968 | Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL | |
| 14.8.1969 | British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland | |
| 14.8.1969 | "New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant" | |
| 14.8.1970 | City University of New York inaugurates open admissions | |
| 14.8.1970 | Steven Stills arrested for drug possession | |
| 14.8.1971 | Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule | |
| 14.8.1971 | "Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0" | |
| 14.8.1971 | France performs nuclear test | |
| 14.8.1972 |