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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B0800
B08011744 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
B08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis
B08011779 Francis Scott Key, wrote 'Star-Spangled Banner'
B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before mast
B08011818 Maria Mitchell, America's 1st woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
B08011819 Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
B08011922 Arthur Hill, actor (Defenders, Andromeda Strain)
B08011933 Dom DeLuise, comedian, actor (End)
B08011936 Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer
B08011942 Karen Black in Illinois, actress
B08011944 Yuri V. Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, 38)
B08011973 Tempestt Bledsoe, (Cosby Show)
B08021696 Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan, fought Austrians & Russians
B08021884 Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist (Doña Bárbara), pres. (1948)
B08021905 Myrna Loy, actress (Rebound, Emma) in Montana
B08021914 Gary Merrill, actor
B08021922 Paul Laxalt (R-Sen-Nev)
B08021924 Carroll O'Conner, aka Archie Bunker
B08021924 James Baldwin, American novelist (Another Country)
B08021926 Betsy Bloomingdale Dept Store mogul
B08021932 Lamar Hunt, owner of NFL Kansas City Chiefs
B08021933 Peter O'Toole, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett)
B08021934 Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
B08021946 Bob Beamon, long jumper
B08021949 Bertalan Farkas, 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
B08021960 Linda Fratianne, figure skater
B08021960 Apollonia (Kotero) Prince's main squeeze
B0803 John Carlin (Gov-KS)
B0803 Richard Lamm (Gov-Col)
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, invented safe elevator
B08031867 Stanley, Earl Baldwin (C), British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
B08031887 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
B08031900 John T. Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
B08031901 John Stennis (D-sen-Miss)
B08031902 Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia
B08031905 Dolores Del Rio, Mexican actress (What Price Glory?)
B08031921 Mariyln Maxwell
B08031923 Anne Klein Fashion designer
B08031924 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus, QB VII)
B08031926 Tony Bennett singer
B08031935 Georgi S. Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
B08031940 Lance Alworth, NFL wide receiver (San Diego, Dallas)
B08031940 Martin Sheen, actor (Subject Was Roses)
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented modern pencil
B08041792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
B08041859 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nazi (Hunger) (Nobel 1920)
B08041900 Arturo Umberto Illia, president of Argentina (1963-66)
B08041910 William Schuman, composer
B08041920 Helen Thomas, journalist
B08041942 David Russell Lange, Labour prime minister of New Zealand (1984- )
B08041943 Tina Cole in Hollywood California
B08041958 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney Track star
B08051540 Joseph Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
B08051604 John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
B08051749 Thomas Lynch, signed Dec of Ind
B08051850 Guy de Maupassant, French author
B08051876 Mary R. Beard, historian
B08051899 Conrad Aiken, American poet, short story writer, critic
B08051906 John Huston, film director & writer
B08051923 Richard Kleindienst, former attorney general
B08051930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
B08051933 Joan Weldon, Gogo's singer
B08051941 Leonid D. Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
B08051953 Samantha Sang Singer
B080519?? Erika Slezak in Hollywood California
B080519?? Jo Collins in Oregon Playboy playmate
B08061697 Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
B08061809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
B08061861 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
B08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin (Nobel 1954)
B08061883 Scott Nearing, American sociologist, pacifist, author
B08061906 Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
B08061911 Lucille Ball, NY. comedian, actress
B08061917 Robert Mitchum, actor
B08061921 Ella Raines, actress
B08061927 William David Ford, (D-Mich-Rep)
B08061930 Abbey Lincoln
B08061945 Ken Norton, heavyweight boxer (or 0809)
B08061947 Sally Eaton in Ill
B08061952 Rep Carl C Perkins, D-Ky
B080619?? Stephane Krammer
B0807 317 Constantius II, Roman emperor (337-61)
B08071779 Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
B08071876 Mata Hari, dancer, courtesan, spy
B08071886 Louis Hazeltine invented neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible
B08071903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist
B08071904 Ralph J Bunche, a founder & diplomat of UN (Nobel 1950)
B08071926 Stan Freberg Writer-producer
B08071929 Don Larsen on what must have been a perfect day
B08071932 Ann Harding
B08071942 Anjanette Comer in Dawson Tx
B08071942 B.J. Thomas, singer (Raindrops)
B08071942 Garrison Keillor
B08071943 Lana Cantrell in Sydney Australia
B08071944 Loni Anderson in St Paul Minn (WKRP in Cincinnati)
B08071958 Alberto Salazar, marathoner
B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
B08081879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
B08081884 Sara Teasdale, poet
B08081902 Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist
B08081908 Arthur Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice
B08081910 Sylvia Sidney, actress
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designer of 1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt
B08081923 Esther Williams, actress, swimmer in Inglewood Cal
B08081927 Jim Weaver (D-rep-Ore)
B08081930 Andy Warhol, artist, movie producer
B08081932 Mel Tillis, singer
B08081937 Dustin Hoffman (Graduate, Death of a Salesman) LA
B08081938 Connie Stevens, Bkln
B08081948 Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
B08091593 Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler)
B08091776 Amedeo Avogadro, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23
B08091825 Elisha Ferry (R), governor of Wash. terr., state (1872-80, 1889-93)
B08091896 Jean Piaget, pioneer developmental psychologist
B08091897 Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
B08091911 William A. Fowler, US astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
B08091913 Herman Talmadge (Sen-D-Ga)
B08091919 Ralph Houk, baseball manager
B08091921 J. James Exon (D-Neb-Sen)
B08091928 Bob Cousy, NBA star
B08091928 Jimmy Dean actor
B08091930 Betty Boop, animation
B08091932 Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence worker
B08091942 David Steinberg Comedian-director
B08091944 Sam Elliott Actor
B08091957 Melanie Griffith Actress
B08091963 Whitney Houston Singer
B08101874 Herbert Hoover (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
B08101900 Norma Shearer
B08101910 Angus Campbell, psychologist, sociologist
B08101916 Noah Beery, Jr., actor (Tugboat Annie)
B08101923 Rhonda Fleming in Hollywood Calif
B08101924 Martha Hyer
B08101925 Mike Douglas TV Host
B08101928 Eddie Fisher, singer
B08101933 Jerry Falwell Evangelist
B08101938 Diana Muldaur
B08101942 Betsy Johnson
B08101943 Ronnie Spector, NYC
B08111833 Robert Green Ingersol, American author, politician, agnostic
B08111837 Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated
B08111867 Joseph Weber, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
B08111902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
B08111921 Alex Haley, American author (Roots)
B08111924 Arlene Dahl in Minnesota
B08111937 Anna Massey
B08111941 Elizabeth Holtzman Bkln AG (D-Rep-NY)
B08111950 Steve Wozniak, cofounded Apple Computer
B08121753 Thomas Bewick, English artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
B08121762 George IV, king of England (1820-30)
B08121774 Robert Southey, English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson
B08121862 Juluis Rosenwald, philanthropist
B08121866 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish dramatist (Nobel 1922)
B08121876 Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer
B08121880 Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher
B08121881 Cecil B deMille, directed God
B08121887 Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (had a cat)
B08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas, Mexican entertainer
B08121912 Jane Wyatt - Mom knows best - Spock's mother in Campgaw NJ
B08121915 Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
B08121919 Michael Kidd Choreographer
B08121921 Majorie Reynolds in Buhl Idaho
B08121925 Dale Bumpers, (Sen-D-Ark)
B08121926 John Derek Actor-director
B08121929 Buck Owens, country singer
B08121931 William Goldman, author (Lord of the Flies) (Nobel 1983)
B08121939 George Hamilton Actor
B08121941 Deborah Walley in Bridgeport Ct
B08131422 William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, clarinet inventor
B08131814 Anders Jonas Ångström, physicist, founder of spectroscopy
B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights
B08131819 Sir George Gabriel Stokes, physicist, mathematician
B08131860 Annie Oakley, frontier woman
B08131899 Alfred Hitchcock, director (Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window)
B08131902 Felix Wankel, German inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
B08131902 Regis Toomey, actor
B08131904 Charles (Buddy) Rodgers, actor
B08131908 Gene Raymond, actor
B08131909 John Beal, actor
B08131912 Ben Hogan, golfer
B08131918 Frederick Sanger, British chemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
B08131920 George Shearing, pianist
B08131921 Neville Brand, actor
B08131927 Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban political leader
B08131967 Quinn Cummings
B08141777 Hans Christian Oersted, physicist, chemist
B08141867 John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga) (Nobel 1932)
B08141901 Sir James Pitman, English educator, publisher, phonetic speller
B08141903 John Ringling North, circus director
B08141920 Nehemiah Persoff, actor
B08141924 Maurice Richard, NHL player
B08141925 Russell Baker, columnist
B08141926 Alice Ghostly in Montana
B08141926 Buddy Greco Singer
B08141941 Connie Smith in Elkhart, Indiana, singer
B08141941 David Crosby rocker
B08141944 Robyn Smith, jockey
B08141946 Susan St. James (MacMillan & Wife, Kate & Allie) LA
B08141950 Princess Anne of England
B08141952 Deborah Meyer, swimmer in Annapolis Maryland
B08141958 Earvin (Magic) Johnson, NBA star (LA Lakers)
B08151432 Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (Morgante)
B08151688 Frederick William I, king of Prussia
B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
B08151771 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet (Lady of Lake)
B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia
B08151860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady
B08151879 Ethel Barrymore, American stage, screen, TV actress
B08151888 TE Lawrence, writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia)
B08151904 Bill Baird, puppeteer
B08151912 Julia Child in Pasadena Calif, chef
B08151912 Wendy Hiller, actress
B08151924 Phyllis Schlafly, right-winger, St. Louis
B08151924 Robert Bolt Playwright
B08151925 Rose Marie Actress
B08151925 Mike Conners, actor
B08151931 Janice Rule Actress in Norwood Ohio
B08151933 Lori Nelson
B08151935 Abby Dalton in Las Vegas
B08151935 Vernon Jordan Civil rights activist
B08151935 Jim Dale, musical entertainer
B08151943 Barbara Bouchet
B08151944 Linda Ellerbee Broadcast journalist & author
B0800
*mmddyyyy Events
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S0800
S0801 Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
S0801 Dog Days
S0801 Feast of St. Peter's Chains
S0801 Lammas Day, term day in Scotland
S0801 1American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
S0801 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
S0801 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S0801 6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, Calif
S08011291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Nat'l Day)
S08011584 Swiss Confederation Day
S08011753 Lammas Day
S08011785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
S08011789 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
S08011790 1st US census
S08011794 Whiskey Rebellion
S08011798 Battle of Nile
S08011852 SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
S08011869 1st voyage down Colorado River
S08011876 Colorado becomes 38th state
S08011881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
S08011901 Burial within SF City limits prohibited
S08011903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
S08011907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
S08011916 Hawaii Natl Park established
S08011946 Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission
S08011950 Guam Territory created
S08011953 Cal introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education)
S08011957 1st coml building heated by sun, Albuquerque NM
S08011958 1st Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
S08011960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
S08011961 New SF Hall of Justice opens
S08011966 Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
S08011971 CBS presents 6 Wives of Henry VIII
S08011973 Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
S08011975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager
S08011975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
S08011981 MTV premiers
S0802 Dog Days
S0802 Feast of St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop of Agata dei Goti
S0802 St. Elias Day (Orthodox)
S0802 1American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
S0802 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
S0802 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S08021776 Formal signing of Dec of Ind
S08021858 1st street mailboxes - Boston, Mass
S08021873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
S08021877 SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes
S08021903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
S08021909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
S08021923 Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF
S08021934 Hitler takes over presidency when Paul Von Hindenburg died at 86
S08021965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
S08021975 Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
S08021979 Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32
S08021986 TODAY/PC born today
S0803 Dog Days
S0803 Finding of Body of St. Stephen, 1st martyr
S0803 1American Family Day in Az, Mich
S0803 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colo statehood in 1876
S0803 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S08031492 Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies."
S08031596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira
S08031678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
S08031933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
S08031958 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
S08031960 Niger gains independence from France
S08031982 Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
S08031983 John Sain of South Bend, Ind. builds 3.91 m house of cards
S08031984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S0804 Dog Days
S0804 Feast of St. Dominic, confessor
S0804 1American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
S0804 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
S0804 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S08041693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
S08041790 US Coast Guard founded
S08041925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
S08041927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
S08041934 NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game
S08041953 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
S08041958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
S08041962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain
S08041971 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
S08041984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
S08041985 Phil Rizzuto Day Yanks retire #10
S0805 Dedication of Basilica of Our Lady of the Snow, Rome
S0805 Dog Days
S0805 1American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
S0805 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
S0805 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S08051583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
S08051772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
S08051775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
S08051846 Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
S08051858 1st transatlantic telegraph cable completed by Cyrus W. Field
S08051861 US levies it's 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
S08051864 spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
S08051884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid
S08051914 US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
S08051921 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA)
S08051945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
S08051957 American Bandstand goes on network TV
S08051961 48° C (118° F) at Ice Harbor Dam, Washington
S08051962 Marilyn Monroe dies at 36
S08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
S08051964 US begins bombing N Vietnam
S08051966 Beatles release "Revolver" album
S08051969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
S08051973 USSR launches Mars 6
S08051984 Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
S0806 Dog Days
S0806 Feast of the Transfiguration
S0806 Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia
S0806 Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan
S0806 1American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
S0806 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
S0806 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S08061181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
S08061806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
S08061825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain (National Day)
S08061926 NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
S08061934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
S08061937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
S08061945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'
S08061946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
S08061961 Gherman S Titov, second Russian in space aboard Vostok 2
S08061962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain
S08061965 Beatles release "Help" album
S08061965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
S08061974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
S08061984 203.05 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
S08061985 Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth
S0807 Dog Days
S0807 Feast of the Name of Jesus (Anglican)
S0807 Feast of St. Cajetan, confessor
S0807 1American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
S0807 2Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
S0807 2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
S08071782 George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart
S08071789 US War Department established.
S08071807 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage
S08071819 Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia
S08071820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
S08071882 Feud between the Hatfield family of southern WV & McCoys of eastern
S08071882CKentucky broke out. About 100 either killed or wounded.
S08071912 Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.
S08071927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
S08071929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
S08071934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's
S08071934Cattempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel `Ulysses'
S08071942 US marines land in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
S08071946 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
S08071947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashed into a Polynesian archipelago reef
S08071959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of earth from space
S08071961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
S08071964 US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
S08071970 1st computer chess tournament
S08071971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
S08071972 Joi Lansing dies at 43
S08071974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers
S08071976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from earth
S08071983 Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium
S08071984 Jim Deshales became the 1000th playing Yankee
S08071987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
S08071987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 4° C (39° F) Bering Sea
S0808 Dog Days
S0808 Feast of SS. Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, martyrs
S08081579 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
S08081609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
S08081709 1st known ascent in a hot-air balloon, by Father Bartolomeu de
S08081709CGusmao of Portugal (indoors!)
S08081814 Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
S08081843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
S08081864 Red Cross Anniversary
S08081900 1st Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston
S08081920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
S08081929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
S08081937 Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River begins producing power
S08081940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launched air attacks
S08081963 Great Train Robbery in England
S08081972 Yanks sign a 30 year lease with NY City
S08081978 US launches Pioneer Venus probe
S08081980 LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
S0809 Dog Days
S0809 Feast of St. Denys
S0809 Feast of St. John-Mary Vianney
S0809 Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 bc)
S08091332 Battle of Dupplin Moor (in Scotland)
S08091778 Capt. Cook passes through Bering Strait
S08091786 1st ascent of Mt. Blanc
S08091803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
S08091842 US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
S08091848 Free-Soil Party nominates Martin Van Buren for president
S08091849 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
S08091854 Henry David Thoreau published `Walden'
S08091902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria.
S08091925 Only time Babe Ruth was pinch hit for Bobby Veach flied out
S08091930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
S08091936 Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics
S08091942 Britain arrested Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi
S08091945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki
S08091956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
S08091956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws
S08091965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
S08091969 The Manson family commits the Tate-LaBianca murders
S08091973 USSR launches Mars 7
S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency
S08091978 Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
S0810 Dog Days
S0810 Feast of St. Laurence, martyr
S0810 Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
S0810 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0810 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S08101809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
S08101821 Missouri becomes 24th state
S08101846 Smithsonian Institute established
S08101866 Transatlantic cable laid - Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
S08101945 Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry, dies
S08101948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM - WJZ, NY
S08101960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
S08101965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
S08101966 Lunar Orbiter 1 launched
S08101973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record of 3630 hits
S08101986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
S0811 Dog Days
S0811 Feast of SS. Tiburtius & Susanna, martyrs
S0811 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0811 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S08111835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
S08111877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
S08111888 California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
S08111919 Green Bay Packers founded
S08111929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
S08111933 temp. reaches 58° (136° F) at San Luis Potosí, Mex. (world record)
S08111951 1st color baseball game telecast
S08111960 Chad gains independence from France
S08111962 Andrian G Nikolayev,third Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
S08111962 Vostok 3 launched; rendezvous with Vostok 4 next day
S08111965 Watts riots begin in LA, last 6 days
S08111967 Al Downing becomes the 12th to strike out the side on 9 pitches
S08111980 Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
S0812 Dog Days
S0812 Feast of St. Clare, virgin
S0812 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0812 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S08121851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
S08121867 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
S08121898 Hawaii formally annexed to the US
S08121898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
S08121915 `Of Human Bondage,' by William Somerset Maugham, published.
S08121923 K Reinmuth discovers 1,000th asteroid, names it Giuseppe Piazzi
S08121934 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
S08121936 diver Marjorie Gestring becomes youngest Olympic gold medalist (13)
S08121941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany.
S08121953 Ann Davidson -1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
S08121953 Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
S08121955 Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
S08121959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
S08121960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
S08121962 Russia launches Pavel Popovich. He lands safely Aug. 15.
S08121964 10th time Mantle switch hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
S08121972 Last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
S08121974 1st time 2 teammates elected to Hall of Fame on same day, they are
S08121974CYankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford
S08121977 1st test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
S08121985 World's worst single aircraft disaster-Japan Boeing 747 (520 die)
S0813 Dog Days
S0813 Feast of SS. Hippolytus & Cassian, martyrs
S0813 International Left-handers Day
S0813 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0813 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S0813 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
S08133114 BC The Mayan "long count" calendar system begins
S08131642 Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
S08131704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
S08131831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
S08131847 English astronomer J.R. Hind discovers asteroid Iris
S08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
S08131932 Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins the game 1-0 in 10
S08131932Ctying the feat of Senator Tom Hughes who also won 1-0 in 10 in 1906
S08131939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over the A's
S08131960 Central African Republic proclaims independence from France
S08131961 Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
S0814 Dog Days
S0814 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0814 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S0814 410 Alaric sacks Rome
S08141248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral is begun
S08141385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
S08141457 Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
S08141756 French capture Ft. Oswego, N.Y
S08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
S08141848 Oregon Territory created
S08141880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed
S08141900 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down
S08141900Cthe Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners.
S08141912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
S08141917 China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
S08141919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple play
S08141935 Social Security Act became law
S08141941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
S08141945 VJ Day - Japan unconditionally surrendered to end WW II
S08141947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain
S08141951 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills
S08141958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
S08141962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
S08141966 1st US lunar orbiter
S08141969 British troops intervened militarily in Northern Ireland
S08141973 US bombs Cambodia
S08141977 77,691, see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
S0815 Dog Days end
S0815 Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (Anglican)
S0815 Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin
S0815 Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo
S0815 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0815 Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea
S0815 6Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
S08151057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by the son of King Duncan
S08151620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
S08151886 Guy Hecker scores seven times in 1 game
S08151901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
S08151912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice
S08151914 Panama Canal opens
S08151918 US & Russia severed diplomatic ties
S08151935 Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska
S08151939 "The Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
S08151945 Riot in SF celebrating end of WW II
S08151945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
S08151945CUS wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ended
S08151947 India & Pakistan granted independence within British Commonwealth
S08151948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
S08151960 Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Nat'l Day)
S08151965 Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
S08151969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in NY State
S08151970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
S08151971 Bahrain gains independence from Britain
S08151971 Pres Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
S08151974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escaped an assassination
S08151981 Robin Leamy of US swims a record 7.98 kph for 50 m
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