This Week in #History ... August 22nd - August 28th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Aug 22
565 St. Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1572 Failed assassination on Admiral De Coligny
1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
1707 Sweden and Prussia sign military treaty
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1846 U.S. annexes New Mexico
1864 International Red Cross forms
1901 Cadillac Co forms
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1911 Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike end
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1984 South African election for parliament boycvotted
1992 Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka
2010 International pledges to help Pakistan recover from devastating floods currently totals $800 million

Aug 23
1328 King Philip VI of France, crowned
1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
1821 Mexico declares independence
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in U.S. (SF)
1904 Automobile tire chain patented
1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
1962 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar)
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1990 Armenia declares independence
2010 Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground

Aug 24
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat, India
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, New York)
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1929 Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty
1939 Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/

Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1995 Windows 95 debuts
2006 Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet'
2010 The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research

Aug 25
1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1835 N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1886 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England
1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1908 Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race
1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1996 Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
2010 Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen

Aug 26
580 Chinese invents toilet paper
1549 Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1745 England, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1929 1st U.S. roller coaster built
1939 Croatia gets autonomous status
1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1957 U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1995 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan
2010 Threatened by floods, Pakistan directs nearly half a million people to evacuate their homes

Aug 27
1601 Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1900 Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1918 Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1958 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1975 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
2010 After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu

Aug 28
1565 Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras, NC
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial
1973 India and Pakistan sign POW accord
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour 
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
2010 Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others



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This Week In #History ... August 15th - August 21st

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Aug 15
1457 Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
1635 1st recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1748 United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized
1848 M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1906 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1918 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1931 Spakenburg soccer team forms
1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1950 President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1960 Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1982 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1989 U.S. Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1998 Bill Clinton confesses to Hilary about the Monica Lewinsky affair
2010 China commemorates victims of the Zhouqu landslide with a day of mourning

Aug 16
1570 King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1691 Yorktown Virginia founded
1748 "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
1834 Charles Darwin climbs Mount Campana in Chile
1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
1898 Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1907 Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
1918 U.S. troops overthrows Archangelsk
1927 1st home run hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago by New York Yankee Babe Ruth
1940 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1948 Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1959 U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying
1969 Woodstock rock festival begins in New York
1980 Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1988 Jailed nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1997 For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
2010 U.S. military forces use an air strike to kill an al-Qaeda leader responsible for planning suicide bombings

Aug 17
1498 Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess
1585 Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1835 Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1859 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1891 Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1897 W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1903 Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes
1914 Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1924 French-German trade agreement signed
1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage
1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1997 First of America Senior Golf Classic
2010 Afghan archeologists discover the remains of a Buddhist site located south of Kabul

Aug 18
1605 Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen
1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1759 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
1838 1st U.S. marine expedition
1858 Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement
1872 1st mail-order catalog issued by A. M. Ward
1896 Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times
1914 President Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1926 Weather map televised for 1st time
1937 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1956 Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game
1964 U.S.S.R. launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern, Switzerland, destroyed by fire
2010 Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night

Aug 19
1099 Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1399 King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
1627 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1791 Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
1897 1st electric taxi's drive in London
1900 Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1919 Afghanistan declares independence from U.K.
1934 Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters)
1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
1953 England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1976 President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention
1985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1995 Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
2010 Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment

Aug 20
2 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction - Star of Bethlehem
1741 Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1856 Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1893 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1896 Dial telephone patented
1900 Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1910 U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1920 Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1939 Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1974 President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1980 Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1996 India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
2010 Game-maker NCsoft is sued by a man claiming he would not have played Lineage II if he knew it was addictive and render him unable to function

Aug 21
1321 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1598 Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence
1703 Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1841 John Hampton patents venetian blind
1858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1888 William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
1897 Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1912 Mr. Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia
1925 BV Emmen soccer team forms
1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
1957 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
1967 Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
1972 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
1997 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
2010 Russia's Federal Security Service assassinates Magomedali Vagabov, a militant leader reportedly responsible for the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings

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This Week In #History ... August 8th - August 14th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Aug 8
1549 France declares war on England
1579 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1854 Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
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
1914 Montenegro declares war on Germany
1922 Italian general strike broken by fascist terror
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1953 U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact
1964 Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
1977 Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)
1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1993 Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
2010 Ongoing flooding and landslides in Gansu Province, China, kill 127 people and result in 2,000 missing

Aug 9
1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
1726 Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
1790 Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry U.S. flag around the world
1831 1st U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York)
1859 Elevator patented
1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
1923 New York State Golf Association formed
1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
1946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
1956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president
1988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles Kings for $15-$20 millions
1994 Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
2010 South Korea states that North Korea fired over 100 rounds of artillery into the Sea of Japan, signaling tension along the Korean Peninsula

Aug 10
843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France
1500 Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar
1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1869 O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector
1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
1944 U.S. recaptures Guam from Japanese
1954 Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up
1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S.
1981 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1992 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
2010 More than 5,000 people lose their homes and crops when the Niger River bursts its banks

Aug 11
1304 Sea battle of Zierikzee
1597 Germany throws out English sales people
1674 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III)
1874 Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head
1884 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Australia
1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
1914 John Wray patents animation
1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay
1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh
1966 Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins
1975 U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N.
1987 France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1997 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
2010 Two days after Rwanda's presidential election, Kigali, Rwanda reports that a grenade attack occurred during rush hour

Aug 12
1099 Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon
1508 Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
1658 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
1851 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
1914 Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
1923 Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
1933 Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile
1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1962 1st time 2 people in space
1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1981 IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
2010 Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, announces plans to release remaining Afghan War Diary documents from War in Afghanistan

Aug 13
1521 Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
1608 John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
1651 Litchfield, CT founded
1792 Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1889 William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1902 England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
1914 Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st U.S. bus line, in Minnesota
1923 Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government
1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1943 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1951 Great Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
1971 Paul and Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car"
1980 Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
1993 U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
2010 The German economy reports 2.2 percent quarterly growth, the fastest quarterly growth in over 20 years

Aug 14
1248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1585 Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
1762 English fleet occupies Havana
1820 1st U.S. eye hospital, the New York Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City
1876 Prairie View State University forms
1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti
1922 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1944 Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1966 Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles
1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1984 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
1995 Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
2010 Abd-al-Rahman Awad, the suspected leader of Fatah al-Islam, the radical Sunni Islamist group, is fatally shot and killed by Lebanon

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This Week In #History ... August 1st - August 7th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Aug 1
1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
1626 Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
1716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
1831 London Bridge opens to traffic
1873 San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service
1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited
1911 Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
1920 Peace of Riga - Independence of Latvia
1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1955 1st microgravity research begins
1962 Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
1988 Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
1998 Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
2010 Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and Sri Lanka's central highlands are added to the World Heritage List

Aug 2
1552 Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1718 Austria joins Triple Alliance
1776 Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
1819 1st parachute jump in U.S.
1875 World 1st roller skating rink opens in London
1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1921 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1931 Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1953 Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
1967 U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1980 U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24
1994 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
2010 The U.S. Government estimates the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico

Aug 3
1529 "Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai) - emperor Charles V and King French I
1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
1778 Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
1914 World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms
1923 V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
1930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
1941 German troops conquer Roslavl U.S.S.R.
1954 1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown
1963 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
1975 Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
1986 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame
1995 CNN en Espanol premieres
2010 South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

Aug 4
1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1666 Sea battle between Netherlands and England
1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
1862 U.S. government collects its 1st income tax
1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1914 U.S. declares neutrality in WW I
1925 U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
1971 U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1983 Revolution in Burkina
1993 Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
2010 The musician Wyclef Jean confirms his intention to run for the presidency in Haiti

Aug 5
1391 Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, hundreds killed
1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay
1861 U.S. levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
1891 1st travelers checks issued, American Express
1914 U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S.
1926 Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 hour
1942 German troops cross Kuban River
1954 Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers
1957 Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut
1962 1st quasar located by radio
1972 Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
1984 Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52)
1997 Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov, launched
2010 A piano reportedly played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is found in Baden-Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Aug 6
1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1896 France annexes Madagascar
1910 New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system
1937 U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty
1946 U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1961 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
1965 Beatles release "Help" album in U.
1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame
1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed
1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
2010 Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat

Aug 7
626 Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
1409 Council of Pisa closes
1588 English assault on Spanish Armada
1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti)
1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1909 U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny
1921 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
1930 Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate
1964 U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
1994 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan
2010 Large wildfires devastate Russia as pollution hits record levels

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This Week In #History ... July 25th - July 31st

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Jul 25
1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1860 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales
1898 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1965 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5
1983 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd
2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers
2010 U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010

Jul 26
1267 Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
1499 Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1656 Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
1775 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1887 1st Esperanto book published
1908 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive home runs
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister
1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
1963 U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1998 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
2010 Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history

Jul 27
1214 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1713 Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1888 Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1944 U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
2010 Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams

Jul 28
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon
1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, responds to a fiscal state of emergency by requiring most state employees to take three days of unpaid leave per month

Jul 29
626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1585 Friese academy opens
1751 1st international world title prize fight - Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
1858 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF
1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)
1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
2010 Monsoon rains delay salvage of the wreckage of Airblue Flight 202 which crashed in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people onboard

Jul 30
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body
1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1874 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles
1898 Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures
1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1956 U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1971 U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France
1989 Chile amends its constitution
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
2010 Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle

Jul 31
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
1790 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1809 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
1962 Federation of Malaysia forms
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
2010 Floods in Pakistan kill over 900 people, and the death toll is expected to rise further

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