xxxx :Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
xxxx :Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines [or August 15]
xxxx :Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
xxxx :Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
1191 :Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1534 :Turkish admiral Chaireddin Barbaross aoccupies Tunis
1566 :Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1585 :English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1597 :1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1604 :Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1619 :1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1641 :Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 :Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1741 :Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 :Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1781 :George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1791 :Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
1794 :Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1795 :Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1852 :Steamer Atlantic collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1856 :Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1861 :Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
1864 :8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
1865 :Pres Johnson proclaims an end to insurrection in Tx
1866 :Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1879 :Govt Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 :Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture opens in Moscow
1888 :Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats
1888 :T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1893 :Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1895 :Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Norwood Builder (BG)
1896 :Dial telephone patented
1901 :Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1908 :A Kopff discovers asteroids #669 Kypria & #670 Ottegebe
1908 :Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1910 :US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 :Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 :Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 :1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pgoud-France)
1913 :Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 :-21] German General von Blow executes 211 Belgians
1914 :-24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons
1914 :Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914 :Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914 :Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
1914 :German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1915 :Italy declares war on Turkey
1915 :Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
1915 :White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth,
1918 :Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1919 :ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1919 :Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit
1920 :1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920 :Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 :Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal Ha-Refuah
1920 :Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players
1920 :to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
1922 :1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1923 :London harbor strike ends
1925 :WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 :Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1929 :1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 :Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1930 :E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1381 Danubia
1935 :C Jackson discovers asteroid #1474 Beira
1935 :Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 :Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
1939 :1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 :Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia
1940 :1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940 :British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, Never in the
1940 :field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
1940 :Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
1941 :Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 :Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 :Anna Lucasta opens on Broadway
1944 :Gen de Gaulle returns to France
1944 :Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 :US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1945 :Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1945 :Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1945 :Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 :Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947 :Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 :15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948 :US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 :78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949 :Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1952 :Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1953 :General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 :Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 :1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 :Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 :Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 :Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 :Simply Heavenly opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1957 :USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 :White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 :Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1958 :Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 :Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1959 :Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1960 :Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960 :USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 :East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the
1961 :west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1962 :USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 :LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 :President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 :Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1965 :Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig
1965 :hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
1965 :Rolling Stones release Satisfaction (their 1st #1 US hit)
1966 :Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1966 :Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2406 Orels);kaya
1967 :Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
1968 :650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968 :USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 :69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1970 :-21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1971 :FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1971 :M Antal discovers asteroid #1807 Slovakia
1972 :USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 :Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 :Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
1974 :Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 :Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1975 :Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 :Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1976 :Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #7626
1976 :M R Cesco discovers asteroid #5758
1977 :N S Chernykh discovers asteroid #7046
1977 :NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 :Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 :Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 :Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1979 :India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 :N S Chernykh discovers asteroid #3618, #3818 Gorlitsa & #8246
1979 :Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1980 :Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when
1980 :Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 :NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 :Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 :Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 :that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1980 :UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration
1980 :White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1982 :C & E Shoemaker discover asteroids #3025 Higson & #3225 Hoag
1982 :Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
1982 :US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1983 :Miss National Teen-Ager
1985 :E Bowell discovers asteroid #3455 Kristensen
1985 :Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day
1985 :Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 :Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 :Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985 :trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 :Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 :Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1988 :6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 :Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1989 :Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 :Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 :Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 :Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1990 :Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
1990 :George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 :Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 :NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
1990 :T Seki discovers asteroid #6244 & #7410
1991 :After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
1991 :Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL
1991 :Estonia declares it's independence from USSR
1991 :itself independent
1991 :Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1991 :player with a 5-year extension for $25 million 0
1992 :England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1992 :Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
1993 :Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993 :Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
1993 :Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1994 :109.8øF (43.2øC) in Cordoba Spain
1994 :Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994 :Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1995 :Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995 :L Sarounova discovers asteroid #7670 Kabelac
1995 :Play's the Thing closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
1996 :India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1997 :Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
2002 :20 police killed in Tripura Militant attack
2002 :BCCI decides to send a new team for the ICC trophy next month
2002 :Power Minister Suresh Prabhu resigns