Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 8

Paris was discovered
1497: Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1551: Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond & Buren
1654: 1st Jewish colonist arrive in US (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1663: King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1672: Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general
1693: NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1709: Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
1758: English & Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY
1776: Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila)
1777: Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
1778: George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1792: France declares war on Prussia
1796: US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1797: 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
1800: Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to
1800: prevent smallpox
1805: American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
1816: Frost in Waltham, MA
1833: Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1835: Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1836: HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
1838: Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
1849: St Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1853: Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay
1861: CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory
1861: Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked & dispersed
1862: Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1870: Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1870: Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
1876: White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
1889: John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
1889: Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1891: 61øF, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila
1891: Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
1892: American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1895: Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
1896: William Jennings Bryan cross of gold speech at Dem convention
1897: Harbor Hospital formally opens
1898: Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1898: US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
1902: John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore &
1902: Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles
1905: Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1907: Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1911: Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1912: G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge
1912: Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
1918: Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red
1918: Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple
1919: Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
1923: Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1923: Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
1928: Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
1932: Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
1932: G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1255 Schilowa
1932: Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs
1933: Public Works Administration becomes effective
1936: C Jackson discovers asteroid #1949 Messina
1941: All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
1943: 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943: British air raid sinks U-232
1943: NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1943: US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
1944: British troops march into Caen
1944: Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
1946: Tidbits of 1946 opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
1947: Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
1948: 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1949: Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants
1950: 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
1950: Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
1950: Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
1951: Yankee Joe DiMaggio & mgr Casey Stengel feud
1953: US stops aid to Persia
1954: KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954: Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1956: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957: Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
1957: CDC incorporates
1957: Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1960: Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
1961: Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
1961: Portuguese steamer Save breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
1963: Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland
1963: US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1965: Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
1966: US airline strike (until Aug 19th)
1967: Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games
1968: Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
1969: Thor Heyerdahl & reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
1969: US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1970: SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1972: English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)
1972: US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
1973: NY Mets are 12« games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1974: Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game
1975: Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
1975: Pres Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for pres
1975: Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high
1975: seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1976: Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break
1977: Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
1978: Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy
1978: Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
1979: Congo adopts constitution
1979: Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1979: Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)
1980: All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds)
1981: PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France
1981: Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1982: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1982: Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
1982: Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
1983: Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title
1985: Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
1986: Farthest thrown object-an Aerobie flying ring, 383 m (1,257')
1986: NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance
1987: Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
1988: Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)
1988: Miami Arena opens
1988: Rockers Jonathan Chico & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
1988: Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
1989: C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #5211 Stevenson
1989: Carlos Sa£l Menum becomes pres of Argentina
1990: 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1991: E F Helin discovers asteroid #6403 Steverin
1991: Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman
1991: Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1992: Florida Marlins unveil their uniform
1992: S Otomo discovers asteroid #6494
1992: Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria
1994: Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson
1994: Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
1994: St Maarten Godfather Claude Wathey sentenced to 1« years
1994: T B Spahr discovers asteroid #7200
1994: Whitney Houston suffers a miscarriage
1995: 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold
1997: NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join
2002: 5 dies in Cristian missionery hospital in a granede attack
2002: CPI demanded for legislation of allocation of Petrol pumps
2002: India says it has no proposal to resume Delhi - Lahore Bus service
2002: Pakistan says No to the return of its former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his children.
2002: Parveen Babi refuses to appear in TADA Court.
2002: Residential premises of Mr. Vaiko raided in Chennai.

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