; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=7,8 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: events4,v 1.1 91/03/07 16:19:08 billr Exp $ ;# Notable events in history (July-Aug) ;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at ;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com ;# ;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file ;# ;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) ;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com). ;# All dates in this file are New Style unless otherwise noted. ;# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which ;# one is correct. ;# 00000701 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets. (1861)%s18610701 00000701 Battle of Gettysburg begins (1863)%s18630701 00000701 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank) (1944)%s19440701 00000701 Dominion of Canada formed. (1867)%s18670701 00000701 East and West German money is unified in preparation for political unification of Germany (1990)%s19900701 00000701 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents. (1919)%s19190701 00000701 First adhesive postage stamp (1847)%s18470701 00000701 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill. (1898)%s18980701 00000701 The beginning of the first international geophysical year (1957)%s19570701 00000701 lifting of proscription against wearing of tartans in Scotland (1782)%s17820701 00000702 At 9 am President Garfield is shot in a railroad station in Washington (1881)%s18810702 00000702 Continental Congress passed a resolution saying "These United Colonies are, and of right, out to be, free and independent states" (1776)%s17760702 00000702 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act (1964)%s19640702 00000702 The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed (1890)%s18900702 00000702 The Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is inherently neither cruel or unusual (1976)%s19760702 00000702 The United States Army Air Corps was created (1926)%s19260702 00000703 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors (1819)%s18190703 00000703 Idaho became the 43rd state (1890)%s18900703 00000703 Quebec is founded. (1608)%s16080703 00000703 The USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 passengers and crew (1988)%s19880703 00000703 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass (1775)%s17750703 00000703 soldier in Paris strikes image of virgin Mary which then bleeds! (1518)%s15180703 00000704 America's 50th flag, honoring Hawai's statehood was unfurled. (1960)%s19600704 00000704 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens. (1873)%s18730704 00000704 Battles of Vicksburg & Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863)%s18630704 00000704 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho). (1863)%s18630704 00000704 Cloudy, 76 degrees F (Philadelphia, PA, 1776)%s17760704 00000704 Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia PA (1776)%s17760704 00000704 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos (1894)%s18940704 00000704 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote (1776)%s17760704 00000704 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,then a message around the world in 12 minutes (1903)%s19030704 00000704 Statue of Liberty is given to U.S. to commemorate the French and American revolutions (1884)%s18840704 00000704 The song "America" written by Dr Samual Smith on scrap of paper and performed by Boston school children (1832)%s18320704 00000704 corner stone of Washington monument is laid by President Polk (1848)%s18480704 00000705 Crusaders take Jerusalem after 5 week siege. In rage they kill 10000 men women and children (1100)%s11000705 00000705 Duke of Monmouth's rebel army was defeated (1685)%s16850705 00000705 Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork, W.VA. became the first fatality in the Korean War (1950)%s19500705 00000705 The 26th amendment giving voting rights to 18 year olds passes (1971)%s19710705 00000705 Venezuela gains independence from Spain. (1811)%s18110705 00000705 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England. (1865)%s18650705 00000706 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur (1885)%s18850706 00000706 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents. (1932)%s19320706 00000706 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba (1917)%s19170706 00000706 Louis Pasteur inoculates a human being for the first time, a small boy badly bitten by a dog (1885)%s18850706 00000706 Richard III and Anne are crowned king and queen of England (1483)%s14830706 00000706 The Republican Pary came into being at a convention in Jackson, MI (1854)%s18540706 00000706 preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC (1928)%s19280706 00000707 By act of Congress a new "Great Seal of the United States" is recut based on the original design and the old seal, known as the "illegal seal", made illegally by the Secretary of State in 1841, is removed from use. (1884)%s18840707 00000707 Hawaii annexed to the US. (1898)%s18980707 00000707 The Land Grant Act passes Congress, allowing the establishment of land grant colleges and universities (such as CSU) (1862)%s18620707 00000707 US occupies Iceland (1941)%s19410707 00000707 a patent was granted for the travelers cheque. (1891)%s18910707 19900708 A very interesting date and time: 12:34:56 7/8/90 00000708 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department. (1796)%s17960708 00000708 Edward II is crowned king of England (1307)%s13070708 00000708 First public reading, Declaration of Independence (1776)%s17760708 00000708 General Douglas McArthur is made commander of UN forces in Korea (1950)%s19500708 00000708 Harbor Hospital formally opens. (1897)%s18970708 00000708 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center (1905)%s19050708 00000708 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago (1896)%s18960708 00000708 the Liberty Bell cracks (again). (1835)%s18350708 00000709 10-hour working day set by law, New Hampshire (1847)%s18470709 00000709 Argentina gains it's independence. (1816)%s18160709 00000709 Bahamas Islands declare their independence (1973)%s19730709 00000709 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S. (1846)%s18460709 00000709 Holland annexed by Napoleon (1810)%s18100709 00000709 RAF begin night bombing of Germany (1940)%s19400709 00000710 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne after Edward VI's death according to a paper he signed before his death (1553)%s15530710 00000710 The Rainbow Warrior is sunk and one crewman killed by 2 magnetic mines placed by French agents (1985)%s19850710 00000710 Wyoming becomes the 44th state. (1890)%s18900710 00000710 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts. (1925)%s19250710 00000711 Confederate forces begin their assault on Washington, D.C. (1864)%s18640711 00000711 English fleet defeats the Spanish Fleet at Messina (1718)%s17180711 00000711 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829) (1767)%s17670711 00000711 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII (1533)%s15330711 00000711 The Flemish infantry defeat the French cavalry in the "Battle of the Spurs" (1302)%s13020711 00000711 The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado (1955)%s19550711 00000711 The U.S. Marine Corps was offically created by Congress (1798)%s17980711 00000711 VP Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Sec. Alex. Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. He dies the next day (1804)%s18040711 00000711 the second battle of the Somme begins (1916)%s19160711 00000712 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour). (1933)%s19330712 00000712 The United States Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor (1862)%s18620712 00000712 The United States, under General William Hull, invades Canada (1812)%s18120712 00000712 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned. (1934)%s19340712 00000712 William of Orange defeated Roman Catholic army of James II, establishing Protestant domination in Northern Ireland (1690)%s16900712 00000713 Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune said "Go west young man, go west" (1865)%s18650713 00000713 New York City was powerless for 25 hours from lightning storm. (1977)%s19770713 00000713 People riot in New York against law that says $300 lets one avoid the draft during which they burn an orphanage (1863)%s18630713 00000713 Women first compete in Olympic games (1908)%s19080713 00000714 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration. (1850)%s18500714 00000714 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese. (1853)%s18530714 00000714 George Washington refuses a letter from Gen. Howe addressed to George Washington Esq. rather than General Washington (1776)%s17760714 00000714 King Faisal II of Iraq is overthrown; the Iraqi army declares a Republic (1958)%s19580714 00000714 The Bastille is stormed in Paris, the French revolution begins (1789)%s17890714 00000714 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn. (1865)%s18650714 00000715 National Health Insurance Act comes into force in Britain (1912)%s19120715 00000715 Rome taken and pillaged by Genseric (455)%s04550715 00000716 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico. (1945)%s19450716 00000716 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run. (1861)%s18610716 00000716 Congress establishes the District of Columbia. (1790)%s17900716 00000716 Congress looks into allegations that the Air Force had made 3,500 bombing raids on Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 (1973)%s19730716 00000716 Cream forms (U.K., 1966)%s19660716 00000716 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif. (1769)%s17690716 00000716 First parking meters were installed, in Oklahoma City. (1935)%s19350716 00000717 Charles VII of France crowned by Joan of Arc (1492)%s14920717 00000717 Construction begins on Disneyland... (1954)%s19540717 00000717 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County. (1955)%s19550717 00000717 Spain ceded Florida to the United States. (1821)%s18210717 00000717 The Moors defeat the Spanish at Fraga (1134)%s11340717 00000717 the British royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor to avoid connections with Germany (1917)%s19170717 00000717 the first U.S. paper money was printed (1861)%s18610717 00000718 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot. (1872)%s18720718 00000718 Intel Corporation is incorporated. (1968)%s19680718 00000718 Rome burns for 9 days again, this time under Nero (64)%s00640718 00000718 Rome sacked and burned by Brennus the Gaul (390 BC) 00000718 Senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge and into a tidal pool on Martha's Vineyard. The passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowns in the car. (1969)%s19690718 00000718 United Nations admits Vietnam (1977)%s19770718 00000718 Women granted equality in divorce cases by the British Matrimonial Causes Act (1923)%s19230718 00000719 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe (1941)%s19410719 00000719 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY (1848)%s18480719 00000719 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft (1692)%s16920719 00000719 Heavy Zeppelin raids on Britain (1917)%s19170719 00000719 Lady Jane Grey's reign ends as support is thrown to Mary (1553)%s15530719 00000719 The worst train wreck in US history in Nashville, TN killing 101 (1918)%s19180719 00000719 after being dispersed by a storm, the Spanish Armada reassembles and enters the English Channel (1588)%s15880719 00000720 Columbia gains it's independence. (1810)%s18100720 00000720 Kilauea begins a long eruption that as of May 1990 had not stopped. In the process over 650M cubic yards of lava will be released. (1986)%s19860720 00000720 a bridge near Moscow gives way under a procession of 200 Waldimar monks drowning 158 (1851)%s18510720 00000720 a group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and thereby end the war (1944)%s19440720 00000721 Belgium gains its independence from the Netherlands; King Leopold I is crowned (1830)%s18300721 00000721 The Savannah, the first atomic powered passenger ship, is launched (1959)%s19590721 00000721 The first train robbery is carried out by Jesse and Frank James at Adair Iowa. They got $3000. (1873)%s18730721 00000721 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel (1954)%s19540721 00000722 27 FBI men gun down Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, as he leaves a movie theater (1934)%s19340722 00000722 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean after crossing Canada (1793)%s17930722 00000723 Dr. Livingstone returns to England (1864)%s18640723 00000723 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis, MO (1904)%s19040723 00000723 Parliamentary act to unite upper and lower Canada (1840)%s18400723 00000723 The Matrimonial Causes Act eases divorce in England and Wales (1937)%s19370723 00000723 The sultan of Muscat and Oman is deposed by his son (1970)%s19700723 00000723 Two canisters of CS gas (type used by Britain in Northern Ireland) are thrown into the House of Commons (1970)%s19700723 00000723 Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title because of photographs that were published in Penthouse magazine (1984)%s19840723 00000723 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio. (1852)%s18520723 00000724 Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the "scottsboro Boys" case (1937)%s19370724 00000724 Brigham Young reaches the site of Salt Lake City (1847)%s18470724 00000724 British Window Tax is abolished (1851)%s18510724 00000724 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial ends (he's found guilty). (1925)%s19250724 00000725 A treaty prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or under water was initialed in Moscow (1963)%s19630725 00000725 Henry IV of France becomes Catholic (1593)%s15930725 00000725 James I of England is crowned (1603)%s16030725 00000725 Portuguese defeat Moors at Ourique (1139)%s11390725 00000725 The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank, killing 51 people. (1956)%s19560725 00000725 a virtually undefended Constantinople falls to the Nicaean Army (1261)%s12610725 00000726 Baron Rothschild becomes the first Jew to be admitted to the British Parliament (1858)%s18580726 00000726 Ben Franklin appointed the first colonial postmaster (1753)%s17530726 00000726 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General. (1775)%s17750726 00000726 Fidel Castro began his revolt against the rule of Bastista. (1953)%s19530726 00000726 Liberia gains it's independence. (1847)%s18470726 00000726 New York becomes the 11th state (1788)%s17880726 00000726 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the internationally owned Suez Canal (1956)%s19560726 00000726 the start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas 00000727 Cromwell wins the battle of Gainsborough (1643)%s16430727 00000727 Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying a reliable transatlantic cable after twelve years of trying (1,686 miles long) (1866)%s18660727 00000727 General George McClellan was placed in charge of the Army of the Potomac (1861)%s18610727 00000727 German troops invade Ukraine (1941)%s19410727 00000727 House Judiciary Committee recommends President Nixon's impeachment (1974)%s19740727 00000727 Ray Brennan becomes the first person to die of Legionnaire's disease following an outbreak at a Philadelphia American Legion convention (1976)%s19760727 00000727 The Korean war armistice is signed at Panmunjom after over two years of meetings (1953)%s19530727 00000727 The bank of England is incorporated (1694)%s16940727 00000727 The highlanders defeat Mackay at Killiecrankie (1689)%s16890727 00000728 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee). (1933)%s19330728 00000728 An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 kills an estimated 800,000 people in Tangshan, China (1976)%s19760728 00000728 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (1914)%s19140728 00000728 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem. (1931)%s19310728 00000728 Peru declares independence from Spain (1821)%s18210728 00000728 The city of Miami was incorporated. (1896)%s18960728 00000728 an Army bomber flies into the Empire State Building at the 79th floor killing 13 (1945)%s19450728 00000728 federal troops dispersed the Bonus Army of WWI veterans who wanted the money they were to receive in 1945. (1932)%s19320728 00000728 festival of Neptune. In Roman times they sacrificed bulls and horses. 00000728 the Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut (1900)%s19000728 00000728 the fourteenth amendment, civil rights, is proclaimed in effect (1868)%s18680728 00000729 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed. (1858)%s18580729 00000729 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco (1920)%s19200729 00000729 Dominguez-Escalante expedition begins (1776)%s17760729 00000729 Hamburg is saved from the Hussites by presenting the children as supplicants. The Hussites were moved and gave children cherries. (1432)%s14320729 00000729 Mongolia has its first elections ever (1990)%s19900729 00000729 Pope Paul VI reaffirms Catholic Church's stand against artificial means of birth control (1968)%s19680729 00000729 The International Atomic Agency was formed (1957)%s19570729 00000729 The first oil arrives at Valdez through the Alaska pipeline (1977)%s19770729 00000729 Transcontinental telephone service, begins with a call New York to San Francisco (1914)%s19140729 00000729 fire on the aircraft carrier Forrestal kills 134 (1967)%s19670729 00000730 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto (1956)%s19560730 00000730 Former Teamsters Pres. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in Detroit. (1975)%s19750730 00000730 George Eastman gives first demonstration of color movies (1928)%s19280730 00000730 President Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the next year (1965)%s19650730 00000730 The city of Baltimore was founded. (1929)%s19290730 00000730 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. 1st elective governing body in a British colony (1619)%s16190730 00000731 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process). (1790)%s17900731 00000731 Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Trinidad. (1498)%s14980731 00000731 First storm warnings are published by British Meteorological department (1861)%s18610731 00000731 Flood in Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, kills 139 (1976)%s19760731 00000731 Iranian pilgrams clash with riot police in Mecca killing over 400 people (1987)%s19870731 00000731 Marquis de Lafayette, a 19 year old French nobleman, is made a major general in the Continental army (1777)%s17770731 00000731 Saxophone (invented five years earlier) introduced into French military bands (1845)%s18450731 00000731 The last Playboy Club in the US closes. It was a franchised club in Lansing, Michigan (1988)%s19880731 00000801 California introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education). (1953)%s19530801 00000801 Charles Whitman shot and killed 15 people from the bell tower at the University of Texas before he was killed by police (1966)%s19660801 00000801 Colorado becomes the 38th state (1876)%s18760801 00000801 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years). (1958)%s19580801 00000801 Joseph Priestley, Britsh scientist, successfully isolates oxygen from air (1774)%s17740801 00000801 Mark Antony's fleet defects to Octavius Caesar (30 BC) 00000801 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission. (1946)%s19460801 00000801 The U.S. and Canada agree to create the North American Air Defense Command (1957)%s19570801 00000801 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island. (1881)%s18810801 00000801 Whisky Rebellion (1794)%s17940801 00000801 first US census completed showing nearly 4 million people live in the 13 states (1790)%s17900801 00000801 the Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation. (1291)%s12910801 00000802 Capitol Reef National Park is established in a bill signed by President FDR (1937)%s19370802 00000802 Hannibal of Carthage, assisted by elephants, routed Romans at Canne (216 BC) 00000802 Iraq invades Kuwait with 100,000 troops and takes it in under a day (1990)%s19900802 00000802 Julius Caesar says, "I came, I saw, I conquered" defeating Pharnaces at Zela (47 BC) 00000802 Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy rescued members of his crew after their PT boat was run down by a Japanese destroyer (1943)%s19430802 00000803 Columbus sets sail with 119 men and 3 ships for the new world (1492)%s14920803 00000803 Lake Victoria was discovered by Captain Speke (1858)%s18580803 00000803 The earliest known letter to have been sealed with sealing wax was written on this day (1554)%s15540803 00000803 U.S.S. Nautilus passes below north polar ice cap (1958)%s19580803 00000803 War declared on France by Germany (1914)%s19140803 00000803 Women's rights convention held in Rochester, New York demanding suffrage and property rights (1848)%s18480803 00000804 Anne Frank and seven others are arrested by Nazis when their hideaway is raided (1944)%s19440804 00000804 Bombing of North Vietnam begins (1964)%s19640804 00000804 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914)%s19140804 00000804 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon. (1693)%s16930804 00000804 United States Coast Guard founded. (1790)%s17900804 00000805 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed. (1963)%s19630805 00000805 The first income tax of 3% of all income over $800 (1861)%s18610805 00000805 The first traffic light is installed in Cleveland, Ohio (1914)%s19140805 00000806 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (1945)%s19450806 00000806 Bolivia gains it's independence (1835)%s18350806 00000806 Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's goverenment is overthrown by the President of Pakistan (1990)%s19900806 00000806 The French war with Morocco begins (1844)%s18440806 00000806 The Holy Roman Empire is formally ended (1806)%s18060806 00000806 The United Nations imposes strong Economic sanctions against Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. The USSR, US and Red China are all in agreement for once. (1990)%s19900806 00000806 The electric chair was used for the first time at Auburn State (1890)Prison in New York.%s18900806 00000807 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage. (1807)%s18070807 00000807 George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart. (1782)%s17820807 00000807 The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed, giving Pres. Johnson broad powers in dealing with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces (1964)%s19640807 00000807 The revolving door is patented (1888)%s18880807 00000807 the accidental release of enriched uranium at a top secret fuel plant near Erwin, Tenn results in 1000 people being exposed to some abnormal levels of radiation (1979)%s19790807 19880808 Today the date is 8/8/88 00000808 Benny Goodman's first paying job as a clarinet player (1923)%s19230808 00000808 Great Train Robbery bags $7,368,000 (1963)%s19630808 00000808 Montenegro declares war on Germany (1914)%s19140808 00000808 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the rest of his days in exile (1815)%s18150808 00000808 Nixon announces that he will resign at noon the following day (1973)%s19730808 00000808 President Bush orders two divisions of troops to Saudi Arabia in response to possible invasion from Iraq (1990)%s19900808 00000808 The Duchess of York (Fergie) gives birth to her first child, a baby girl (1988)%s19880808 00000808 The silver dollar and the decimal system of money adopted by Congress (1786)%s17860808 00000808 the Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington D.C. (1846)%s18460808 00000809 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)%s19450809 00000809 Helter Skelter...the Charles Manson murders (1969)%s19690809 00000809 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 BC) 00000809 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency (1974)%s19740809 00000809 U.S./Canada border defined in Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)%s18420809 00000810 Britain applies of EEC membership (1961)%s19610810 00000810 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people (1833)%s18330810 00000810 Columbia became the 1st American ship to sail around the globe. (1790)%s17900810 00000810 Construction began on the astronomical observatory at Greenwich England by order of Charles II (1675)%s16750810 00000810 Ecuador gains it's independence. (1809)%s18090810 00000810 Heavy losses are inflicted to the Russian Fleet off Port Aurthor by the Japanese (1904)%s19040810 00000810 Missouri became the 24th state. (1821)%s18210810 00000810 Mobs in Paris attacked the palace of Louis XVI. (1792)%s17920810 00000810 Pueblo revolt starts between Pueblo Indians and their Spanish rulers (1680)%s16800810 00000810 The Mines Act promoted by Lord Ashley prohibits women and young children from working in the mines (1842)%s18420810 00000810 The Spanish and the English defeat the French at St. Quentin (1557)%s15570810 00000810 U.S. & Panama agree to transfer canal in year 2000 (1977)%s19770810 00000810 Violent encounters between Red Guards and workers in Canton (1967)%s19670810 00000811 France ends its involvement in the war in Indochina (1954)%s19540811 00000811 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan (1952)%s19520811 00000811 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1965)%s19650811 00000812 George Cormack discovered gold in Klondike Creek in the Yukon (1896)%s18960812 00000812 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam (1972)%s19720812 00000812 Postal reform measure signed creating an independent U.S. Postal Service (1970)%s19700812 00000813 East Germany sealed off the border between East and West Berlin, to halt the flow of refugees out of its territory (1961)%s19610813 00000813 Hernado Cortez returning with more troops finally takes Mexico (1521)%s15210813 00000813 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified. (1876)%s18760813 00000814 An international force including U.S. Marines enter Beijing to put down the Boxer rebellion (1900)%s19000814 00000814 British troops arrive in Ireland to put down sectarian violence between Roman Catholics and Protestants (1969)%s19690814 00000814 Pakistan became independent of British rule (1947)%s19470814 00000814 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter (1941)%s19410814 00000814 Social Security begins in U.S. (1935)%s19350814 00000814 Strike at Gdansk ship yards in Poland marks beginning of the Solidarity union in Poland (1980)%s19800814 00000814 The Japanese surrender to Allies ending World War II (1945)%s19450814 00000814 The Oregon Territory was established. (1848)%s18480814 00000814 The first Russian settlement is established in Alaska on Kodiak Island (1784)%s17840814 00000814 U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt, marking the official end to 12 years of U.S. combat in Indochina (1973)%s19730814 00000814 V-J (Victory in Japan) Day (1945)%s19450814 00000814 war declared on Germany and Austria by China (1917)%s19170814 00000815 Diplomatic relations are cut off between US and USSR (1918)%s19180815 00000815 Gandhi's movement obtains independence (Pakistan, India, 1947)%s19470815 00000815 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation (1635)%s16350815 00000815 India became independent after 200 years of British rule. (1947)%s19470815 00000815 the Congo (Brazzaville) gains it's independence. (1960)%s19600815 00000815 the first ship to cross through the Panama Canal enters the Pacific (1914)%s19140815 00000816 Richard I leader in the Crusades executed 2500 Turks to make medicine from their bile (1191)%s11910816 00000816 Roller Coaster patented (1898)%s18980816 00000816 The British capture Detroit (1812)%s18120816 00000816 the Tate Gallery in London is opened (1897)%s18970816 00000817 Allied Forces take Sicily (1943)%s19430817 00000817 Federal ships and guns bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor (1863)%s18630817 00000817 First public bath opened in New York City (1891)%s18910817 00000817 Indonesia gains it's independence. (1950)%s19500817 00000817 Robert Fulton's North River Steam Boat 'Clermont' began chugging up the Hudson on its successful round trip to Albany (1807)%s18070817 00000817 the Dow Jones hits 2700 for the first time ever (1987)%s19870817 00000818 James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi (1963)%s19630818 00000818 Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote (1920)%s19200818 00000819 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario). (1826)%s18260819 00000819 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident) (1960)%s19600819 00000819 Gail Borden patents condensed milk (1856)%s18560819 00000819 President Ford won the Republican presidential nomination. (1976)%s19760819 00000820 President Johnson signs a nearly $1 billion dollar antipoverty bill (1964)%s19640820 00000820 The Germans occupy Brussels, Belgium (1914)%s19140820 00000820 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invades Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization movement (1968)%s19680820 00000820 U.N. security council votes 14-0 (U.S. Abstaining) to censure Israel for declaring all of Jerusalem its capital (1980)%s19800820 00000820 Winston Churchill says of the RAF, "Never in the history of Human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." (1940)%s19400820 00000821 First peace time nuclear death (1945)%s19450821 00000821 Florida's first woman Chief of Police, Sue Wegner, was sworn in as chief of Mineola (1979)%s19790821 00000821 Hawaii became the 50th state. (1959)%s19590821 00000821 Nat Turner rebellion (1831)%s18310821 00000821 first of the Lincoln/Douglas debates (1858)%s18580821 00000822 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of open rebellion (1775)%s17750822 00000822 England's King Richard III was killed, ending the War of the Roses. (1485)%s14850822 00000822 It was announced that the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre sometime the night before. It turned up in Italy two years later. (1911)%s19110822 00000822 John Fitch's steamboat completes it's tests, years before Fulton builds his steamboat (1787)%s17870822 00000822 Pope Paul VI, begins the first papal visit to Latin America (1968)%s19680822 00000822 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness (565)%s05650822 00000822 The United States annexes New Mexico (1846)%s18460822 00000822 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president to ride in an automobile (1902)%s19020822 00000823 Alexander Goodunov, Soviet ballet dancer, defects to U.S. (1979)%s19790823 00000823 Christopher Columbus arrested for mistreating the natives of Haiti (1500)%s15000823 00000823 Fanny Farmer opens her school of cooking (1902)%s19020823 00000823 Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonagression treaty (1939)%s19390823 00000823 Ion Antonescu, Romanian Prime Minister, is overthrown making way for Romania to join the Allies in World War II (1944)%s19440823 00000823 Japan declares war on Germany (1914)%s19140823 00000823 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, one of the first colleges for women in the U.S., graduates its first students (1838)%s18380823 00000823 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty. (1939)%s19390823 00000823 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for killing two men in a payroll holdup. In 1977 Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis vindicated them. (1927)%s19270823 00000823 Rome is take by the Visigoths (410)%s04100823 00000824 -126.9 degrees F (Vostok, Antarctica, 1960)%s19600824 00000824 Alaric takes Rome (410)%s04100824 00000824 British troops burn Washington, D.C. (1814)%s18140824 00000824 Monterey taken from Mexico by U.S. forces (1846)%s18460824 00000824 Movie camera patented (1891)%s18910824 00000824 Pompeii is buried. (79)%s00790824 00000824 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect; parties agreed that an armed attack against one would be considered "an attack on all" (1949)%s19490824 00000824 The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, more than 30000 people killed in riots of French Catholics against Protestant Huguenots (1572)%s15720824 00000824 Vesuvius erupts covering Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae with 60ft of ash and mud (79)%s00790824 00000824 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. (1909)%s19090824 00000824 the Waffle Iron is invented. (1869)%s18690824 00000825 1500 Iroquois Indians kill all 200 inhabitants of Montreal (1689)%s16890825 00000825 800 French immigrants arrived in Louisiana to found New Orleans (1718)%s17180825 00000825 Allied forces liberated Paris, ending four years of German occupation during World War II (1944)%s19440825 00000825 President Harry Truman calls in the army to seize control of the railroads to avert a national railroad strike (1950)%s19500825 00000825 The National Park Service is established as part of the Department of the Interior (1916)%s19160825 00000825 The ending of the General Council of Nicaea, which settled on the rules for computing the day for Easter (325)%s03250825 00000825 Uraguay declared independence from Brazil (1825)%s18250825 00000825 the skies of Northern and Central Colorado get an orange haze from smoke of the giant Yellowstone National Park forest fires that have burned over 300,000 acres (1988)%s19880825 00000826 Britain and China sign a peace treaty (1842)%s18420826 00000826 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders agreed to emigrate to New England (1629)%s16290826 00000826 Edward III beats the French at the battle of Crecy (1346)%s13460826 00000826 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat. (1791)%s17910826 00000826 Julius Caesar arrives for the first time in England with 8000 troops (55 BC) 00000826 The 19th amendment on women's suffrage becomes effective (1920)%s19200826 00000827 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn. (1859)%s18590827 00000827 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war. (1928)%s19280827 00000827 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, killing 36000 people and was heard 3000 miles away (1883)%s18830827 00000827 Mrs. Fay Bridges became 1st woman to vote in a Florida election. (1920)%s19200827 00000828 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial (1963)%s19630828 00000828 More than 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico. (1973)%s19730828 00000829 Rock Springs Massacre, Chinese killed by miners in Rock Springs, WY (1885)%s18850829 00000829 The Chinese-American dish chop suey was invented in N.Y.City. (1896)%s18960829 00000829 U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking for more than 24 hours (1957)%s19570829 00000830 75 cents per pound tariff set on opium (1842)%s18420830 00000830 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen (1960)%s19600830 00000830 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)%s18620830 00000830 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963)%s19630830 00000831 Mary Ann Nichols becomes the first victim of Jack the Ripper (1888)%s18880831 00000831 Non-aggression pact signed by U.S.S.R. & Afghanistan (1926)%s19260831 00000831 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded. (1980)%s19800831 00000831 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth (1962)%s19620831 00000831 The Department of Housing and Urban Development was established. (1965)%s19650831 00000831 The first recorded major earthquake in U.S. history rocked Charleston, S.C., killing up to 110 people (1886)%s18860831