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