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