This Week in #History ... August 22nd - August 28th
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Aug 22
565 St. Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1572 Failed assassination on Admiral De Coligny
1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
1707 Sweden and Prussia sign military treaty
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1846 U.S. annexes New Mexico
1864 International Red Cross forms
1901 Cadillac Co forms
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1911 Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike end
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1984 South African election for parliament boycvotted
1992 Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka
2010 International pledges to help Pakistan recover from devastating floods currently totals $800 million
Aug 23
1328 King Philip VI of France, crowned
1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
1821 Mexico declares independence
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in U.S. (SF)
1904 Automobile tire chain patented
1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
1962 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar)
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1990 Armenia declares independence
2010 Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground
Aug 24
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat, India
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, New York)
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1929 Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty
1939 Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1995 Windows 95 debuts
2006 Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet'
2010 The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research
Aug 25
1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1835 N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1886 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England
1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1908 Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race
1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1996 Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
2010 Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen
Aug 26
580 Chinese invents toilet paper
1549 Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1745 England, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1929 1st U.S. roller coaster built
1939 Croatia gets autonomous status
1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1957 U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1995 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan
2010 Threatened by floods, Pakistan directs nearly half a million people to evacuate their homes
Aug 27
1601 Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1900 Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1918 Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1958 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1975 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
2010 After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu
Aug 28
1565 Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras, NC
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial
1973 India and Pakistan sign POW accord
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
2010 Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others