Historical events on this day

01 Aug 1021

Synod of Pavia emperor Henry II convicts married priest

01 Aug 1177

Peace Treaty of Venice Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III

01 Aug 1203

Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium

01 Aug 1291

Everlasting League forms basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)

01 Aug 1485

Henry Tudors army sails to England (future Henry VII)

01 Aug 1589

Assassination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clment

01 Aug 1628

Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism

01 Aug 1664

Battle at St Gotthard Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu

01 Aug 1690

Battle at Staffarda French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy

01 Aug 1715

First Doggetts Coat and Badge race (Watermans race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea)

01 Aug 1717

Nicholas Rowe is appointed British Poet Laureate by George I

01 Aug 1759

Battle at Minden Westfalen Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France

01 Aug 1785

Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman to discover a comet

01 Aug 1793

France becomes 1st country to use the metric system

01 Aug 1794

Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania

01 Aug 1814

Belgian King Willem I accepts blame in Southern defeat

01 Aug 1828

Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.

01 Aug 1834

Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect

01 Aug 1838

Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners.

01 Aug 1840

Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

01 Aug 1852

San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church Zion Methodist

01 Aug 1855

Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants

01 Aug 1863

Battle of Little Rock Arkansas start of Chattanooga campaign

01 Aug 1863

Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign

01 Aug 1867

Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)

01 Aug 1870

Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland

01 Aug 1881

US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island San Francisco Bay

01 Aug 1883

A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10000 (forgery)

01 Aug 1883

Amsterdams Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights

01 Aug 1886

Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand

01 Aug 1893

Henry Perky patents a machine for the preparation of cereals for food otherwise known as shredded wheat

01 Aug 1893

Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat

01 Aug 1896

George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)

01 Aug 1901

Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited

01 Aug 1902

Mine accident in Wollongong Australia (100 die)

01 Aug 1906

Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 23 innings but loses in 13th 1-0 on an unearned run

01 Aug 1907

U.S. Army Signal Corps establish a small Aeronautical Division

01 Aug 1907

First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour Dorset

01 Aug 1909

Tour de France Franois Faber of Luxembourg becomes the first foreigner to win the cycling classic

01 Aug 1911

Transportation workers begin a major strike in England part of a wave of industrial unrest

01 Aug 1914

France and Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI

01 Aug 1914

Trois Vierges German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI

01 Aug 1916

Annie Besant founds the India Home Rule League

01 Aug 1917

Frank Little IWW organizer lynched in Butte Montana

01 Aug 1918

Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win 2-0 in 21

01 Aug 1919

Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam

01 Aug 1922

Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard

01 Aug 1922

In Italy the socialist Alianza del Lavoro declare a national strike which collapses immediately and fascist forces destroy union and socialist headquarters

01 Aug 1924

Brooklyn pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters as the Robins beat Cubs 4-0

01 Aug 1925

Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies

01 Aug 1926

Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona

01 Aug 1927

Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards

01 Aug 1928

Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam with Sabin Carr gold from William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis

01 Aug 1932

George Washington quarter goes into circulation

01 Aug 1933

NYs future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell sets MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings at 45 13 as Giants lose 3-1 v Boston Braves

01 Aug 1934

US Amateur Golf Championship format is changed to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying and 36-hole matches for semi-finals and final

01 Aug 1936

Benjamin Mays named president of Morehouse College

01 Aug 1941

NY Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets MLB record for most walks in a shutout issuing 11 in 9-0 win v St. Louis Browns

01 Aug 1942

German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers

01 Aug 1943

Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw

01 Aug 1944

Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st African-American congressman from New York

01 Aug 1944

General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army

01 Aug 1944

US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt

01 Aug 1944

Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe

01 Aug 1945

NY Giants outfielder Mel Ott hits historic 500th MLB home run off Braves Johnny Hutchings joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx as only players to reach milestone

01 Aug 1947

Medium & The Telephone opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 performances

01 Aug 1948

The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.

01 Aug 1950

American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule

01 Aug 1950

Guam Organic Act establishes Guam as an unincorporated US territory

01 Aug 1950

King Leopold of Belgium abdicates Baudouin becomes King

01 Aug 1953

California introduces sales tax (for education)

01 Aug 1953

KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City Missouri (METABC) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1953

KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford Oregon (NBC) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1953

Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

01 Aug 1953

Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of 8 consecutive games in relief

01 Aug 1954

WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse WI (CBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1954

South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into being empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg

01 Aug 1954

Tour de France Louison Bobet of France wins by 15 49 from Ferdinand Kbler for the second of his 3 consecutive wins

01 Aug 1955

WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1956

KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico California (ABC) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1957

1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque New Mexico)

01 Aug 1957

Ex MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136m (445 10) in a game promotion

01 Aug 1957

US and Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

01 Aug 1958

US 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)

01 Aug 1958

US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole operation Sunshine

01 Aug 1959

WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville AL (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1960

Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France

01 Aug 1960

Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.

01 Aug 1961

Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League

01 Aug 1962

Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox 1-0

01 Aug 1962

Failed assassination on President Nkrumah of Ghana

01 Aug 1963

Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale

01 Aug 1963

WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline Illinois (ABC) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1964

Beatles single A Hard Days Night goes 1 & stays 1 for 2 weeks

01 Aug 1964

Dan Big Daddy Garlits becomes first drag racer to run the 14 mile at over 200mph (201.34mph at Island Dragway New Jersey)

01 Aug 1965

Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the German Grand Prix at the Nrburgring to clinch his second F1 World Drivers Championship

01 Aug 1966

Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at University of Texas

01 Aug 1966

Yakubu Gowon becomes Nigerian Head of State after a military coup dtat

01 Aug 1967

WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke VA (PBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1968

Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins

01 Aug 1968

WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport OH (IND) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1968

The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah the 29th Sultan of Brunei.

01 Aug 1969

36th Chicago Charities College All-Star Game NY Jets 26 All-Stars 24 (74208)

01 Aug 1970

EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh Wi

01 Aug 1970

KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre SD (PBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1970

Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell smacks 3 doubles and 2 homers in a 20-10 Pirates win v Braves

01 Aug 1970

2nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel

01 Aug 1971

CBS presents Masterpiece Theatres 6 Wives of Henry VIII

01 Aug 1971

Richard Petty wins the Dixie 500 in Atlanta Georgia to become the first NASCAR driver to win 1m in career earnings

01 Aug 1972

1st article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward in The Washington Post

01 Aug 1972

Nate Colbert hits MLB record tying 5 HRs and record 13 RBI as Padres beat Atlanta 9-0 11-7 in a doubleheader

01 Aug 1973

Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park

01 Aug 1974

Chinas Peoples Liberation Army Navy put into service ChangZheng 1 their first nuclear-powered submarine

01 Aug 1975

41st Chicago Charities College All-Star Game Pittsburgh 21 All-Stars 14 (54103)

01 Aug 1975

Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries rights signed by 35 nations

01 Aug 1975

CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe

01 Aug 1976

XXI Summer Olympic Games Montreal Canada Officially close

01 Aug 1976

Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34 kills 139

01 Aug 1976

Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle

01 Aug 1976

Reigning world F1 champion Niki Lauda of Austria suffers a near fatal crash during the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim

01 Aug 1977

San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam

01 Aug 1977

Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles

01 Aug 1978

Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris 1 dead

01 Aug 1979

Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal

01 Aug 1720

South Sea bubble reaches a frenzy in London as the stock price of the South Sea Company peaks at 1000 collapses soon after and falls to 124 by December

01 Aug 1888

The roof of Sevilles cathedral collapses after an earthquake

01 Aug 1973

MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate Fenway Park Red Sox win 3-2

01 Aug 1096

The Peoples Crusade led by Peter the Hermit arrives at Constantinople with 30000 followers

01 Aug 1814

Dutch King Willem I accepts blame in Southern defeat

01 Aug 1842

Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia [1] [2]

01 Aug 1968

Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo (Cleveland Ohio)

01 Aug 1855

Castle Garden in NYC (now known as Castle Clinton) opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants [1]

01 Aug 1971

CBS presents the first episode of BBC production The Six Wives of Henry VIII continuing weekly until September 5th

01 Aug 1975

35 countries (33 European nations Canada and the U.S.) sign theHelsinki Final Act agreement concerning boundary integrity human rights and economic co-operation

01 Aug 1626

Dutch Count Ernest Casimir I Duke of Nassau-Dietz conquers Oldenzaal

01 Aug 1639

French Ursuline nun Marie de lIncarnation arrives in Quebec on board the Saint-Joseph - goes on to open first school for girls and play a large part in establishing Catholicism in New France [1]

01 Aug 1701

Huron chief Kondiaronk urges First Nations people to sign a peace settlement with France dies the next day - results in The Great Peace of Montreal

01 Aug 1770

Battle of Kagul smaller Russian army defeats larger Ottoman and Cossack force in Moldavia the major land battle of the Russo-Turkish War and one of the largest battles of the 18th century

01 Aug 1831

London Bridge across the Thames opens to traffic

01 Aug 1886

Great Britain annexes Kermadec Island near New Zealand

01 Aug 1922

Dutch editor and politician Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard

01 Aug 1942

American Federation of Musicians labor union begins a strike over royalty payment disagreements refusing to perform on commercial recordings. ban lasts over two years

01 Aug 1942

Nazi German occupiers demand listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers

01 Aug 1973

Johan Witteveen appointed as the 5th managing director of the International Monetary Fund

01 Aug 1664

Battle of St. Gotthard West Hungary Imperial Army led by Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats Ottoman forces under Kprl Fazl Ahmed Pasha

01 Aug 1759

Battle of Minden Westphalia Anglo-German army under Prussian Field Marshal Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats a French army led by Marshal of France Marquis de Contades

01 Aug 1793

France becomes the first country to use the metric system

01 Aug 1814

Dutch King William I accepts blame for Southern defeat

01 Aug 1861

Brazil recognizes the Confederate States of America

01 Aug 1863

Cavalry action near Brandy Station marks the end of the Gettysburg Campaign

01 Aug 1924

MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters and 14 overall in 4-0 win over visiting Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field

01 Aug 1927

Earliest date for a film to be considered for an Academy Award

01 Aug 1944

General Montgomery takes command of the 12th and 21st Armies

01 Aug 1944

US 90th Division occupies Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcout in Normandy

01 Aug 1960

Benin (formerly Dahomey) gains independence from France

01 Aug 1962

Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Monbouquette no-hits Chicago White Sox 1-0 at White Sox Park

01 Aug 1976

Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34 kills 139

01 Aug 1980

Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.

01 Aug 1980

East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski wins his second consecutive Olympic Games marathon in 121103 in Moscow

01 Aug 1980

Gerd Wessig of East Germany becomes the first male to set a high jump world record at the Olympics (2.36m [7 9] Moscow)

01 Aug 1203

Alexius IV Angelus is appointed co-regent of Byzantium

01 Aug 1291

The Everlasting League is signed by Uri Schwyz and Unterwalden forming the basis of the Swiss Confederation (independence)

01 Aug 1626

Dutch Count Ernest Casimir I Duke of Nassau-Dietz conquers Oldenzaal

01 Aug 1639

French Ursuline nun Marie de lIncarnation arrives in Quebec on board the Saint-Joseph goes on to open the first school for girls and plays a large part in establishing Catholicism in New France [1]

01 Aug 1701

Huron chief Kondiaronk urges First Nations people to sign a peace settlement with France and dies the next day resulting in the Great Peace of Montreal

01 Aug 1715

First Doggetts Coat and Badge race (Watermens race) is held on the River Thames (London Bridge to Chelsea)

01 Aug 1720

In a period known as the South Sea Bubble the South Sea Company reaches a frenzy in London as the stock price of the South Sea Company peaks at 1000 collapses soon after and falls to 124 by December

01 Aug 1780

Sweden joins the First League of Armed Neutrality

01 Aug 1785

Caroline Herschel becomes the first woman to discover a comet

01 Aug 1812

Rare tornado hits Westchester County New York

01 Aug 1828

Englands Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic

01 Aug 1832

The Anatomy Act in the UK ends the practice of body snatching from graves by allowing the use of unclaimed bodies from prisons workhouses and hospitals [1]

01 Aug 1838

The apprenticeship system is abolished in most of the British Empire and former slaves are no longer indentured to former owners

01 Aug 1852

San Francisco Methodists establish Zion Methodist church the first Black church

01 Aug 1855

Castle Garden in New York City now known as Castle Clinton opens as the first US receiving station for immigrants [1]

01 Aug 1867

Black people vote for the first time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)

01 Aug 1883

A papyrus is offered to the British Museum for 10000 later revealed to be a forgery

01 Aug 1886

Great Britain annexes the Kermadec Islands near New Zealand

01 Aug 1901

Burials within San Francisco city limits are prohibited

01 Aug 1902

Mine accident in Wollongong Australia kills 100 people

01 Aug 1906

Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 23 innings but loses in the 13th inning 1-0 on an unearned run

01 Aug 1907

First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour Dorset

01 Aug 1907

U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes a small aeronautical division

01 Aug 1911

Transportation workers begin a major strike in England as part of a wave of industrial unrest

01 Aug 1917

Frank Little an American Industrial Workers of the World labor union organizer is tortured and lynched by unknown assailants in Butte Montana

01 Aug 1918

Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play an MLB record 20 scoreless innings before the Pirates win 2-0 in the 21st inning

01 Aug 1922

In Italy the socialist Alleanza del Lavoro declares a national strike which collapses immediately as fascist forces destroy union and socialist headquarters

01 Aug 1924

MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out an MLB record 7 consecutive batters and 14 overall in a 4-0 win over the visiting Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field

01 Aug 1925

Shortwave radio link between Kootwijk and Netherlands East Indies

01 Aug 1928

Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam with Sabin Carr winning gold followed by William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis

01 Aug 1934

US Amateur Golf Championship format changes to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying and 36-hole matches for semi-finals and final

01 Aug 1942

American Federation of Musicians labor union begins a strike over royalty payment disagreements refusing to perform on commercial recordings the ban lasts over 2 years

01 Aug 1943

British Sunderland seaplanes sink German submarines U-454 and U-383

01 Aug 1945

Japanese city Toyama is destroyed by B-29 bombers

01 Aug 1948

US Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded

01 Aug 1950

American Bowling Congress ends all-white-male rule

01 Aug 1950

King Leopold of Belgium abdicates and Baudouin becomes king

01 Aug 1953

Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of eight consecutive games in relief

01 Aug 1953

California introduces a sales tax for education

01 Aug 1954

South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into effect empowering the government to remove Africans from any area within and adjacent to the magisterial district of Johannesburg

01 Aug 1957

Ex-MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136 m (445 ft and 10 in) in a game promotion

01 Aug 1957

First commercial building heated by the Sun (Albuquerque New Mexico)

01 Aug 1958

Nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus begins the first transit of the North Pole in Operation Sunshine

01 Aug 1958

US first-class postage increases to 4 cents (it had been 3 cents for 26 years)

01 Aug 1961

Whitney Young Jr. is named executive director of the National Urban League

01 Aug 1962

Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Monbouquette no-hits the Chicago White Sox in a 1-0 win at White Sox Park

01 Aug 1963

The Beatles Book sells out on its first day of sale

01 Aug 1964

Beatles single A Hard Days Night goes to 1 and stays at 1 for 2 weeks

01 Aug 1964

Dan Big Daddy Garlits becomes the first drag racer to run the 14 mile at over 200 mph (201.34 mph [324 kmh] at Island Dragway New Jersey)

01 Aug 1968

Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in its coins

01 Aug 1968

Cleveland Metroparks begins operating the zoo in Cleveland Ohio

01 Aug 1968

Coronation of Hassanal Bolkiah the 29th Sultan of Brunei

01 Aug 1969

36th Chicago Charities College All-Star Game NY Jets 26 All-Stars 24 (74208 attendees)

01 Aug 1970

EAA Convention moves from Rockford IL to Oshkosh WI

01 Aug 1971

CBS presents the first episode of BBC production The Six Wives of Henry VIII and continues weekly until September 5th

01 Aug 1972

Nate Colbert ties the MLB record by hitting five home runs and sets a record with 13 RBIs as the Padres beat Atlanta 9-0 and 11-7 in a doubleheader

01 Aug 1973

Johan Witteveen appointed as the fifth managing director of the International Monetary Fund

01 Aug 1973

MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Soxs Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate at Fenway Park Red Sox win 3-2

01 Aug 1974

Chinas Peoples Liberation Army Navy puts into service Changzheng 1 its first nuclear-powered submarine

01 Aug 1975

41st Chicago Charities College All-Star Game Pittsburgh 21 All-Stars 14 (54103 attendees)

01 Aug 1975

Thirty-five countries (33 European nations Canada and the U.S.) sign the Helsinki Final Act agreement concerning boundary integrity human rights and economic cooperation

01 Aug 1976

Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34 kills 139

01 Aug 1976

Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in a preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle

01 Aug 1976

XXI Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal Canada

01 Aug 1978

Gunman occupying Iraqi Embassy in Paris surrenders and releases eight hostages. As the gunman is led away Iraqi guards open fire wounding him and killing a policeman. Police return fire killing one Iraqi and wounding three others.

01 Aug 1979

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo forms a government in Portugal

01 Aug 1980

Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in County Cork Ireland

01 Aug 1980

Gerd Wessig of East Germany becomes the first male to set a high jump world record of 2.36 m (7 ft 9 in) at the Moscow Olympics

01 Aug 1981

Music video cable channel MTV debuts in the US at 1201 AM with The Buggles song Video Killed the Radio Star

01 Aug 1715

First Doggetts Coat and Badge race (Watermens race) is held on the River Thames from London Bridge to Chelsea

01 Aug 1842

Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia Pennsylvania as a white mob attacks the free Black community [1] [2]

01 Aug 1852

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is established in San Francisco California the first African Methodist church in the US

01 Aug 1858

Province of Canada adopts a decimal currency system

01 Aug 1867

Black men vote for the first time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)

01 Aug 1883

Amsterdams Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky integrates modern electric lighting

01 Aug 1883

Inland Parcels Post service begins in Great Britain

01 Aug 1888

The roof of Seville Cathedral in Spain collapses after an earthquake

01 Aug 1902

Dutch Housing Act of 1901 officially comes into effect enabling public and social housing construction

01 Aug 1926

Battles between Druze and French forces in Damascus

01 Aug 1926

Failed assassination attempt on Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera in Barcelona

01 Aug 1933

Anti-fascists receive the death penalty in Germany

01 Aug 1936

Benjamin Mays is named president of Morehouse College

01 Aug 1943

Empire of Japan grants Burma independence under pro-Japanese government led by Dr. Ba Maw

01 Aug 1943

Race riot in Harlem New York City sparked by a police shooting of a Black soldier who attempted to intercede during an arrest of a woman in a hotel lobby [1]

01 Aug 1945

Japanese city Toyama is destroyed by American B-29 bombers

01 Aug 1954

WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1955

US begging its first zero-gravity research experiments

01 Aug 1957

Solar Building in Albuquerque New Mexico is the first commercial building heated by the Sun

01 Aug 1959

WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville Alabama (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1961

East Germany begins to limit traffic to West Berlin

01 Aug 1963

First edition of Sean OMahonys The Beatles Book an authorized monthly fan-zine sells out its 80000 print run on the first day of sale

01 Aug 1964

Dan Big Daddy Garlits becomes the first drag racer to run the 14 mile at over 200 mph (201.34 mph324 kmh) at Island Dragway New Jersey

01 Aug 1966

Charles Whitman wounds 31 people and kills 16 at the University of Texas

01 Aug 1967

WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1968

WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1970

EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh Wisconsin

01 Aug 1970

KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre South Dakota (PBS) begins broadcasting

01 Aug 1975

35 countries (33 European nations Canada and the U.S.) sign the Helsinki Final Act agreement concerning boundary integrity human rights and economic cooperation

01 Aug 1976

Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is adopted

01 Aug 1976

Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34 kills 139 people

01 Aug 1978

Gunman occupying Iraqi Embassy in Paris surrenders and releases eight hostages as the gunman is led away Iraqi guards open fire wounding him and killing a policeman. Police return fire killing one Iraqi and wounding three others.

01 Aug 1980

Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 people and injures dozens of train passengers in County Cork Ireland

01 Aug 1981

Music video cable channel MTV debuts in the US at 1201 AM with The Buggles song Video Killed the Radio Star

01 Aug 1982

After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver to win the Talladega 500 twice

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