Post: ☢ Today in History Facts ☢ ε(●̮̮̃•̃)з
08-19-2010, 05:52 AM #1
Alekz
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With today ofcourse,Facts in History from August 19th.

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43 BC- Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

440 - St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1071 - Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King

1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon

1263 - King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing

1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry

1458 - Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II

1477 - Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of
Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France

1493 - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor

1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.

1524 - Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy

1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France

1587 - Sigismund III becomes king of Poland

1591 - French king Henri IV occupies Rouen

1627 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo

1691 - Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks

1692 - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass

1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term

1702 - -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French

1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30]

1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

1772 - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish govt & restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720

1787 - W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

1791 - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac

1796 - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance

1812 - US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere

1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.

1816 - Java again in Dutch hands

1821 - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII

1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)

1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores

1839 - Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1849 - NY Herald reports gold discovery in California

1861 - Confederacy Congress allies with govt of MI

1864 - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia

1888 - 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins

1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum

1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

1897 - 1st electric taxi's drive in London

1900 - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris

1903 - Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game

1905 - Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers

1909 - Indianapolis 500 race track opens

1911 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times

1912 - Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres

1913 - Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe

1914 - Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC

1914 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad

1914 - German fleet bombs English coast

1914 - Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC

1915 - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands

1915 - World War I: the Battle of Van begins

1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws

1918 - Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC

1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK

1921 - Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits

1922 - 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)

1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian
Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.

1931 - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game

1932 - 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)

1933 - 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)

1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)

1934 - Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters)

1934 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament

1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.

1936 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow

1939 - 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)

1941 - Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout

1942 - -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab

1942 - 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France

1942 - Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad

1943 - Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle

1943 - US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen

1944 - Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed

1944 - Gen Bradley visits Montgomery

1944 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India

1944 - Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance

1944 - Paris police strike against nazi occupiers

1944 - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy

1944 - US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris

1944 - US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy

1945 - Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins

1947 - J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A

1950 - ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)

1951 - Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit

1953 - England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0

1954 - Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN

1955 - 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)

1955 - Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)

1955 - US raises import duty on bicycles 50%

1955 - WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B
(DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)

1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open

1957 - NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958

1957 - US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon

1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters

1959 - Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ

1959 - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League

1959 - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit

1960 - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)

1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)

1961 - US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin

1962 - Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55

1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament

1963 - NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City

1964 - Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched

1965 - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences

1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chic Cubs, 1-0

1966 - Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed

1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1

1969 - Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0

1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1973 - Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge

1973 - Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years

1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open

1975 - Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager

1976 - Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention

1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

1978 - 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran

1979 - "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)

1979 - Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight

1979 - Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little

1979 - Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space

1980 - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30

1980 - Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die

1980 - Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London

1981 - 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

1982 - Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec

1982 - Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space

1983 - LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting

1983 - Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut

1984 - 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala

1984 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf

1984 - Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres

1984 - Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am

1985 - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei

1986 - Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran

1987 - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen
people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.

1988 - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

1988 - Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma

1988 - NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer

1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland

1990 - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic

1990 - Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat

1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)

1991 - -20] Hurricane Bob hits US

1991 - Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev

1991 - Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA

1992 - Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)

1992 - Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia

1993 - 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5

1993 - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin

1993 - Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13

1993 - George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon

1993 - Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge

1993 - Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")

1995 - After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel

1995 - Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

1995 - Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds

1997 - NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim

1997 - STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands

1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.

2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

2003 - A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.

2003 - A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.

2005 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

2005 - A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.

2009 - A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.





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08-22-2010, 02:36 PM #20
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08-22-2010, 03:13 PM #21
Alekz
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Originally posted by KRFacct View Post
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