Today in History

Births On This Day, August 25th 🎂

1958 Tim Burton
American director, producer, screenwriter

1954 Elvis Costello
English singer-songwriter, producer

1949 Gene Simmons
Israeli/American singer-songwriter, bass player, producer, actor,

1930 Sean Connery
Scottish actor, producer

1530 Ivan the Terrible
Russian Tsar

Deaths On This Day, August 25th 🪦

2012 Neil Armstrong
American pilot, engineer, astronaut, first person to walk on the moon

1900 Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher

1867 Michael Faraday
English scientist

1776 David Hume
Scottish economist, historian, philosopher

1227 Genghis Khan
Mongolian Emperor
 

On This Day In History, August 26th

1978 First German to go into Space
Sigmund Jähn, a pilot from the East German Air Force joined the crew of Soyuz 31, a Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station.

1966 Namibian War of Independence Begins
The 24-year-long rebellion against the South African government began with an attack by the South African Defence Force on the members of the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) at Omugulugwombashe. Namibia gained independence on 21 March 1990. Namibians observe Heroes Day annually on August 26.

1955 First Tennis Match to be Telecast in Color
The Davis Cup match between Australia and the US from the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York, was telecast on NBC.

1920 19th Amendment to the US Constitution Takes Effect
The amendment extended universal suffrage to women in the United States. Before this, women in some states could vote in local and state elections. The Amendment was first introduced in Congress 42 years ago in 1878 by Senator Aaron A. Sargent. In 1919, Congress approved the amendment and sent it to the states to be ratified.

1768 James Cook Sails off on HMS Endeavour
The British explorer was the first European in recorded history to have visited the eastern shores of Australia. The ship reached Botany Bay in April 1770 and was back on British shores on July 12, 1771.
 
Births On This Day, August 26 🎂

1971 Thalía
Mexican singer-songwriter, actress

1970 Melissa McCarthy
American actress, writer, producer

1966 Shirley Manson
Scottish singer-songwriter, actress

1910 Mother Teresa
Macedonian/Indian missionary, Nobel Prize laureate

1819 Albert, Prince Consort
of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, August 26th 🪦

1974 Charles Lindbergh
American pilot, activist

1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer

1910 William James
American psychologist, philosopher

1850 Louis Philippe I
French king

1666 Frans Hals
Dutch painter
 

On This Day In History, August 27th

2003 Mars approaches the closest to the Earth in 57,617 BC
The next time the two planets will be this close will be in 2287.

2003 World’s Biggest Battery is Plugged in
The battery, which takes up about 2,000 square metres of space and weighs about 1,300 tonnes is set up to provide emergency electricity to the residents of Fairbanks in Alaska, for about 7 minutes.

1991 Moldova gains its Independence
The Eastern European country was part of the Soviet Union since August 2, 1940, from parts of Romania and parts of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1991, after the dissolution of the USSR, the country gained its independence.

1985 Military coup in Nigeria
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida took over the government after overthrowing Muhammadu Buhari in a bloodless coup.

1962 NASA Launches Mariner 2
Part of NASA’s Mariner program, the unmanned space probe was the first man-made object to fly by another planet – it encountered Venus on December 14, 1962. The space probe made its last contact with scientists on Earth on January 3, 1963.
 
Births On This Day, August 27th 🎂

1976 Mark Webber
Australian race car driver

1952 Paul Reubens
American actor

1908 Donald Bradman
Australian cricketer

1908 Lyndon B. Johnson
American politician, 36th President of the United States

1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher

Deaths On This Day, August 27th 🪦

1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
British statesman, naval officer

1975 Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian Emperor

1967 Brian Epstein
English talent manager

1963 W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, activist
 
29th August

1782 The British battleship HMS Royal George sank off Spithead with the loss of more than 900 crew while repairs were being carried out beneath the ship's waterline.

1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda (40 miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean) were voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. They left because they were concerned they would not last another winter on the barren North Atlantic archipelago, which was virtually cut off from the mainland for nine months of the year by rough seas and winds.

1949 The Soviet Union becomes the world's second nuclear power after a successful test in Soviet Central Asia.

1950 British troops arrive in Korea to support the US-led United Nation force in the Korean War.

1986 Britain's oldest twins, May and Marjorie Chavasse, both received telegrams from the Queen, to celebrate reaching their 100th birthday.

1965 Gemini V returns to Earth. Two American astronauts splashed down safely in the Atlantic after setting a space endurance record.

2005 Hurricane Katrina pummelled New Orleans with howling gusts and blinding rain, after sweeping ashore over the southern Louisiana coast.
 
1883
The 1st Carnegie Library financed by industrialist, Andrew Carnegie opens in Dunfermline, Scotland. It was the 1st of 2,509 libraries built around the world
1916
Congress creatures U.S. Naval Reserve
1958
guitarist, George Harrison age 15 joins 'The Quarryman' named later changed to The Beatles
1967
final episode of ABC"s drama'The Fugitive' starring David Janssen as' Dr Richard Kimble' 78 million viewers tuned in. The show ran for 4 yrs starting in 1963
1997
Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph&Reed Hastings in Scotts Valley, Calif as a online DVD rental business
2005
Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd& 3rd landfall as a Category 3 hurricane devastating much of Gulf Coast area from Louisana- Florida panhandle. It caused $115 billion in damages killed over 1,836 people
On a personal note,the 1st week in Jan 2006,I was a team member of church volunteers to D'Iberville, Mississippi,small Gulf Coast town population around 10,000,half of residents lost everything.The damage we saw was mind boggling
 
1897
inventor, Thomas Edison parents the Kinetoscope a device which produces moving pictures
1909
AJ Reach&Company patents Cork centered baseball
1954
Hurricane Carol hits Southern New England as a Category 3 storm,damage was $462 million,72 people died. It developed from a tropical wave near Bermuda ,moved up the East Coast winds at 115mph. It's the 1st storm name to be retired
1978
William&Emily Harris who kidnapped heiress, Patty Hearst in 1974, plead guilty and were sentenced to 8 yrs in prison.Emily spent the 1st half of her sentence in solitary confinement. She was paroled in 2007
2006
Edvard Munch's famous painting,'The Scream' which was stolen in 2004, is recovered during a raid by Norewegian police. The painting was in good condition
 
On This Day In History, September 1st

2004 350 people and children are killed in a massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia
Armed Chechen rebels took over 1000 people including school children at a school. The rebels demanded international recognition of an independent Chechnya. The hostage crisis lasted for 3 days and ended after Russian troops stormed the school.

1985 The Wreck of the sunk ship Titanic is found in the North Atlantic Ocean
A French-American expedition group found the wreck, which sunk on 14 April 1912 on her first voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, U.S.

1979 Pioneer 11 makes its closest approach to Saturn
The NASA-built space probe was the first probe to encounter Saturn - it flew by the planet at a distance of 13,000 miles (21,000 km). After its flyby, the probe went on a trajectory to go outside the Solar System. All contacts with it were lost a few weeks later.

1952 Life magazine publishes parts of The Old Man And The Sea
One of American author Ernest Hemingway’s best-known works, the novel tells the story of an old man and his fishing misadventures. Within a few days of the publication of the excerpt, 5 million copies of the magazine had been sold.

1914 Passenger Pigeons become extinct
Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon known to man, died at the Cincinnati Zoo, in Cincinnati, Ohio effectively making Passenger Pigeons extinct.
 
Births On This Day, September 1st 🎂

1975 Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Australian singer-songwriter, actress

1970 Padma Lakshmi
Indian actress

1964 Nabeel Rajab
Bahraini activist

1957 Gloria Estefan
Cuban/American singer-songwriter, actress

1946 Roh Moo-hyun
South Korean politician, 16th President of South Korea

Deaths On This Day, September 1st 🪦

2013 Tommy Morrison
American boxer

1983 Larry McDonald
American politician

1981 Albert Speer
German architect

1947 Frederick Russell Burnham
American soldier, adventurer

1715 Louis XIV of France
 
On This Day In History, September 2nd

1960 The First election of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile is held
The parliamentary body of the Central Tibetan Administration was elected and formed by Tibetan exiles in India. The day is celebrated as Democracy Day among Tibetan exiles.

1946 Interim government of India is formed
The interim government and the Constituent Assembly of India were given the task of overseeing India's transition to independence from British rule. The government was headed by Jawaharlal Nehru.

1789 U.S. Department of the Treasury is formed
The department is responsible for managing the government's revenue and spending. Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury

1752 U.K. adopts the Gregorian Calendar
The calendar, also sometimes known as the Western Calendar, is one of the most widely used calendars today. Prior to the switch, Britain and its territories followed the Julian Calendar. Due to the change, the British lost 11 days when September 2 was followed by September 14.

1666 A fire ravishes the city of London
Also known as the Great Fire of London, the fire broke out in a bakery and raged for 4 days destroying the houses of most inhabitants of the city.
 
Births On This Day, September 2nd

1982 Joey Barton
English footballer

1966 Salma Hayek
Mexican/American actress, director, producer

1964 Keanu Reeves
Canadian actor

1953 Ahmad Shah Massoud
Afghan commander

1913 Bill Shankly
Scottish footballer, manager


Deaths On This Day, September 2nd

1973 J. R. R. Tolkien
English philologist, author

1969 Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam

1948 Sylvanus Morley
American archaeologist, scholar

1937 Pierre de Coubertin
French historian, educator, founded the International Olympic Committee

1910 Henri Rousseau
French painter
 
2nd September

1685 The beheading of Lady Alice Lisle, the last woman to have been executed by a judicial sentence of beheading in England. She was tried by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester and was executed for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor.

1898 The Battle of Omdurman. Lord Kitchener retook Sudan for Britain in an act of revenge for the 1885 death of General Gordon. It was a demonstration of the superiority of a highly disciplined army equipped with modern rifles, machine guns, and artillery over a force twice their size armed with older weapons. Around 10,000 Mahdists were killed and 13,000 were wounded. Kitchener's force lost 47 men, with 382 wounded.

1945 Japan surrendered unconditionally on board USS 'Missouri', bringing to an end World War Two.

1979 Police discovered the body of a young woman - thought to be the 12th victim of the "Yorkshire Ripper" - in an alleyway near the centre of Bradford.

1984 A 14-year-old girl and six bikers were killed in a gun battle between rival gangs in a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
 
On This Day In History, September 9th

1995 Internet giant eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
The company owns ebay.com, an online marketplace and auction website.

1971 Qatar independence
The Persian Gulf state gained its independence after 55 years of British rule.

1967 Dagen H in Sweden
On this day, Swedish drivers switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.

1783 Treaty of Paris is Signed between Great Britain and the United States of America
The treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.

1752 Day skipped in the British Empire
The British Empire skipped 11 days starting September 3 when it adopted the Gregorian calendar.
 
Births On This Day, September 3rd 🎂

1965 Charlie Sheen
American actor

1929 Whitey Bulger
American mobster

1900 Percy Chapman
English cricketer

1899 Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1875 Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian/German engineer, businessman, founded Porsche

Deaths On This Day, September 3rd 🪦

2005 William Rehnquist
American lawyer, jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States

1991 Frank Capra
Italian/American director, producer, screenwriter

1962 E. E. Cummings
American poet

1658 Oliver Cromwell
English general, politician

1634 Edward Coke
English judge, politician
 
1783
Treaty of Paris signed in Paris which ended the American Revoluntary War between America and Great Britain
1935
1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, was driven by Malcolm Campbell at 301. 129 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
1944
Holocaust diarist, Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1995
eBay an on line consumer sales platform was founded by programmer Pierre Omidyar in his living room. .He was developing the site as a hobby,posted a broken laser for sale to test the site. He was stunned to find someone wanted to buy it. The success of the company in the 90's was due to interest of toy collectors e.g. Ty's 'Beanie Babies' The original name was' Auction Web', today the company has over 10,000 employees, revenue of $14 billion
2020
Mackenzie Scott, philathropist, ex wife of Amazon, CEO, Jeff Bezos becomes the world's richest woman .her worth $68 billion
 
On This Day In History, September 4th

2002 Kelly Clarkson Becomes the First American Idol
The singer, songwriter, and Grammy Awards winner made her first appearance in the second episode of the reality TV show, which was co-hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman and was judged by Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, and Randy Jackson. The popular show was broadcast on Fox television network and has been on television for 14 seasons.

1998 Google is founded
The internet company, now synonymous with the act of finding information on the world wide web was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It started as a research project when Page and Brin were doctoral students at Stanford University.

1998 Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Makes its Debut on British Television
The popular quiz game show that gave out cash prizes to contests for answering increasingly difficult questions was developed by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill, and Steven Knight, and was aired for the first time on ITC. Chris Tarrant hosted the British version of the show until 2014. The popularity of the show in the UK prompted TV channels from other countries to adapt it for their audiences.

1888 Printing and imaging company Kodak, also known as Eastman Kodak Company, was founded by inventor George Eastman
On the same day, Eastman received the patent for the roll-film camera. The cameras which were preloaded with rolls that were good for up to 100 photographs changed the world of photography by making it easier for amateurs to take it up as a hobby.

1870 Napoleon III ousted as Emperor of France
The first elected president of France, Napoleon took over the title of Emperor in 1852. The ouster came in response to Napoleon's capitulation during the Franco-Prussian War. After being removed from power, he was exiled to England, where he died on January 9, 1873.
 
Births On This Day, September 4th 🎂

1981 Beyoncé Knowles
African-American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actress

1977 Kia Stevens
American wrestler

1963 John Vanbiesbrouck
American ice hockey player

1949 Tom Watson
American golfer

1824 Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer

Deaths On This Day, September 4th 🪦

2014 Joan Rivers
American comedian, actress, author

2006 Steve Irwin
Australian zoologist, television host

1986 Hank Greenberg
American baseball player

1965 Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian physician, Nobel Prize laureate

1588 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
 
On This Day In History, September 5th

1977 Voyager 1 probe is launched
NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe from Florida. It is currently the farthest man-made object in Space.

1972 Massacre at the Munich Olympics
A group of Palestinian militants belonging to the Black September terrorist group stormed the apartment Israeli athletes were staying at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany several days after the XX Olympic Summer Games had begun. They killed 2 athletes and took 9 hostages, demanding the release of release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israel. The ensuing violence to release the hostages ended with the death of all 9 hostages and 5 militants. All Olympic events were suspended for a day to mourn and pay respects to the slain members of the Israeli delegation.

1957 On the Road is Hits the Bookshelves for the First Time
The iconic book was written by American author Jack Kerouac and was based on his and his friends’ travels across America. The book is considered to be a prime example of the Beat Generation – a group of authors and artists who examined and studied American culture after the Second World War.

1944 Benelux is Formed
The political and economic union consists of 3 countries - Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg. The name comes from joining the first 2 letters, 3 in the case of Luxemburg of the member countries.

1836 Sam Houston is Elected President of Texas
He was made the Head of State of the Republic of Texas after colonists won their revolt against the Mexican government and created an independent and sovereign nation. Houston was responsible for the Texian victory against Mexican forces during the Battle of San Jacinto. Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas twice and was also the only person to be governor of two different states - Texas and Tennessee.
 

Births On This Day, September 5th 🎂

1986 Colt McCoy
American football player

1946 Freddie Mercury
Tanzanian/English singer-songwriter, producer

1942 Werner Herzog
German director

1847 Jesse James
American criminal, murderer

1638 Louis XIV of France

Deaths On This Day, September 5th 🪦

1997 Mother Teresa
Macedonian/Indian missionary, Nobel Prize laureate

1997 Georg Solti
Hungarian conductor

1982 Douglas Bader
English pilot

1945 Clem Hill
Australian cricketer

1877 Crazy Horse
Native American war leader
 
On This Day In History, September 6th

2007 Israel Conducts Operation Orchard
The military operation was conducted by the Israeli Air Force to destroy a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir el-Zor region of Syria.

1999 Suai Church Massacre
More than 200 people who had found refuge in a church in Suai, East Timor were killed by pro-Indonesia militia after the results of an independence referendum came out.

1968 Swaziland Gains Independence From the British
The Southern African state became a British protectorate in 1902 after the Anglo-Boer war. King Sobhuza became the head of the nation in and reigned even after independence until 1982. He was succeeded by Mswati III, his son, who currently rules the country.

1870 A Woman casts her Vote in the US for the first time
Louisa Ann Swain voted during state elections in the state of Wyoming. Although women weren’t extended the right to vote in the US until 1920, the governor of Wyoming, John A. Campbell, had signed a bill that gave women the right to vote on December 13, 1869. This meant that women could vote in local and state elections, but not country-wide elections.

1522 Victoria Becomes the First Ship to Circumnavigate the World
The Spanish ship, which was commanded by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, set sail from Spain September 20, 1519, to find a better route to Indonesia. The expedition began with 5 ships including Victoria and 260 crew members. Magellan himself died during the voyage, and only Victoria with 18 crew members returned to Seville, Spain, after circumnavigating the world.
 

Births On This Day, September 6th 🎂

1972 Idris Elba
English/American actor

1969 CeCe Peniston
American singer-songwriter, actress

1963 Geert Wilders
Dutch politician

1945 Go, Nagai,
Japanese illustrator, author

1757 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
French general

Deaths On This Day, September 6th 🪦

2007 Luciano Pavarotti
Italian tenor

1998 Akira Kurosawa
Japanese director, screenwriter, producer

1990 Len Hutton
English cricketer

1966 Margaret Sanger
American activist

1919 Lord Charles Beresford
Irish Admiral, politician
 


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