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FRIDAY, Aug. 18, 2023

1587-First English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)1894-Congress creates Bureau of Immigration1958-Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde1958-“Lolita,” by Vladimir Nabokov, published1982-First time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded1984-Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire1986-WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show1988-FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment1988-Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million1988-Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket1991-Pan Am games closes in Havana

Aug 17, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 16, 2023

1819 ― Manchester Massacre; English police charge at unemployed demonstrators1829 ― Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited1863 ― Emancipation Proclamation signed1870 ― Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion1896 ― Gold discovered in the Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Alaska1898 ― Roller coaster patented1954 ― Sports Illustrated publishes its first issue1960 ― Republic of the Congo (Zaire) forms1981 ― Highest score in World Cup qualifier match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)1988 ― IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence1991 ― U.S. President George H.W. Bush declares recession is near an end

Aug 15, 2023

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023

1807 ― Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River1846 ― U.S. takes Los Angeles1858 ― First bank in Hawaii opens1869 ― First international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)1877 ― Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos1938 ― Henry Armstrong wins 3rd concurrent boxing championship1945 ― Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (National Day)1960 ― Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)1961 ― Building of the Berlin Wall begins1973 ― Lee Trevino's first hole-in-one1978 ― First manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)1988 ― NYC sees first case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9-year-old Bronx boy)

Aug 14, 2023

TUESDAY, Aug. 15, 2023

1057 ― Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan1858 ― Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins1870 ― Transcontinental Railway completed1914 ― Panama Canal opens1918 ― First full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)1918 ― U.S. & Russia sever diplomatic ties1945 ― South Korea liberated from Japanese rule1948 ― Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)1960 ― Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France1966 ― Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission1973 ― Black September kills 3, wounds 55 in Athens1974 ― South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination attempt1992 ― Colombo '92 (Expo '92) held in Genoa, Italy

Aug 14, 2023

MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023

1457 ― Oldest known exactly dated printed book (3 years after Gutenberg)1765 ― Colonists gather under elm tree (Liberty Tree) in Boston to challenge British rule1880 ― Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed1893 ― France issues first driving licenses, including required test1900 ― Int'l forces including U.S. Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, aimed at ridding China of foreigners1917 ― China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I1936 ― First Olympic basketball game (Berlin)1945 ― V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally, ending WW II1947 ― Pakistan gains independence from Britain1966 ― First U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon1973 ― U.S. bombs Cambodia1979 ― Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for 3 hours

Aug 13, 2023

FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023

1772 ― Explosive eruption of Mount Papandayan in Java kills 3,0001780 ― Barbados hurricane begins1866 ― World's first roller rink opens (Newport, RI)1877 ― Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos1918 ― Battle of Amiens ends in WWI, Allies beat Germans1960 ― Chad declares independence1965 ― Six-day insurrection starts in Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles1966 ― Last Beatles concert tour of the U.S. begins1975 ― U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to U.N.1984 ― Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins four Olympic track gold medals1989 ― Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings of Neptune

Aug 10, 2023

THURSDAY, Aug. 10, 2023

1790 ― Robert Gray becomes first American to navigate the Columbia River1809 ― Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)1821 ― Missouri admitted as 24th U.S. state1827 ― Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 black people leave for Canada)1885 ― Leo Daft opens America's first commercially operated electric streetcar (Balt)1893 ― Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act1913 ― Second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses1949 ― Nat'l Military Establishment renamed Dept. of Defense1966 ― First lunar orbiter launched by U.S.1966 ― Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again1980 ― Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time1981 ― Coca-Cola Bottling Co. agrees to pump $34 million into black businesses1988 ― U.N. estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion

Aug 9, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 09, 2023

1786 ― First ascent of Mt. Blanc1790 ― Columbia becomes first U.S. flagged ship to voyage around the world1803 ― First horses arrive in Hawaii1831 ― First U.S. steam engine train runs (Albany to Schenectady, NY)1842 ― U.S.-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty1849 ― Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia1854 ― Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"1942 ― British arrest Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi1945 ― U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan, destroys part of Nagasaki1965 ― Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)1969 ― Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders1988 ― Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888

Aug 8, 2023

TUESDAY, Aug. 08, 2023

1609 ― Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope1709 ― First known hot air balloon makes ascent, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)1861 ― William Bateson, originator of term "genetics," is born1864 ― Red Cross Anniversary1876 ― Thomas Edison patents mimeograph1919 ― British recognize Afghanistan's independence in Treaty of Rawalpindi1929 ― First airship flight around the Earth flying eastward begins1945 ― USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea1953 ― U.S. & South Korea initial a mutual security pact1966 ― South African Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)1987 ― Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait1988 ― Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 12 light yrs) announced1988 ― Russian troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan after 9-year war1991 ― Shiite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy

Aug 7, 2023

MONDAY, Aug. 07, 2023

1498 ― Columbus arrives in Caribbean1782 ― George Washington creates Order of the Purple Heart1820 ― First potatoes planted in Hawaii1927 ― Peace Bridge between U.S. & Canada dedicated1940 ― Record high amount paid for stamp ($45,000 for 1856 British Guiana stamp)1942 ― U.S. launches 1st Pacific theater offensive in WWII, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands1946 ― First coin bearing portrait of an African American authorized1954 ― Charles Mahoney becomes first African American to serve as a full U.N. delegate1959 ― Explorer 6 transmits first TV photo of Earth from space1963 ― Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st first lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland1970 ― First computer chess tournament1976 ― Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars1990 ― Saudi Arabia allows U.S. troops on its soil to stop an Iraqi invasion

Aug 6, 2023

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