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Today in History ~ August 1
Confederation Day, ( National Day) celebrated in Switzerland
Discovery Day celebrates Christopher Columbus' arrival on the islands of
Trinidad and Tobago in 1498 on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
Events0860 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare Louis the German & Lotharius II
1086 - English barons submit to William the Conqueror
1291 - Everlasting League forms basis of Swiss Confederation (Nat'l Day)
1485 - Henry (VII) Tudor's army sails to England
1498 - Christopher Columbus set foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. [H]
1589 - Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown Virginia
1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
1711 - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
1714 - Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes King George I of England
1753 - Lammas Day
1774 - British clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestley identified a gas which he called "dephlogisticated air," later known as oxygen.
1781 - English army under Lord Cornwallis occupies Yorktown Virginia
1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1790 - First U.S. Census population of 3,939,214(of which 697,624 are slaves) in 17 states.
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
1798 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
1838 - Slavery was declared unlawful throughout the British Empire.
1852 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church Zion Methodist
1863 - Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
1864 - Battle of Petersburg VA
1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
1873 - Inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco.
1876 - Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island SF Bay
1893 - Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
1901 - Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
1907 - An Aeronautical Division was added to the Army Signals Corps, and this forerunner of the U.S. Air Force bought its first airplane. The aircraft was built by the Wright brothers.
1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street SF
1914 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
1914 - France & Germany mobilize
1914 - Kaiser Wilhelm II declares war on his cousin Tsar Nicolas II (WW I) [H]
1916 - Hawaii National Park established.
1917 - Frank Little IWW organizer lynched in Butte MT
1933 - Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
1933 - NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
1936 - Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1936 - The Olympic games opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1941 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
1942 - Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery took command of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.
1943 - Near the Solomon Islands a U.S. Navy torpedo boat PT-109 under the command of Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was rammed and cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri; [H]
1943 - Race riot in Harlem NYC
1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1944 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto with brutal street fighting the Poles were gradually squashed by superior Germany weaponry and overwhelmed by the number of troops; the Nazis deliberately razed large portions of the city and massacred large numbers of civilians
1946 - Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1946 - President Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Sen. William J. Fulbright.
1950 - Guam Territory created
1953 - California introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education).
1953 - Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
1957 - 1st coml building heated by sun Albuquerque NM
1957 - The United States and Canada reached agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command.
1958 - First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years).
1958 - US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
1960 - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
1960 - Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
1961 - New SF Hall of Justice opens
1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" single goes #1
1966 - 25-year-old Charles Whitman wounds 32 & kills 16 (including his mother and wife), before being killed by police at University of Texas [H]
1971 - CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
1971 - George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
1972 - 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1973 - Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
1975 - Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager
1975 - A 35-nation summit in Helsinki, Finland, concluded with the signing of an accord dealing with European security, human rights and East-West contacts.
1976 - Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
1981 - MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m.; first music video shown on the rock-video cable channel was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles
1982 - Greg Louganis US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
1988 - The city council of Yonkers, N.Y., rejected a court ordered housing integration plan, risking heavy fines and municipal bankruptcy.
1990 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
1990 - Moslem rebels surrendered in Trinidad and Tobago, five days after launching a coup and taking Prime Minister Arthur Robinson and dozens of others hostage.
1991 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted a U.S. formula for Middle East peace talks with the Arabs.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush, visiting the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, urged Soviet republics to show restraint in their demands for more autonomy.
1993 - The Mississippi River finally crested in St. Louis at 49.4 feet, 2.5 feet below the top of the floodwall protecting the central part of the city.
1994 - Haiti declared a state of siege following passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing an invasion of the Caribbean nation.
1994 - Lisa Marie Presley confirmed rumors that she had married pop star Michael Jackson May 26 in the Dominican Republic. The couple divorced less than two years later.
1995 - Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced it was buying CBS-TV network, one day after Disney announced its purchase of Capital Cities/ABC.
1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics, Michael Johnson broke his world track record by more than three-tenths of a second, winning the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds.
1996 - In a political victory for President Clinton, a federal jury in Little Rock, Ark., acquitted two Arkansas bankers of misapplying bank funds and conspiracy to boost his political career. (The jury deadlocked on seven other counts.)
2000 - A U.S. military court in Germany sentenced Army Staff Sgt. Frank Ronghi to life in prison without parole for sexually assaulting and killing Merita Shabiu, an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian girl, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.
2002 - The United Nations said it found no evidence to back up claims by the Palestinians that the Israeli army had massacred Palestinian refugees at a camp in Jenin.
Birthdays Today
0126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax Roman emperor (193 AD)
1686 - Benedetto Marcello Italian author/composer
1744 - Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck French zoologist, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
1770 - William Clark Charlottsville VA of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1779 - Francis Scott Key (attorney, poet: The Star-Spangled Banner: U.S. national anthem)
1815 - Richard Henry Dana novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
1818 - Maria Mitchell, America's 1st woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
1819 - Herman Melville US author (Moby Dick Billy Budd)
1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln (son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; rescued from train [T] accident by Edwin Booth, brother of man who assassinated President Lincoln)
1889 - John F Mahoney developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
1914 - Lloyd Mangrum (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1946])
1921 - Jack Kramer (tennis champion: Wimbledon [1947] U.S. Open [1946 47])
1922 - Arthur Hill (actor: Harper The Andromeda Strain Revenge of the Stepford Wives Futureworld Owen Marshall Counselor at Law Glitter)
1925 - George Bamberger (baseball manager: KC Royals)
1929 - Michael Stewart (Rubin) (playwright: Midnight Edition)
1930 - Geoffrey Holder (dancer actor: Live and Let Die Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex (But were Afraid to Ask) Doctor Dolittle)
1931 - Tom Wilson (cartoonist of Ziggy)
1933 - Dom Deluise (comedian actor: Dean Martin Show Loose Cannons Cannonball Run 1 & 2 Blazing Saddles Silent Movie Smokey and the Bandit Part 2 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; host: New Candid Camera)
1934 - Bobby Isaac (auto racer)
1936 - Yves St. Laurent (Henry Mathieu) (fashion designer)
1937 - Alfonse M. D'Amato (U.S. Senator from New York)
1941 - Ronald Brown (U.S. Secretary of Commerce [Clinton Administration]; Democratic National Committee chairman: 1st African-American to head a major political party)
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini (actor: A Walk in the Clouds Once Upon a Crime Goodnight Michael Angelo Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August)
1942 - Jerry Garcia (guitarist, banjo, lyricist: group: The Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Truckin', Alabama Getaway)
1942 - Karen Black, in Illinois actress
1944 - Yuri V. Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 26 38)
1947 - Rick Coonce (singer, drummer: group: The Grassroots: Let's Live for Today, Midnight Confessions)
1948 - Cliff Branch (football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV; LA Raiders: Super Bowl XVIII)
1950 - Milt May (baseball)
1952 - Greg Gross (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies)
1953 - Robert Cray (singer: group: Robert Cray Band: albums: Showdown, Strong Persuader; in film: Animal House)
1960 - Joe Elliot (singer: group: Def Leppard: Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin')
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe (actress: The Cosby Show, Monsters)
Famous deaths
0527 - Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies
1628 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37
1714 - Queen Anne Stuart, England (1702-14), dies at about 49
1977 - Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47 in fiery helicopter crash
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58
1996 - Mohammed Farah Aidid, who had controlled much of Somalia during its civil war, died of wounds suffered during a skirmish with another faction.
1997 - Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82
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