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Today in History ~ August 5
Events1071 - Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured and Islam advances through Europe
1264 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1391 - Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
1775 - The 1st Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
1391 - Jews are massacred in Toledo & Barcelona Spain
1858 - Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable [H]
1861 - US Army abolishes flogging
1861 - President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first federal income tax. As a wartime measure, all incomes over $800 were to be taxed at the rate of three percent. It was rescinded in 1872.
1862 - Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
1864 - The spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati.
1864 - Battle of Mobile Bay Al -- David Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral, 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!' [H]
1882 - The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was established on this day as part of the giant Standard Oil Trust.
1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1891 - 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
1914 - The first traffic light was installed at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio.
1924 - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
1926 - Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 hr
1936 - At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
1950 - Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23)
1953 - Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1957 - "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, made its network debut on ABC.
1962 - Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving South Africa
1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty outlawing nuclear tests in the Earth's atmosphere, in space or under the sea.
1964 - US begins bombing North Vietnam
1966 - Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ, bringing down the wrath of the fundamentalist and conservative Christian sects
1966 - Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
1966 - Beatles release "Revolver" album in US, "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
1972 - Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
1974 - President Nixon admitted ordering the Watergate investigation halted six days after the break-in, admits he withheld information about break-in. Nixon said he expected to be impeached.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for months. [H]
1986 - US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
1986 - It's revealed Andrew Wyeth secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
1990 - The United States sent a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia's capital, to evacuate U.S. citizens because of a rebel threat to arrest Americans in order to provoke foreign intervention in the civil war.
1991 - Iraq admitted it misled U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons and also admitted extracting plutonium from fuel at a nuclear plant.
1991 - The Democrats ordered inquiries into allegations that Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign team delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran until after the election.
1992 - Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of California state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted.
1994 - Opponents of Fidel Castro clashed with police in Havana as thousands of Cubans took to the high seas trying to reach the United States.
1994 - U.S. fighter-jets acting under NATO orders attacked Bosnian Serb positions after the Serbs seized weapons from a U.N depot. The weapons were returned.
1994 - Kenneth Starr, solicitor general under President Bush, was named as independent prosecutor investigating the Whitewater scandal.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
1997 - North Korea opened talks with the United States, China and South Korea aimed at negotiating a permanent treaty to replace the armistice agreed to after the Korean War.
1998 - Iraq announced it would no longer cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors and demanded the lifting of the U.N. sanctions imposed in 1991
2001 - A van driven by a drunken off-duty New York City policeman hit and killed a pregnant woman, her young son and teen-age sister. The off-duty officer, Joseph Gray, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.
2001 - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban jailed eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly preaching Christianity. The workers were rescued the following November as the Taliban regime began collapsing during U.S. military operations.
Birthdays Today
1811 - C L Ambroise Thomas French composer (Mignon Francoise deRimini)
1850 - Guy DeMaupassant (author: The Tellier House Yvette Toine, The Horla, The Diamond Necklace, The Umbrella, The Piece of String, A Woman's Life, Bel-Ami, Peter and John)
1860 - Joseph Carey Merrick Elephant Man
1889 - Conrad Aiken (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Selected Poems [1930])
1890 - Erich Kleiber Vienna Austria conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
1906 - John Huston (Academy Award-winning director: Treasure of Sierra Madre [1948]; The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Prizzi's Honor; father of Academy Award-winning actress Angelica Huston)
1911 - Robert Taylor (Spangler Brugh) (actor: Magnificent Obsession, Quo Vadis, Billy the Kid, Bataan, Knights of the Round Table, The Night Walke,r Death Valley Days)
1914 - David Brian (actor: Pocketful of Miracles, Intruder in the Dust, Flamingo Road, Mr. District Attorney, The Immortal)
1926 - Jeri Southern (Genevieve Hering) (singer: You Better Go Now, When I Fall in Love, Fire Down Below)
1926 - Jeri Southern (Genevieve Hering) (singer: You Better Go Now, When I Fall in Love, Fire Down Below)
1930 - Neil Armstrong Ohio X-15 pilot 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8 Apollo 11)
1930 - Richie Ginterh (auto racing)
1935 - John Saxon (Carmen Orrico) (actor: Raid on Entebbe, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Cardinal, Death of a Gunfighter, The Unforgiven, The Bold Ones)
1940 - Damita Jo (DuBlanc) (singer)
1940 - Roman Gabriel (College Football Hall of Famer: quarterback: North Carolina State; LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles QB)
1942 - Rick Huxley (musician: bass: group: Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Red Balloon, Good Old Rock & Roll)
1943 - Sammi Smith (singer: Help Me Make It Through the Night, So Long Charlie Brown, What a Lie, You Just Hurt My Last Feeling)
1944 - Larry Hinson (golfer)
1945 - Duane Benson (football: Oakland Raiders linebacker: Super Bowl II)
1946 - Erika Slezak (Emmy Award-winning actress: One Life to Live)
1946 - Jimmy Webb (Grammy Award-winning songwriter: Up Up and Away [1967]; MacArthur Park, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman ,Galveston)
1946 - Loni Anderson (actress: WKRP in Cincinnati, The Jayne Mansfield Story, Easy Street, Necessity, Nurses)
1947 - Bernie Carbo (baseball: Boston Red Sox)
1953 - Samantha Sang (singer: Emotion)
1956 - Maureen McCormick (actress: A Very Brady Christmas, The Brady Bunch)
1962 - Patrick Ewing (basketball: Olympic Gold medalist [1984], Olympic Dream Team [1992]; New York Knicks: NBA Rookie of the Year [1986]; Georgetown University:3 time All-American [1983,84,85], Naismith & Eastman Awards, Rupp Trophy [1984])
1970 - Josie Bissett (actress: Melrose Place, The Hogan Family, Mikey, All-American Murder, Book of Love)
Famous deaths
1792 - Frederick 7th baron Lord North, English premier -- presided over Britain's loss of its American colonies (1770-82), dies at 60
1891 - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/composer, dies at 73
1916 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
1955 - Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
1962 - Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent drug OD at 35 Born Norma Jean Mortenson [H]
1984 - Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58
1985 - Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
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