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1898 - 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Crete 1914 - German troops march into France and push the French army to Sedan 1924 - MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches his second no-hitter, beating the Browns 2-0 in 7 innings 1944 - US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France 1988 - Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston 1989 - After a 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over the cloud tops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps 2001 - Singer Aaliyah and eight others are killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas 2014 - 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, are broadcast on NBC More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1908 - National Association of Colored Nurses forms in New York City, and Martha Minerva Franklin of Connecticut is elected president 1914 - German troops in occupied Belgium begin the six-week "Sack of Louvain," destroying historical buildings and killing hundreds of civilians 1917 - US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Robert Lindley Murray beats Nathaniel W. Niles 5-7, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3 for first of 2 straight US singles titles 1921 - Yankees pitcher Harry Harper hits three batters in an inning, tying the record 1967 - Paraguay adopts its constitution More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1934 - Valery Bykovsky, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok V; Soyuz 22; Soyuz 31), born in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union (d. 2019) 1941 - Mario Corso, Italian soccer winger (23 caps; Inter Milan 413 games) and coach (Lecce, Inter), born in Verona, Italy (d. 2020) 1956 - Matt Aitken, English songwriter and rocker (Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block), born in Coventry, England 1962 - Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989), born in Karachi, Pakistan 1994 - Josh Flitter, American actor (Air Buddies movies), born in Ridgewood, New Jersey More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American far-right political activist. founder and leader of the American Nazi Party, assassinated by former party member John Patler at 49 1979 - Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist who excavated Palenque, dies at 73 1996 - Sylvia Fisher, Australian operatic soprano (Albert Herring Opera), dies at 86 2001 - Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77 2006 - Vijay Mehra, Indian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 2 x 50; Delhi, Eastern Punjab, Railways), dies at 68 More Famous Deaths »

79 - Believed until 2018 to be the date of the massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing untold thousands, latest evidence suggests the eruption occurred after 17 October 1787 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526 1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history 1893 - Tornado destroys the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina; about 1,000 people die 1938 - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, the highest season total in organized baseball, for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game 1972 - Dennis Amiss scores the first one-day international century, 103 against Australia 1984 - Pat Bradley sets an LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 during the second round of the Columbia Savings National at Green Gables Country Club, Denver, CO 2004 - Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May team up to win the women's beach volleyball gold at the Athens Olympics beating Brazilian pair Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar 21–17, 21–11 More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1751 - Thomas Colley is executed in England for drowning a supposed witch 1858 - Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 Black individuals arrested for learning 1912 - District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States 1997 - 97th US Amateur Golf Championship won by Joel Kribel 2019 - Britain's Prince Andrew denies knowing his friend Jeffrey Epstein was involved in sexual trafficking of underage girls after public accusations made against him More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1890 - Franz Philipp, German composer, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (d. 1972) 1890 - Jean Rhys [Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams], British writer (Voyage in the Dark), born in Roseau, Dominica (d. 1979) 1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), born in New York City (d. 2013) 1977 - Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer, born in Vienna, Austria 1986 - Arian Foster, American football running back (First-team All-Pro 2010, 12; 4 × Pro Bowl; NFL rushing TD leader 2010, 12; Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1540 - Parmigianino [Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola,], Italian painter (Madonna of the Long Neck), dies at 37 1982 - Jack Siedle, South African cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies at 79 1987 - Malcolm Kirk "King Kong Kirk", English professional wrestler, dies of a heart attack in the ring at 51 1996 - Robert Tewdwr Moss, English journalist and travel writer, found dead at 34 2020 - Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician, 1st democratically-elected President of the Republic of the Congo (1992-97), dies at 88 More Famous Deaths »

1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses Dutch Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer 1953 - Phil Grate sets a record for throwing a baseball 443 ft 3 in (135.1 m) 1968 - Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew 1973 - Norrmalmstorg robbery and six-day siege begin in Stockholm, the first Swedish crime filmed live on TV and the origin of the term Stockholm Syndrome 1977 - First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize 1992 - Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress 2020 - Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second title under a yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining 2023 - Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is reported killed along with nine others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1938 - England scores 7-903 declared against Australia, with Len Hutton scoring 364 1957 - US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site 1982 - USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 2004 - Winning pitcher Lisa Fernandez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1 2017 - India's toll from swine flu rises above 1,000 for the year, with 22,186 cases reported More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1754 - Louis XVI, King of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined, born in Versailles, Yvelines, France (d. 1793) 1917 - Tex Williams, American country-western singer, born in Ramsey, Illinois (d. 1985) 1949 - Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana 1954 - Halimah Yacob, Singaporean politician (1st female President of Singapore (2017-), born in Singapore 1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia, born in Singapore More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts 1957 - Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L'Oréal, dies at 76 1989 - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY in a racially motivated attack 2006 - Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84 2015 - Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), dies at 93 More Famous Deaths »

1632 - Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, occupies Maastricht 1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under Vodou priest Boukman 1914 - German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium 1930 - Australian cricket slow-medium bowler Percy Hornibrook takes 7-92 as England is dismissed for 251 in an innings defeat in the 5th Test at The Oval; Australia regains the Ashes 2-1 1964 - The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1 1969 - The Beatles' last official group photo session takes place at John and Yoko's home, Tittenhurst Park, near Ascot, England 1984 - The last Volkswagen Rabbit is produced 2014 - Second Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru 1914 - Battle of Charleroi begins as General von Bülow's troops defeat the French 1943 - Soviet troops free Kharkov 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota for the first papal visit to Latin America to open a Eucharistic Congress 2008 - Russia wins the women's 4 × 100 m relay ahead of Belgium and Nigeria at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2016 when reanalysis of Yulia Chermoshanskaya’s samples result in positive test for prohibited substances More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1888 - Du Yuesheng, Chinese mob boss, born in Gaoqiao, Shanghai (d. 1951) 1888 - Violet Farebrother, English actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1969) 1928 - Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate, born in Moyamba, Sierra Leone (d. 2015) 1955 - Chiranjeevi [Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad], Telugu film actor, dancer and producer, born in Mogalthur, India 1973 - Kristen Wiig, American comedian and actress (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), born in Canandaigua, New York More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1831 - John White, English organist and violinist, dies at 52 1993 - Don Getz, American filmmaker (Playpoint), dies at 50 2003 - Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956) 2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director, dies at 83 2009 - Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926) More Famous Deaths »

1901 - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is suspended from MLB for punching and spitting on umpire Tom Connolly in the previous day's 5-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers; the lifetime suspension is reduced to 12 days 1945 - US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program 1969 - Fire in Al-Aqsa-mosque in Jerusalem 1976 - Battle, East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes the first British firewoman 1980 - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded in a basement office in Takoma Park, Maryland 2008 - Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women's softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics 2015 - First British unmanned drone hits a UK citizen outside a conflict: ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria 2021 - Flash flooding in Humphreys County, Middle Tennessee, kills 22, with dozens missing More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1912 - Francis Carter-Cotton is chosen as the first chancellor of the University of British Columbia 1929 - Chicago Cardinals become the first professional football team to train out of town 1963 - Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit home run gives Pirates a 7-6 victory 1985 - American Mary Decker Slaney runs a mile in a world record time of 4:16.71 in Zurich, Switzerland; it is the third time she holds the record 1991 - Latvia declares its independence from USSR More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1789 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and physicist, born in Paris (d. 1857) 1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, American stage and screen actor, director (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), composer, and novelist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2021) 1941 - Tom Coster, American rock and jazz keyboard player and accordionist (Santana; Billy Cobham), born in Detroit Michigan 1956 - Kim Cattrall, British Canadian actress (Mannequin, Sex and the City), born in Liverpool, England 1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball pitcher, born in Manhasset, NY More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1245 - Alexander of Hales, English Scholastic philosopher at Paris, founder of the Franciscan theological school, dies 1888 - Simon Vissering, Dutch economist (Minister of Finance 1879-81), dies at 70 1994 - Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78 2004 - Arthur Hockaday, British civil servant (Defence Ministry; Director-General of Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 1982-89), dies after a fall at 78 2020 - Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Tunisian soccer midfielder (35 caps; CS Sfaxien), dies at 69 More Famous Deaths »

1828 - Gioachino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory" premieres in Paris 1920 - First US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ) in Detroit, begins daily broadcasting 1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation 1972 - The USSR performs an underground nuclear test 1977 - NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter and Saturn, later reaching Uranus and Neptune 1990 - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations as human shields 1995 - Indians' José Mesa sets a record with his 37th consecutive save 2009 - 12th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1879 - Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns 1930 - A week before his 22nd birthday, Australian cricket's batting genius Don Bradman scores 232 in a fifth Test win over England at The Oval in London 1957 - Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0 2008 - Spanair Flight 5022 from Madrid to Gran Canaria skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport, killing 146 people in the crash and 8 more afterward. Only 18 people survive 2015 - Thirty students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1824 - Absalom Baird, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Rockland, Maine (d. 1905) 1904 - Jaap [Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus] Burger, Dutch politician and chairman (PvdA), born in Willemstad, Netherlands (d. 1986) 1937 - Sky Saxon [Richard Marsh], American rocker (The Seeds - "Pushin' To Hard"), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2009) 1966 - Courtney Gibbs, American actress (Baywatch) and Miss USA 1988, born in Dallas, Texas 2003 - Prince Gabriel of Belgium, second child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, born in Erasmus Hospital, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, dies at 43 1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French Baroque organist and composer, dies at about 80 2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, dies at 65 2009 - Larry Knechtel, American session piano and bass player (Simon and Garfunkel; Johnny Rivers), dies of a heart attack at 69 2015 - Piotr Warzecha, Polish composer, dies at 74 More Famous Deaths »

1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle after promising to abdicate if his life was spared 1493 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria on the death of his father and co-ruler Frederick III 1931 - Lefty Grove wins an AL record-tying 16th consecutive game 1990 - Dodger José Offerman hits a home run in his first at-bat 1991 - Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état 2016 - A six-way tie for first place occurs in the final of the equestrian individual jumping competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Nick Skelton of Great Britain wins the gold medal jump-off 2018 - Monsoon rains finally ease in Kerala State, India, with flooding taking 350 lives and 200,000 in relief camps 2023 - MLB Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner hits two solo home runs in the same inning in a 12-3 win over the Nationals in Washington More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1493 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria on the death of his father and co-ruler Frederick III 1912 - Percy Grainger's orchestral piece "Shepherd's Hey" premieres 1981 - Two US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down two Soviet-built Libyan SU-22s 1987 - Hungerford Massacre, England: Michael Ryan kills 16 people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide 1993 - Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record high of 3612.13 More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedic actor (Tit for Tat, A Chump at Oxford), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1959) 1902 - Ogden Nash, American humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Masquerade Party), born in Rye, New York (d. 1971) 1971 - Mary Joe Fernández, American tennis player, broadcaster (Olympic gold 1992, 96), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1971 - João Pinto, Portuguese football player, born in Porto, Portugal 1987 - Patrick Chung, Jamaican-American NFL player (New England Patriots), born in Kingston, Jamaica More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia and Moldovia (Romanian national hero), assassinated at 42 or 43 1856 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist, dies at 39 1892 - František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, dies at 62 1957 - David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66 2023 - Gloria Coates, American post-minimalist composer ("Music on Open Strings"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 89 More Famous Deaths »

1217 - First historical record of Scottish scholar Michael Scot, signs and dates his translation of al-Bitruji's "On the Sphere" in Toledo, Spain 1587 - Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland (according to legend) 1605 - Spanish army under of general Spinola conquers Lingen 1931 - Lou Gehrig is hitless in Detroit in his 1,000th consecutive game 1934 - US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats fellow American Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6-1, 6-3 for her third straight US singles title 1981 - Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend telethons 2008 - Emulating the Chinese women, the men win the team table tennis gold medal at the Beijing Olympics without losing a match, winning all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches 2021 - MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani becomes the fastest player in team history to reach 40 home runs in a season and also pitches 8 innings in a 3-1 win at Detroit More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1418 - Competition is announced to design the dome of Florence Cathedral, with main competitors Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi (supported by Cosimo de' Medici) 1858 - Netherlands and Japan sign a trade agreement 1965 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his third career triple play, tying George Sisler, Deacon McGuire, and Joe Start 1989 - ArenaBowl III takes place at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit: Detroit Drive defeats Pittsburgh Gladiators 39-26, with George LaFrance as MVP 2019 - 1.7 million people participate in a peaceful pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong, representing a quarter of the population More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and designer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1743) 1954 - Umberto Guidoni, Italian astrophysicist and writer (STS 75), born in Rome, Italy 1964 - Andi Deris, German heavy metal vocalist (Helloween, 1994-present), born in Karlsruhe, West Germany 1966 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress (The Surrogate Woman, Come Come Come Upward), born in Seoul, South Korea (d. 2022) 1981 - Jon Schneck, American rock guitarist (Relient K, 2005-present), born in Eustis, Florida More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 440 - Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies 1652 - Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech-Russian composer and pianist (Ogelala), dies of tuberculosis at 48 in a German concentration camp in Wülzburg, Bavaria 1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright, dies at 88 2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934) More Famous Deaths »

1819 - The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand's second mission station at Kerikeri 1835 - Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patents the first wrench 1908 - Projection in Paris of the first animated cartoon, "Fantasmagorie," created by Émile Cohl 1984 - Pete Rose returns to the Cincinnati Reds as a player-manager and gets two hits in the game 1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for the first time (2,700.57) 2008 - Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia wins the 3,000 m steeplechase gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a world record time of 8:58.81 2022 - Possible second smaller impact crater that wiped out the dinosaurs, the "Nadir Crater," 8.5 km across, is identified off the coast of Guinea, West Africa 2023 - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit begins in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1870 - First ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington, by Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump 1945 - Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands 1977 - USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 1988 - First case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in NYC (9-year-old Bronx boy) 1991 - Royals' Warren Cromartie's first major league home run since 1983 More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author "A Girl of the Limberlost," and naturalist, born in Lagro, Indiana (d. 1924) 1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish pioneering aviator, first flight in independent Poland, born in Ulanów, Poland (d. 1920) 1942 - Tommy West [Picardo], American record producer (Jim Croce; Anne Murray), and singer-songwriter, born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 2021) 1953 - Robert Thirsk, Canadian astronaut (STS 78), born in New Westminster, British Columbia 1970 - Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer, born in Kristiansund, Norway More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1916 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space), dies in a military training mishap at 33 1955 - Fernand Léger, French painter, sculptor and filmmaker, dies at 74 1969 - Philip Blaiberg, South African dentist, third person to receive an artificial heart, dies after 19 days at 59 1987 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (Claro Enigma), dies at 84 2021 - Sheila Bromberg, British orchestral and session harpist (The Beatles - "She's Leaving Home"; Heatwave -"Boogie Nights"), dies at 92 More Famous Deaths »

1920 - Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays and dies the next day in the only MLB game-related fatality 1942 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow 1992 - Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs a world 3,000 m record of 7:28.96 in Cologne, Germany 2008 - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the 100 m gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics 2015 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Australian Jason Day wins, setting major championship record of 20-under-par; beats Jordan Spieth by 3 shots 2018 - World's first floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven Harbour, Rotterdam, Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots 2018 - International Tennis Federation votes to change the format of the Davis Cup to a high prize money, season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site; a 24-team qualifying tournament starts in February 2019 2020 - At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a beach resort in Mogadishu, Somalia, by the al-Shabab group More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1691 - Yorktown, Virginia founded 1959 - LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Rainier GandCC: Betsy Rawls wins her second WO by 6 strokes over JoAnne Gunderson and Patty Berg 1969 - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young perform their first public show at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell as their opening act 1990 - South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto 2021 - First official water shortage declared at Lake Mead, a major reservoir on the Colorado River supplying 40 million people, with cuts mandated mainly for Arizona More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver, born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 2003) 1945 - Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina (Don Quioxote), born in Cincinnati, Ohio 1952 - Reginald Veljohnson, actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard), born in New York City 1962 - Steve Carell, American actor and comedian (The Office), born in Concord, Massachusetts 1978 - Eddie Gill, American basketball player, born in Aurora, Colorado More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1945 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies 1993 - Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83 1996 - Robert Lynn, Scottish anarchist, dies at 72 2006 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (Dissection), dies at 31 2021 - Sean Lock, British comedian (British Comedy Award, 2000), and television personality, dies of cancer at 58 More Famous Deaths »

1483 - Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption in Vatican City is consecrated with a Mass by Pope Sixtus IV [some sources cite August 9] 1931 - Roy Wilkins joins the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Assistant Secretary 1949 - WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1970 - Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman professional football player (Orlando) 1992 - Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy 1997 - Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners' 3,000th home run 2013 - 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut 2023 - Young activists win a landmark case, Held v Montana, with a judge ruling that the state of Montana must consider climate change when deciding to approve or renew fossil fuel projects More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1461 - Empire of Trebizond surrenders to forces of Sultan Mehmed II, the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to fall; Emperor David is exiled and later executed 1653 - Dutch ship "Sperwer" strands on Jeju, Korea 1905 - Philadelphia A's future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell no-hits the St. Louis Browns, 2-0, in 5 innings 1950 - Indians make their first triple play at Cleveland Stadium 1990 - Phillies' Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no-hitter of 1990) More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1785 - Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), born in Manchester (d. 1859) 1949 - Kate Taylor, American singer and songwriter ("It's In His Kiss"), born in Boston, Massachusetts 1951 - Bobby Caldwell, American jazz and pop singer ("What You Won't Do for Love"), and songwriter ("The Next Time I Fall"), born in New York City (d. 2023) 1951 - Ann Biderman, American television writer and producer (Ray Donovan, Southland), born in Miami, Florida 1985 - Nipsey Hussle [Ermias Asghedom], American rapper and activist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2019) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1974 - Edmund Cobb, American silent and sound screen actor, specializing in western film (A Final Reckoning; Motorcycle Gang; Comanche Territory), dies of a heart attack at 82 2006 - Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand Māori Queen for 40 years, dies at 75 2012 - Bob Birch, American session and touring bassist (Elton John), commits suicide at 56 2015 - Julian Bond, American civil rights leader and politician (D-Ga), dies at 75 2016 - Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player ("Little B's Poem"; SFJAZZ Collective), dies of emphysema at 75 More Famous Deaths »

554 - Ravenna becomes the seat of the Byzantine military governor in Italy 1782 - Suriname forbids selling enslaved mothers without their babies 1900 - First electric tram in Netherlands (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) 1964 - LA Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after a hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer 1965 - Continental Football League plays first games 1967 - Pirate radio station, Wonderful Radio London, closes down 1988 - Detroit beats Sox 18-6 at Fenway, ending Boston's winning streak at 24 2007 - Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1642 - Abel Tasman's ships, Heemskerck and Zeehaen, depart from Batavia to search for Terra Australis, becoming the first Europeans to reach Tasmania and New Zealand 1782 - Suriname forbids selling enslaved mothers without their babies 1962 - A US mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is robbed of more than $1.5 million 1997 - Revival of Sherman Edwards' historical musical "1776," featuring Brent Spiner, opens at the Criterion Theatre, NYC, and runs for 333 performances 2010 - First Summer Youth Olympic Games open in Singapore More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1727 - Louise Élisabeth of France, twin daughter of king Louis XV, born in Palace of Versailles, France (d. 1759) 1938 - Niara Sudarkasa [Gloria Albertha Marshall], American educator and anthropologist (Lincoln College), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (d. 2019) 1946 - Alexander Curly [Harm Breemer], Dutch artist, born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 2012) 1969 - DJ Uncle Al, American hip-hop DJ, born in Miami, Florida (d. 2001) 1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer, born in Giannouli, Greece More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1794 - George Colman the Elder, English playwright, dies at 62 1863 - Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 1888 - Charles Crocker, American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad), dies at 65 1955 - Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress, dies at 93 1994 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 89 More Famous Deaths »

1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days submitted for publication 1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore 1948 - Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of three consecutive Olympic gold medals, defeating British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games 1954 - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470 attendees) 1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut kills 175 1988 - Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit opens 1995 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Riviera CC: Steve Elkington of Australia wins his first major title in a playoff with Scotsman Colin Montgomerie 2016 - Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins the women's 100 m gold in 10.71 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; American Tori Bowie finishes second in 10.83, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica finishes third in 10.86 More Historical Events »