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August 1, 2005 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies and is succeeded by Prince Abdullah
August 1, 2004 Paraguay supermarket fire kills at least 300
August 1, 1998 Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
August 1, 1996 M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
August 1, 1995 Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
August 1, 1994 99.9 degrees F (37.7 degrees C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
August 1, 1994 The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
August 1, 1994 Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
August 1, 1993 "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 25 performances
August 1, 1993 "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances
August 1, 1993 Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
August 1, 1993 Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
August 1, 1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
August 1, 1992 "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances
August 1, 1992 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
August 1, 1992 USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
August 1, 1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
August 1, 1991 Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
August 1, 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances
August 1, 1990 Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
August 1, 1990 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
August 1, 1990 Soyuz TM-10 launches
August 1, 1990 Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
August 1, 1989 Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
August 1, 1988 Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
August 1, 1987 Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
August 1, 1987 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
August 1, 1987 Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
August 1, 1987 Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
August 1, 1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
August 1, 1986 Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
August 1, 1986 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
August 1, 1986 Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
August 1, 1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
August 1, 1985 Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
August 1, 1985 Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
August 1, 1983 New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
August 1, 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
August 1, 1982 Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
August 1, 1982 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
August 1, 1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
August 1, 1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
August 1, 1981 Poland premier Jagielski resigns
August 1, 1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
August 1, 1980 Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
August 1, 1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal
August 1, 1978 Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
August 1, 1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
August 1, 1978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
August 1, 1977 San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
August 1, 1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
August 1, 1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139
August 1, 1976 Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
August 1, 1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
August 1, 1975 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
August 1, 1975 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
August 1, 1975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees
August 1, 1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
August 1, 1974 Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets
August 1, 1973 H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
August 1, 1973 Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
August 1, 1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
August 1, 1972 Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header
August 1, 1971 Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
August 1, 1971 CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
August 1, 1971 George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City
August 1, 1971 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
August 1, 1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi
August 1, 1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1970 Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
August 1, 1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
August 1, 1969 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
August 1, 1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
August 1, 1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
August 1, 1968 Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
August 1, 1968 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1967 Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
August 1, 1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1966 Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead
August 1, 1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas
August 1, 1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
August 1, 1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
August 1, 1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
August 1, 1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
August 1, 1963 Germany FR annexes Elten village
August 1, 1963 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0
August 1, 1962 Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
August 1, 1961 Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
August 1, 1961 German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
August 1, 1961 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens
August 1, 1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League
August 1, 1960 Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
August 1, 1960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
August 1, 1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
August 1, 1959 New Continental baseball league formed
August 1, 1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
August 1, 1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
August 1, 1958 U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
August 1, 1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
August 1, 1957 Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
August 1, 1957 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
August 1, 1957 U.S. and Canada create NORAD
August 1, 1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1955 1st microgravity research begins
August 1, 1955 Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government
August 1, 1955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1954 Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
August 1, 1954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1953 California introduces sales tax, for education
August 1, 1953 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
August 1, 1953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
August 1, 1953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
August 1, 1953 Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
August 1, 1951 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
August 1, 1950 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
August 1, 1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
August 1, 1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
August 1, 1950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
August 1, 1947 "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances
August 1, 1947 Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
August 1, 1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
August 1, 1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
August 1, 1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx)
August 1, 1945 SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
August 1, 1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
August 1, 1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
August 1, 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army
August 1, 1944 U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt
August 1, 1944 U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
August 1, 1944 Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
August 1, 1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
August 1, 1943 Race riot in Harlem New York City
August 1, 1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383
August 1, 1942 Deurne soccer team forms
August 1, 1942 German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
August 1, 1942 Race riots in Harlem, New York
August 1, 1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
August 1, 1941 New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St. L 0)
August 1, 1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
August 1, 1936 Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College
August 1, 1933 Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
August 1, 1933 Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
August 1, 1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
August 1, 1928 Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
August 1, 1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
August 1, 1926 Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus
August 1, 1926 Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
August 1, 1925 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies
August 1, 1922 Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
August 1, 1920 Papendrecht soccer team forms
August 1, 1920 Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
August 1, 1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
August 1, 1919 Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
August 1, 1918 British troops enter Vladivostok
August 1, 1918 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
August 1, 1916 Hawaii National Park forms
August 1, 1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
August 1, 1914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
August 1, 1914 France and Germany mobilize
August 1, 1914 Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
August 1, 1911 Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
August 1, 1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
August 1, 1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
August 1, 1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division
August 1, 1906 Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
August 1, 1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
August 1, 1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing
August 1, 1902 Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die
August 1, 1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited
August 1, 1896 George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England)
August 1, 1893 Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat
August 1, 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
August 1, 1886 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
August 1, 1883 A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery
August 1, 1883 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
August 1, 1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
August 1, 1881 U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
August 1, 1876 Colorado becomes 38th state
August 1, 1873 San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service
August 1, 1869 1st voyage down Colorado River
August 1, 1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South
August 1, 1864 Battle of Petersburg, Virginia
August 1, 1863 Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign
August 1, 1863 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
August 1, 1861 Brazil recognizes Confederacy
August 1, 1855 Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants
August 1, 1852 San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
August 1, 1842 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
August 1, 1838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
August 1, 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
August 1, 1834 Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
August 1, 1831 London Bridge opens to traffic
August 1, 1814 Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
August 1, 1812 Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York
August 1, 1798 Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
August 1, 1794 Whiskey Rebellion begins
August 1, 1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
August 1, 1790 1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214
August 1, 1789 U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
August 1, 1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
August 1, 1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
August 1, 1780 Sweden declares neutrality
August 1, 1774 Priestly discovers oxygen
August 1, 1759 Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
August 1, 1732 Foundation laid for Bank of England
August 1, 1716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
August 1, 1716 Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
August 1, 1714 Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
August 1, 1711 Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
August 1, 1690 Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
August 1, 1664 Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu
August 1, 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
August 1, 1626 Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
August 1, 1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
August 1, 1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
August 1, 1588 English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
August 1, 1498 Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
August 1, 1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
August 1, 1404 Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
August 1, 1291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
August 1, 1203 Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
August 1, 1177 Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III
August 1, 1086 English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier
August 1, 1021 Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
August 1, 902 Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
August 1, 860 Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II



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