| 2012 | Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones |
| 2012 | Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's President, signs a controversial law concerning the status of 18 languages as regional and minority languages; the law allows officials in Russian-speaking regions of the country to use Russian in documents and at public events |
| 2011 | Standard &: Poor's rating agency downgrades U.S. sovereign debt; the downgrade is the first in the history of the United States |
| 2011 | Stock markets in Asia, Australia and the United States fall after the U.S. loses it's AAA credit rating |
| 2010 | Sarah, Duchess of York, becomes the first Royal in history to suffer possible bankruptcy |
| 2010 | Ongoing flooding and landslides in Gansu Province, China, kill 127 people and result in 2,000 missing |
| 2008 | 2008 Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, China |
| 1997 | Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox |
| 1995 | Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to home run twice in one inning |
| 1993 | California state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40) |
| 1993 | Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt. |
| 1993 | Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed |
| 1992 | Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas |
| 1992 | Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career home run |
| 1991 | Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge |
| 1991 | Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy |
| 1991 | With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951) |
| 1990 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland) |
| 1990 | Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 home runs as a catcher |
| 1990 | Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province |
| 1990 | Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp |
| 1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-28 launched |
| 1988 | Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed |
| 1988 | 9th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
| 1988 | Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
| 1988 | Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl |
| 1988 | Goose Gossage registers 300th career save |
| 1988 | Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar |
| 1988 | Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season |
| 1988 | Matt Biondi swims U.S. record 200m freestyle (1:47.72) |
| 1988 | Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year and beat Cleveland 6-2 |
| 1988 | Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years |
| 1988 | Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
| 1988 | Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia |
| 1988 | South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
| 1988 | Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in New York City |
| 1988 | Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1 |
| 1987 | Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game |
| 1987 | Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait |
| 1987 | Pakistan all out 708 vs. England at The Oval, Botham 3-217 |
| 1986 | Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets and Dwyer-Orioles) |
| 1985 | Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993 |
| 1985 | Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet |
| 1984 | "Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 204 performances |
| 1984 | Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer |
| 1984 | Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends |
| 1983 | Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela |
| 1983 | Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned) |
| 1983 | Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees |
| 1982 | 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| 1982 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| 1980 | LBV Conference Center and Club Lake Villas open |
| 1979 | Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents |
| 1978 | Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus |
| 1977 | Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi |
| 1977 | Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's) |
| 1976 | Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts |
| 1974 | President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 |
| 1973 | Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign |
| 1972 | New York Yankees sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium |
| 1971 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1971 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
| 1970 | New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there) |
| 1968 | Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos |
| 1968 | Race riot in Miami, Florida |
| 1968 | Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for president |
| 1967 | Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| 1966 | South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
| 1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
| 1965 | Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation |
| 1964 | "110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 330 performances |
| 1964 | Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert |
| 1963 | Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene |
| 1963 | Los Angeles Dodgers F Howard and B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1963 | Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ |
| 1961 | Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario |
| 1961 | Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| 1960 | "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1 |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid |
| 1956 | Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium |
| 1956 | WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins |
| 1955 | Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement" |
| 1955 | Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy |
| 1953 | Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb |
| 1953 | U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact |
| 1952 | Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
| 1950 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
| 1949 | Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy |
| 1948 | "Hold It!" opens at National Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| 1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles |
| 1946 | Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million |
| 1945 | England and Australia Services draw 4th Victory Test |
| 1945 | President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter |
| 1945 | U.S., U.S.S.R., England and France sign Treaty of London |
| 1945 | U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II |
| 1945 | U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea |
| 1944 | Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan |
| 1944 | Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank and family |
| 1944 | U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans |
| 1943 | Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec |
| 1943 | U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily |
| 1943 | Vegetables and fruit rationed in Holland |
| 1942 | "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein |
| 1942 | 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. |
| 1942 | Dianthus sinks U-379 |
| 1942 | Russian anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko |
| 1941 | 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman |
| 1940 | 31 German aircraft shot down over England |
| 1940 | Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks |
| 1937 | Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power |
| 1931 | Washington Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 |
| 1930 | St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant |
| 1929 | German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
| 1929 | Salem, Oregon airport dedicated |
| 1925 | 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C. |
| 1924 | British-Russian trade agreement signed |
| 1922 | Italian general strike broken by fascist terror |
| 1922 | Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies) |
| 1920 | Tigers beat Yankees 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes |
| 1919 | Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence |
| 1918 | Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens |
| 1916 | A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road |
| 1914 | 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" |
| 1914 | French troops under General Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas |
| 1914 | Montenegro declares war on Germany |
| 1913 | Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia |
| 1903 | 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1) |
| 1903 | In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleveland, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game |
| 1902 | 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2) |
| 1900 | 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later |
| 1890 | Daughters of American Revolution organizes |
| 1876 | Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m |
| 1876 | Thomas Edison patents mimeograph |
| 1870 | Magic (U.S.) defeats Cambria (England) in 2nd running of America's Cup |
| 1868 | Quake destroyes Arica, Chile |
| 1864 | Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth |
| 1864 | Red Cross forms in Geneva |
| 1864 | Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama |
| 1860 | Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York City |
| 1854 | Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges |
| 1853 | Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan |
| 1844 | Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death |
| 1843 | Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony |
| 1831 | Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army |
| 1829 | French government of De Polignac forms |
| 1816 | Bavarian joins Saint Alliance |
| 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena |
| 1814 | Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium |
| 1809 | 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine) |
| 1796 | Boston African Society establishes with 44 members |
| 1788 | King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together |
| 1786 | Congress adopts silver dollar and decimal system of money |
| 1786 | Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc |
| 1758 | British troops occupy and plunder Cherbourg |
| 1709 | 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors) |
| 1700 | Denmark and Sweden sign peace treaty |
| 1673 | Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City |
| 1619 | Duke Maximilian I and Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Munchen |
| 1609 | Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope |
| 1588 | Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada |
| 1585 | Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV) |
| 1579 | Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory |
| 1570 | Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots |
| 1567 | Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium |
| 1549 | France declares war on England |
| 1502 | Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor |
| 1322 | Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect |
| 936 | German king Otto I the Great, crowned |
| 870 | Kings Charles the Bare and Louis the German divide Lutherans |
| 70 | Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans |
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