| 2009 | Typhoon Morakat approaches southeastern China, over one million people are evacuated |
| 1998 | Star Bank LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by New York City police |
| 1997 | Yankees break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins |
| 1994 | Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night |
| 1994 | Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao |
| 1993 | King Albert II of Belgium, crowned |
| 1992 | "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore New York City after 137 perf |
| 1992 | 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain |
| 1992 | Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt. |
| 1992 | Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower |
| 1992 | Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3 degrees F (37.4 degrees C) |
| 1990 | 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia |
| 1990 | Soyuz TM-10 lands |
| 1988 | Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field |
| 1988 | Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles Kings for $15-$20 millions |
| 1988 | Just 1 day after 8/8/88 New York's daily number is 888 |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv |
| 1987 | 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach |
| 1987 | Los Angeles Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| 1987 | Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1986 | "Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1984 | Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal |
| 1984 | STS-41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad |
| 1981 | 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| 1981 | 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) |
| 1981 | 63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga |
| 1981 | All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) |
| 1981 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1981 | NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium) |
| 1980 | Belgian constitution revised |
| 1979 | English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| 1978 | Yankees score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7 |
| 1977 | Chris Old completes a century in 37 minutes, Yorks vs. Warwicks |
| 1977 | NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs |
| 1976 | Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 minutes, WI vs. Glamorgan |
| 1976 | Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0 |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth |
| 1975 | 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7 |
| 1975 | Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught |
| 1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open |
| 1974 | Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president |
| 1973 | Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit Wings |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 7 |
| 1972 | Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle |
| 1971 | Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1970 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1970 | Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes |
| 1969 | "Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 305 performances |
| 1969 | Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders |
| 1968 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague |
| 1967 | Biafran offensive against Nigerian army |
| 1967 | KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die |
| 1965 | Singapore gains independence from Malaysia, National Day |
| 1964 | 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands |
| 1964 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| 1964 | Bunning continues pitching perfectly to New York Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings |
| 1963 | Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres |
| 1963 | New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends |
| 1961 | James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court |
| 1960 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
| 1957 | 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000) |
| 1956 | 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama |
| 1956 | South African women demonstrate against pass laws |
| 1953 | Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired |
| 1952 | General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium |
| 1951 | Dutch Korea volunteers win U.S. Collective Unit Citation |
| 1950 | Lusty Song wins Hambletonian |
| 1946 | 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night |
| 1945 | U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki |
| 1944 | 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught |
| 1944 | Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention |
| 1944 | U.S. 79th/90th division enter Le Mans |
| 1943 | Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei," premieres in Zurich |
| 1942 | 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland |
| 1942 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad |
| 1942 | Vice-Admiral Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island |
| 1942 | Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR |
| 1936 | Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics |
| 1930 | 113 degrees F (45 degrees C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record) |
| 1930 | Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes |
| 1930 | Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec) |
| 1925 | Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out |
| 1923 | New York State Golf Association formed |
| 1920 | Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect |
| 1918 | Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play" |
| 1915 | British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis |
| 1914 | German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser |
| 1910 | Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine |
| 1905 | Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him |
| 1902 | Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria |
| 1901 | 34-35 degrees N/98-99 degrees W open for U.S. colonization |
| 1893 | 1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York |
| 1890 | 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations |
| 1864 | Battle of Ft. Morgan AL |
| 1862 | Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain) |
| 1862 | Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict," premieres in Baden-Baden |
| 1862 | Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt., however General Charles S. Winder is killed |
| 1859 | Elevator patented |
| 1855 | Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising |
| 1854 | Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden" |
| 1849 | Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia |
| 1848 | Austria and Sardinia sign cease fire |
| 1848 | Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president |
| 1842 | U.S. - Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
| 1841 | Erie boat in Buffalo New York catches fire; 242 die |
| 1832 | King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria |
| 1831 | 1st U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York) |
| 1830 | Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X |
| 1829 | "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service |
| 1803 | 1st horses arrive in Hawaii |
| 1790 | Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry U.S. flag around the world |
| 1778 | Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits |
| 1757 | English Ft. William Henry, New York, surrenders to French and Indians troops |
| 1726 | Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover |
| 1673 | Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures New York |
| 1673 | Dutch recapture New York from English; regained by English in 1674 |
| 1655 | Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts |
| 1638 | Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx |
| 1596 | Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond |
| 1559 | Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht |
| 1378 | Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil) |
| 378 | Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army |
