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1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater New York City after 79 performances

1995 "Month in the Country" opens at Roundabout Theater New York City for 79 performances

1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement

1994 Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64

1992 Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support

1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc

1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use

1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus

1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service

1988 Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month

1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires

1970 U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1

1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence

1965 Willie Mays sets NL record for home runs in a month with his 17th of August

1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India

1965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)

1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City

1964 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence

1957 "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV

1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends

1946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run

1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)

1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month

1943 Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz

1943 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)

1942 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)

1942 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)

1942 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton)

1942 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)

1942 U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)

1942 U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton

1942 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month

1942 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)

1941 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)

1941 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)

1941 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons)

1941 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)

1941 U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton

1941 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month

1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)

1941 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month

1941 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)

1940 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)

1940 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)

1940 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)

1940 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons)

1940 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)

1940 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)

1940 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month

1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)

1940 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)

1939 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)

1939 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)

1939 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton)

1939 41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton)

1927 Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month

1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped

1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" and "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1924 8 month Twenste textile strike ends

1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month)

1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia

1918 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early

1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages

1903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month

1888 Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland 100 pounds per month

1872 U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month

1858 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month

1853 William King, U.S. VP, dies a month after his inauguration

1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather

1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night

1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague



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