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Today in History

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10 BCEAug 1Claudius (d.54CE), Roman Emperor, was born. Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Drusus, the nephew of Tiberius and grandson of the wife of Augustus, was made emperor after Caligula.
126CEAug 1Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD), was born.
527Aug 1Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), died.
860Aug 1Peace of Koblenz involved Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II.
902Aug 1The Aghlabid rulers of Ifriqiyah (modern day Tunisia) captured Taormina, Sicily.
1086Aug 1English barons submitted to William the Conqueror.
1096Aug 1The crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Constantinople. Anna Comnena, a 13 year-old Christian in Constantinople, watched as the crusaders marched into the city.
1137Aug 1Louis the Younger (1120-1180) of France was crowned King Louis VII. He had married Eleanor, the Duchess of Aquitaine, just a few months earlier.
1464Aug 1Piero de Medici succeeded his father, Cosimo, as ruler of Florence.
1485Aug 1Henry (VII) Tudor’s army set sail from Harfleur to Wales.
1589Aug 1Monk Jacques Clement attempted to murder French King Hendrik III.
1628Aug 1Francesco Gonzaga (37), composer, died.
1664Aug 1The Turkish army was defeated by French and German troops at St. Gotthard, Hungary.
1686Aug 1Benedetto Marcello, Italian author, composer (Lettera Famigliare), was born in Venice, Italy.
1689Aug 1A siege of Londonderry, Ireland, by the Catholic Army of King James II ended in failure. The Protestants were victorious and the event led to the annual Apprentice Boy’s March. The group is named in honor of 13 teenage apprentices, all Protestants, who bolted the city gates in front of the advancing Catholic forces at the start of the 105-day siege.
1711Aug 1Czar Peter the Great fled Azov after being surrounded.
1714Aug 1Queen Anne (1702-1714) of Britain died at age 48. By the 1701 Act of Settlement Prince George Louis (54) of Hanover succeeded her as King George I (d.1727).
1740Aug 1Thomas Arne’s song “Rule Britannia,” which celebrated Britain’s military and commercial prowess, was performed for the 1st time. It grew to become the unofficial anthem.
1744Aug 1Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist, was born.
1759Aug 1British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at the Battle of Minden, Germany. The marquis de Lafayette was killed by a British cannonball and his son, Gilbert du Motier (2), inherited the title. In 1777 Lafayette joined the American Continental Army.
1770Aug 1William Clark, American explorer, was born in Charlottesville, VA. He led the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis.
1774Aug 1British scientist Joseph Priestley succeeded in isolating oxygen from air in Calne, England. He called his new gas “dephlogisticated air.”
1779Aug 1Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star Spangled Banner,” was born.
1781Aug 1English army under Lord Cornwallis occupied Yorktown, Virginia.
1791Aug 1Robert Carter III, a Virginia plantation owner, freed all 500 of his slaves in the largest private emancipation in U.S. history.
1801Aug 1The American schooner Enterprise captured the Barbary cruiser Tripoli.
1808Aug 1Joachim Murat (1767-1815), French marshal and Napoleon’s brother in law, became king of Naples (1808-1815) and Sicily.
1815Aug 1Richard Henry Dana (d.1882), US jurist, novelist, lawyer and sailor, was born. He wrote “Two Years Before the Mast.”
1818Aug 1Maria Mitchell (d.1889), the first female astronomer in the U.S., was born. She discovered a comet in 1847 and was the first prof. of astronomy at Vassar College. In 1869 she was the first woman elected to the American Philosophical Society.
1819Aug 1Herman Melville (d.1891), American novelist, author of Moby Dick, was born. In 1996 part one of a 2-part biography was published by Hershel Parker: Herman Melville: 1819-1851. In 1951 Leon Howard wrote a biography. Melville wrote 5 books between 1845-1850. They included “Typee” and “White-Jacket.”
1825Aug 1William Beaumont, a US Army assistant surgeon at Fort Mackinac in the Michigan territory, began experiments to study the digestive system of Alexis St. Martin, a fur trader who was accidentally shot in the abdomen in 1822.
1831Aug 1London Bridge opened to traffic.
1843Aug 1Robert Todd Lincoln (d.1926), son of Abraham Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), was born.
1862Aug 1James Henley Thornwell (b.1812), Presbyterian preacher from South Carolina, died.
1863Aug 1Battle of Little Rock, AK, and start of the Chattanooga campaign.
1864Aug 1Union General Ulysses S. Grant gave general Philip H. Sheridan the mission of clearing the Shenandoah Valley of Confederate forces.
1872Aug 1The first long-distance gas pipeline in the U.S. was completed. Designed for natural gas, the two-inch pipe ran five miles from Newton Wells to Titusville, Pennsylvania.
1876Aug 1Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
1880Aug 1Sir Frederick Roberts freed the British Afghanistan garrison of Kandahar from Afghan rebels.
1889Aug 1John F. Mahoney, developed penicillin treatment of syphilis, was born.
1893Aug 1Henry Perky and William Ford patented a machine for making shredded wheat breakfast cereal.
1894Aug 1The First Sino-Japanese War erupted, the result of a dispute over control of Korea; Japan’s army routed the Chinese.
1907Aug 1The US Air Force had its beginnings as the US Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division in charge of “all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines and all kindred subjects.”
1914Aug 1France and Germany mobilized.
1917Aug 1Frank Little, IWW organizer, was lynched in Butte, MT
1922Aug 1Lithuania adopted a new Constitution.
1931Aug 1Tom Wilson (cartoonist of Ziggy), was born.
1933Aug 1The National Recovery Administration’s “Blue Eagle” symbol began to appear in store windows and on packages to show support for the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1939Aug 1Synthetic vitamin K was produced for the first time.
1941Aug 1The Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo plane made its first flight.
1942Aug 1Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, was born.
1943Aug 1Race-related rioting erupted in New York City’s Harlem section, resulting in several deaths.
1944Aug 1Anne Frank’s last diary entry; 3 days later she was arrested.
1946Aug 1President Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Sen. William J. Fulbright.
1950Aug 1Lead elements of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division arrived in Korea from the United States.
1951Aug 1Jim Carroll, musician and writer of “The Basketball Diaries,” was born
1953Aug 1Fidel Castro was arrested in Cuba. [see Jul 26]
1954Aug 1The Geneva Accords divided Vietnam into two countries at the 17th parallel. U.S. complicity in the overthrow of South Vietnam’s president made it impossible to stay uninvolved in the war. The Geneva Accords called for elections in 1956 and put a limit on the presence of foreign advisors. US military advisors were limited to 685.
1957Aug 1The United States and Canada reached agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1958Aug 1US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dove under the North Pole.
1960Aug 1Dahomey, just west of Nigeria, became independent from France with Hubert Maga as president. It was renamed Benin with the capital at Porto Novo.
1964Aug 1Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night” single went #1.
1966Aug 1In Nigeria Gen’l. Yakuba Gowon (b.1934) was named head of state and ruled until 1975.
1970Aug 1The dance piece “The Fugue,” created by Twyla Tharp (b.1941), premiered at the Univ. of Massachusetts in Amherst.
1971Aug 1The Concert For Bangladesh, two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, played to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden.
1972Aug 1The 1st article exposing Watergate scandal was published by Bernstein and Woodward.
1976Aug 1Liz Taylor had her 6th divorce when she re-divorced Richard Burton.
1977Aug 1In Uruguay teacher Julio Castro disappeared. His remains were identified in 2011 using DNA tests.
1978Aug 1Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds, who had tied the National League record of hitting in 44 consecutive games, saw his streak end in a game against the Atlanta Braves.
1980Aug 1In Iceland Vigdis Finnbogadottir (b.1930) began serving as president and the world’s first female head of state. She was re-elected 3 times and retired in 1996.
1981Aug 1Paddy Chayefsky (b.1923), dramatist and screenwriter, died of cancer in NYC.
1988Aug 1Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh began broadcasting his nationally syndicated radio program.
1990Aug 1Robert Stempel took charge at GM.
1992Aug 1The US Supreme Court permitted the Bush administration to continue returning Haitians intercepted at sea to their Caribbean homeland.
1993Aug 1The city of St. Louis found itself besieged by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which had swelled to record levels after months of flooding in nine Midwestern states.
1994Aug 1Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they had secretly married eleven weeks earlier.
1995Aug 1In the second TV network takeover in as many days, Westinghouse Electric Corporation struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion. A day earlier, Walt Disney had agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC for $19 billion.
1996Aug 1In a political victory for President Clinton, a federal jury in Little Rock, Ark., acquitted two Arkansas bankers of misapplying bank funds and conspiracy to boost his political career; the jury deadlocked on seven other counts.
1997Aug 1Pres. Clinton announced that the 1978 ban on sales of high-performance aircraft and other advanced weapons to Latin America would be lifted.
1998Aug 1Dismissing as “an empty promise” GOP-backed legislation to create a patients’ bill of rights, President Clinton in his Saturday radio address pressed Congress to pass a measure that would allow patients to sue their health insurers.
1999Aug 1A US heat wave that had gripped the nation since mid-July finally broke; authorities attributed nearly 200 deaths to the heat and humidity.
2000Aug 1A US military court in Germany sentenced Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison without parole for sexually assaulting and killing Merita Shabiu, an eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.
2001Aug 1The US House passed energy legislation that included opening the Arctic national Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
2002Aug1The United States and a bloc of Southeast Asian nations signed a sweeping anti-terrorism treaty.
2003Aug 1The Belgian Senate gave final approval to a scaled-down war crimes law that the government hopes will repair relations with Washington and preserve Belgium’s role as NATO headquarters.
2004Aug 1The US government warned of possible al-Qaida terrorist attacks against specific financial institutions in New York City, Washington and Newark, N.J.
2005Aug 1President Bush sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton would only be able to serve until the end of the current Congress i.e. December 2006.
2006Aug 1Former President Clinton and mayors of some of the world’s largest cities announced an initiative to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency in everything from street lights to building materials.
2007Aug 1SF police and homeless outreach workers rousted people sleeping in Golden Gate Park and other parks and encampments.
2008Aug 1US Federal and state regulators closed First Priority Bank of Bradenton, Florida, the 8th US bank to fail this year. It would be acquired by SunTrustBanks Inc.
2009Aug 1The new US Post-9/11 GI Bill took effect to reimburse veterans for their full undergraduate tuition at public colleges. An amount equivalent to that tuition would go to veterans who choose private schools or graduate programs.
2010Aug 1In Alaska a Fairchild C-123 registered to All West Freight of Delta Junction crashed in Denali National Park killing all 3 people on board.
2011Aug 1The Obama administration sued to block enforcement of Alabama’s new immigration law, widely considered to be the toughest measure in the United States to try to crack down on illegal immigrants.
2012Aug 1It was reported that President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing US support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government.
2013Aug 1The United States and Pakistan agreed to re-establish a “full partnership”, hoping to end years of acrimony over US drone strikes on Pakistani soil, the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and other grievances.
2014Aug 1US Pres. Obama signed the Unlocking Consumer choice and Wireless Competition Act.
Source: Timelines of History 

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