Anniversaries

21st August 1959 (50 Years)

President Eisenhower signed proclamation admitting Hawaii to the union as the 50th state.

22nd August 0565 (1444 Years)

St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

22nd August 1862 (147 Years)

Claude-Achille Debussy, French composer, was born.

22nd August 1893 (116 Years)

Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, was born.

22nd August 1939 (70 Years)

The Molotov-Ribbentrop is signed. The pact between Germany and Russia, reported as a non-aggression treaty but was actually an agreement to split Poland between them.

23rd August 1912 (97 Years)

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer, was born.

23rd August 1926 (83 Years)

Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American film actor who was admired as the 'Great Lover' of the 1920s, dies.

23rd August 1927 (82 Years)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchists convicted of murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, are executed via electric chair.

23rd August 1942 (67 Years)

WWII: The Battle of Stalingrad, fought between Nazi Germany allies and the Soviet Union over control of the city of Stalingrad, begins.

23rd August 1946 (63 Years)

Keith Moon, English musician best known as the drummer of the English rock group the Who, is born.

24th August 1215 (794 Years)

Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.

24th August 1875 (134 Years)

Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel.

25th August 1867 (142 Years)

Michael Faraday, English scientist known for his contribution in electromagnetism, died.

25th August 1930 (79 Years)

Sir Thomas Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer, is born.

25th August 1958 (51 Years)

Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter, was born.

25th August 1984 (25 Years)

Truman Capote, the American author and playwright, died.

26th August 1666 (343 Years)

Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator, died.

26th August 1768 (241 Years)

Captain James Cook set sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.

26th August 1813 (196 Years)

Battle of Dresden, Napoleon I against the Sixth Coalition.

26th August 1813 (196 Years)

Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter, is born.

26th August 1910 (99 Years)

Mother Teresa MC, the Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun, missionary and Saint, was born.

26th August 1974 (35 Years)

Charles Lindbergh, the American aviation pioneer, died.

27th August 1890 (119 Years)

Man Ray, American-French modernist painter and photographer, is born.

27th August 1965 (44 Years)

Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and city planner, died.

28th August 1963 (46 Years)

Martin Luther King Jr says his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

28th August 1987 (22 Years)

John Marcellus Huston, American film director, screenwriter and actor died.

28th August 1987 (22 Years)

Nicolas Roeg discusses John Huston's work. The American film director, screenwriter and actor died on this day.

29th August 1780 (229 Years)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter, is born in Montauban, France.

29th August 1842 (167 Years)

The signing of the Treaty of Nanjing end the First Opium War.

29th August 1915 (94 Years)

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress who won three Academy Awards, is born.

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