Anniversaries

2nd August 1923 (89 Years)

Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, died.

2nd August 1932 (80 Years)

Peter O'Toole, Irish-English actor, singer, and producer, was born.

2nd August 1934 (78 Years)

Paul von Hindenburg, the former President of Germany, died.

2nd August 1964 (48 Years)

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, causing President Johnson to escalate war in Vietnam.

2nd August 1964 (48 Years)

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, causing President Johnson to escalate war in Vietnam.

2nd August 1976 (36 Years)

Fritz Lang, Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor, dies.

3rd August 1881 (131 Years)

William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express, died.

Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.

4th August 1693 (319 Years)

Dom Perignon invented champagne.

4th August 1932 (80 Years)

Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter, died.

5th August 1930 (82 Years)

Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the Moon, is born.

5th August 1962 (50 Years)

Marilyn Monroe, American actress and model, famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, died.

5th August 1963 (49 Years)

The United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban.

6th August 1766 (246 Years)

William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist famous for discovering palladium and rhodium, is born.

6th August 1809 (203 Years)

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, one of the most popular British poets, was born.

6th August 1881 (131 Years)

Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist, best-known for discovery Penicillin, was born.

6th August 1889 (123 Years)

The opening of the Savoy Hotel in London.

6th August 1917 (95 Years)

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum, American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer, was born.

6th August 1926 (86 Years)

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

6th August 1945 (67 Years)

The first atomic bomb is dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

6th August 1945 (67 Years)

The United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.

7th August 1616 (396 Years)

Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, who designed Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza, dies.

7th August 1867 (145 Years)

Emil Nolde, one of the first Expressionists and member of Die Brücke, was born.

7th August 1867 (145 Years)

Emil Nolde, one of the first Expressionists and member of Die Brücke, was born.

7th August 1942 (70 Years)

WWII: The Guadalcanal Campaign, fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943, the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan, began.

7th August 1942 (70 Years)

WWII: The Guadalcanal Campaign, fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943, the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan, began.

7th August 1957 (55 Years)

Oliver Norvell "Babe" Hardy, American comic actor famous as one-half of Laurel and Hardy, died.

8th August 1902 (110 Years)

Jacques Joseph Tissot, Anglicized as James Tissot, died.

8th-11th August 1918 (94 Years)

The Battle of Amiens: the opening phase of the Allied offensive known as the Hundred Days Offensive that led to the end of the WWI.

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