Emmy Awards (TV's equivalent to the Academy Awards) airs on NBC 8PM EDT (2010) - Aug. 29
World's first motorcycle is patented by Gottlieb Daimler (1885) - Aug. 29
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is founded (1898) - Aug. 29
Hurricane Katrina devastates most of the US Gulf Coast (2005) - Aug. 29
Lemon Juice Day - 8-29
The Ayatollah al-Hakim is assassinated when a massive car bomb exploded killing him and as many as 125 others (2003) - Aug. 29
Quebec Bridge collapses during its first construction killing 75 of the 86 construction workers (1907) - 8/29
USS F-4 (SS-23) sunk on 25 March 1915 with all 21 on board perished. Five months later a new precedent was set when it was raised (1915) - Aug. 29
August 30, 2010
Charles Bronson (American Actor best known for his "tough guy" roles) died (2003) - Aug. 30
Fanya Kaplan attempted to assassinate Lenin by shooting him 3 times. She was captured and executed 4 days later (1918) - Aug. 30
Glenn Ford (Canadian-born American film actor) dies in his Beverly Hills, CA home at age 90 (2006) - 8/30
HMS Pandora (sent to recover the pirated Bounty in the South Pacific) ran aground then sank claiming 31 of her crew and 4 prisoners (1791) - Aug-30
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (two parallel bridges that cross Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana) opens (1956) - Aug. 30
Mary Shelley (British novelist best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein" and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley) is born (1797) - 8/30
Max Factor (known as the father of Modern Cosmetics) - died (1938) - Aug. 30
Summer Bank Holiday - last Monday in August observed in England and Wales (2010) - Aug. 30
Hotline (Red Phone) a direct communications line between the heads of state in the USSR and USA is put into operation (1963) - 8/30
Rudolph Valentino's funeral is held in NYC with 100,000 mourners in attendance (1926) - Aug. 30
STS-41-D (Space Shuttle Discovery) is launched from Kennedy Space Center on its maiden voyage (1984) - 8/30
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1967) - Aug. 30
August 31, 2010
AeroMexico flight 498 (enroute from Mexico City to LAX) collides in mid-air with a privately-owned Piper Archer all 67 aboard are killed (1986) - 8/31
Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed are killed in Paris when their car crashes into the thirteenth pillar of the Pont de l'Alma (1997) - 8/31
Eat Outside Day - 8/31
Henry VI becomes King of England at a very young age of only nine months (1422) - 8/31
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union (1991) - Aug. 31
LAPA Flight 3142 crashes shortly after takeoff from the Buenos Aires airport 65 fatalities of 100 aboard (1999) - Aug. 31
Federation of Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom (1957) - 8/31
Mary Ann Nichols (First victim of Jack the Ripper) is murdered (1888) - Aug. 31
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips have their separation announced and confirmed by Buckingham Palace (1989) - Aug. 31
Russian Apartment Bombings (1st bomb exploded in a mall killing 1 and injuring 40-1999) - Aug. 31
Trinidad and Tobago become independent from the UK (1962) - Aug. 31
September 1, 2010
Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason despite having the full force of the Jefferson administration thrown against him (1807) - Sep. 1
Two small red acrobatic planes crash during a Polish air show when they try to occupy the same space (2007) - Sep. 1
Lady Anne Boleyn is made the Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiance Henry VIII (1532) - 9/1
Edgar Rice Burroughs (American author best known for his creation of Tarzan) is born (1875) - Sep. 1
Great Hinckley fire (Hinckley, MN) burned approximately 200,000 acres and killed 418 people (1894) - Sep. 1
Great Kanto earthquake, magnitude between 7.9 and 8.4 on Richter scale, struck Honshu with 105,000 confirmed deaths (1923) - 9/1
Jacques Cartier (Portugese explorer) died from an epidemic (1557) - Sep. 1
Louis XIV of France dies of ganrene four days before his seventy-seventh birthday (1715) - Sep. 1
St. Petersburg Russia is renamed Petrograd (1914) - Sep. 1
Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union (1991) - Sep. 1
Excellent Point Day - 9/1
Yvonne De Carlo (Canadian-born American film and television actress best known for her role as "Lily Munster") is born (1922) - Sep. 1
September 2, 2010
Great Fire of London begins at Pudding Lane in Thomas Farryner's bakery and burns for 3 days destroying 10,000 buildings (1666) - Sep. 2
Vietnam declares its independence from Japan (1945) - Sep. 2
JRR Tolkien (British author best known for his Lord of the Rings trilogy) died (1973) - Sep. 2
Labor Day Hurricane was an unnamed Category 5 hurricane that killed approx 600 people in Florida (1935) - Sep. 2
Marie Josephine Louise (titular Queen consort to the Count of Provence, later Louis XVIII of France) is born (1753) - Sep. 2
Pope Innocent X orders the destruction of the ancient city of Castro, Italy (1649) - Sep. 2
Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates (1967) - Sep. 2
September Massacres (during the revoltuion, a wave of mob violence overtakes Paris during which 1,200 trapped prisoners were executed-1792) - Sep. 2
Swiss Air Flight 111 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after an onboard fire spreads beyond the control of the crew (1998) - Sep. 2
USS Shenandoah (zeplin) departed Lakehurst on a promotional flight to midwest state fairs during which it crashed in Ohio (1925) - 9/2
Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna) observed on the Ashtami tithi (2010) - Sep. 2
V-J Day (the day of Japan's formal surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri-1945) - Sep. 2
September 3, 2010
Beslan School hostage crisis ends in the deaths of 344 people mostly teachers and students (2004) - Sep. 3
Princess Alice (Thames pleasure paddle steamer) and the Bywell Castle (a collier) collided with a loss of 640 lives (1878) - Sep. 3
Marie Louise, princesse de Lamballe (close friend and confidente to Marie Antoinette) is murdered by the French Mob (1792) - Sep. 3
Qatar declares its independence from the UK (1971) - Sep. 3
Richard I of England is crowned King at Westminster Abbey (1189) - Sep. 3
Saint Marinus founds San Marino, the world's oldest surviving republic, in (301 AD) - Sep. 3
Viking 2 (NASA space orbiter) lands on Mars (1975) - Sep. 3
Football Day - Sep. 3
Vince Lombardi (American NFL coach for whom the NFL's trophy is named) died from intestinal cancer only 10 weeks after it was diagnosed (1970) - Sep. 3
September 4, 2010
Alaskan Airlines flight 1866 crashes into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska on approach for landing killing all 111 on board (1971) - Sep. 4
Edvard Grieg (Norwegian composer and pianist) dies at age 64 after a long period of illness (1907) - Sep. 4
Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed after being captured at the Battle of Sedan by Bismarck (1870) - 9/4
Herve Villechaize (French actor best known for playing Tattoo in the US TV series Fantasy Island) dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound (1993) - Sep. 4
Sir John Fielding (Brother of Henry Fielding novelist and co-founder of the Bow Street Runners, 1st professional police force) dies at age 59 (1780) - Sep. 4
George Eastman registers the trademark "Kodak" and receives a patent for his roll film camera (1888) - Sep. 4
Newspaper Carrier Day - 9/4
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates in favor of her daughter Juliana for health reasons (1948) - Sep. 4
Robert Dudley (1st Earl of Leicster and long-standing favorite of Queen Elizabeth I) dies most likely from stomach cancer (1588) - Sep. 4
Sarah Childress Polk (wife and 1st lady of US President James Polk) is born (1803) - Sep. 4
Steve Irwin (Australian TV Personality nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter") dies after being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine (2006) - Sep. 4
Swissair Flight SR306 (Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III) crashed shortly after take-off killing all 80 people aboard (1963) - Sep. 4
September 5, 2010
Benelux (an economic union between the three monarchies of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) is founded (1944) - Sep. 5
Catherine Parr (sixth and final wife of Henry VIII of England) dies five days after giving birth to her only child (1548) - Sep. 5
Crazy Horse (Ocala Indian Chief) was stabbed while attempting to escape capture and died shortly thereafter from his wounds (1877) - Sep. 5
Theatre Royal in Exeter England had a fire break out backstage when gas lighting ignighted some gauze resulting in 186 deaths (1886) - Sep. 5
Hurricane Felix strikes Central America as a category 5 resulting in over 130 deaths and 160,000 people affected (2007) - Sep. 5
Jesse James (American outlaw in Missouri) is born (1847) - Sep. 5
Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach) is born (1735) - Sep. 5
London Hilton becomes an IRA bomb target in an explosion that kills two and injures 63 (1975) - Sep. 5
Louis VIII of France is born (1187) - Sep. 5
Louis XIV of France is born at the chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1638) - Sep. 5
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, CA (1975) - Sep. 5
My Lai Massacre - Lt. William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians (1969) - Sep. 5
Mandala Airlines FL 091 crashes after taking off from Polonia Int'l Airport in Indonesia 148 fatalaties (2005) - Sep. 5
Maria Leszczynska (Queen consort to Louis XV of France) married the King of France at Versailles - 1725) - 9/5
Mother Theresa (an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionairies of Charity in Calcutta India) dies (1997) - Sep. 5
PanAm Flight 73 is hijacked while preparing to depart from karachi International Airport in Pakistan (1986) - Sep. 5
Teacher's Day (India) celebrates the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan the 2nd President of India - Sep. 5
STS-41-D Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden mission (1984) - 9/5
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