John Brumby becomes the 45th Premier of Victoria Australia (2007) - July 30
Jimmy Hoffa (American Teamsters Union Leader) disappears (1975) - July 30
Second Qana massacre during the 2006 Lebanon War in which 28 civilians were killed (2006) - July 30
All Nippon Airways Flight 58 crashes while enroute from Sapporo to Tokyo - all 162 aboard perish (1971) - July 30
Bacon's Rebellion occurs in the American Virginia Colony when Nathaniel Bacon leads an uprising in protest against Native American raids (1676) - 7/30
Claudette Colbert (French-born American Academy award-winning stage and film actress) dies in Barbados at age 92 (1996) - 7/30
Elvis Presley gives his first paid public concert at the Overland Park Shell in Memphis, TN (1954) - July 30
Emily Bronte (English novelist best known for Wuthering Heights) is born (1818) - July 30
Flowers and Trees (1st Academy Award winning cartoon and 1st cartoon short to use Technicolor) is released (1932) - July 30
Ingmar Bergman (Swedish Film Director) dies peacefully in his sleep at age 89 (2007) - July 30
Lynn Fontanne (British-born American actress of stage and screen) dies at age 95 in Genesee Depot, WI (1983) - 7/30
Maria Theresa of Spain (consort to Louis XIV of France) dies at Versailles, France from a tumor at age 44 (1683) - July 30
Maria Anna Mozart (Older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) is born (1751) - July 30
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is signed into law by George W. Bush (2002) - July 30
Catherine Palace is presented to Empress Elizabeth of Russia (1756) - July 30
Apollo 15 Lunar Rover landing (1971) - July 30
Thredbo Alpine Village in Australia had two lodges collapse during a landslide (1997) - July 30
Baltimore, MD is founded (1729) - 7/30
Father-In-Law Day - July 30
National Cheesecake Day - July 30
July 31, 2017
NASA Lunar Prospector is deliberately crashed into the moon in the hopes it would liberate water from suspected ice deposits (1999) - July 31
Mount Fuji Japan has its oldest recorded eruption (781 AD) - July 31
Saint Ignatius of Loyola Feast Day - July 31
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French author of Novella "Le Petit Prince") left Corsica in an airplane and was never seen again (1944) - July 31
Daniel Defoe (English author) is sentenced to the pillory for the crime of seditious libel but is pelted with flowers (1703) - July 31
Franz Liszt (Hungarian composer and vituoso pianist) dies in Bayreuth, Germany from pneumonia at age 74 (1886) - July 31
Japan Airlines (JAL) is founded (1951) - 7/31
K2 (2nd highest mountain on earth located in the Himalayan range) has its first successful ascent (1954) - July 31
Baudouin I of Belgium dies of heart attack in Spain at age 62 (1993) - July 31
Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal bridge collapse (Butterworth, Malaysia) kills 32 and injures 1,674 (1988) - July 31
Thai Airways Flight 311 crashes on approach to Tribhuvan with all 113 on board perishing (1992) - 7/31
Viking 1 (NASA Mars spacecraft) takes famous "face on Mars" picture (1976) - July 31
Delta Airlines flight 723 crashes on its approach to Logan Airport near Boston, MA (1973) - July 31
Ranger Program: Ranger 7 sends back 1st close-up photographs of the moon (1964) - 7/31
Ted Cassidy (American character actor best known for playing "Lurch" in The Addams Family) is born (1932) - July 31
Chelsea Clinton marries Marc Mezvinsky in an interfaith ceremony at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, NY (2010) - July 31
Mutt Day - July 31
Jelly Bean Day - July 31
Tisha B'Av (annual fast day in Judaism) commemorates the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem which occurred about 656 days apart but on the same day (2017) - 7/31
August 1, 2017
Great Flood (USA-Missouri and Mississippi Rivers overflow) creating a costly and devastating flood basin that is 745 miles long and 435 miles wide (1993) - Aug. 1
Lammas Festival (aka Lughnasadh) is a Celtic Pagan festival for the Irish god Lugh as the first day of the harvest and is associated with the reaping of corn - Aug. 1
Swiss National Day - Aug. 1
Bolton and Leigh Railway (B&L - early British Railway) opens (1828) - Aug. 1
Buttevant train derailment (Ireland-1980) - Aug. 1
Calamity Jane (American frontierswoman and Indian Scout) died (1903) - Aug. 1
Charles Whitman (student at the Univ of Texas-Austin) killed 14 people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage (1966) - 8/1
Colorado is admitted as the 38th US State (1876) - Aug. 1
Concert for Bangladesh is held at Madison Square Garden in NYC (1971) - Aug. 1
Francis Gary Powers dies in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles (1977) - Aug. 1
I-35W Mississippi Bridge catastrophically failed during evening rush hour killing 13 and injuring 100 more (2007) - Aug. 1
King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia died (2005) - Aug. 1
New London Bridge opens (1831) - Aug. 1
North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) is founded by US and Canada (1957) - Aug. 1
Summer Olympics open in Berlin (1936) - 8/1
Niki Lauda (Austrian born Formula One Racing Driver) crashes spectacularly during the Nurburgrin Grand Prix in Germany and survives (1976) - Aug. 1
Powder Ridge Rock Fest in Middlefield CT is cancelled by authorities, but 30 to 40 thousand still show up (1970) - Aug. 1
Paraguay Supermarket Fire occurs in Asuncion when a faulty barbecue chimney leaks hot flammable gases that kill 394 people including many children (2004) - 8/1
Regent's Canal opens just north of central London (1820) - Aug. 1
mile Week - first week in August - Aug 1-7
Raspberry Cream Pie Day - Aug. 1
August 2, 2017
Blackwall Tunnel (Greenwich England) is widened and reopened (1967) - Aug. 2
Henry III of France dies from a wound inflicted by a Dominican friar Jacques Clement (1589) - Aug. 2
Bologna Massacre (terrorist bombing of the Central Station in Bologna Italy) kills 85 and wounds more than 200 (1980) - Aug. 2
Casiguran earthquake (magnitude 7.3 earthquake in the Philippines) kills 270 and injures 261 (1968) - Aug. 2
Adolf Hitler grants himself the title of Fuhrer (1934) - Aug. 2
Delta Air Lines flight 191 crashes on approach to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (1985) - Aug. 2
Iraq invades Kuwait with more than 100,000 soldiers and 700 tanks, killing over 200 people and instigating the start of the Gulf War (1990) - Aug. 2
Shari Lewis (American Puppeteer and ventriloquist) dies at age 65 while undergoing treatment for uterine cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (1998) - Aug. 2
Summerland leisure resort on the Isle of Man (British Isles) goes up in flames killing 53 people (1973) - Aug. 2
Tower Subway (a tunnel dug beneath the River Thames in London that shuttles 12 passengers from end-to-end) opens as the world's first underground tube railway (1870) - Aug. 2
Wild Bill Hickok is shot in the back of the head, while playing cards, by Jack McCall (1876) - Aug. 2
William II of England dies after being accidentally shot in the chest with an arrow while hunting with Walter Tyrell in the New Forest (1100) - Aug. 2
August 3, 2017
Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines private charter impacts mountainside on approach to Morocco airport all 188 aboard are killed (1975) - Aug. 3
Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the USA after Warring Harding's death in office (1923) - Aug. 3
"Real IRA" car bomb exploded on Ealing Broadway injuring 7 (2001) - Aug. 3
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. is founded in Akron, OH (1900) - Aug. 3
Grinling Gibbons (Dutch-born English master wood carver considered to be one of the finest of all time) dies at age 73 (1721) - Aug. 3
Alger Hiss is identified as being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union by Whitaker Chambers during his testimony before the HUAC (1948) - Aug. 3
James II of Scotland is killed by the accidental explosion of one of his own cannons at the siege of Roxburgh Castle during the Scottish Wars of Independence (1460) - Aug. 3
Le Griffon (built by Robert LaSalle) is the first known ship built in America (1678) - Aug. 3
Maaoya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Presdient of Mauritania, is deposed (2005) - 8/3
Mount Asama (Japan) erupts killing 35 thousand people (1783) - Aug. 3
BAA merges with the NBL to create the NBA (National Basketball Association-1949) - Aug. 3
Nestorius (Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople) is declared a heretic by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II and is exiled into Egypt (435) - 8/3
Niger gains independence from France (1960) - Aug. 3
PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) on strike were ordered to return to work by President Ronald Reagan (1981) - Aug. 3
Statue of Liberty pedastal reopens after 9/11 attacks (2004) - Aug. 3
USS Nautilus successfully navigates under the Artic Circle ice and reaches the geographic North Pole (1958) - Aug. 3
National Watermelon Day - Aug. 3
Wheatland Hop Riot in Wheatland, CA is the 2nd major labor dispute in the USA caused 4 deaths and many injuries (1913) - 8/3
August 4, 2017
Battle of Evesham occurs during which Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, is killed and his body mutilated (1265) - Aug. 4
Hans Christian Andersen (Danish author and poet best known for his fairy tales) dies at age 70 in Copenhagen (1875) - Aug. 4
Lizzie Borden's family is found murdered in their Fall River, MA home (1892) - Aug. 4
Dom Perignon (Benedictine monk) credited with developing the Methode champenoise for champagne (1693) - Aug. 4
Dominican Republic 6.0 earthquake kills 100 and leaves 20,000 homeless (1946) - Aug. 4
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (consort to George VI of the UK and mother to Queen Elizabeth II) is born (1900) - Aug. 4
Henry I of France (of the House of Capet) dies in Vitry-en-Brie, France at age 52 (1060) - 8/4
MTS Oceanos sank off the coast of Africa (1991) - 8/4
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft (Robotic spacecraft on a mission to Mars) is launched (2007) - Aug. 4
Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Romantic Poet) is born (1792) - Aug. 4
Soham Murders occur in Cambridgeshire England (A of 2 ten-year-old girls murdered by their school caretaker-2002) - 8/4
185,000 UPS Teamsters go on strike (1997) - Aug. 4
US Department of Energy is founded (1977) - Aug. 4
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia dies (1306) - Aug. 4
William Cecil (1st Baron Burghley and chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I) died (1598) - Aug. 4
Coast Guard Day celebrates the establishment of the U.S. Coast Guard (1790) - Aug. 4
The Saturday Evening Post (weekly magazine) was first published (1821) - Aug. 4
August 5, 2017
Marilyn Monroe (American actress) dies from acute barbituate poisoning resulting from an accidental overdose in her Los Angeles, CA home at age 36 (1962) - Aug. 5
Richard Burton (Welsh-born actor married to Elizabeth Taylor) dies from a cerebral hemorrhage in Switzerland at age 58 (1984) - Aug. 5
William Wallace (Scottish warrior betrayed by John de Menteith) is captured, charged with treason and transported to London (1305) - 8/5
Sir Alec Guinness (English Academy Award and Tony Award winning actor) dies (2000) - Aug. 5
Bertha Benz (wife of Karl Benz inventor of the Patent Motorwagen automobiles) becomes the 1st person to drive an automobile more than 60 miles (1888) - 8/5
Charles XV is crowned King of Norway (Sweden and Norway were united as one Kingdom) at Trondheim (1860) - Aug. 5
Ambato earthquake (Ecuador) destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000 people (1949) - Aug. 5
Guy de Maupassant (19th Century French writer) is born (1850) - Aug. 5
Henry I of England is crowned King at Westminster Abbey (1100) - Aug. 5
John Peter Zenger (New York Weekly Journal writer) is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York (1734) - Aug. 5
Standard Oil of New Jersey (ESSO, then Exxon) is founded by John D. Rockefeller (1882) - Aug. 5
Louis III of France (Joint ruler with his brother Carloman) dies after falling from his horse (882) - Aug. 5
Mayflower (ship that transported the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, MA) attempts to depart from Southampton England (1620) - 8/5
Pratt & Whitney Company is founded (1860) - Aug. 5
Salem Witchcraft trial where George Jacobs,Sr. along with 5 others are found guilty and sentenced to hang (1692) - Aug. 5
Air France Flight 358 crashes just after takeoff from the Toronto Pearson International Airport (2005) - Aug. 5
Jakarta Marriott Hotel bombing occurs when a suicide bomber detonates a car bomb outside the lobby of the hotel killing 12 and injuring 150 (2003) - Aug. 5
Waffle Day - Aug. 5
August 6, 2017
Harry Reasoner (American journalist and TV Commentator) dies from a blood clot in the brain he received from a fall in his CT home at age 68 (1991) - Aug. 6
Lucille Ball (American comedian and TV Star) is born (1911) - Aug. 6
Pope Paul VI dies from a heart attack at age 80 in the Castel Gandolfo (1978) - Aug. 6
ALH84001 Meteorite found in Allan Hills, Antarctica in December, 1984 is believed to contain evidence for traces of life on Mars (1996) - Aug. 6
Anne Hathaway (wife of William shakespeare) died (1623) - Aug. 6
Bix Beiderbecke (American jazz cornetist and composer) dies from an alcoholic seizure (1931) - Aug. 6
Bolivia declares its independence from Spain (1825) - Aug. 6
Braniff Airways Flight 250 crashes near Falls City, NE with all 42 people aboard killed (1966) - Aug. 6
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates and dissolves the empire making him the last Holy Roman Emperor (1806) - 8/6
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel (1926) - Aug. 6
US Drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945) - Aug. 6
Jamaica declares independence from the UK (1962) - Aug. 6
Prometheus (a bristlecone pine growing in Nevada, USA that was at least 5,000 years old) is cut down for research purposes (1964) - 8/6
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning monarch to address a joint session of US Congress (1942) - 8/6
William Kemmler becomes the first man to be executed in the electric chair (1860) - Aug. 6
Korean Airlines Flight 801 crashes on approach to Guam airport killing 228 of the 254 people aboard (1997) - Aug. 6
A daily briefing report given to the President (PDB) on this day was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" (2001) - Aug. 6
Summer Halfway Point - Aug. 6
John Hughes (American film director, producer and screenwriter) dies of a heart attack at age 59 while walking in Manhattan (2009) - Aug. 6
Transfiguration of Christ (Orthodox Christian) - Aug. 6
Tottenham Riots occur north of London with local business looted and set on fire injuring at least 26 police officers (2011) - Aug. 6
International Forgiveness Day - 1st Sunday in August (2017) - Aug. 6
International Friendship Day - 1st Sunday in August (2017) - Aug. 6
Sisters' Day - 1st Sunday in August (2017) - Aug. 6
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