Today in History

On This Day - 21st August: (Sporty Records:)

• 1878: Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket RECORD 8 stumpings in a County match against Kent at The Oval
• 1977: American water skier Donna Patterson Brice sets women's high speed RECORD 111.11 mph at Long Beach, California
• 1985: Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in World-RECORD 4:16.71
• 1986: Ian Botham takes World-RECORD 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)
• 1987: Silke Horneer swims female World-RECORD 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
• 2004: a: America set World-RECORD in the final of men's 4 x 100m medley relay; in Athens of 3:30.68
• 2004: b: The Australian women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas & Jodie Henry smashes the World-RECORDto take gold in 3:57.32 at the Athens Olympics

 

On This Day - 21st August: (In other News:)

1831: Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1841: John Hampton patents venetian blind
1911: "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia; ("recovered" in 1913)
1942: Walt Disney's animated movie "Bambi", based on the book by Felix Salten, is released in the US
1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
2015: After 108 years a "message in a bottle" put in the sea by UK Marine Biological Association is announced found on a beach in Amrum, Germany

 

On This Day - 22nd August:

• 565: St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness
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• 1485: Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. - Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.
• 1642: English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliament

• 1770: James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
  
• 1780: HMS Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England

 

On This Day - 22nd August:

1864: First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations
First Geneva Convention - Wikipedia

1894: .Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal
. .Founders of the Natal Indian Congress; (Gandhi top row, 4th from left)

Natal Indian Congress - Wikipedia

 

On This Day - 22nd August:

1762: 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury


Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher.
She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin.
She published the Mintunt, printed an almanac series. She was the country’s first female newspaper editor, the first woman to write an almanac, and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Journalism Hall of Fame.

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1950: Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in a US national tennis competition
Officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) accept Althea Gibson into their annual championship at Forest Hills, New York, making her the first African American player to compete in a U.S. national tennis competition
> In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (the French Championships).
> The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open), then won both again in > 1958 and voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years.
In all, she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. "She is one of the greatest players who ever lived"
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On This Day - 22nd August:

1642: English Civil War begins between Royalists (loyal to the Crown) and Parliament (Representatives of the people)

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English Civil War - Wikipedia

 

On This Day - 22nd August:
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Presidential Conventions:
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1956: US President Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco


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1984: Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush

 

On This Day - 22nd August:
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Meanwhile, - in other News:
1921: J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI (August 22, 1921 – May 9, 1924)

* (Director:May 10, 1924 – May 2, 1972)
J. Edgar Hoover - Wikipedia

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1971: J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the "Camden 28".


Camden28 - Master Frame Set
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On This Day - 22nd August: (BeaTles):

1962: The first TV appearance of The Beatles was recorded by Manchester based Granada TV, who filmed a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, (the performance was shown on 17th October 1962).
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1966: New York City teenagers Carol Hopkins and Susan Richmond climbed out onto the ledge on the second floor of a city hotel and threatened to jump unless they could get to meet The Beatles.- Police talked then down.
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1968: Ringo Starr quit The Beatles during The White Album sessions when the constant bickering and tension became too much for him.
- The news of Ringo's departure was kept secret, and he rejoined the sessions on September 3rd. After Ringo walked out, the remaining Beatles recorded 'Back In the USSR', with Paul on drums and John playing bass.
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1969: The Beatles met at John Lennon's Tittenhurst Park home in England for their final ever photo session.
Three shots from this session (by Ethan Russell) formed the front and back covers of the Capitol compilation album Hey Jude.
- Yoko Ono and a pregnant Linda McCartney (she was to give birth to daughter Mary six days later) appeared in some photographs with The Beatles.
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2014: John Lennon's killer, 59-year-old Mark David Chapman, was denied parole by New York State officials for the eighth time. In handing down their decision, the parole board said, "Your release would be incompatible with the welfare of society and would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law."

 

On This Day - 23rd August:

• 1305: Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London. - Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence. Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297

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• 1927: Immigrant laborers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for a robbery they did not commit. - Fifty years later, in 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis establishes a memorial in the victims' honor.

- - - Anarchist trial defendants Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right)

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On This Day - 23rd August:

• 1990: East and West Germany announce they will unite on Oct 3rd. 'Unification Day' saw the German Democratic Republic cease to exist. A five new Federal States on its former territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany. East and West Berlin were reunited and joined the Federal Republic as a full-fledged Federal City-State.

German reunification - Wikipedia


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• 2006: Natascha Kampusch, abducted at the age of 10 in Austria, escapes from her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.

Natascha Kampusch - Wikipedia

 

Born On This Day - 23rd August:

• 1754: Louis XVI, King of France during the French Revolution who met his fate at the guillotine.
• 1912: Gene Kelly, dancer, choreographer and actor.
• 1946: Keith Moon, drummer in The Who

 

'BeaTles' - On This Day - 23rd August:

1962: John Lennon married Cynthia Powell at Liverpool's Mount Pleasant register office.
= He then played a gig that night with The Beatles at Liverpool's Riverpark Ballroom.

1966: (1/2) The Beatles hit No.1 on the UK singles chart with the double a sided 'Yellow Submarine - Eleanor Rigby'.
= The group's eleventh No.1. Paul McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with The Beatles in the film Help!
Rigby came from the name of a store in Bristol, Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers.

1966: (2/2) On their final tour of America, The Beatles performed at Shea Stadium in New York City, New York in front of 44,600 seat stadium.
= The Beatles earn more than the previous year, receiving $189,000 for their performance.

 

On This Day - 24th August:
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1572: St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces =
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - Wikipedia
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1923: Paavo Nurmi of ("The fliying Finn ") runs WORLD RECORD 3 mile time of 14:11.2 in Stockholm; intermediate time during 5000m event
Paavo Nurmi (Runner nicknamed the "Flying Finn")

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1937: In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie - following the Santoña Agreement.
Santoña Agreement - Wikipedia

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On This Day - 24th August:

1963: Stevie Wonder became the first artist ever to score a US No.1 album and single in the same week. Wonder was at No.1 on the album chart with 'Little Stevie Wonder/The 12 Year Old Genius' and had the No.1 single 'Fingertips part 2'.
= This was also the first ever live recording to make No.1.

1977: Singer, songwriter Waylon Jennings was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine.
= Jennings had recently been named an honorary police chief.

1981: Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon's murder.
= Lennon was walking into the archway of his apartment at The Dakota, when Chapman fired five shots at from a few yards away. Lennon was hit four times from the back.

1990: Judas Priest successfully defended themselves against a lawsuit, after two fans attempted suicide while listening to the Stained Class album.
Both fans eventually died, one immediately from a shotgun blast, and the other on a second attempt three years later by a methadone overdose.
The prosecution claimed that there were subliminal messages in the group’s music that caused the two seventeen year olds to carry out the suicide pact in 1985.
= Judas Priest Look Back on 'Shocking' Backward-Masking Trial

 

On This Day - 24th August:

0079 AD: Mount Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum and other smaller settlements.


Mount Vesuvius - Wikipedia
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0410 AD: German barbarians sack Rome.


Sack of Rome (410) - Wikipedia
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1814: British troops under General Robert Ross capture Washington, D.C.


Burning of Washington - Wikipedia
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"Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder." ~ Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago

 

On This Day - 28th August:

1609: English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay
Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

1833: Britain's Slavery Abolition Act gains royal assent
The History Press | The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833

1929: English cricketer Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
https://www.cricketcountry.com/arti...nt-among-the-great-english-all-rounders-27046