This Day in History, August 31

Xanthine, Caligula, King Henry V, William Livingston, Maria Montessori, Jack the Ripper, Zeppelin, the Kinetiscope, the Anglo-Russian Convention, James Coburn, Neutrality Act, Frank Robinson, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Princess Diana, The Scream, earthquakes, plane crashes, this day in history, August 31. #history #thisdayinhistory #August31

This Day in History, August 30

Muslin, the Siege of Jerusalem, Melbourne, Australia, Ted Williams, Warren Buffett, R. Crumb, the Moscow-Washington Hotline, Thurgood Marshall, Space Shuttle Discovery, this day in history, August 30.

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This Day in History, August 29

Babylon, Japanese coins, electromagnetic induction, Charles Ketering, Reitwagen, the Goodyear Tire Company, Quebec Bridge Collapse, Royal Canadian Navy, Ingrid Bergman, the Philippine Autonomy Act, Gemini V, The Beatles, Netflix, this day in history, August 29.

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This Day in History, August 28

Tabby, Delaware Bay, Enceladus, Steam Locomotives, Scientific American Magazine, The Carrington Event, Tasha Tudor, Jack Kirby, this day in history, August 28.

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This Day in History, August 27

Stratum, Visigoths, Oil wells, Charles Rolls, Ed Gein, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Afrikaans Bible, the first practical jet aircraft, Tuesday Weld, Paul Reubens, the Guinness Book of World Records, Mariner 2, this day in history, August 27.

This Day in History, August 26

Ala, Lutherans, Captain James Cook, Prince Albert, Finland’s flag, Mother Teresa, the Nineteenth Amendment, this day in history, August 26. #history #thisdayinhistory #August26

This Day in History, August 25

Stigma, Ivan the Terrible, Galileo's telescope, War of 1812, Allan Pinkerton, "Life on the Moon" story, Bret Harte, Matthew Webb, Michael Rennie, WWI, the National Park Service, Paris liberated, televised Congressional hearings, Voyager 2, this day in history, August 25

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This Day in History, August 24

Fibula, Visigoths, Sophia Brahe, Delaware, Netherlands, St. Louis, The Panic of 1857, Mount of the Holy Cross, Panama Canal, Roger McCluskey, Amelia Earhart, Hitler’s “involuntary euthanasia” program, Paul Coelho, NATO, Edith Sampson, Mike Huckabee, Cal Ripken, Mark David Chapman, Drug Lords, Pete Rose, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ukraine, Windows 95, RFID, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Pluto, hurricanes, earthquakes, this day in history, August 24. #history #thisdayinhistory #August24

This Day in History, August 23

This Day in History, August 23: Mount Vesuvius, Sir William Wallace, Louis XVI, American Rebellion, The Albert Bridge, The Southern Cross Expedition, snow chains, Ernie Bushmiller, Gene Kelly, WWI news, Tex Williams, Sacco and Vanzetti, WWII news, the Battle of Stalingrad, Keith Moon, World Council of Churches, Shelley Long, the C-130, Photo of earth, River Phoenix, Stockholm Syndrome, the Pontiac Silverdome, Kobe Bryant, Armenian independence, WWW, Natascha Campusch, the Russian Royal Family, an earthquake in Virginia, this day in history, August 23.

This Day in History, August 22

Nouveau riche, Spanish Inquisition, the first air raid in history, Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker, Cadillac, Presidential automobile ride, Ray Bradbury, Carl Yastrzemski, Cindy Williams, Diana Nyad, Earthquakes, Devil’s Island, Paul Molitor, Debbi Peterson (of the Bangles), High-flying X-15, Nolan Ryan, this day in history, August 22.

This Day in History, August 21

Coup d’état, the Pueblo Revolt, New South Wales, King Gustav III the Enlightened Despot, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte elected King of Sweden, Burroughs adding machine, Oldsmobile, Mona Lisa, Wilt Chamberlain, Kenny Rogers, "Demon Core" fatality, Journey's drummer Steve Smith, Hawaii the 50th state, Usain Bolt, Gorbachev, Tiger Woods, this day in history, August 21.

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This Day in History, August 20

Revamp, Benjamin Harrison, H.P. Lovecraft, Jacqueline Susann, NFL, Detroit's WWJ, Japan's NHK, Lou Gehrig's 23rd career Grand Slam, Winston Churchill, the N.S. Savannah, Viking I Probe, this day in history, August 20. #history #thisdayinhistory #August20

This Day in History, August 19

Brogue, Temple of Venus, Mary Queen of Scots, Witch Trials, Swedish Government, the Daguerotype, California Goldrush, Orville Wright, Coco Chanel, Ogden Nash, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the All American Soapbox Derby, the German Referendum of 1934, Moscow Trials, this day in history, August 19.

This Day in History, August 18

Colophon, Protestants and Catholics, Virginia Dare, John White, English and French witch trials, Meriwether Lewis, Marshall Field, Max Factor, Jr., the 19th amendment, Rosalynn Carter, Roberto Clemente, Robert Redford, Thousand Islands Bridge, Martin Mull, Patrick Swayze, Denis Leary, James Meredith, a meteor, a fire, and two hurricanes, this day in history, August 18.

This Day in History, August 17

Quash, the Prayer Book Rebellion, Earthquakes, Davey Crockett, Queen Victoria’s mother, Fulton’s steamboat, Chang and Eng, British Act for Marriages, Mae West, the first auto-pedestrian fatality, Maureen O’Hara, Narcotics Anonymous, Hurricanes, Belinda Carlisle, Quake Lake, Woodstock, the Soviet icebreaker Arktika, Compact Discs, Rudolph Hess, Michael Phelps, this day in history, August 17.

This Day in History, August 16

Colloquial, Hongxi Emperor of China, Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, T.E. Lawrence, The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manilla, Otto Messmer, the Klondike Gold Rush, Earthquakes, May Clarke, Menachem Begin, Tohoku Imperial University, H.M.S. Queen Mary, Ray Chapman, first color sound cartoon, Lesley Ann Warren, Sports Illustrated, James Cameron, Bela Lugosi, Angela Bassett, Cyprus, Steve Carell, Elvis Presley, Solar Particle Event, plane crashes, this day in history, August 16.

This Day in History, August 15

Solicitude, the Cologne Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Panama City, Napoleon Bonaparte, Tivoli Gardens, Charles Comiskey, Hugo Winterhalter, Julia Child, the Panama Canal, Will Rogers and Wiley Post, The Wizard of Oz, Stieg Larsson, A couple of defectors, The Beatles, the gold standard, this day in history, August 15.

This Day in History, August 14

Magnum Opus, Macbeth, Mainz Psalter, Giambattista Benedetti, the Falkland Islands, Oregon Territory, Doc Holiday, Cologne Cathedral, Edison's phonograph, the Boxer Rebellion, Social Security, David Crosby, Japan surrenders, Steve Martin, Danielle Stelle, Gary Larson, Magic Johnson, Halle Berry, massive power outage, this day in history, August 14.

This Day in History, August 13

August 13 This Day in History De rigueur, Cortés takes Tenochtitlan, Richelieu becomes Prime Minister, Louis XVI arrested, Annie Oakley, another Peruvian earthquake, payphones, Bert Lahr, near-earth asteroid, Alfred Hitchcock, Felix Wankel, Ben Hogan, the first woman Marine, BMW, Fidel Castro, H.G. Wells, Dan Fogelberg, "Hound Dog," Danny Bonaduce, the Berlin Wall, Apollo 11, Mickey Mantle, this day in history, August 13.

This Day in History, August 12

Coup de foudre, Canary Islands, Madame Blavatsky, Singer sewing machines, Katherine Lee Bates, Klara Hitler, the first antiseptic surgery, Cecil B. DeMille, Erwin Schrödinger, Jane Wyatt, Porter Wagoner, George Soros, Mark Knopfler, NASA's Echo 1A, space shuttle Enterprise, the IBM Personal Computer, Sue the T-Rex, MLB players' strike, this day in history, August 12.

This Day in History, August 11

Carpe Diem, the Meso-American Long Count Calendar, the Weimar Constitution, Alex Haley, Babe Ruth hits 500, Jerry Falwell, Alcatraz, Hedy Lamar, Marilyn Vos Savant, Watts race riots, Apollo 11 astronauts released from quarantine, this day in history, August 11.

This Day in History, August 10

Vox populi, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Louvre, the Instituto Nacional, the Smithsonian, Aspirin, Monopoly, Jimmy Dean, Candid Camera, La Bianca murders, The Society for American Baseball Research, America's Most Wanted, Magellan reaches Venus, indictments for the Murrah bombing, European heat wave, the Okinawa Urban Monorail, this day in history, August 10. #history #thisdayinhistory #August10

This Day in History, August 9

Memento Mori, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Two-Way Telegraph, first female astrogeologists Mareta West, Jesse Owens at the Olympics, Smokey Bear, Sam Elliott, Nagasaki, Whitney Houston, Manson murders, Nixon resigns, Yeltsin shakes things up, this day in history, August 9.

This Day in History, August 8

Katzenjammer, the Mayan ruler Casper, Napoleon exiled, the mimeograph, Dr. Bob Smith (cofounder of A.A.) the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant, the first refrigerator, Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron, the Wright Brothers' first public flight, Dino De Laurentiis, Graf Zepelin, Dustin Hoffman, The Great Train Robbery, the Beatles, Nixon announces his resignation, 8/8/88 the high in NYC is 88, Wrigley Field's first night game, a secret space mission, this day in history, August 8.

This Day in History, August 7

Cognoscenti, Elizabeth Báthory, the Purple Heart, the United States department of war, Matahari, Louis Leakey, James Randi, Don Larsen, Garrison Keillor, IBM calculator, Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer 6, David Duchovny, Charlize Theron, Viking 2, Love Canal, Barry Bonds, this day in history, August 7. #history #thisdayinhistory #August7

This Day in History, August 6

Blitzkrieg, Bogata, the Constitution, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir Alexander Fleming, First electric chair execution, Texas Instruments, the Kiowa, Dutch Schultz, Henry Iba, Lucille Ball, Robert Mitchum, swimming the English channel, Andy Warhol, Judge Joseph Force Crater goes missing, Queen Wilhelmina goes to Congress, the bombing of Hiroshima, Cuba, The voting rights act of 1965, The World Wide Web, this day in history, August 6. #history #thisdayinhistory #August6

This Day in History, August 5

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This Day in History, August 3

A priori, temple fire, Columbus, the first letter sent from North America, Harvard and Yale, American Dental Association, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Ernie Pyle, John T. Scopes, Standard Oil of Indiana, WWI news, the "Black Socks" scandal and ban, Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, Santa Claus Land, NBS, USS Nautilus, Niger, Anti-ballistic missile treaty, Tandy's TRS-80, Statue of Liberty, a strong earthquake, this day in history, August 3.

This Day in History, August 2

This Day in History, August 1

August 1, This Day in History Faux pas, Octavian, Justinian I, Columbus arrives in Venezuela, Oxygen gas, Francis Scott Key, Herman Melville, Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Colorado, Shredded Wheat, Harriet Quimby, WWI, Dom DeLouise, Berlin Olympics, Yves St. Laurent, Guam, NORAD, the Defence Intilligence Agency, DRC, Dune, The Concert for Bangladesh, MTV, Lindow Man, and more, this day in history, August 1. #history #thisdayinhistory #August1