This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
08/01/  10 -BC- Claudius, 4th Roman emperor (41-54 AD) 
08/01/ 126 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD) 
08/01/ 848 Frantisek Kmoch, composer 
08/01/1322 Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian 
08/01/1495 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect 
08/01/1520 Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland 
08/01/1642 Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) 
08/01/1659 Antoine Mouque, composer 
08/01/1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer 
08/01/1714 Richard Wilson, British landscape painter 
08/01/1744 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits 
08/01/1753 Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, reformer/inventor 
08/01/1755 Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer 
08/01/1766 Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer 
08/01/1766 Jeffrey Wyatville, architect 
08/01/1770 William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition

08/01/1779 Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner) 
08/01/1786 Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister 
08/01/1814 Maxcy Gregg, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 
08/01/1815 Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast 
08/01/1818 Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island 
08/01/1819 Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd) 
08/01/1824 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer 
08/01/1840 Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer 
08/01/1843 Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), died in 1926 
08/01/1847 Guido Papini, composer 
08/01/1847 Guido Papini, violinist/composer 
08/01/1858 Hans Rott, composer 
08/01/1858 Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist 
08/01/1862 Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor 
08/01/1863 Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34) 
08/01/1871 Oskar Fried, composer 
08/01/1877 Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain) 
08/01/1877 Jan van den Tempel, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (SDAP) 
08/01/1881 Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer 
08/01/1882 Vaclav Klicka, composer 
08/01/1886 Isaac Keesing, founder (System Keesing) 
08/01/1888 Vito Frazzi, composer 
08/01/1889 John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis 
08/01/1890 George II, king of Greece 
08/01/1892 Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian (Lesson temps inquiets) 
08/01/1895 Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University) 
08/01/1898 Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey) 
08/01/1899 William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71) 
08/01/1901 Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club M‚diterran‚e) 
08/01/1902 Henry Curls, general/chief military authority (1944-46) 
08/01/1906 William Hayter, diplomat 
08/01/1908 Miloslav Kabelac, composer 
08/01/1909 Nigel Henderson, admiral 
08/01/1911 Ronald MacDonald, British major-general 
08/01/1912 Henry Jones, Phila Pa, actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy) 
08/01/1913 Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny) 
08/01/1914 Jack Delano, composer 
08/01/1916 Viscount Hanworth, barrister 
08/01/1917 Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert 
08/01/1918 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 
08/01/1919 Stanley Middleton, novelist 
08/01/1920 Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright 
08/01/1920 Sammy Lee, Fresno Calif, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) 
08/01/1921 Jack Kramer, Las Vegas, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1947) 
08/01/1922 Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter) 
08/01/1922 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 
08/01/1923 Gwyn Ward Thomas, Britsh TV director 
08/01/1923 Yoshinao Nakada, composer 
08/01/1926 Karl Kohn, composer 
08/01/1927 Andr‚ Cools, Belgium, minister of Budget/vice-premier 
08/01/1930 Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz) 
08/01/1930 Lionel Bart, composer 
08/01/1931 Bart Conner, US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984) 
08/01/1931 Lucien E Blackwell, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania) 
08/01/1931 Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England) 
08/01/1931 Sean O Riada, composer 
08/01/1933 Dom DeLuise, Bkln NY, comedian, actor (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso) 
08/01/1933 Erwin Nypels, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (D66) 
08/01/1933 Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office 
08/01/1936 Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster 
08/01/1936 Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession) 
08/01/1937 Alfonse M D'Amato, Brooklyn NY, (Sen-R-NY 1981- ) 
08/01/1939 Stephen Sykes, Bishop of Ely 
08/01/1940 Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983) 
08/01/1940 Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire 
08/01/1941 Ron Brown, actor (Charlie the Lonesome Cougar) 
08/01/1942 Giancarlo Giannini, Italy, actor (Seduction of Mimi) 
08/01/1942 Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band) 
08/01/1943 Andy Roxburgh, manager Scotland soccer team 
08/01/1944 Elske Terveld, Dutch state secretary Social Business (PvdA) 
08/01/1944 Yuri V Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2) 
08/01/1946 Frederick C Boucher, (Rep-D-Virginia) 
08/01/1946 J Guillermo, husband of princess Christina of Netherlands 
08/01/1946 Richard O Covey, Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astro (STS 51I, 26, 38, 61) 
08/01/1946 Rick Boucher, (Rep-D-VA, 1983-  ) 
08/01/1946 Tom Loeffler, (Rep-R-TX, 1979-  ) 
08/01/1947 Rick Anderson, rocker (Tubes) 
08/01/1947 Rick Coonce, rocker (Grass Roots) 
08/01/1948 Robert Spink, British MP 
08/01/1949 Primous, III Fountain, composer 
08/01/1950 Doug Tract, [Greaseman], Bronx NY, radio DJ 
08/01/1951 David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England) 
08/01/1951 Robin Heifetz, composer 
08/01/1952 Brian Patrick Clarke, Gettysburg Pa, actor (Merle-Eight is Enough) 
08/01/1953 Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy) 
08/01/1957 Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball (445'10

08/01/1958 Taylor Negron, LA Calif, actor (Silvio-Detective School) 
08/01/1959 Joe Elliot, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages) 
08/01/1960 Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy) 
08/01/1960 Marta Ch varri Figueroa, Madrid Spain, The Marquesa de Cubas 
08/01/1961 Danny Blind, soccer star (Sparta/Ajax) 
08/01/1962 Joetta Clark, East Orange NJ, 800m runner (Olympic-1992) 
08/01/1964 Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen) 
08/01/1964 Rob Camilletti, Cher's boyfriend 
08/01/1967 Gregg Jefferies, infielder (NY Mets, KC Royals) 
08/01/1968 Stacey Augmon, Pasadena Cal, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)

08/01/1973 Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa-Cosby Show) 
08/01/1978 Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
08/01/ 527 Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies 
08/01/1137 Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) 
08/01/1190 Floris III, Count of Holland, dies 
08/01/1628 Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37 
08/01/1667 Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48 
08/01/1714 Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49 
08/01/1743 Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 
08/01/1805 Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51 
08/01/1813 Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60 
08/01/1821 Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author, dies 
08/01/1834 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies 
08/01/1837 Walter Geikie, painter, dies 
08/01/1846 Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83 
08/01/1857 Charles Turner, engraver, dies 
08/01/1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43 
08/01/1883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies 
08/01/1902 Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies 
08/01/1911 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das grosse Duden Lexicon), dies 
08/01/1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies 
08/01/1922 Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72 
08/01/1925 John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61 
08/01/1926 Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies 
08/01/1934 Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79 
08/01/1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68 
08/01/1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 
08/01/1957 Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59] 
08/01/1963 Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies 
08/01/1965 Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77 
08/01/1966 Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies 
08/01/1973 Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91 
08/01/1973 Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80 
08/01/1977 Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47 
08/01/1979 Joseph Kot„lla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71 
08/01/1981 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer, dies at 49 
08/01/1983 Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62 
08/01/1985 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92 
08/01/1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73 
08/01/1987 Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92 
08/01/1988 Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86 
08/01/1988 John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80 
08/01/1988 Trindad Silva, actor (Hill St Blues), dies at 38 in an auto accident

08/01/1989 John Ogdon, composer, dies at 52 
08/01/1990 Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies 
08/01/1992 Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orch), dies at 72 of cancer 
08/01/1992 Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies 
08/01/1993 Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 8

08/01/1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian general-major, murdered 
08/01/1993 Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76 
08/01/1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72 
08/01/1993 Viktor Poljanitsjko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
08/01/  12 -BC- Lyon: altar given to Rome/emperor August 
08/01/ 527 Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium 
08/01/ 649 Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7] 
08/01/ 860 Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II 
08/01/ 902 Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily 
08/01/1021 Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest 
08/01/1086 English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier 
08/01/1177 Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III 
08/01/1203 Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium 
08/01/1291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence

08/01/1404 Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland 
08/01/1498 Christopher Columbus lands on 'Isla Santa' [vasteland America] 
08/01/1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III 
08/01/1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia 
08/01/1626 Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal 
08/01/1716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) 
08/01/1716 Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed 
08/01/1732 Foundation laid for Bank of England 
08/01/1774 Priestly discovers oxygen 
08/01/1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia 
08/01/1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 
08/01/1789 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act 
08/01/1790 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves) 
08/01/1794 Whiskey Rebellion begins 
08/01/1798 Battle on Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet 
08/01/1812 Rare tornado hits Westchester County, NY 
08/01/1814 Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat 
08/01/1831 London Bridge opens 
08/01/1834 Slavery abolished in British empire 
08/01/1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil 
08/01/1838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas 
08/01/1842 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens 
08/01/1852 SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist 
08/01/1861 Brazil recognizes Confederacy 
08/01/1863 Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign 
08/01/1863 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign 
08/01/1864 Battle of Petersburg, VA 
08/01/1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn) 
08/01/1869 1st voyage down Colorado River 
08/01/1873 SF's 1st cable car begins service 
08/01/1876 Colorado becomes 38th state 
08/01/1877 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #173 Ino 
08/01/1881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay 
08/01/1883 A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for œ10,000 (forgery) 
08/01/1883 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights 
08/01/1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain 
08/01/1886 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand 
08/01/1896 George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England) 
08/01/1901 Burial within SF City limits prohibited 
08/01/1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing 
08/01/1902 Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die) 
08/01/1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed 
08/01/1906 Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th 
08/01/1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF 
08/01/1907 Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division 
08/01/1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed 
08/01/1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow 
08/01/1914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)

08/01/1914 France & Germany mobilize 
08/01/1916 Hawaii National Park established 
08/01/1917 Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT 
08/01/1918 British troops enter Vladivostok 
08/01/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #896 Sphinx 
08/01/1918 Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings 
08/01/1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens First Air Fair in Amsterdam 
08/01/1920 Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia 
08/01/1922 Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard 
08/01/1925 Shortwave-radio link between Kootw˜k & Netherland East-Indies 
08/01/1926 Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus 
08/01/1926 Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona 
08/01/1929 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1186 Turnera 
08/01/1929 E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1149 Volga 
08/01/1933 Death penality for anti fascists in Germany 
08/01/1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno 
08/01/1933 NRA (National Recovery Administration) established 
08/01/1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin 
08/01/1936 Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College 
08/01/1937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1432 Ethiopia 
08/01/1941 NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks must (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)

08/01/1942 German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers 
08/01/1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw 
08/01/1943 Race riot in Harlem NYC 
08/01/1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East 
08/01/1944 US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt 
08/01/1944 US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir 
08/01/1944 Uprising in Warsaw ghetto 
08/01/1945 Japanese city Tojama destroyed by B-29's 
08/01/1946 Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 
08/01/1950 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) 
08/01/1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule 
08/01/1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) 
08/01/1950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King 
08/01/1950 Territory of Guam created 
08/01/1951 David Ben Gurions Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election 
08/01/1953 Calif introduces sales tax (for education) 
08/01/1953 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba 
08/01/1953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland

08/01/1954 Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France 
08/01/1954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1955 1st microgravity research begins 
08/01/1955 Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca govt 
08/01/1955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting

08/01/1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) 
08/01/1957 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10') 
08/01/1958 1st class postage up to 4› (had been 3› for 26 years) 
08/01/1958 US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 
08/01/1959 New Continental baseball league formed 
08/01/1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France 
08/01/1960 Chubby Checker releases 'The Twist' 
08/01/1960 Dahomey gains independence 
08/01/1961 German DR limits traffic to West Berlin 
08/01/1961 New SF Hall of Justice opens 
08/01/1961 Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League 
08/01/1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0 
08/01/1962 Failed attack on president Nkrumah of Ghana 
08/01/1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale 
08/01/1963 Germany FR annexes Elten village 
08/01/1963 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation 
08/01/1964 Beatles' 'Hard Day's Night, A,' single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 week

08/01/1966 Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead 
08/01/1967 Iza„k Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam 
08/01/1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1968 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasti

08/01/1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival 
08/01/1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars 
08/01/1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi 
08/01/1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting 
08/01/1970 Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game

08/01/1971 CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII 
08/01/1971 George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC 
08/01/1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) 
08/01/1972 Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header

08/01/1973 H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF 
08/01/1973 Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park 
08/01/1974 Virginia Squires trade Julius 'Dr J' Erving to NY Nets 
08/01/1975 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord 
08/01/1975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees 
08/01/1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations 
08/01/1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada 
08/01/1976 Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) 
08/01/1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) 
08/01/1977 SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer 
08/01/1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead 
08/01/1978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL) 
08/01/1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms govt in Portugal 
08/01/1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record 
08/01/1981 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3401 
08/01/1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM 
08/01/1981 Poland premier Jagielski resigns 
08/01/1982 Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dive

08/01/1982 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut 
08/01/1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) 
08/01/1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 
08/01/1986 Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal 
08/01/1987 Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart 
08/01/1987 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9') set by Harry Drake in Nevada

08/01/1987 Mike Tyson beats Tony Tucker to become undisputed boxing champ 
08/01/1987 Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America

08/01/1988 Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon 
08/01/1990 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait 
08/01/1990 Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs 
08/01/1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida 
08/01/1992 NBC's 'Saturday Today' premieres 
08/01/1992 USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica 
08/01/1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack 
08/01/1998 -8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam 
  
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