Month: August 2025

AUGUST 31 – 1997 America reacts to the death of Princess Diana; 1897 Edison patents Kinetograph; 1909 Al Reach patents cork-centered baseball; 1916 Harry Butters killed at Battle of Somme 1997 — America reacts to the death of Diana. I

AUGUST 30 – 1963 Hotline established between Washington and Moscow; 1791 Jefferson responds to Bannickers letter; 2015 Monsters of Shlock and Ned Tat win award for largest tattoo making machine; 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches 94.7 MPH fastball

AUGUST 29 – 2005 Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast;  2016 Oak Ridge and Boeing team up to create world’s largest 3D printed thing; 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run AUGUST 29 2005—Hurricane Katrina slams into the Gulf Coast. …Katrina

AUGUST 28 – 1963 MLK delivers Dream Speech; 1798 Founding Father Wilson dies penniless during Panic of 1796;  1837 Worcester ssauce invented, John Lea and William Perrins; 1955 NFL first preseason OT sudden death 1963  MLK delivers I Have a

AUGUST 26 – 1946 Navy heads to Antarctica in Operation: HiJump; 1920 19th Amendment adopted; 1939 1st baseball game broadcast on TV; 1965 Happy Anniversary Henry Hill/Kate Friedman 1920 – 19TH amendment is adopted. This gave women the right to

AUGUST 25– 1777 General Washington begins assigning codenames to his spy ring; 1876 Southern Brigadiers wave the bloody shirt at a  parade in Charlston; ; 1986 Mark McGwuire hits 1st HR; 1950 Sugar Ray Robinson wins boxing middleweight title; 2016

AUGUST 23 – 1979 Soviet Ballet dancer Godunov defects to America; 2016 Sheils Chastek of Bucks County, PA becomes Sesame Street’s biggest fan; 1784 Republic of Franklin declares independence from U.S.; 2017 Yankee Britton converts his 60th consecutive save AUGUST

ed AUGUST 22 – 2017 Duke reelected canine mayor of Cormorant, MN;  1848 Happy anniversary President Ulysses and First Lady Julia Grant; 1957 Rademacher becmes only heavyweight boxer to challenge the champ in debut bout;2016 Chuck Helmke wins record for

AUGUST 20 – 1833 Happy Birthday Benjamin Harrison; 1833 Happy Birthday Lowe, inventor water gas process; 2011 Happy Anniversary Kim K/Kris Humphries AUGUST 20 1833– Happy Birthday Benjamin Young Tippecanoe Harrison, #23. …One of seven presidents born in Ohio, Kid

AUGUST 19 – 1946 Happy Birthday Bill Clinton; 1944 Happy Birthday Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul); 1906 Filo Farnsworth AUGUST 19 – Happy birthday #42 Bill Clinton. …William Jefferson Blythe was born August 19 1946 in Hope Arkansas