On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

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19th August 1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry

19th August 1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith, Scotland to assume throne after 13 years in France

19th August 1745 - Jacobite Rising - Bonnie Prince Charlie, raises his standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, igniting the second Jacobite rebellion.

19th August 1839 - details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

19th August 1915 - British liner "SS Arabic" sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident

19th August 1942 - World War II more than 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France

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20th August 1597 - the first Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East

20th August 1619 - the first known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.

20th August 1641 - England & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification

20th August 1741 - Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition

20th August 1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over

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21st August 1689 - Battle of Dunkeld fought in Scotland between supporters of King James VII of Scotland and troops of William of Orange

21st August 1888 - American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

21st August 1942 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Bambi", based on the book by Felix Salten, is released

21st August 1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50th US state

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22nd August 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.

22nd August 1642 - the English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliament

22nd August 1780 - HMS Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England

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

22nd August 1932 - BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts

22nd august 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

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23rd August 1553 - Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor

23rd August 1839 - British capture Hong Kong from China

23rd August 1939 - John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats

23rd august 1944 - US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed

23rd August 1946 - "The Big Sleep" directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall first premieres

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24th August 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces

24th August 1662 - Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer

24th August 1814 - British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)

24th August 1914 - Battle of Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops

24th August 1921 - British airship R-38 crashes in River Humber, 44 die

24th August 1968 - France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific

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25th August 1609 - Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers

25th August 1768 - Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean

25th August 1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books , War of 1812

25th August 1894 - Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet

25th August 1944 - General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation

25th August 1950 - "Rashomon", Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyō, is released (Honorary Academy Award 1952)

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26th August 1945 - Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of World War II

26th August 1951 - "An American in Paris" with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron premieres in London (awarded Academy Awards Best Picture 1952)

26th August 1955 - the first colour NBC telecast of a Davis Cup tennis match

26th August 1959 - the British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers

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27th August 1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island

27th August 1789 - French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen"

27th August 1799 - British invasion army lands in North Holland

27th august 1883 - Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

27th August 1950 - the first transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC

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28th August 1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

28th August 1830 - the first American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

28th August 1946 - Film noir "The Killers" premieres, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway

28th August 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing a civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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29th August 1756 - England & France meet in war

29th August 1833 - Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law

29th August 1842 - Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ending the Opium war

29th August 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run, fought in Manassas, Virginia begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War)

29th August 1945 - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan

29th August 1949 - USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR

29th August 1979 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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30th August 1799 - Batavian fleet surrenders to British

30th August 1860 - the first British tram opens (Birkenhead)

30th August 1682 - William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

30th August 1941 - Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

30th August 1976 - Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution

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31st August 1422 - Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months

31st August 1745 - Jacobite Rising 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland

31st August 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, a device which produces moving pictures

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1st September 1695 - the French garrison of castle Namur surrenders to the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England

1st September 1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, the longest of any major European monarch.

1st September 1954 - "Rear Window", directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released

1st September 1939 - World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig

1st September 1915 - the German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1st September 1945 - V-J Day, formal Surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

1st September 1951 - US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty

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2nd September 1192 - Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

2nd September 1864 - Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)

2nd September 1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

2nd September 1945 - V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of World War II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

2nd September 1949 - "The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)

2nd September 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

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3rd September 1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives

3rd September 1783 - Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America

3rd September 1798 - Battle of St. George's Caye: Week long battle begins between the Spanish Empire and Great Britain off the coast of Belize

3rd September 1900 - with a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa

3rd September 1939 - World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada

3rd September 1939 - German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans

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4th September 1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson first European to discover island of Manhattan

4th September 1682 - English astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet named after him

4th September 1862 - General Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederate troops during Maryland Campaign (US Civil war)

4th September 1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.

4th September 1943 - British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy

4th September 1944 - British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp

4th September 1951 - first transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman

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5th September 1666 - Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead

5th September 1839 - The First Opium War begins in China

5th September 1914 - Great Britain, France, Belgium and Russia sign pact of London

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6th September 1522 - Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth.

6th September 1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World

6th September 1901 - US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

6th September 1909 - word received that American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole, 5 months earlier

6th September 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins, French and British forces prevent German advance on Paris (till the 12th Sept)

6th September 1939 - the first German air attack on Great Britain in WW II

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7th September 1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean is the first baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York

7th September 1909 - Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy

7th September 1927 - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of his electronic television in San Francisco

7th September 1940 - Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England

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