On This Day

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22 AUGUST

King Richard the Third is killed at Bosworth Field and Henry V11 becomes the first Tudor monarch.

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22 AUGUST


1485 Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses

•1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

•1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament

•1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

•1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

Famous Birthday's

Claude Debussy
(1862 - 1918)•

•Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967)

•Deng Xiaoping
(1904 - 1997)

•Carl Yastrzemski
78 Years Old

•Bill Parcells
76 Years Old

•Mats Wilander
53 Years Old

Famous Death's

Stilicho
( - 408)•

•Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
(1830 - 1903)

•Michael Collins
(1890 - 1922)

•Jomo Kenyatta
(1891 - 1978)

Famous Weddings

•1848 Soldier and later US President Ulysses Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
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•1900 Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory
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•1925 Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson (28) weds teacher Maryon Elspeth Moody (23)
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•1931 FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina
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•1944 Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker

Famous Divorces

•1968 Cynthia Lennon sues Beatle member John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultery
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•2011 Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 long years of marriage

2012 "General Hospital" actress Vanessa Marcil (39) divorces actor Carmine Giovinazzo (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

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23 AUGUST

1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code

1850 1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane

Famous Birthdays

Keith Moon
(1946 - 1978)

River Phoenix
(1970 - 1993)

Kobe Bryant
39th Birthday

Famous Death's

William Wallace
( - 1305)

Rudolph Valentino
(1895 - 1926)

Ed Warren
(1926 - 2006)

Famous Weddings

1876 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler

1942 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

1962 Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell

1970 US Solicitor General Ken Starr weds Alice Mendell

1975 Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England

Famous Divorces

2010 Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6 years of marriage

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24 AUGUST

79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die

410 Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire

1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate

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

1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer

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

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

Famous Birthday's

William Wilberforce
(1759 - 1833)

Carlo Gambino
(1902 - 1976)

Yasser Arafat
(1933 - 2004)

Cal Ripken Jr
57 Years Old

Marlee Matlin
52 Years Old

Rupert Grint
29 Years Old

Famous Deaths

Getulio Vargas
(1883 - 1954)

Henry J. Kaiser
(1882 - 1967)

Famous Weddings

1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon

1899 Businessman James Cash Penney (24) weds Bertha Alva Hess

1970 Actor Peter Sellers (44) weds model Miranda Quarry

1987 Actor Patrick Dempsey (21) weds manager Rocky Parker (47)

1996 Actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm, Sweden

Famous Divorces

1976 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (59) divorces her sixth husband, toy inventor Jack Ryan (49) after 1 year of marriage

2009 American actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces TV personality Brandi Glanville (35) due to irreconcilable differences

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25 AUGUST

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded

1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean

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

1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)

1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

Famous Birthday's

Ivan the Terrible
(1530 - 1584)

George Wallace
(1919 - 1998)

Sean Connery
87 Years Old

Tim Burton
59 Years Old

Famous Deaths

Margaret of Anjou
(1430 - 1482)

James Watt
(1736 - 1819)

William Herschel
(1738 - 1822)

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)

Paul Muni
(1895 - 1967)

Neil Armstrong
(1930 - 2012)

Famous Weddings

1749 British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England

1870 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland

1885 "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)

1925 Suffragette Kate Sheppard (78) weds printer and author William Sidney Lovell-Smith (72) in Christchurch, New Zealand

1928 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna

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26 AUGUST

1346 Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle

1924 The Catastrophe of Smyrna: known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. (August 13 OS)

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII

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

1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history

1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in welfare policy

Famous Birthday's

Robert Walpole
(1676 - 1745)

Mary Ann Nichols
(1845 - 1888)

Mother Teresa
(1910 - 1997)

Famous Deaths

William James
(1842 - 1910)

Andrew Mellon
(1855 - 1937)

Charles Lindbergh
(1902 - 1974)


Famous Weddings

1926 Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson

1946 "Gone with the Wind" actress Olivia de Havilland weds screenwriter and novelist Marcus Goodrich

1965 Mobster and nbi informant Henry Hill (22) weds Karen Friedman in North Carolina

2006 "Days of our Lives" actor Billy Warlock (45) weds actress Julie Pinson in Las Vegas, Nevada

2006 2004 X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein (37) weds jazz musician Eileen Hunter at King's College Chapel in Aberdeen, Scotland

Famous Divorces

1927 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (60) divorces artist Maude Noel after almost 4 years of marriage

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27 AUGUST

479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece

663 Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Korean Baekje forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea; - no Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years

1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1979 Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers killed when Provisional IRA explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passes Narrow Water Castle

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States

Famous Birthday's

Donald Bradman
(1908 - 2001)

Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908 - 1973)

Barbara Bach
70th Birthday

Famous Deaths

W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868 - 1963)

Haile Selassie
(1892 - 1975)

Stevie Ray Vaughan
(1954 - 1990)

Famous Weddings

1930 Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

1956 Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32)

1966 American sportscaster Al Michaels (21) weds Linda Stamaton

1977 "Coral Reefer Band" singer Jimmy Buffett (30) weds Jane Slagsvol

1994 TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York