On This Day

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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

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28 AUGUST

1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

1830 1st 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!

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations

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

Famous Birthday's

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)

Jack Kirby
(1917 - 1994)

Shania Twain
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Albert Frederick
(1553 - 1618)

Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822 - 1903)

Emmett Till
(1941 - 1955)

Famous Weddings

1775 Statesman John Hancock (38) weds hostess Dorothy Quincy (28) in Fairfield, Connecticut

1811 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)

1924 British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)

1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown

1997 British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West

Famous Divorces

1953 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (36) divorces bass player Ray Brown (27) after 6 years of marriage

2009 Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage

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29 AUGUST

1526 Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent

1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa

1825 Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil

1842 Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.

Famous Birthday's

Ingrid Bergman
(1915 - 1982)

Michael Jackson
(1958 - 2009)

Chris Hadfield
58th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Brigham Young
(1801 - 1877)

Ingrid Bergman
(1915 - 1982)

Lee Marvin
(1924 - 1987)

Famous Weddings

1885 Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (Age of Innocence) Edith Jones (23), marries Edward "Teddy" Wharton (36)

1955 "Untamed Youth" actress Mamie Van Doren (24) weds trumpeter and actor Ray Anthony (33)

1964 46th US Vice President Dick Cheney (23) weds Lynne Ann Vincent (23) at the First Presbyterian Church of Casper in Wyoming

1968 Norwegian Crown Prince Harald (later Harald V) marries Sonja Haraldsen at Oslo Cathedral

1993 Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)

It probably does not happen very often, Ingrid Bergman born on this day and also died on the same date 67 years later, Lee Marvin an actor I rated died on this day.

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29 John the Baptist, beheaded

1350 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

1640 English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland

1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed

1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion

1958 George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)

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30 AUGUST

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

Famous Birthday's

Peter the Cruel
(1334 - 1369)

Ted Williams
(1918 - 2002)

Cameron Diaz
45th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Vera-Ellen
(1921 - 1981)

Charles Bronson
(1921 - 2003)

Seamus Heaney
(1939 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1846 Author and Christian pioneer Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine

1940 CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC

1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills

1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

Famous Divorces

1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen

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31 AUGUST

1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty

1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies

1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

Famous Birthday's

Caligula
(12 - 41)

Commodus
(161 - 192)

Ramon Magsaysay
(1907 - 1957)

Famous Deaths

Mary Ann Nichols
(1845 - 1888)

Rocky Marciano
(1923 - 1969)

Diana Spencer
(1961 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1940 "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26)

1940 Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York

1952 Soprano singer Leontyne Mary Violet Price (25) weds concert bass-baritone singer William Warfield (32)

1991 Musician Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip

2010 Actress Leelee Sobieski (27) weds fashion designer Adam Kimmel in Italy