September 1st
1985 ... In a search led by American oceanographer Robert Ballard, the wreck of the Titanic was found on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet (4,000 metres). 1980 ... Due to poor health, Canadian activist Terry Fox, who had part of his leg amputated because of cancer, was forced to end his Marathon of Hope, ...
Sep 01, 2022
August 31
1888 - The mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols was discovered in the Whitechapel district of London's East End, and many believe she was the first victim of Jack the Ripper. 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector 1997 - Shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales-...
Aug 31, 2022
August 30
1905 - American baseball player Ty Cobb, who became one of the game's greatest offensive players and one of its fiercest competitors, made his major league debut, with the Detroit Tigers. 1918 - Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik se...
Aug 30, 2022
August 26
1883 - The volcano Krakatoa in Indonesia began to erupt, and 36,000 people were killed by the eruption and the resulting tsunami. 1920 - The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote. 2009 - Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being mis...
Aug 26, 2022
August 25
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1835 - New York's The Sun began running a series of news accounts that falsely claimed British astronomer John Herschel had observed all sorts of life on the Moon, including winged human creatures about four feet tall; it became known as the...
Aug 25, 2022
August 24
79 AD - Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted, destroying the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the excavations of these sites in the mid-18th century precipitated the modern science of archaeology. 1814 - During the War of 1812, British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned various government buildings, ...
Aug 24, 2022
August 23
1305 - On this day in London, William Wallace was executed for treason, condemned for leading Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle to free Scotland from English rule. 1973 - A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the ...
Aug 23, 2022
August 19
1692 - In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. 1909 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of automobile race Indianapolis 500, opens in Speedway, Indiana 1942 - World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British sold...
Aug 19, 2022
August 18
1227 - Genghis Khan-a warrior and ruler of genius who, starting from obscure and insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia into a rigidly disciplined military state-died. 1896 - According to lore, more than 200 outlaws from regional gangs gathered at Brown's Hole in the American West, where B...
Aug 18, 2022
August 17
1590 - John White returned from England to Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina, and a search the following day found no trace of the colony (now called the Lost Colony) that he had left there three years earlier. 1945 - Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel 2008- At...
Aug 17, 2022