Week 32, 2011: August 7 - August 13
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GENERAL

August 7: Forgiveness Day, International
August 8: Tisha B'Av (Day of Mourning) (J)
August 9: Indigenous Peoples Day, World
August 12: Youth Day, International
August 13: Raksha Bandhan (H)
 

WEEKLY EVENTS

Three Weeks (Tisha B'Av) (J): 19-August 9
Ramadan Begins (M) Sundown July 31 - Sundown August 30.
America's Cup World Series Part I: 8-14
Smile Week, National: 8-14

HISTORICAL BIRTHDAYS

Abbott Thayer: August 11, 1849
Alex Haley: August 11, 1921
Alfred Hitchcock: August 13, 1899
Annie Oakley: August 13, 1860
Carrie Bond: August 11, 1862
Cecil B De Mille: August 11, 1881
Chalmers Johnson: August 7, 1931
Fidel Castro Ruz: August 13, 1926
George Crockett: August 10, 1909
Herbert Hoover: August 10, 1874
Isaac Walton: August 9, 1593
James Randi: August 7, 1928
Jean Piaget: August 9, 1896
Jerry Falwell: August 11, 1933
Jorge Amado: August 10, 1912
Louis Leakey: August 7, 1903
Mary Roberts Rinehart: August 11, 1876
Mata Hari: August 7, 1876
Matthew Henson: August 8, 1866
Pauline Frederick: August 11, 1906
Ralph Bunche: August 7, 1903
Rudi Gernreich: August 8, 1922
Steve Wozniak: August 11, 1950
Tsar Alexey I Mihailovitch: August 11, 1629
William Caxton: August 13, 1422

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Aimee Mann: August 9, 1960
Antonio Banderas: August 10, 1960
Bobby Hatfield: August 10, 1940
Charlize Theron: August 7, 1975
Connie Stevens: August 8,
Dan Fogelberg: August 13,  1951
Danny Bonaduce: August 13,  1959
David Duchovny: August 7, 1960
David Steinberg: August 9, 1942
Deborah Norville: August 8,
Dino DeLaurentis: August 8, 1919
Dominique Swain: August 12, 1980
Don Ho: August 13,  1930
Donny Most: August 8,
Dustin Hoffman: August 8,
Eddie Fisher: August 10, 1928
Eric Carmen: August 11, 1949
Esther Williams: August 8, 1923
Fernando Arrabel: August 11, 1932
George Hamilton: August 12, 1939
Gillian Anderson: August 9, 1968
Hulk Hogan: August 11, 1953
Jane Wyatt: August 12, 1913
J-Boog: August 11, 1985
Joe Jackson: August 11, 1955
Keith Carradine: August 8,
Larry Wilcox: August 8,
Mel Tillis: August 8,
Melanie Griffith: August 9, 1957
Merle Kilgore: August 9, 1934
Mike Douglas: August 11, 1925
Norma Shearer: August 10, 1900
Pete Sampras: August 12, 1971
Peter Weir: August 8,
Porter Wagoner: August 12, 1930
Quinn Cummings: August 13, 1967
Robert Shaw: August 9, 1927
Robin Quivers: August 8,
Rosanna Arquette: August 10, 1959
Sam Elliott: August 9, 1944
Whitney Houston: August 9, 1963
William Goldman: August 12, 1931

THIS WEEK'S FIRSTS

• First Royal faced with bankruptcy (Sarah, Duchess of York): August 8, 2010

• First Discovery of Nepenthes Attenboroughii, (Philippines): August 11, 2009

• First NFL game on FOX Network: August 12, 1994

• First Telephone link between Israel and Jordan: August 7, 1994

• First Swimmer to cross Bering Strait (Lynne Cox): August 8, 1987

• First World Track & Field Championships: August 7, 1983

• First PC introduced (IBM): August 12, 1981

• First British nude beach (Brighton): August 9, 1979

• First Atmospheric flight of space shuttle: August 12, 1977

• First President to resign (Richard Nixon): August 9, 1974

• First BART train travels: August 10, 1973

• First Computer chess tournament: August 7, 1970

• First Lunar orbiter launched by U.S.: August 10, 1966

• First Meteor to enter earth's atmosphere AND leave:
       August 10, 1966

• First Female British supreme court justice
       (Elizabeth Lane): August 12, 1965

• First Broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire:
       August 13 1964

• First Airing of Britain’s 'Ready Steady Go': August 9, 1963

• First Time 2 people in space: August 12, 1962

• First Black appointed to Federal District Court
      (James B Parsons): August 9, 1961

• First Man to circle the earth a full day
      (Cosmonaut Gherman Titov): August 7, 1961

• First Communications satellite launched, (Echo 1):
      August 12, 1960

• First Firing of a Polaris missile (Observation Island):
      August 12, 1959

• First Flight 4-motor Cessna 620: August 11, 1956

• First US Public Broadcasting TV network, (Alabama):
       August 9, 1956

• First U.S. black becomes United Nations delegate (Charles Mahoney): August 7, 1954

• First Woman to sail solo across Atlantic (Ann Davidson):
       August 12, 1953

• First Color telecast of a baseball game: August 11, 1951

• First Airing of "Candid Camera": August 10, 1948

• First Dutch government of Beel resigns: August 7, 1948

• First Time all major-league baseball games (8)
       are played at night: August 9, 1946

• First Appearance of Smokey Bear: August 9, 1944

• First WWII Pacific American offensive, (Guadalcanal):
       August 7, 1942

• First Federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay: August 11, 1934

• First Appearance of Betty Boop: August 9, 1930

• First and only silent film to win an Oscar for Best Picture opens,
       (Wings): August 12, 1927

• First National march of Ku Klux Klan in Washington,
       D.C: August 8, 1925

• First Newsreel pictures of presidential candidates:
       August 11, 1924

• First Patent on animation (John Wray): August 11, 1914

• First Patent electric washing machine (Alva Fisher):
       August 9, 1910

• First Ship to use SOS distress call, (Arapahoe): August 11, 1909

• First Peking to Paris auto rally completed. Winner: Prince Scipone Borches (9,317 miles): August 10, 1907

• First Davis Cup tennis competition: August 8, 1900

• First Discovery of gold at Klondike River, Dawson City:
       August 12, 1896

• First U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in
       New York 1893

• First Publishing of Afro-American newspaper: August 13 1892

• First Meeting of Daughters of American Revolution:
       August 8, 1890

• First Patent coin-operated telephone (William Gray):
       August 13 1889

• First Patent screw cap, (Dan Rylands): August 10, 1889

• First Revolving door patented (Theophilus Van Kannel):
      August 7, 1888

• First National Archery Association tournament (Chicago):
      August 12, 1879

• First Patent mimeograph (Thomas Edison): August 8, 1876

• First Patent sprinkler head, (Harry S. Parmelee):
      August 11, 1874

• First Patent moving picture projector (O. B. Brown):
      August 10, 1869

• First Lumber exports leave Vancouver, BC: August 12, 1863

• First Successful silver mill in US, Virginia City,
      Nevada: August 11, 1860

• First Elevator patented: August 9, 1859

• First Patent metal bullet cartridges (Smith and Wesson):
      August 8, 1854

• First America's Cup, (U.S. schooner America wins):
      August 12, 1851

• First Patent sewing machine (Isaac Singer): August 12, 1851

• First U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady,
      New York): August 9, 1831

• First Potatoes planted in Hawaii: August 7, 1820

• First Ashkenazi Jews (disciples of Vilna Gaon) seeking to reclaim
      the Holy Land, arrive in Palestine: August 8, 1809

• First Horses arrive in Hawaii: August 9, 1803

• First American to sail around the world (Robert Gray):
      August 10, 1790

• First Ascension of Mont Blanc (Jacques Balmat and Michel
      Paccard): August 8, 1786

• First US Order of Purple Heart created: August 7, 1782

• First Surinam newspaper published: August 10, 1774

• First Hot-air balloon lift-off (Bartolomeu de Gusmao):
      August 8, 1709

• First American/Indian war ends: August 12, 1676

• First U.S. police force (New Amsterdam): August 12, 1658

• First Discovery of Martian South Polar Cap (Christian Huygens):
      August 13 1642

• First European settler in Bronx (Jonas Bronck): August 9, 1638

• First Appearance of the 'Star of Bethlehem' (Venus-Jupiter conjunction): August 12, 0003   TOP

THIS WEEK
IN HISTORY

• Niger River Floods: August 10, 2010

• Zhouqu, China landslide: August 13 2010

• U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania:
       August 7, 1998

• Congress ordered by courts to save all e-mails: August 13 1993

• Nakhon Ratchasima hotel in Thailand, collapses:
       August 13 1993

• Iraq annexes Kuwait: August 8, 1990

• Operation Desert Shield begins: August 7, 1990

• Asia's population hits 3 billion: August 10, 1988

• Israeli terrorist Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship:
       August 11, 1988

• Rangoon Student Massacre: August 8, 1988

• Japan beats U.S. Olympic Gold baseball: August 7, 1984

• AT&T Strike: August 7, 1983

• Israel bombs Beirut: August 12, 1982

• Hurricane Allen: August 10, 1980

• Ecuador adopts its constitution: August 10, 1979

• Iran begins massive book burnings: August 12, 1979

• Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents:
       August 8, 1979

• Beirut Bomb attack: August 13 1978

• China and Japan sign peace treaty: August 12, 1978

• Wake for Pope Paul VI: August 7, 1978

• David Berkowitz arrested (Son of Sam): August 10, 1977

• Panama Canal Zone Accord: August 10, 1977

• Cape Town, South Africa race riots: August 11, 1976

• Christian militia massacres Christian & Muslim Palestinians
      in Tell al-Za'tar refugee camp: August 12, 1976

• President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9: August 8, 1974

• Cheech & Chong Day established in San Antonio Texas:
       August 11, 1972

• Final American combat ground troops leave Vietnam:
      August 12, 1972

• Rockwell contracted to build Space Shuttle: August 9, 1972

• Syrian President Assad ceases diplomatic relations with Jordan: August 12, 1971

• Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes: August 9, 1970

• San Rafael, California Courthouse Shooting: August 7, 1970

• Helter-Skelter: Manson Family commits Tate-La Bianca murders: August 9, 1969

• Apple Records launched by The Beatles: August 11, 1968

• Miami, Chicago and Little Rock race riots: August 10, 1968

• Miami, Florida Race Riots: August 8, 1968

• Final Beatle's concert tour of U.S. begins: August 11, 1966

• Lansing, Michigan race riot: August 7, 1966

• Singapore independence, National Day: August 9, 1965

• Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation: August 8, 1965

• Watts Riots begin: August 11, 1965

• Gulf of Tonkin resolution: August 7, 1964

• Turkey attacks Greece: August 7, 1964

• Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany:
      August 13 1961

• Chad Independence: August 11, 1960

• Jacksonville Florida, race riot: August 9, 1960

• Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel: August 7, 1955

• Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement": August 8, 1955

• Minimum wage in US raised from 75 cents to $1 an hour:
      August 12, 1955

• French Indochina peace talks: August 11, 1954

• Bhutan becomes independent monarchy: August 8, 1949

• Summer Olympics opens in London: August 11, 1948

• Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine to
     Cyprus: August 13 1946

• Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito:
      August 11, 1945

• Communist government established in North Korea:
      August 8, 1945

• Nagasaki, largest Christian city Japan, Destroyed by Atom Bomb: August 9, 1945

• Treaty of London: August 8, 1945

• US signs United Nations Charter: August 8, 1945

• Athens Alabama race riots: August 10, 1944

• Atlantic Charter: August 11, 1941

• Battle of Britain begins: August 8, 1940

• Innsbruck University Theological Dept closed by Nazis:
      August 7, 1938

• Bonneville Dam on Columbia River opens: August 8, 1937

• U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8hour work day: August 13 1923

• Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken with polio: August 10, 1921

• British Mandate Period begins in Palestine: August 10, 1920

• Treaty of Sevres: August 10, 1920

• Treaty of Rawalpindi: August 8, 1919

• Weimar Republic begins in Germany: August 11, 1919

• Battle of Amiens. WWI's last battle ends: August 11, 1918

• France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I:
       August 13 1914

• Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary: August 12, 1914

• Treaty of Bucharest: August 10, 1913

• Parliament Act UK: August 10, 1911

• Ty Cobb killed by Mother: August 9, 1905

• Edward VII become crowned King of England: August 9, 1902

• Amsterdam Diamond workers strike: August 7, 1900

• Manila captured (Spanish American War): August 13 1898

• Royal Auto Club established in UK: August 10, 1897

• Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa):
       August 7, 1884

• Hatfield’s and McCoy’s feud begins: August 7, 1882

• Arica, Chile Earthquake: August 8, 1868

• Red Cross forms in Geneva: August 8, 1864

• Brigham Young becomes head of Mormon faith: August 8, 1844

• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (US/Canada border): August 9, 1842

• Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery: August 10, 1831

• Cincinnati race riots: August 10, 1827

• Antioch Earthquake: August 10, 1822

• Missouri becomes 24th state: August 10, 1821

• Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits: August 7, 1814

• Treaty of London-Netherland, (ends slave transports):
      August 13 1814

• Ecuador Independence: August 10, 1809

• Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery in Haiti:
      August 7, 1802

• French Revolution, King Louis XVI's palace attacked:
      August 10, 1792

• King Louie XVI & Marie Antoinette imprisoned by
       French rebels: August 13 1792

• Department of War and Lighthouse Service created:
      August 7, 1789

• Silver dollar and decimal system adopted for US Money:
      August 8, 1786

• Barbados hurricane: August 11, 1780

• Papandayan Java volcano eruption: August 11, 1772

• Carlos III becomes king of Spain: August 10, 1759

• Curacao slave uprising: August 7, 1750

• Covenant of Hannover: August 9, 1726

• England divided into 11 districts: August 9, 1655

• Litchfield, CT founded: August 13 1651

• Germany expels English salesmen: August 11, 1597

• Magellan begins his round the world sailing: August 10, 1519

• Madagascar discovered (Diego Diaz): August 10, 1500

• Columbus arrives in Caribbean: August 7, 1498

• Battle at Constantinople: August 7, 0626

• The second temple of the Hebrews destroyed by fire in Jerusalem: August 10, 0070

• Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans: August 8, 0070

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