Events in History
43 BC Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him consul
1839 Louis Daguerre‘s daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published “free to the world” in Paris as a gift from the French government
1942 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers are killed, wounded, or captured during a raid on Dieppe, France
1988 Iran and Iraq begin a ceasefire in their eight-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1991 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d’état
2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom winds down as the last of the United States brigade combat teams cross the border into Kuwait [1]
Events in Flim and TV
1948 9th Venice Film Festival opens
1950 ABC begins broadcasting Saturday morning kids’ shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch)
1969 Film adaptation of Arlo Guthrie‘s song “Alice’s Restaurant”, directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Guthrie premieres
1970 31st Venice Film Festival opens
1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1980 Willy Russell’s play “Educating Rita” premieres in London starring Julie Walters
1991 Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
1993 26th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Doubletree Hotel
Events in Music
1918 Irving Berlin‘s military musical revue “Yip Yip Yaphank” opens at the Century Theater, later transferring to the Lexington, NYC
1955 WINS radio (New York City), announces it will not play “copy” white cover versions of R&B records (DJ’s play Fats Domino‘s “Ain’t That A Shame,” not Pat Boone’s)
1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit and firecrackers during concert at Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee; Ku Klux Klan demonstrated outside the show and burned records
1967 The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” single goes #1
1973 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
1974 RCA records releases “Pussy Cats”, the tenth album by American singer Harry Nilsson in the US; album was produced by John Lennon and Nilsson worked through a serious vocal chord injury which diminished his vaunted range
1979 “My Sharonna” by the Knack hits #1, stays at top for 6 weeks
2008 Interscope Records releases “The Fame,” the debut album by Lady Gaga (Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album 2010)
Events in Sports
1900 Start of first and only Olympic cricket match, Great Britain beats France by 158 runs in Paris
1903 Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game
1909 Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens in Speedway, Indiana, home of the Indy 500
1911 NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at NYC’s Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson’s arrest for violating Blue laws
1921 Detroit’s Tiger Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits against Boston Red Sox, the youngest ever
1922 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th US singles crown
1932 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin Babcock Stark 6-2, 6-2 for her first of 4 straight US singles crowns
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