1146 European leaders outlaw the 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
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces
1914 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) in East Prussia ends in destruction of the Russian Second Army with 122,000-170,000 killed, injured or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY
TODAY IN FILM & TV
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of NBC’s “Today Show”
TODAY IN MUSIC
1968 1st record released on Apple label in UK is The Beatles single “Hey Jude”
TODAY IN SPORT
1905 Detroit Tigers future Baseball HOF center fielder Ty Cobb makes his MLB debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro in a 5-3 win over the NY Highlanders at Bennett Park, Detroit
MORE FACTS….
1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the “red telephone” no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.
1979 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs
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
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