This Day In History

[Topher]

Greatest baseball player of all time born today. Thats dope.

 

[aiw]

Greatest baseball player of all time born today. Thats dope.

 

[aiw]

August 7, 1977 Nate James

This is my favorite Nate James picture. It's his 2nd best play, 2nd to his tip shot against the Terps 1 week later.

 

[kchu1701]

^ LOL, never realized I'm in that picture. I'm just to the left behind Peppers's butt.

 

[DukeNukem05]

This is my favorite kchu1701 picture.

 

[torontoduke]

Anniversary of the end of Duke law grad Richard Nixon's Presidential term.

AIW - would you include Dick Nixon with the Nazi Richard Spencer and Jay Bilas as your least-favourite Duke Alumni? Or has the passing of time allowed people to forgive him?

 

[Topher]

Anniversary of the end of Duke law grad Richard Nixon's Presidential term.

AIW - would you include Dick Nixon with the Nazi Richard Spencer and Jay Bilas as your least-favourite Duke Alumni? Or has the passing of time allowed people to forgive him?

Spencer is a UVA grad while Miller is the Duke grad. Poor Pantonio.

 

[aiw]

Spencer was in grad school and Duke, but dropped out. He knew Stephen Miller.

 

[Topher]

God no wonder everyone hates Duke

 

[aiw]

August 8

1786 Mont Blanc climbed for the 1st time

1876 Edison gets patent for mimeograph

1908 Wilbur Wright makes 1st public flight at Le Mans (The Wright Brothers by David McCullough is an excellent, fast read).

1929 Graf Zeppelin begins around the world flight

1969 This picture was taken

1969 Manson family commits Tate murders

1974 Nixon resigns

2000 Confederate submarine H.L Hunley raised from sea floor

2017 Donald Trump threatens nuclear war



Births
1170 St. Dominic (founder of the Dominican order)
1919 Dino DeLaurentiis
1930 Jerry Tarkanian
1937 Dustin Hoffman
1938 Connie Stevens
1952 Robin Quivers
1953 Donnie Most
1961 The Edge
1962 Kool Moe Dee
1981 Roger Federer
1989 Anthony Rizzo

Deaths
117 Trajan
2017 Glen Campbell

 

[rhfarmer]

I love that Kool Moe Dee and The Edge share a birthday.

 

[aiw]

Missed yesterday, but a lot of cool things happen. August 9

48 BC Caesar defeats Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus

378 AD Battle of Adrianople. Visigoths defeat Rome and Emperor Valens is killed

1173 Construction of the campanile of Pisa begins. Takes 200 years to complete.

1610 First Anglo-Powhatan War begins

1854 Thoreau publishes Walden

1892 Edison received patent for two-way telegraph

1930 Betty Boop debuts

1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold in Berlin

1944 US Forestry Service release first poster with Smokey Bear

1945 Nagasaki bombed

2014 Michael Brown killed

Births
1631 John Dryden
1776 Amadeo Avogadro
1928 Bob Cousey
1944 Sam Elliott
1957 Melanie Griffith
1963 Whitney Houston
1964 Brett Hull
1966 Vinny Del Negro
1968 Gillian Anderson
1974 Derek Fisher
1985 Anna Kendrick

Deaths
378 Valens
1516 Hieronymous Bosch
1995 Jerry Garcia
2008 Bernie Mac
2015 Frank Gifford

 

[rhfarmer]

Wait, Jerry's dead?

 

[aiw]

August 10

1519 Magellan and 5 ships set sail from Seville starting circumnavigation (he died along the way)

1675 Foundation stone for Royal Greenwich Observatory laid

1776 Declaration of Independence reaches London

1792 Storming of the Tuilleries. Louis XVI taken prisoner

1793 Musee de Louvre opened

1821 Missouri admitted as the 24th state

1846 Smithsonian chartered

1905 Russo-Japanese War peace talks start in Portsmouth, NH

1948 Candid Camera debuts on television (the year before, it was called Candid Microphone. Sounds really boring)

1961 Agent Orange used for first time in Vietnam

1971 SABR founded at Cooperstown, NY

1977 David Berkowitz arrested

1981 Adam Walsh's head found

Births
1814 Henri Nestle
1874 Herbert Hoover (our last business man president. Those guys seem to work out so well)
1889 Charles Darrow. Inventor of Monopoly
1920 Red Holzman
1928 Jimmy Dean
1928 Eddie FIsher
1933 Rocky Colavito
1943 Ronnie Spector
1960 Antonio Banderas
1965 John Starks
1967 Gus Johnson
1972 Angie Harmon
1997 Kylie Jenner

Deaths
1932 Rin Tin Tin
2001 Lou Boudreau

 

[aiw]

I was an infant in NY when Son of Sam was on the loose. My parents have told me how scary everything fucking was.

I was 6 years old living in South Florida when Adam Walsh was kidnapped and I remember when they found his head. Nightmares. My mother was scared to take us shopping.

 

[aiw]

August 11

3114 BC Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar begins
106 Dacia becomes Roman province
1929 Babe Ruth first to 500 homers
1934 First civilian prisoners arrive at Alcatraz
1965 Watts riots begin
1972 Last US ground units leave Vietnam


Births
1921 Alex Haley
1933 Jerry Falwell
1950 Steve Wozniak
1953 Hulk Hogan
1967 Joe Rogan

Deaths
480 BC Leonidas
1919 Andrew Carnegie
1956 Jackson Pollack
2003 Herb Brooks
2014 Robin Williams

 

[sjsj2448]

Great thread. Thank you for all the work you've done in here, aiw. I am a history major and plan on going to graduate school for it.

 

[aiw]

I enjoy doing it, but it can be weirdly time consuming, therefore, the long lapses.

What period will you be studying?

 

[sjsj2448]

I enjoy doing it, but it can be weirdly time consuming, therefore, the long lapses.

What period will you be studying?

I'm interested in being an Americanist all the way. I haven't narrowed it down to a specific time period, but my areas of interest are urban/intellectual/pop culture/business/economics/finance (especially as it pertains to NYC). I don't have a school list yet. I still have to take the GRE, too.

 

[aiw]