Page 5: Historical Events In August - 02

1937  The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal   

1938  1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals).   

1938  Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76.   

1940  Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death   

1941  German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman   

1941  Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70   

1942  250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp.   

1942  Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77   

1943  PT-109, under command of LTJG John F. Kennedy, cut in half by Japanese cruiser   

1943  Revolt in Treblinka.   

1943  Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka   

1944  Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts.   

1945  Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill   

1945  Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85.   

1953  Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash   

1954  Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia   

1954  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42.   

1955  Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies.   

1956  Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109.   

1958  Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months.   

1958  Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80.   

1959  41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC.   

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78   

1961  St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto   

1961  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64.   

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61.   

1964  North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts.   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin.   

1965  Morley Safer's sends inaugural Vietnam report indicating we are losing.   

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49   

1966  Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting   

1967  Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77.   

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96.   

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1455  Johan cicero: Elect of brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  Theodor zwinger: Swiss scholar   

1627  Samuel dircksz van hoogstraten: Dutch painter   

1632  Kaspar von stieler: German poet (teutsche wolredner)   

1672  Johann jakob scheuchzer: Swiss scholar   

1674  Philip ii: Duke of orléans, regent of france   

1696  Mahmud i: Sultan of ottoman (turkey) (1730-54)/fought austria & russia   

1703  Lorenzo ricci: Italian jesuit leader   

0257  Stefanus i: Bishop of rome (254-57)/heretic fighter,   

0640  Severinus: Italian pope (640),   

0686  John v: 1st greeks-syrian pope (685-86),   

0924  Ã†lfweard of wessex: Ælfweard of wessex   

1002  Abu amir mohammed ibn abd allah ibn mohammed ibn abi amir:   

1075  John viii xiphilinus: Theologian/patriarch of constantinople,   

1100  William ii: [rufus], king of england, shot in new forest at 44   

1222  Count raymond vi of toulouse: Count raymond vi of toulouse (b. 1156)