Page 5: Historical Events In August - 03
Saturday, 04 July 2026
1925 William Bruce, cricketer (drowns 14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), dies 

1926 Tony Bennett, American singer is born 

1926 Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus 

1926 Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF). 

1927 Enrique Pinella, composer 

1928 Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) 

1928 Cécile Aubry, French actress 

1929 Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap). 

1930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games 

1930 James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father) 

1931 Alex Cord, [Viespi], NYC, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum). 

1932 Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress (Indian Fighter). 

1933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931) 

1933 Pat Crawford, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1956). 

1933 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69. 

1934 Three days of anti-Jewish rioting in Constantine, Algeria leave 23 Jews killed and 35 wounded. The pogroms are traced to Radio-Berlin and Radio-Stuttgart Nazi broadcasts. 

1934 Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928) 

1936 SS Calyx, built at Eems, Germany in 1929 and renamed in 1936, she sank at the entrance to Ipswich dock. Declared a total loss and later broken up at Ipswich. 

1936 The U.S. State Department urges Americans living in Spain to leave because of the Spanish civil war 

1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies. 

1939 Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris 

1939 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80. 

1940 Lithuanian is accepted into the USSR. 

1940 Martin Sheen, American actor is born. 

1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies 

1940 Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide. 

1941 Benzine sales limited in US. 

1943 A private in an army hospital in Sicily is slapped by U.S. General George S. Patton, who accused the soldier of cowardice. Patton later apologized for the incident, at the request of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

1943 Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice 

1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma 

1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz 

1946 Belgian govt of Huysmans, forms 

1948 Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start and goes 7 innings 

1948 Albert F Pollard, Brit historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78 

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