Events 201 - 220 of 220
- 2008 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Broadmoor GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins by 4 strokes ahead of Fred Funk for his second Champions Tour major title
- 2008 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale GC: Jiyai Shin of South Korea shoots final round 66 (−6) to win her first major championship, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Yani Tseng
- 2012 United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
Olympic Gold
2012 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17
Michael Phelps
- 2012 American Missy Franklin swims a world record 2:04.06 to win the 200m backstroke gold medal at the London Olympics
- 2013 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
- 2013 80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq
- 2013 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs successfully defend title with a 27-22 over ACT Brumbies
- 2014 The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
- 2014 At least 13 Palestinians reported killed in ongoing air raids and tank shelling by Israel
Barack Obama
- 2015 The Athens Stock Exchange re-opens after a month and falls by 22%
Event of Interest
2015 Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama
Isabel Allende
Barack Obama
Election of Interest
2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is elected for his second term as President
Hassan Rouhani
- 2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 2 1/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
- 2017 Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City
- 2017 Camila Cabello releases her single "Havana" (biggest song worldwide 2018, 19 million copies sold)
- 2019 Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
- 2019 Gunman kills nine and injures 27 at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, in 2nd mass shooting in 24 hours in the US
August in History
Swimming Pool Diplomacy: Khrushchev, Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split
Diplomacy requires a lot of skill, but not normally the ability to swim. Much to Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev's horror when he met Mao Zedong in 1958.
August 1, 1958The Strange, Mysterious Story of the Balloon Expedition to the North Pole
The discovery of Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée's tragic, long-lost polar expedition in 1930 led to more questions than answers.
August 5, 1930A Pill to Cure All Ills
Not well? Take a Beecham’s Pill was often the advice. So popular was it that nobody doubted it’s extravagant claim in the world’s first advertising slogan.
August 6, 1859Why Mata Hari Was Not the Spy You Thought She Was
The controversial life and death of Mata Hari, the glamorous WWI double agent, executed in 1917, has recently been reassessed in the light of new evidence.
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