Category: August

August 31 in Pop Culture History 1803 - Lewis and Clark started their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1888 - Mary Ann Nichols was murdered, the first...

August 30 in Pop Culture History 1835 - Melbourne, Australia was founded. 1836 - The city of Houston, named after former General Sam Houston, was founded by Augustus Chapman Allen...

August 29 in Pop Culture History 1758 - The first American Indian reservation was established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey. 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, opening the door...

August 28 in Pop Culture History 1609 - Henry Hudson discovered the Delaware Bay. 1789 - William Herschel discovered another Saturn moon, Enceladus. 1830 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's...

August 27 in Pop Culture History 410 - The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ended after three days. 1813 - French Emperor Napoleon I defeated a larger force of...

August 26 in Pop Culture History 1498 - Michelangelo began his work to carve the Pieta, depicting the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the...

August 25 in Pop Culture History 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax a six...

August 24 in Pop Culture History 79 (Volcano Eruption) Mount Vesuvius erupted. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were buried in volcanic ash, although some scholars believe it was...

August 23 in Pop Culture History 79 - Mount Vesuvius began stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. 1305 - Sir William Wallace was executed...

August 22 in Pop Culture History 565 - Columba, an Irish missionary, reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. 1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue began. It ended...

August 21 in Pop Culture History 1883 - An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic. 1888 - The first practical adding machine in...

August 20 in Pop Culture History 1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen. 1858 - Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection...

August 19 in Pop Culture History 295 BC - The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges 1612...

August 17 in Pop Culture History 1807 - Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat left New York, New York, to Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial...

August 16 in Pop Culture History 1858 - President James Buchanan inaugurated the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom. "Europe and America...

August 15 in Pop Culture History 1483 - Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary. 1519 - Panama City, Panama, was founded. 1549...

August 14 in Pop Culture History 1888 - An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played...

August 13 in Pop Culture History 1521 - Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes captured Aztec leader Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. 1868 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Arica, Chile...

August 12 in Pop Culture History 30 BC - Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, committed suicide, by means of an asp bite. 1851 -...

August 11 in Pop Culture History 3114 BC - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, began. This was the calendar that caused the Friday, December...

August 10 in Pop Culture History 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville, Spain to circumnavigate the globe. 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in...

August 9 in Pop Culture History 1483 - Opening of the restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Roselli contributed. Michelangelo...

August 8 in Pop Culture History 1786 - Mont Blanc on the French/Italian border was climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard. 1786 - Coinage...

August 7 in Pop Culture History 1782 - George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It was later renamed the...

August 6 in Pop Culture History https://youtu.be/uxVVgBAosqg 2013 - NASA programmed the Curiosity Rover to sing itself “Happy Birthday”, on the anniversary of it's landing date August 6, 2012. 1787...

August 5 in Pop Culture History 1305 - William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, was captured by the English near Glasgow. Mel Gibson starred in a dramatization...

August 4 in Pop Culture History 70 - The Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. 1693 - Celebratory date for Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne. 1790 -...

August 3 in Pop Culture History 1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain towards, he expected to find Asia. 1769 - The La Brea Tar...

August 2 in Pop Culture History 1610 - Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay (he thought he had made it through the Northwest Passage, and...

August 1 in Pop Culture History 1774 - British scientist Joseph Priestley re-discovered oxygen (the gas), verifying the discovery of it by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1790 - The...