- 1921] Not guilty: A jury in Chicago acquits several former members of the Chicago White Sox a.k.a. "The Black Sox" and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series in 1919 (8/2)...
- 1933] M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E: Walt Disney takes up a manufacturer's suggestion for a Mickey Mouse watch and the timepiece is introduced in Chicago. Sale price was $2.75 and thousands of watches were sold in the 30s. This provided Disney the dividends needed to stay in business until the release of "Snow White", toward the end of the decade (8/3)...
- 1943] PT-109: The PT-109 commanded by Lt. John Fitzgerald Kennedy sinks after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. Kennedy is credited with saving members of his crew (8/2)...
- 1966] Tower Horror: Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, climbs the University of Texas tower in Austin and sharts shooting. Before he's through, 15 lay dead, 31 wounded. Whitman was gunned down by Austin police (8/1)...
- 1966] "Happy Trails": Controversial but brilliant comic Lenny Bruce is found dead at 40 in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills home. Official cause of death: "acute morphine poisoning caused by accidental overdose" (8/3)...2001] Vikings Pro Bowl tackle Korey Stringer dies of a heat stroke at training camp. Stringer was just 27 (8/1)...2005] Rock journalist Al Aronowitz passes away from cancer at 77. Al was a friend and I was glad I got to talk to him one last time before his passing (8/1)...
- 1973] Premiered on this date: Where were you in '62? Better yet, where were you on this date when "American Graffiti" premiered? The movie makes stars of Harrison Ford and Richard Dreyfuss, enhances the careers of Ron Howard, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack. Suzanne Somers debuts as the blonde in the T-Bird (8/1)...
- 1978] Grab a donut: Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak ends when he's held hitless in 4 at-bats. He ties the National League record set by Wee Willie Keeler (8/1)...
- 1979] The Captain is cut down: Yankees captain, 31-year old catcher, Thurman Munson dies when his private jet crashes near the Canton (OH) airport. The baseball world is stunned (8/2)...
- 1986] Wedding Bells: John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal touch gloves and go to a neutural corner after saying "I do". Divorced in 1992 the couple will have 3 children together (8/1)...1994] Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley announce that they were married 11 weeks earlier in the Dominican Republic. They do the only sensible thing - divorcing in January, 1996 (8/1)...
- 1992] Going to Hall: 'The Franchise', George Thomas Seaver of the Mets enters the MLB Hall of Fame in Cooperstown with the highest percentage (98.84%) of votes in HOF history (8/2)...
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