“For, though I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am.” —Shakespeare’s Henry V
August 25
1530 – Ivan the Terrible, first tsar of Russia, is born.
1609 – “Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new invention, a telescope.”
1718 – “Louisiana governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne of Bienville founded New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi…named …in honor of Duke Philip II of Orléans who then reigned over France as Regent.”
1930 – “James Bond” actor Sean Connery is born.
1944 – WWII: The Nazis surrender and Paris is liberated by the Allies, to the joy of Parisians. Nazi Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered, against the orders of Hitler, who told him to destroy Paris completely.
August 26
1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert.
1303 – “Alauddin Khilji of the Khilji Dynasty attacked and captured Chittorgarh” in India.
1346 – The Battle of Creçy is a decisive victory for King Edward III of England and his son, the Black Prince, against the King of France during the Hundred Years’ War.
1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch father of microbiology, dies.
1789 – The radical “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” is approved by the French Revolution’s National Assembly.
1910 – Mother Teresa, Albanian saint, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and Nobel Prize winner, is born.
1914 – WWI: The Battle of Tannenberg begins, ultimately will be a German victory over the Russians.
1942 – The Nazi-controlled Vichy regime in France rounds up 6,000 Jews.
1974 – American aviator Charles Lindbergh, “the first aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight,” dies.
2021 – Amidst Joe Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal, 13 U.S. service members and some 200 Afghanis are killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul.
August 27
479 BC – The Battle of Plataea “was the final clash of the second Persian invasion of Greece with the victory of the allied Greek forces putting a final end to the Persian empire’s expansion.” The Battle of Mycale, also a Greek victory, occurred the same day.
663 – The Battle of Baekgang in Korea is a victory for the Silla and Tang Chinese allies over the Baekje restoration and Yamato Japanese forces.
1782 – Revolutionary War officer and ardent abolitionist John Laurens is killed. Read my full piece.
1883 – The island volcano Krakatoa erupts and triggers tsunamis that kill 36,000 people in Java and Sumatra.
1975 – Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, dies.
1979 – British Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the Queen, is assassinated along with two kids by IRA terrorists.
August 28
1189 – The Siege of Acre begins during the Third Crusade under Richard the Lionheart.
1609 – English explorer Henry Hudson sails into the Delaware’s Bay.
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, later the first native-born American saint, is born.
1963 – Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the famous “I Have a Dream” Speech. King plagiarized part of the speech from Archibald Carey Jr., but his delivery undoubtedly electrified the country.
August 29
1526 – The Ottomans conquer Hungary at the Battle of Mohács.
1842 – The Treaty of Nanjing ends the First Opium War between China and Britain.
1915 – Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, star of iconic movie “Casablanca,” is born. She died the same day in 1982.
August 30
1363 – The Battle of Lake Poyang begins between the Ming (victors) and Han Chinese, one of history’s biggest naval battles.
1602 – “Red Hugh” O’Donnell, a great Irish military leader against English tyranny, dies—likely assassinated. Read my full piece.
1862 – US Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run ends with a Confederate victory.
1914 – WWI: The Battle of Tannenberg ends with Germans’ crushing defeat of the Russians.
August 31
12 AD – Crazy and infamously cruel Roman emperor Caligula is born.
1422 – English King Henry V, famous for his victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt, dies.
1897 – Oscar-winning US actor Fredric March is born.
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