This Week in History

AUGUST 21

Mike Kehoe was born.

Janice Weinert was born.

Ryan Urciuoli was born.

1858 – The famous debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln began in Illinois.

1911 – The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.

AUGUST 22

1902 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States president to ride in an automobile.

2004 – A version of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream was stolen in Norway. Another version had been stolen in 1994.

AUGUST 23

Brian Galarza was born.

Maryann Dean-Polanco was born.

Sarah Bradwisch was born.

1305 – Scottish leader and national hero, William Wallace, was executed in London.

1926 – Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.

AUGUST 24

Geoff Rawling was born.

Brian James McManus was born.

John Reinhardt was born.

Kerri McGuinness Ward was born.

Timra Sullivan Mannino was born.

Bryan Henry was born.

Jennifer Baldwin was born.

79 A.D. – Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

AUGUST 25

Mary Cassidy Kennedy was born.

1916 – The Department of the Interior created the National Park Service to manage and preserve national parks and monuments for future generations.

1944 – Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied forces.

AUGUST 26

1920 -The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.

1939 – The first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

AUGUST 27

Walter Meyer was born.

Bob Bruns was born.

John Riordan was born.

2003 – Mars made its closest approach to earth in 60,000 years.