This Week in History

AUGUST 3 
1949 – The National Basketball Association was formed.
1981 – U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike.

AUGUST 4
Keith Green was born.
Ginny Danaher was born.

1892 – Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
1944 – Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis

AUGUST 5
James Supple was born.
Mike Dalton was born.
Anne Murphy was born.

1861 – For the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax.
1962 – Marilyn Monroe died.

AUGUST  6
John Grillo was born.
Janice Ameruso was born.

1945 – The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
1997 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.

AUGUST 7
Jim Cunningham was born.

2000 – Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Conn., was selected by Al Gore to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.
2007 – Barry Bonds passes Hank Aaron on baseball’s all-time homerun list. The record is discredited by many because of Bond’s alleged steroid use.

AUGUST 8
Tom McVeigh was born.
Tom Boggiano was born.
Michael Foley was born.
Terri Bennett was born.

1876 – Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
1974 – President Nixon announced he would resign the following day as a result of the Watergate scandal.

AUGUST 9 
Thomas Pulkowski was born.

1936 – Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympics.
1995 – Jerry Garcia, lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died.