This Week in History
AUGUST 8
Tom McVeigh was born.
Tom Boggiano was born.
Michael Foley was born.
Terri Bennett was born.
Kate Mullane 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.
AUGUST 10
Meg McLoughlin was born.
1977 – David Berkowitz was arrested for the Son of Sam killings.
1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice.
AUGUST 11
Shane Kulman was born.
Owen Loof was born.
Maggie Allen was born.
Dan Byrne was born.
Annie and Liam McCormick were born.
1934 – The first inmates arrived at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1956 – Abstract artist Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident.
AUGUST 12
Eileen McDerby was born.
Sheila Iannace was born.
Keith Cook was born.
1972 – The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
AUGUST 13
Michael McMahon was born.
Valerie Dare was born.
Angelica Katz was born.
Rory Boyle was born.
AnnaClare Del Vecchio was born.
Leslie Mahoney was born.
1942 – Disney’s Bambi opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
1961 – The border between East and West Berlin was closed and marked with a barbed wire fence.
AUGUST 14
Rugby Bob Johnson was born.
Kelly Anaya was born.
Elisa Burke was born.
1935 – The Social Security Act became law.
2003 – The largest blackout in North American history hit the northeast.
