MessageToEagle.com – On 22 August 1572, “Earl of Northumberland” Thomas Percy was executed because he was Catholic. Thomas Percy was a Catholic and lived when the Protestant Queen
MessageToEagle.com – On August 21, 1680, Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish. Pueblo Indians were a peaceful people who managed to endure much after New Mexico’s
MessageToEagle. com – On August 20, 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally stabbed by a pick of an ice axe in his skull. The next day
MessageToEagle.com – On August 19, 1759, continued the naval Battle of Lagos between the Royal Navy of Britain and France, which began one day earlier. This historical event
MessageToEagle.com – On August 18, 1227, Genghis Khan died during the siege of Ningxia. The cause of his death remains unknown and has been attributed to being slain
MessageToEagle.com – On August 17, 1970, the Venera 7, a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus was launched from Earth. When it landed
MessageToEagle.com – On August 16, 1896, while camping near Rabbit Creek near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory, George Carmack reportedly spotted nuggets of gold in a
MessageToEagle.com – On 15 August 1057, the Battle of Lumphanan was fought between Macbeth, King of Scotland, and Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, the future King Malcolm III, the
MessageToEagle.com – On August 14, 1720, Spanish Villasur expedition was wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska. In June 1720, a Spanish military force
MessageToEagle.com – On 13 August 1792, the National Tribunal in Paris, formally arrested King Louis XVI of France and the royal family, including Queen Mary Antoinette, the king’s
MessageToEagle.com – On August 12, 1990, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date was discovered and nicknamed “Sue”. The discoverer was the paleontologist Susan “Sue” Hendrickson.
MessageToEagle.com – On August 11, 3114 B.C the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, particularly the Mayans, begins. According to Maya theology, the world was
MessageToEagle.com – On August 10, 1675, the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid. In 1675, King Charles II laid the foundation stone
MessageToEagle.com – On 9 August 48 BC, the Battle of Pharsalus was fought between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus (“Pompey the Great”) who fled to Egypt. In this
MessageToEagle.com – On August 8, 1220, Battle of Lihula was fought between invading Swedish army and Estonians for the control of a castle in Lihula, Estonia in 1220.
MessageToEagle.com – On August 7, 1947, Thor Heyerdahl’s raft the Kon –Tiki reached Polynesia. Heyerdahl and his five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotus, French Polynesia,
MessageToEagle.com – On Aug 6, 1840, Adolph Bandelier, Swiss-American anthropologist, famous for his studies of the American Indian cultures was born. Bandelier was the first historian and archaeologist who
MessageToEagle.com – On August 5, 1888, Anna Haining Bates – one of the tallest women in history – died. Anna Haining Bates and she was from Canada. Her parents were
MessageToEagle.com – On August 4, 1181, a supernova was seen in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese astronomers observed this supernova first on August 4 and then on
MessageToEagle.com – On August 3, 1704, British forces captured Gibraltar from the Spanish and managed to keep it until today and for a long time of more than
MessageToEagle.com – On August 2, 1798, Nelson won one of the greatest victories of the British admiral Horatio Nelson. It was fought between the British and French fleets
MessageToEagle.com – On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began and was part of a nationwide plan, the so-called Operation Tempest (referred in English as Operation Storm, with
MessageToEagle.com – On July 31, 1451, Jacques Cœur was arrested by order of Charles VII of France. This historical scandal occurred in medieval France on this day, when
MessageToEagle.com – On July 30, 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras with his ships. During his fourth and last trip through the Americas,
MessageToEagle.com – On July 29, 615, K’inich Janaab’ Pakal ascended the throne of the Mayan city-state of Palenque, at age 12, Pakal ruled until his death. During his
