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Dom Pierre Pérignon (1638–1715) was a monk and cellar master at the Benedictine abbey in Hautvillers. He pioneered a number […]

4 AUGUST 1610 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder (4 August 1610 – 11 June 1666) was a Dutch admiral. 1818 Lovell

On August 3, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus started his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. With a crew of 90

AUGUST 3 1816 John Eugene Smith (1816-1897) was a Swiss immigrant to the United States, who served as a Union

1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. The day came to be known in Kuwait as

2 AUGUST 1696 Mahmud I (Ottoman Turkish: محمود اول‎, 2 August 1696 – 13 December 1754), known as Mahmud the

At a ceremony in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford is presented with the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the

JULY 31 1803 John Ericsson (born Johan Ericsson; July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor. He

1916 – German saboteurs blew up a munitions pier on Black Tom Island, Jersey City, NJ. 7 people were killed.

JULY 30 1816 Thomas Jackson Rodman (July 31, 1816 – June 7, 1871) was an American artillerist, inventor, ordnance specialist,