August 1991 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
• 02 Aug 1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
• 03 Aug 1991 Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian
• 04 Aug 1991 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
• 06 Aug 1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
• 07 Aug 1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
• 08 Aug 1991 Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
• 10 Aug 1991 Little Night Music closes at New York State NYC after 7 performances
• 11 Aug 1991 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
• 12 Aug 1991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan.
• 13 Aug 1991 Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke
• 14 Aug 1991 Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
• 15 Aug 1991 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park, New York.
• 16 Aug 1991 Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
• 17 Aug 1991 West of Crescent City, California, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs.
• 18 Aug 1991 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
• 19 Aug 1991 Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
• 20 Aug 1991 After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
• 21 Aug 1991 Communist coup is crushed in the USSR in 2 days
• 22 Aug 1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke
• 23 Aug 1991 The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or quotSuper Nintendoquot) is released in the United States.
• 24 Aug 1991 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
• 25 Aug 1991 Getting Married closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 70 performances
• 26 Aug 1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
• 27 Aug 1991 Moldavia declares independence from USSR
• 28 Aug 1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
• 29 Aug 1991 JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney
• 30 Aug 1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka Poet Selvi
• 31 Aug 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3

Famous Birthday

• Dylan O'Brien

  TV Actor.

• Evanna Lynch

  Movie Actress.

• Austin Butler

  TV Actor.

• Andrej Pejic
• Young Thug
• Gaia Weiss (model)
• Jesse James Rutherford
• Liz Cambage
• Natalia Gantimurova
• GEM (singer)
• Irina Kulikova (model)
• Jesinta Campbell

  Australian model Miss Universe Australia 2010.

• Arnaud Démare
• Olivier Dion
• Hansika Motwani

  Indian actress.

• Yeo Hoonmin
• Tommy Bastow

  English actor and singer (FranKo).

• Kacey Rohl
• Richard Harmon

  TV Actor.

• Alexa Bliss

  Wrestler.

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Famous Deaths

• Jean Tinguely

  Swiss-born artist, a kinetic sculptor and pop artist.

• Richard Wilson

  Scottish actor, well known for his role as Victor Meldrew of "One Foot in the Grave," playing with his real-life wife, Annette Crosbie.

• Richard Wilson

  Scottish actor, well known for his role as Victor Meldrew of "One Foot in the Grave," playing with his real-life wife, Annette Crosbie.

• Luigi Zampa

  Italian film director whose work includes "Vivere in Pace" in 1946.

• Harry Reasoner

  American journalist and news anchor, one of the original anchors on the popular TV news shows, "60 Minutes.

• Christian Anders

  Actor / Composer (Death Stone, Love Cult).

• James B Irwin

  Col USAF / Astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61.

• Shotzie

  Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9.

• Helen Page

  Camp.

• Josef Lipski

  Polish politician.

• Jef Contryn

  Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89.

• Irene Campbell

  British actress / dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice).

• William Gordon

  Screenwriter (Back to Bataan).

• Vaughn Shoemaker

  US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer).

• Corrie Hartong

  Dance pioneer.

• Shapur Bahktiar

  Prime Minister of Iran (1979), assassinated.

• Florence B Seibert

  Bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93.

• Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  German / Swiss architect.

• Vince Taylor [Brian Holden]

  British singer (Brand new Cadillac).

• Magdalena G Schenk

  Historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
2. Rythm Syndicate - P.A.S.S.I.O.N.
3. Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat
4. Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Til It's Over
5. Roxette - Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
2. Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do
3. Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
4. Heavy D & The Boyz - Now That We've Found Love
5. Extreme - More Than Words