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August 8 is the 220th day of the year ... The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field ... "Historical Events on August 8". OnThisDay.com.
The 89th Annual Parade took place on August 11, 2018. [24] BET and Centric premiered the parade on their networks in 2012. [80] On August 8, 2020, WLS-TV aired a television special for the 91st Annual Bud Billiken Parade in place of the 2020 parade which was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. [81] [82] [83] [84]
August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
July 30–August 2 the Cubs set a home attendance record for a four-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies, drawing a total of 163,727 spectators. August 5 New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine won the 300th game of his career, defeating the Cubs 8–3. October 6 the Cubs were eliminated from the NLDS when they lost 3–0 to the Arizona ...
8 August 8, 1939 (Tuesday) 9 August 9, ... The following events occurred in August 1939: August 1, 1939 ... The hometown Chicago White Sox defeated the St. Louis ...
1820 Chicago 1821 Survey of Chicago. 1830 August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson. Population: "Less than 100". [1] 1833 1833 Treaty of Chicago; Chicago incorporated as a town. [1] 1835 August 31, about 800 Potawatomi men gathered for a war dance in Chicago before being removed to west of the Mississippi ...
1. Splatter Theater. Location: The Annoyance Theater, 851 W. Belmont Avenue Dates: Saturdays through 10/28 and Tuesday 10/31, 8 p.m. For more than three decades, The Annoyance Theater has brought ...
Events 1794 – Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska . 1839 – Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio .