History for August 5

History for August 5 - On-This-Day.com
John Huston 1906, Robert Taylor 1911, Neil A. Armstrong 1930 


John Saxon 1935, Loni Anderson 1946 - Actress ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Maureen McCormick 1956 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch") 


1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250. 


1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872. 


1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Adm. David G. Farragut were led into Mobile Bay, Alabama. 


1921 - The cartoon "On the Road to Moscow", by Rollin Kirby, was published in the "New York World". It was the first cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize. 


1964 - U.S. aircraft bombed North Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 


1966 - In New York, groundbreaking for the construction of the original World Trade Center began. 
 

1981 - The U.S. federal government started firing striking air traffic controllers. 


1991 - Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons. 


1992 - Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers. The officers had been acquitted on California State charges. Two of the officers were convicted and jailed on violation of civil rights charges. 


1998 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors. 


2011 - Standard & Poor's Financial Services lowered the United States' AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus.