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 The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872.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.


1884 - On Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid.


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.


1953 - During the Korean conflict prisoners were exchanged at Panmunjom. The exchange was labeled Operation Big Switch.


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


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