DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE August 31, 1749 – French explorer Celoreon de Bienville claims all land east of the Great Miami River, which is west of Cincinnati, for France. He puts a lead plaque at the river’s mouth to the Ohio River as proof. It's still there somewhere. August 31, 1966 – Flora Irvin of Cincinnati goes boating on the Ohio River and hauls in a 25-pound, 49-inch longnose Gar, a state record and the ugliest freshwater fish in the world.
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Hank Williams

August 30, 1949 – Hank Williams records I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, A House Without Love, I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Living and My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It at the former Herzog Studios in Cincinnati on Race Street near Garfield Place.
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Charles Franklin Kettering

August 29, 1876 - Charles Franklin Kettering is born on a farm near Loudonville. A graduate of The Ohio State University, he helps develops the first electronic cash register, creates the Dayton Engineering Laboratories, now known as Delco, and is credited for the first electronic ignition. His house was the first house in America to have air conditioning from freon.
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Pere Ubu

August 28, 1975: One of Ohio's most creative rock bands, the punk experimentalists Pere Ubu, forms in Akron with singer David Thomas, guitarists Peter Laughner and Tom Herman, bassist Tim Wright, keyboardists Allen Ravenstine and drummer Scott Krauss. Named after a French surrealist play, the band -- amid personnel changes -- has gone on to record such alternative classics as The Modern Dance, Dub Housing and Cloudland.
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The Beatles

August 27, 1964 – A campaign led by WSAI-1360 DJ Dusty Rhodes, who is still on the air at WDJO-1160 AM, leads the Beatles to add Cincinnati and Crosley Field to their first tour of America. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
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The 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

August 26, 1862 – The 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry ends its siege of Atlanta to battle for control of the Chattahoochie River Bridge. Sherman’s march to the sea and back through the Carolinas is about to begin. They would cover 465 miles in 100 days and bring an end to the Civil War.
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LaRosa’s

August 25, 1930 – Donald “Buddy” LaRosa is born in Cincinnati. Twenty-four years later, the spunky little Italian chef opens a restaurant on Boudinot Avenue with three partners. All have other jobs. Buddy sticks with it, and when he retires in 2007, LaRosa’s has 3,000 employees working in 61 pizzerias with annual sales of $132.4 million.
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Roy Rogers

August 24, 1956 – The Ohio State Fair opens with Cincinnati native son Roy Rogers, America’s King of the Cowboys, the headliner. Rogers, formerly known as Leonard Franklin Slye, his wife, Dale Evans, and horse, Trigger, were there, too. All three are amazed at their incredible good fortune.
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Alice Cooper

August 23, 1970 – Alice Cooper and bandmates - nobodies at the time but nobodies with attitude - are invited to stay at the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) house at 2419 Ohio Ave. in Cincinnati after a gig at the Ludlow Garage. They won't leave. Weeks pass. Uh, could you guys go? They paint walls with crude art. Uh, maybe you guys should leave, a dad, a lawyer suggests. They leave, finally. The world gets the song I'm Eighteen.
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John Lee Hooker

August 22, 1917 – John Lee Hooker is born in Clarksdale, Miss. By 1932, when he was 15, he leaves and eventually lands in Cincinnati, where he plays guitar at speakeasies on Reading Road and in churches on Sundays. Working at a spring factory, he lives in Cincinnati for four years before heading to Detroit and the world stage: Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom....Gonna shoot you right down.....
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Scott Hamilton

August 21, 1961 – Now two years old, Scott Hamilton, who would become one of the most famous male figure skaters of all-time and an Olympic Gold Medal winner, enters a Toledo hospital suffering from a mysterious illness. He would be hospitalized on and off for the next six years. When he took up skating at the age of nine, the illness disappeared and Hamilton glides to fortune and fame.
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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Ohio 104 near Chillicothe offers mounds and a terrace to view 2,000-year-old earthworks. A 14-mile long trail takes viewers through the Hopewell Mound Group.
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Lifesavers

August 19, 1913 – Lifesaver candy gets a patent. Inventor and candy maker Clarence Arthur Crane, a native of Garrettsville and father of the poet Hart Crane, is troubled by slow chocolate sales in the summer at his Cleveland candy store, so he uses a pharmacist’s pill maker to make peppermint candies - the first lifesavers.
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Haskell's modern golf ball

August 18, 1898 - Coburn Haskell of Cleveland takes a train to Akron for a business appointment with Bertram Work, a superintendent of B.F. Goodrich. While waiting at the plant to meet with Work, Haskell winds a long rubber band into a ball. When he drops it, the ball almost bounces to the ceiling. Work tells Haskell to put a cover on it, and with that suggestion, the modern golf ball is invented.
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Pete Rose

August 17, 1986 – The end comes swiftly for pinch hitter Pete Rose – fastballs from San Diego’s Goose Gossage and an eighth inning strike out at Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium. After 24 seasons in the sun, Rose shuts it down at 14,053 plate appearances.
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Ray Chapman

August 16, 1920 - Ray Chapman, a Cleveland Indians' star shortstop, dies after he was hit in the head by a pitch. The pitcher, Carl Mays, thought the ball had hit Chapman’s bat so he fielded it and threw to first base. A memorial to Chapman is in Heritage Park at Jacob’s Field in Cleveland. Chapman's bust is framed by a baseball diamond and flanked by two bats with a fielder's mitt: "He Lives In The Hearts Of All Who Knew Him."
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Gus J. Gronowski

August 15, 1992 – Gus J. Gronowski of Parma, a fisherman’s name if there ever was one, lands a 37.65-pound channel catfish that is 41 ½ inches long and once haunted the mud of LaDue Reservoir.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE August 14, 2003 – Doh! A FirstEnergy employee forgets to reset a monitor. When a storm tears across Cleveland, a limb falls on a line in Walton Hills and 50 million people lose power in North America. August 14, 1986 – Pete Rose flares a single off RHP Greg Minton in Riverfront Stadium for his 4,256th hit. He went three for four. His last at bat would be his last hit and the most by any player in history.
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Mudcat Grant

August 13, 1935 – James Timothy Grant is born in Land O’Lakes, Fla. and later comes to Cleveland where he pitches for the Indians from 1958-1964. His was coolest name in all of baseball: Mudcat Grant.
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Drew Carey

August 12, 2006 – The Cleveland Indians invite Brooklyn, Ohio, native and TV star and comedian Drew Carey, a former Brooklyn High teacher, to throw out the first pitch on Drew Carey Bobblehead night.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE Aug. 11, 1949 – Singer/songwriter Eric Carmen, all by himself, is born in Lyndhurst, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. A graduate of Charles F. Brush High School, he was 18 & a member of The Choir when they had their 1967 hit It's Cold Outside. It won't be his last. Aug. 11, 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes first player to hit 500 home runs and does it with a blast in the former League Park in Cleveland.

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Jay Cooke

August 10, 1831 – Jay Cooke is born in Bloomingville. He would become a prominent American banker and a major financier of the military effort for the North during the Civil War.
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Charlie Manson

August 9, 1969 – Charlie Manson and his cult murder pregnant Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger and three others. Six years before, petty criminal Manson frequented the City View Tavern in Mount Adams in Cincinnati. Drunk on Tequila, he would stand on a railing above the city and spread his arms and cape. Manson was banned from the bar and so was Tequila. You still can't buy Tequila at the City View.
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Thurman Munson

August 8, 1969 – Akron native Thurman Munson makes his Major League Baseball debut as a New York Yankee. Munson, who grew up in Canton, would be a seven-time All-Star before dying in a twin-engine jet crash while practicing touch-and-goes at Akron-Canton airport. An empty locker with Munson's number 15 on it remains in the Yankee clubhouse as a tribute to the catcher.
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Danny Graves

August 7, 1973 – Danny Graves is born in Saigon, Vietnam, and would become the only Vietnamese-born player to make the big leagues. While pitching for the Cincinnati Reds in 2005, he gave a fan the finger as he was leaving the game because the fan had called him a racist name. Graves was released from the Reds and although he apologized to other fans, he had no remorse about letting one loudmouth know how he felt.
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Walt Disney

August 6 – On a summer day just like this one in the early 1950s, a gray-haired man sits on a park bench at Coney Island Amusement Park in Cincinnati to watch children and their parents at play. It’s Walt Disney and when he leaves, he has an idea – build a massive amusement park near Los Angeles and call it Disneyland.
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Coach Paul Brown

August 5, 1991 – Coach Paul Brown dies. His first game as a coach came not as a high school coach but as a junior high football coach in Massillon. Brown’s strategies would transform college football, then the NFL and, finally, the game itself for all time.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE August 4, 1962 – Speedballer Roger Clemens, who probably still hasn't owned up to steroid use, is born in Dayton. August 4, 1989 – Walter Shumaker of Ashtabula is fishing in Lake Erie when he lands a 29.5 pound, 42 7/8 inch Chinook Salmon. Boy is he surprised. It’s a state record.
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Johnny and the Hurricanes

August 3, 1959: One of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest instrumental bands, Toledo’s Johnny and the Hurricanes, enters the Billboard singles charts with its biggest hit, Red River Rock. The quintet is led by saxophonist Johnny Paris, born in Rossford. The group has several more hits, including Beatnik Fly, and is name-checked by the Kinks in their song One of the Survivors.
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President Warren G. Harding

August 2, 2023 – On this day, the 100th anniversary of the death of President Warren G. Harding, his love letters to mistress Carrie Phillips will become public. The letters are currently held by the Ohio Historical Society.
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Mount Buckeye

August 1, 2008 - The American Dairy Association pays tribute to the eight United States presidents from Ohio with 2,480 pounds of butter that four Cincinnati artists sculpt into a likeness of each for the Ohio State Fair – a Mount Rushmore-like display of butter dubbed Mount Buckeye.
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