August 19, 1847 U.S. forces under Major General  Winfield Scott  began the  Battle of Contreras , opening the final campaign of the  Mexic...

                               It is my 21st year at the Hive!  I bleed black and orange!!!!  I started working at the Hive in 2005. Feels l...

  August 18, 1920 Nineteenth Amendment ratified On this day in 1920, the  Nineteenth Amendment  was ratified after Tennessee—by just one vot...

  August 17, 2008 At the  Olympics in Beijing , American swimmer  Michael Phelps  helped his team win the 4 × 100-metre medley relay, becomi...

  August 16,  1954 The first issue of  Sports Illustrated  was released. By the 1960s, it had became the leading sports magazine in the Unit...

  If you go to Booker T - you MUST know who Wayman Tisdale is!  He went to Booker T, in the 1980s, and became an NBA player and successful m...

  August 15, 1935 Entertainer  Will Rogers  and aviation pioneer  Wiley Post  were killed in a plane crash near  Point Barrow , Alaska. Take...