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- 0030 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
- 0490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invading army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - see also 12 September.
- 0875 The Holy Roman Emperor Louis II dies in Brescia at age 50 after having named his cousin Carloman, son of Louis the German, as his successor, but Charles the Bald persuades Carloman to go home, beats Louis the German to Rome, and makes himself emperor
- 1099 A kingdom of Jerusalem is established under the Norman Godfrey of Bouillon, who is elected king and assumes the title Defender of the Holy Sepulcher He defeats an Egyptian force at Askalon August 12, but disease and starvation have reduced the Crusaders to 60,000, down from an original strength of 300,000, and most of the survivors head for home
- 1099 First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. Considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
- 1121 Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
- 1164 Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
- 1281 The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
- 1323 Treaty of Nteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
- 1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor where the Scots led by the regent Earl of Mar squandered their numerical advantage and following a confused attack were routed with heavy losses by Edward Balliol's army
- 1332 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1480 Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
- 1499 First act of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
- 1508 Ponce de Le¢n arrives in Puerto Rico
- 1553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of the Talmud
- 1676 King Philip's War (vs Wampanoag Indians) ends in New England
- 1676 Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
- 1687 Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohcs.
- 1793 The Rhne department was created when the former dpartement of Rhne-et-Loire was split into two departments: Rhne and Loire (Lre).
- 1806 Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
- 1833 Chicago was founded.
- 1845 Off Point Pelee, Ontario the steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives.
- 1848 Visitor posting - George Stephenson, Geordie steam pioneer & inventor of the "Davy" lamp dies - United Kingdom
- 1851 Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- 1851 Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine
- 1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
- 1863 First cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
- 1863 The first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export.
- 1867 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
- 1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
- 1876 Off Newport Rhode Island, the US yacht Madeleine beats the Countess Dufferin from Toronto in two straight heats in the 4th America's Cup.
- 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
- 1877 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device
- 1879 First National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
- 1879 The Intercolonial Railway gains access to Quebec by purchasing the Grand Trunk line between Quebec and Rivière du Loup.
- 1882 Great Western Railway, controlling 1,009 miles of track is merged into the Grand Trunk System.
- 1883 The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes first motor tour
- 1897 British naval authorities grant US Navy permission to put battleship 'Indiana' in drydock in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- 1898 Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
- 1898 Hawaii formally annexed to US
- 1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
- 1898 The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.
- 1908 First Model T Ford built.
- 1914 World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
- 1915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
- 1918 Prv. Thomas Dinesen (42nd Cdn. Infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Parvillers, France
- 1918 Sgt. Robert Spall Prices Patricia's Cdn. Light Infantry) wins the Victoria Cross at Parvillers, France
- 1923 Enrico Tiraboschi is first to swim English Channel westward
- 1925 The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, was initiated.
- 1928 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
- 1930 Visitor posting - Shirley Ahrens was born and received her first pin. - USA
- 1935 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
- 1936 120ø F (49ø C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
- 1936 Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
- 1941 Sikorski-Stalin Polish-Russian agreement allows many Polish Jews to be freed for Siberian labor camp.
- 1942 HMS CAIRO (AA), SUNK, Central Mediterranean, north of Bizerta, Tunisia by 1 torpedo from Italian submarine 'Axum'.
- 1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
- 1944 Alenon liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by the Allied forces.
- 1944 Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civil people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
- 1945 Stalin invites General Eisenhower to the National Sports Parade in Red Square, Moscow.
- 1952 The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
- 1953 Ann Davidson, first woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
- 1953 In Greece, Kefallinia (Cephalonia) a 7.1 quake killed 455, over 27,000 houses destroyed on Ithaki (Ithaca), Kefallinia (Cephalonia) and Zakinthos (Zante)
- 1953 Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
- 1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its first hydrogen bomb
- 1955 Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from $0.75 to $1 an hour
- 1956 William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
- 1959 The first ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
- 1960 Echo 1, first communications satellite, is launched
- 1960 Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
- 1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
- 1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
- 1962 Tim D.was born this day in Calgary
- 1964 Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
- 1964 Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
- 1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy.
- 1965 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
- 1966 Visitor posting - Chris 'Jenks' Jennings, one time contestant on the popular UK TV show 'Deal Or No Deal' is born in Winchester, Hampshire, UK. Pet - Rabbit, Treacle.
- 1968 Visitor posting - Ross E. Chipman was born - USA
- 1969 Battle of the Bogside, Catholic community of Derry engage in two-day battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary
- 1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
- 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - Alice Cooper - School's Out
- 1972 The last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
- 1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become first teammates elected to hall of fame on the same day
- 1976 First approach and landing test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
- 1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
- 1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes first atmospheric flight
- 1977 The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
- 1978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
- 1978 Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
- 1978 Visitor posting - Ross D. G is born to Catherine E.A. - USA
- 1980 Signing of the Montevideo Treaty, which established the Latin American Integration Association.
- 1981 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
- 1981 Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer
- 1982 Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spread to all of Latin America and the Third World.
- 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.
- 1985 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
- 1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
- 1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
- 1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
- 1990 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
- 1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
- 1990 Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
- 1991 Visitor posting - rajnish singh born. my pet is in alipur, patna,bihar India [email protected]
- 1991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
- 1992 Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
- 1992 Visitor posting - Brandi Crooke was born - USA
- 1994 Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Kyara Teresa Scalzo was born - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Mariah Shayne Heil was born - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - K. Ketchum was born. - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - On this day, Lindsey D. Wallace is born. - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Katherine Jeanett Hosna was born - USA
- 1998 Swiss banks agree to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
- 2000 The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
- 2003 Visitor posting - Nicalee Powers was born. - USA
- 2004 New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
- 2005 An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
- 2005 An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.
- 2005 Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
- 2005 Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by a sniper at his home.
- 2007 Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
- 2007 New online pokerroom - www.GoHardPoker.com opens. Play Poker - Use Our Money - NO Deposit Required.
- 2009 About 700 people missing in southern Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot are located alive.
- 2009 An estimated 20,000 people march through Noumea, New Caledonia, to denounce violent clashes by USTKE trade unionists against police.
- 2009 Astronomers discover WASP-17b, the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star.
- 2009 At a meeting in Caracas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sign agreements expanding trade between their two countries. (MercoPress)
- 2009 Diego León Montoya Sánchez, Norte Valle Cartel leader, pleads guilty to drug, murder, and racketeering charges.
- 2009 German CDU politician Vera Lengsfeld attracts controversy for displaying a photo of Angela Merkel in a revealing gown without the authorisation of the Chancellor.
- 2009 Gregoire Ndahimana, a Rwandan fugitive accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, is arrested by a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation.
- 2009 Gunmen shoot dead five Pakistani Muslim preachers outside a mosque in Galkayo, Somalia.
- 2009 Indonesian police say DNA tests show that a militant killed in a weekend raid was not Noordin Mohammed Top, one of the region's most wanted men.
- 2009 It is discovered that the Killer Whale creates and visits 'social clubs'. (BBC)
- 2009 Lubna al-Hussein, the Sudanese woman facing forty lashes for wearing trousers in public, is prevented from leaving the country for a trip to Lebanon, where she was to take part in a televised talk-show about women's issues.
- 2009 MV Princess Ashika sinking
- 2009 New Zealand Navy divers believe they have located the sunken MV Princess Ashika a week after the accident.
- 2009 Russia's navy is deployed to find the MV Arctic Sea, a missing ship reportedly hijacked three weeks ago in the Baltic Sea.
- 2009 The Roman Catholic Church is expresses "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- 2009 The wreckage of an Airlines PNG De Havilland Twin Otter 300 plane carrying 11 passengers and 2 crew is found near Isurava, Papua New Guinea; there are no signs of survivors.
- 2009 Thirty people are killed in Warrap state in southern Sudan, in a resurgence of the nomadic conflicts.
- 2009 Tonga's Transportation Minister Paul Karalus resigns after the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika, which killed an estimated 93 people.
- 2009 Yemeni troops, backed by tanks and fighter aircraft, launch a major offensive on the stronghold of Shia fighters in northern Yemen.
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