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- 1315 Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
- 1326 Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.
- 1415 Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.
- 1516 Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
- 1521 Cortes destroys the capital of the Aztec Empire
- 1521 Tenochtitln (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernn Corts.
- 1536 Buddhist monks from Kyto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
- 1553 Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
- 1704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
- 1777 American explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.
- 1814 The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
- 1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
- 1837 Visitor posting - Queen Victoria moves into Buckingham Palace - United Kingdom
- 1844 Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt leaves Brisbane to explore unknown territory beyond the Darling Downs.
- 1846 Joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA
- 1868 In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami
- 1868 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
- 1870 Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal
- 1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
- 1885 BHP incorporated in Australia as a business.
- 1886 John A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia..
- 1892 Baltimore Afro-American forms
- 1899 Alfred Hitchcock born in London
- 1904 Lightning strikes the belltower of the Kirtland Temple. A bucket brigade barely saves the historic structure.
- 1905 Japanese seize Canadian ship Antiope out of Victoria as a carrier of contraband; during Russo-Japanese War.
- 1905 Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
- 1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
- 1907 First taxicab (NYC)
- 1913 Canadian Army troops called out at Nanaimo British Columbia to stop rioting.
- 1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- 1913 Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of Albania.
- 1914 Establishment of the Australian Red Cross to raise funds to purchase comfort supplies for Australian service personnel overseas
- 1918 Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
- 1919 Australia's first demonstration of wireless telephony given by Ernest Fisk to illustrate a lecture in Sydney.
- 1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
- 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1920 Princes Highway between Melbourne and Sydney is officially opened at Warragul.
- 1923 First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
- 1923 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey
- 1926 Fidel Castro born
- 1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
- 1930 Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (Tiny Bubbles) born
- 1935 Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
- 1936 Visitor posting - Tillie Dyck was born this day in 1936.
- 1937 Battle of Shanghai begins.
- 1939 Sabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco' which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)
- 1940 Air crash in Canberra kills three UAP ministers and Chief of the General Staff
- 1940 Visitor posting - Loyd & Ruth Meier Married - USA
- 1941 Australian Women's Army Service formed
- 1941 Visitor posting - August 13, 1941 David Lee Shagaloff is born in Evansville, IN to Myrtle and Harry.
- 1942 The Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet directed that an Aircraft Experimental and Developmental Squadron be established at NAS Anacostia.
- 1942 Visitor posting - William F Groomes Jr born - USA [email protected]
- 1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
- 1946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
- 1948 Satchel Paige at 42 pitches his first major league complete game
- 1949 Visitor posting - On this day Gerald Hills was born - USA
- 1952 Visitor posting - Marianne Francis Swofford Manuele was born - Weisbaden, Germany - to USAF Pilot John Swofford & his wife, Lorraine
- 1953 Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
- 1954 Radio Pakistan broadcasts National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
- 1955 The opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland
- 1959 Visitor posting - Lavrova Elena Ivanovna was born - Ukraine
- 1960 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
- 1960 The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- 1961 The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
- 1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy
- 1967 In the Pyrenees a 5.3 quake resulted in numerous buildings were destroyed in Arette, Oloron, and Montory; one person was killed and 80 were injured
- 1968 Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel G. Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
- 1971 Paul and Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"
- 1976 An HU-16 Albatross, the Navy's last operational seaplane made its final water landing in Pensacola Bay
- 1976 Visitor posting - International Left-Handers Day declared and celebrated first time in USA by Left-Handers international club
- 1977 First test glide of the shuttle
- 1979 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit
- 1979 The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
- 1980 Joseph MacInnis oceanographer discovers sunken barque HMS 'Breadalbane,' crushed by ice and sunk at Beechey Island NWT, Aug. 21, 1853; Scottish ship well preserved by extreme cold; sonar shows some sails and rigging intact; world's northernmost found shipwreck.
- 1983 Number one hit on UK music charts - K C & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
- 1984 Visitor posting - Aug 13, 1984 Kelly Collins is born
- 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
- 1988 Ronald J Dossenbach sets record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax in 13 days 15 hr 4 minutes.
- 1988 US beats Jamaicia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- 1989 US space shuttle STS-28 lands
- 1990 Visitor posting - Alexis Annella Gray DOB 8/13/90 - USA
- 1990 Visitor posting - August 13 1990 Chelsee Lynn Dennis is born
- 1990 Visitor posting - Candace Suzanne White was born ;) - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Anouchka is born :) - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Brandon L. is born
- 1994 Visitor posting - Chase Brendon was born this day - Australia
- 1996 Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelivre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. All are found guilty on June 22, 2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Logan Hart's Birthday - USA
- 1997 Animated American television comedy series, South Park is launched.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Jesse men is born
- 1998 Visitor posting - Zachary Setteducati born in Coral Springs,Florida - USA
- 1999 Visitor posting - Garrett P. was born - USA
- 2000 Visitor posting - Reed A. Cable was born today. His mother was the beautiful Heather Lynn Stickley Cable and the proud and handsome father was Frank A. Cable - USA
- 2004 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
- 2004 Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Mal.
- 2004 Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
- 2009 A rare signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf sells at the Mullock’s auction at Ludlow Racecourse, Shropshire, for £21,000 (€24,400).
- 2009 At least 23 government soldiers and more than 20 Muslim extremists are killed in a day-long clash in the southern Philippines.
- 2009 Eleven people, including four policemen, are killed in several separate insurgent attacks in Russia's Republic of Dagestan.
- 2009 Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani survives an ambush by the Taliban in the Ali Abad District of Kunduz province, Afghanistan.
- 2009 On an official visit to Colombia, Mexican President Felipe Calderón offers his country’s mediation in the conflict between that country, Ecuador and Venezuela.
- 2009 Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya praises Chile for its “great image” as he meets its President Michelle Bachelet in Santiago and says he expects the United States to take "more drastic actions" against the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti.
- 2009 Supporters of Guinea's self-declared President, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, form a movement, Dadis Must Stay, to call for him to be allowed to continue in office.
- 2009 The European Union will extend its sanctions on Burma to cover members of the judiciary responsible for the verdict in the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- 2009 The French and German economies rebound, helping push the Eurozone to the brink of economic recovery in the second quarter, delivering a further signal that the worst of the global crisis may be coming to an end in Europe.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Loyd & Ruth Meier of Nebraska Celebrate 70th Anniversary - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Mia Sophie Horton was born - Australia
- 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts.
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