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- 0778 The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.
- 0927 The Saracens are conquered and destroyed Taranto.
- 1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
- 1057 King Mac Bethad is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mel Coluim mac Donnchada.
- 1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
- 1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
- 1261 Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
- 1309 The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.
- 1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
- 1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Ferno Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1519 Panama City founded
- 1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
- 1534 Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September of 1540.
- 1535 Asuncion, Paraguay founded
- 1537 Asuncin, Paraguay, is founded.
- 1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
- 1549 Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
- 1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
- 1748 United Lutheran Church of US organized
- 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
- 1808 A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries
- 1822 Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000.
- 1824 Freed American slaves form Liberia.
- 1832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism
- 1834 South Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there.
- 1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
- 1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
- 1843 Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
- 1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
- 1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
- 1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
- 1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
- 1869 Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication (ja:) in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet.
- 1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed
- 1889 Oldest Club of Asia Mohun Bagan AC Established in Kolkata, India.
- 1889 The Great London dock strike from August 15 to September 16 helps extend British trade unionism from the skilled classes to the less skilled
- 1893 US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
- 1900 Regular service is commenced over the 3'0" gauge White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon.
- 1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
- 1903 New Zealand wins first rugby union test against Australia, 22-3.
- 1906 First freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
- 1907 Members of Australia's federal parliament vote themselves their first pay rise, of 50 per cent.
- 1914 A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright set fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground. It is unknown if the servant was arrested or not.
- 1914 Panama Canal opens (under cost)
- 1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
- 1917 Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France
- 1918 First full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)
- 1918 US and Russia sever diplomatic ties
- 1939 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
- 1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
- 1944 Anvil-Dragoon, U.S. 6th, 7th and French first Armies, attack Southern France and head toward Southern Germany.
- 1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
- 1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends
- 1945 World War II: Korean Liberation Day.
- 1945 World War II: Victory over Japan Day - Japan surrenders.
- 1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
- 1947 India becomes independent, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
- 1947 India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.
- 1948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
- 1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
- 1950 8.6 quake kills over 1,000 in Assam, India
- 1950 Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
- 1950 Visitor posting - Marriage of Max & Sylvia Chance - USA
- 1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
- 1952 Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.
- 1953 Inmates riot at Kingston Penitentiary; burn three buildings; do $2 million damage.
- 1955 Visitor posting - Grover Harris born - USA
- 1955 Visitor posting - Sherrie Lynn Haven, born August 15th,1955,Female - USA [email protected]
- 1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
- 1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
- 1960 Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Natl Day)
- 1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France.
- 1960 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
- 1961 Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- 1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
- 1961 Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan.
- 1962 James Joseph Dresnok defected to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
- 1962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
- 1964 Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
- 1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of stadium rock.
- 1967 England's Marine Offense Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
- 1968 Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
- 1968 Visitor posting - World Renown Photographer Guy Charles born Laramie, Wyoming USA - USA
- 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
- 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
- 1971 Bahrain Independence Day.
- 1971 Bahrain gains independence from Britain
- 1971 Hurricane Beth drops 296 mm of rain on Halifax and washes out highways and bridges in Nova Scotia.
- 1971 Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents
- 1973 Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
- 1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
- 1973 Visitor posting - Akula Satish Kumar was born in Tirupati to Akula Subramanyam and Maruthi Devi
- 1974 Seoul Subway Line 1 opened, between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station
- 1974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
- 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus continues, and the 37% of the island is now under Turkish control.
- 1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.
- 1975 Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
- 1975 Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid.
- 1977 The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.
- 1984 PKK, Kurdish people in Turkey gain arms and start a Guerrilla warfare campaign against the Turkish military
- 1986 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Michael Jackson - I Just Can't Stop Loving You
- 1989 Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers was born in Casa Grande, Arizona
- 1991 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
- 1993 Junko Asari wins the women's marathon in the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Japan's first major women's athletics victory.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Ally Briggs birthday! - USA
- 1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.
- 1998 Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
- 1999 Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
- 2000 A group of 100 separated family members from North Korea arrive in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they have not seen for half a century.
- 2000 Director Freeh revised the FBI disciplinary system to create a single system for all FBI employees, including those in the Senior Executive Service.
- 2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
- 2009 A blaze in a tent in Kuwait, where a wedding party is held, kills 43 women and children. The ex-wife of the groom confesses to starting the fire.
- 2009 A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
- 2009 A suicide bomb attack occurs outside the NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least seven and injuring 100.
- 2009 Burma is to free detained American John Yettaw, who appeared uninvited at Aung San Suu Kyi's home, after a meeting with US Senator Jim Webb.
- 2009 Colombia claims to have completed talks with the United States to allow US troops to use seven of Colombia's military bases.
- 2009 Former President of Zambia, Frederick Chiluba, awaits the verdict in his trial into his criminal case for being accused of plundering the national economy during his decade-long rule.
- 2009 Hamas police claim to have killed Abdel-Latif Moussa, head of the Islamic group Jund Ansar Allah in a shootout.
- 2009 Hong Kong posts 3.3% growth over its previous quarter, far exceeding predictions, signaling an end to its recession.
- 2009 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks at a news conference to say his country will crack down on organised crime over the next four years.
- 2009 Japan expresses remorse for its actions in World War II on the anniversary of its 1945 defeat, but former Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial war shrine seen as a symbol of its past militarism.
- 2009 The tracking device onboard the Arctic Sea was briefly reactivated according to Russian media, showing the vessel to be off the coast of France.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Bob Moore and Toni Johnson were married after reconnecting almost 40 years later. - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - Richard Lee Kleint turned 60 on August 15, 2009
- 2010 Visitor posting - Anthony and Destiny get together Finally and its Amazing - USA [email protected]
- 2010 Visitor posting - Michael Gauvreau turns 50 today! - Canada
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