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- 0392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 0476 Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
- 0565 St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
- 0565 St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- 0851 Erispoe's army, King of Brittany, defeats Charles the Bald's one, the Franc king, near the Breton town of Jengland. Beginning of the Breton state.
- 1138 Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
- 1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets
- 1485 The Battle of Bosworth Field death of Richard III and end of the House of Plantagenet.
- 1559 Bartolom Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
- 1642 Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.
- 1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
- 1654 Jacob Barsimson, said to be first Jewish immigrant to America, lands at New Amsterdam
- 1711 British Admiral Hovenden Walker's assault on New France falters as 8 of his 15 warships are wrecked in gales and heavy fog in the St. Lawrence; nearly 900 men drown; 25 ships remaining in fleet return to England.
- 1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
- 1762 First female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
- 1770 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
- 1775 King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
- 1775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
- 1780 James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
- 1791 Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 1791 Haitian Revolution begins
- 1798 French forces land in Ireland
- 1798 French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
- 1827 Jos de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- 1831 Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
- 1846 US annexes New Mexico
- 1848 The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 1849 First air raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
- 1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
- 1851 The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1851 Yacht "America" wins first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
- 1864 Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations
- 1864 International Red Cross Founded
- 1875 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1886 William J. Kendall successfully swims through the Niagara Rapids wearing a cork life jacket.
- 1901 Cadillac Company founded
- 1901 Cadillac Motor Company founded.
- 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to ride in an automobile
- 1902 Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 1906 First Victor Victrola manufactured
- 1910 Japan annexes Korea
- 1910 Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
- 1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
- 1911 Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
- 1914 World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1921 William J. Burns, the head of a famous private detective agency, became Director of the BOI (now FBI). Twenty-six year old J. Edgar Hoover was named Assistant Director.
- 1922 Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
- 1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
- 1932 The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. See also Timeline of the BBC
- 1942 World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan).
- 1944 HMS Nabob (Cdn. manned aircraft carrier) severely damaged by torpedo off Norway
- 1944 World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1944 World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
- 1949 In the Queen Charlotte Island a 8.1 earthquake was Canada's largest historic earthquake.
- 1950 Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1952 CBC tele-cine projectionist inserts a slide upside down; Canada's first known TV gaffe.
- 1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
- 1955 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in Spring City, Tennessee.
- 1955 Visitor posting - Cheryl Ann DeVincent born. - USA
- 1956 Pres Eisenhower and VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
- 1961 Visitor posting - Rhonda Harrison born - USA [email protected]
- 1962 An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
- 1962 The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
- 1963 Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
- 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - Bad To Me
- 1964 Match Of The Day hits the air on BBC Two.
- 1966 Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
- 1966 Visitor posting - Tamira Lynn Peterson was born - USA
- 1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
- 1968 Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogot, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1968 The first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
- 1969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
- 1969 The Beatles conduct their last photo session at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's house.
- 1970 Visitor posting - 22/08/1970 - Kerry Tyers was born
- 1971 J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- 1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- 1978 Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells
- 1978 The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- 1982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
- 1984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush
- 1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
- 1987 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1
- 1988 Australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala)
- 1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
- 1988 The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala.
- 1989 Janet Jackson released the biggest-selling single of 1989, Miss You Much
- 1989 The first complete ring around Neptune discovered
- 1989 The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
- 1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves
- 1990 Scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage.
- 1992 FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- 1994 Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.
- 2000 Visitor posting - Draigh was born! - USA
- 2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
- 2004 A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- 2006 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.
- 2007 A helicopter went down in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard, the military said, the deadliest crash since January, 2005.
- 2007 Chinese-made blankets containing high levels of formaldehyde have been recalled across Australia and New Zealand.
- 2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
- 2007 The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
- 2007 The investment bank Lehman Brothers announces plans to shutter its sub prime mortgage business, eliminating 1,200 jobs
- 2009 Argentina's Foreign Affairs Ministry “harshly condemns” the nomination of Ahmad Vahidi to serve as Iran's Defence Minister as he is a suspected international terrorist sought by Interpol in connection with the 1994 attack on AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.
- 2009 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrives in Bolivia with a "strong tone-down message".
- 2009 Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, criticises Ireland's Civil Partnership Bill, which gives statutory partnership rights to same-sex couples.
- 2009 Islamic insurgents attack a government checkpoint in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, sparking a gunbattle that kills at least five people on the first day of Ramadan.
- 2009 Niger's police use tear gas to injure and arrest several people during clashes with opponents of a new constitution that would enable President Mamadou Tandja to seek unlimited mandates.
- 2009 Officials from North and South Korea meet for talks for the first time in two years.
- 2009 Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud is selected as the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas confirms.
- 2009 The militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta hands over hundreds of weapons to the Nigerian government as part of a weapons amnesty.
- 2009 Thousands of Venezuelans join rival marches in Caracas over a controversial education law that critics say strengthens President Hugo Chávez's grip over schools and universities.
- 2009 Two turkey farms in Valparaíso, Chile, are quarantined over fears the birds have caught swine influenza from humans.
- 2009 Visitor posting - K.D. & M.A were married - Trinidad and Tobago
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