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- 0410 Visigothic sack of Rome ends after three days.
- 0663 Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage the combined naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; the outcome is a significant Tang-Silla victory, while the Japanese would not attempt another invasion of Korea until the Imjin War of the late 16th century.
- 1232 The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hj Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
- 1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
- 1689 The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
- 1725 Guillaume de Chazel, drowns in wreck of payship 'Le Chameau,' which sinks 25 km from Louisbourg; found by 3 divers in May 1966, with gold and silver coins worth $700,000
- 1758 Colonel John Bradstreet 1714-1774 captures Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario; British have only two wounded and not a single man killed
- 1776 Americans lose to the British at the Batttle of Long Island.
- 1776 Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
- 1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
- 1783 The first hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
- 1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"
- 1793 French counter-revolution, port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
- 1798 United Irishmen and French forces clash with the British army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
- 1813 Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
- 1828 The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
- 1858 Lincoln and Douglas debate at Freeport, IL.
- 1859 Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World's first successful oil well.
- 1859 Successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
- 1861 Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
- 1883 Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano, erupts. It is one of the most violent volcanic events in modern times.
- 1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
- 1892 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City is heavily damaged by fire.
- 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- 1896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
- 1900 British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.
- 1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
- 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
- 1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
- 1917 Squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France
- 1918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
- 1918 Lt-Colonel William H. CLark-Kennedy (24th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Fresnes-Rouvroy, France
- 1920 Radio Argentina begins regularly scheduled transmissions from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, considered the world's first public broadcast station.
- 1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
- 1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
- 1928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
- 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.
- 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
- 1933 Visitor posting - The Great Ryle Robinson was born!! - USA
- 1937 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
- 1939 Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
- 1939 First flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft.
- 1939 Visitor posting - J Beck was born
- 1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
- 1942 HMCS Oakville (Corvette) sinks a U-Boat in the Caribbean
- 1944 USS Stingray (SS-186) lands men and supplies on Luzon, Philippines to support guerilla operations against the Japanese.
- 1945 Pacific Fleet ships enter Sagami Bay, near Tokyo, Japan.
- 1945 US troops begin their occupation of Japan, following Japan's surrender to Allied forces during WWII.
- 1947 Visitor posting - Len Merritt was born on this day in Melbourne Australia
- 1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
- 1952 Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmark.
- 1957 The Constitution of Malaysia came into force.
- 1959 Off Cape Canaveral, FL, USS Observation Island (EAG-154) makes first shipboard launching of a Polaris missile.
- 1960 Visitor posting - Dave and Dolores get married in Buffalo NY - USA
- 1961 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"
- 1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus.
- 1962 Mariner 2 launched; first probe to fly by Venus
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Honeycombs - Have I The Right
- 1966 Francis Chichester begins the first solo sail around the world
- 1966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
- 1967 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
- 1971 Humorist and author Bennet Cerf dies.
- 1973 Largest hailstone ever found in Canada falls at Cedoux; weight 290 grams, diameter 114 mm (almost three times bigger than a golf ball).
- 1974 Haile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia, dies in Addis Ababa at age 83.
- 1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Floaters - Float On
- 1979 An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
- 1979 An IRA bomb takes the life of British Lord Louis Mountbatten in a boat off the Irish coast.
- 1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard the Andrea Doria
- 1981 Salvage divers recover a million dollars in cash and jewels from the wreckage of the Andrea Doria, sunk in 1965.
- 1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
- 1984 Diane Sawyer joins the on-air reporting cast of the CBS TV show 60 Minutes.
- 1984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project
- 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
- 1985 The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1987 Visitor posting - jennifer ryan born mutly - Ireland
- 1986 Visitor posting - geoffrey robert morris born - USA
- 1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
- 1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
- 1990 Canadian Army ordered to use whatever force necessary to end standoff between Kanasetake Mohawks and Quebec police at Oka.
- 1990 Fifty-two Americans, previously held hostage by Iraq, reach freedom in Turkey.
- 1990 The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming.
- 1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
- 1991 Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 1991 The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise; later restored after reforms and refinancing.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Glenn Stewart was born on this day (shares his birthday with Deco and David Bentley) - Netherlands
- 1993 The Florida Department of Transportation decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
- 1993 The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Jace Cooney was Born on dis day! 160 for life - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Emmalei king is born
- 1997 Visitor posting - Amanda Wright's Birthday! - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Happy Birthday!! Laura T. - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Jose was born today!!!!!!!!! =) =D - USA
- 2000 Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
- 2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
- 2004 Visitor posting - Canadian wonderchild Sadie Bryson Old born in Toronto - Canada
- 2006 Comair Flight 5191 crashed en route from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard the flight were confirmed dead in the hours following the crash
- 2006 Visitor posting - My son Silankonet Jalim Bayo , his mom Salematou Bangoura and I Karamba Bayo - arrived at JFK (New York) to seek asylum in the usa
- 2007 Visitor posting - Silankonet Bayo started his 6th grade study at Dominion - Middle school
- 2009 A suicide bomber hits a Pakistani security checkpoint at the main border crossing for convoys ferrying NATO supplies into Afghanistan, killing at least 18 border guards.
- 2009 Colombia files a complaint about Venezuela with the Organization of American States, saying the country has been interfering in its domestic affairs.
- 2009 English youth Michael Perham, aged 17 years, 5 months, becomes the youngest person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world by sailboat, breaking the previous record by two months.
- 2009 Judges at the Supreme Court of India agree to make their financial assets public.
- 2009 Mali's parliament is to review a law giving women greater rights after thousands of Muslims protested the proposed law.
- 2009 Russia deploys an S-400 anti-missile defence system close to its border with North Korea.
- 2009 South African President Jacob Zuma is to visit Zimbabwe for talks on the power-sharing government.
- 2009 South Korea proposes regular reunions of families separated by the Korean War to North Korea.
- 2009 Sri Lanka dismisses a video purporting to show violence by its Armed Forces against Tamils.
- 2009 Taiwan approves a visit by the Dalai Lama to comfort the victims of Typhoon Morakot.
- 2009 The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passes its first law on the People's Armed Police, giving it statutory authority to respond to riots, terrorist attacks or other emergencies.
- 2009 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on indigenous rights, James Anaya, says the Australian government intervention in Aboriginal areas is "discriminatory".
- 2009 The head of the joint United Nations–African Union force in Darfur, Martin Agwai, says the war in the region is over and is now only suffering low-level disputes.
- 2009 Thousands of people flee fighting between government troops and ethnic rebels in northeastern Burma.
- 2009 Visitor posting - 08/27/2009 My wonderful husbands birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mikey, Love Dianey xoxo
- 2009 Visitor posting - Daniel Lopez turns 14 - USA
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