Events1183 -
Taira no Munemori and the
Taira clan take the young
Emperor Antoku and the
three sacred treasures and flee to western
Japan to escape pursuit by the
Minamoto clan. (Traditional
Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of
Juei).1385 -
Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385:
Battle of Aljubarrota -
Portuguese forces commanded by
King João I and his
general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the
Castilian army of
King Juan I.1598 -
Nine Years War:
Battle of the Yellow Ford -
Irish forces under
Hugh O'Neill,
Earl of
Tyrone, defeat an
English expeditionary force under
Henry Bagenal.
1791 - Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins.
1842 -
Indian Wars:
Second Seminole War ends, with the
Seminoles forced from
Florida to
Oklahoma.
1846 - The
Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3
kg chondrite-type
meteorite strikes near the town of
Cape Girardeau in
Cape Girardeau County,
Missouri.
1848 -
Oregon Territory organized by
Act of
U.S. Congress.
1880 -
Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in
Cologne,
Germany, completed.
1885 -
Japan's first
patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1893 -
France introduces motor vehicle registration.
1897 - The town of Anosimena is captured by
French troops from
Menabe defenders in
Madagascar.
1900 - A joint European-
Japanese-
United States force (
Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies
Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody
Boxer Rebellion in
China.
1901 - The first claimed
powered flight, by
Gustave Whitehead in his
Number 21.
1908 - First
beauty contest held in
Folkestone,
England.
1911 -
United States Senate leaders
agree to rotate the office of
President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by
William P. Frye's death.
1912 -
United States Marines invade
Nicaragua to support the
U.S.-backed government installed there after
José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier.
1921 -
Tannu Tuva, later
Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by
Russia).
1925 - The original
Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
1933 - Loggers cause a
forest fire in the
Coast Range of
Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the
Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on
September 5, after destroying
240,000 acres (970 km²).
1935 -
United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 -
Rainey Bethea is hanged in
Owensboro,
Kentucky in the last public
execution in the United States.
1937 - The beginning of
air-to-air combat of the
Second Sino-Japanese War and
World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese
Mitsubishi G3M bombers were shot down by the
Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases, hence, 14 August has thus become acknoledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
1941 -
World War II -
Winston Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the
Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1945 -
Japan accepts the Allied
terms of surrender in
World War II and the
Emperor records the
Imperial Rescript on Surrender (
August 15 in
Japan standard time).
1947 -
Pakistan gains
Independence from the
British Indian Empire under the
administration of
United Kingdom and joins the
British Commonwealth.
1967 -
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore
pirate radio illegal.
1969 -
United Kingdom troops deploy in
Northern Ireland.
1972 - An
East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from
East Berlin, killing 156.
1976 - The
Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
1980 -
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at
Gdańsk,
Poland shipyards.
1994 -
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the
terrorist known as "
Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
2003 -
Widescale power blackout in the northeast
United States and
Canada.
2005 -
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of
Athens, killing the 121 on board.
2006 - The
2006 Lebanon War cease fire goes into effect.
2007 - The
2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
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