Events
55 BC -
Julius Caesar invades
Britain.1071 -
Battle of Manzikert: The
Seljuk Turks defeat the
Byzantine Army at
Manzikert.1278 -
Ladislaus IV of Hungary and
Rudolph I of Germany defeat
Premysl Ottokar II of
Bohemia in the
Battle of Marchfield near
Dürnkrut in
Moravia.1303 -
Ala ud din Khilji won
Chittor.1346 -
Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English
longbow over the
French combination of
crossbow and armoured
knights is established at the
Battle of Crécy.1466 - A conjure against
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by
Luca Pitti, is discovered.1498 -
Michelangelo commissioned to carve the
Pietà.1526 -
Ottoman Empire defeated
Hungarian Kingdom in the battle of Mohàcs.
1748 - The first
Lutheran denomination in North America, the
Pennsylvania Ministerium is founded in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1778 - The first ascent of
Triglav, the highest mountain of
Slovenia.
1789 -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by
Constituent Assembly at
Palace of Versailles.
1818 - The first
Illinois Constitution was signed in
Kaskaskia.
1839 - The ship
Amistad is captured off
Long Island.
1858 - First news dispatch by
telegraph.
1862 -
American Civil War: The
Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1883 - Eruption of Mount
Krakatoa.
1914 -
World War I:
Germans defeat
Russians in
Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the
Russian 2nd Army. 1914 -
World War I: The
British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the
German advance at
Le Cateau.1914 -
World War I: The
German colony of
Togoland is invaded by
French and
British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 -
19th amendment to
U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1922 -
Turkish Army started the last attack on
Greeks in the
Turkish War of Independence.
1924 - (August 13 with the Old Style calendar) Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor in systematic ethnic cleansing. One of the first of the 20th Century.
1928 - May Donoghue drinks a bottle of ginger beer at a cafe in
Paisley, Scotland and finds the remains of a snail in the bottle. She launches a civil action against the drink manufacturer which becomes one of the famous cases in English
Common Law; that of
Donoghue v. Stevenson.
1939 - The first
Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the
Cincinnati Reds and the
Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field, in
Brooklyn, New York.
1940 -
Chad is the first
French colony to join the Allies under the administration of
Félix Éboué,
France's first black colonial
governor.
1942 -
Holocaust in
Chortkiv, western
Ukraine: At 2.30 am the
German Schutzpolizei starts driving
Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000
Jews to
Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
1944 -
World War II:
Charles de Gaulle enters
Paris.
1957 - The
USSR announces the successful test of an
ICBM - a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency,
TASS.
1968 - The
Democratic National Convention opens in
Chicago, Illinois.1968 -
The Beatles' "
Hey Jude" is released (in a shortened version) as a
single in the
United States under the
Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any
Beatles single.
1969 -
Canada's
Prime Minister decriminalizes
sodomy by saying: "the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation"
1970 - The third annual
Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last
UK performance from
Jimi Hendrix, opens in
Great Britain.
1972 -
Games of the XX Olympiad open in
Munich,
Germany.
1976 -
Raymond Barre becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
1977 -
Charter of the French Language is adopted by the
National Assembly of Quebec1978 -
Papal conclave, 1978 (August):
Pope John Paul I is elevated to the
Papacy.1978 -
Sigmund Jähn becomes first
German cosmonaut on board of the
Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 -
John Birges plants a bomb at
Harvey's Resort Hotel in
Stateline, Nevada.
1983 - Flooding destroys most of the
old town of
Bilbao,
Spain.
1987 -
President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims
September 11,
1987 as 9-1-1
Emergency Number Day.
1988 -
Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at
Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1995 - The
International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of
Rugby Union, thus bringing the game's amateur age to an end.
1997 -
Beni-Ali massacre in
Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 -
Michael Johnson breaks the
400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2002 -
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.2002 -
Earth Summit 2002 begins in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 -
Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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