Events1538 -
Bogotá,
Colombia, is founded by
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the
Constitution of the United States are delivered to the
Constitutional Convention.
1806 -
Francis II, the last
Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the
Holy Roman Empire.
1819 -
Norwich University founded in
Vermont as the first private military school in the
United States.
1825 -
Bolivia gains independence from
Spain.
1845 -
Russian Geographical Society is founded in
Saint Petersburg.
1861 -
British annexation of
Lagos,
Nigeria.
1862 -
American Civil War: The
Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the
Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with
USS Essex near
Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.
1870 -
Franco-Prussian War:
Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive
Prussian victory.
1890 - At
Auburn Prison in
New York, murderer
William Kemmler becomes the first person to be
executed by
electric chair.
1901 -
Kiowa land in
Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous
reservation.
1909 -
Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 - The
Bull Moose Party meets at the
Chicago Coliseum.
1914 -
World War I:
First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the
United Kingdom declared war on
Germany over the German invasion of
Belgium, ten
German U-boats leave their base in
Heligoland to attack
Royal Navy warships in the
North Sea. 1914 -
World War I:
Serbia declares war on
Germany;
Austria declares war on
Russia. 1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the
French Foreign Legion, becoming the first
American to fight in
World War I.
1915 -
World War I:
Battle of Sari Bair - The
Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at
Suvla Bay.
1917 - World War I: The
Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the
English Channel.
1926 -
Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the
English Channel. 1926 - In
New York, the
Warner Brothers'
Vitaphone system premieres with the movie
Don Juan starring
John Barrymore. 1926 -
Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1941 - A curfew is imposed on
US gas stations in preparation for the upcoming war.
1942 -
Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the
United States Congress.
1945 -
World War II:
Hiroshima is
devastated when an
atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the
United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly.
1956 - After going bankrupt in
1955, the
American broadcaster
DuMont Television Network has its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1958 -
Sports:
Australian runner
Herb Elliot broke the world record for the
mile at the
Morton Stadium in
Dublin, in a time of 3:54.5.
1960 -
Cuban Revolution: In response to a
United States embargo,
Cuba nationalizes
American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1961 - Second successful manned orbital flight (
USSR,
Gherman Titov)
1962 -
Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 -
Prometheus, the world's oldest
tree, is cut down.
1965 -
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 into
United States law.
1966 -
Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in
Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 -
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays foundation-stone of
Port Qasim,
Karachi.
1984 -
Pop star
Prince releases
Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
1986 - A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the
New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (13 inches) of rain in a day on
Sydney.
1988 - "
Tompkins Square Park Police Riot" in
New York City. A riot erupted in Tompkins Square Park when police attempted to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists were caught up in the police action that took place on the night of August 6 and the early morning of August 7.
1990 -
Gulf War: The
United Nations Security Council orders a global
trade embargo against
Iraq in response to
Iraq's invasion of
Kuwait.
1991 -
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the
World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the
Internet.1991 -
Doi Takako, chair of the
Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes
Japan's first female speaker of the
House of Representatives.
1993 -
Louis Freeh is confirmed by the
United States Senate to be the director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1996 - Legendary
punk rock band,
Ramones play their 2,263rd and final concert, in The Palace, Los Angeles.1996 -
NASA announces that the
ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from
Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 -
Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled
Apple Computer.1997 -
Korean Air Flight 801, a
Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on
Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
1999 -
Tony Gwynn of the
San Diego Padres gets his 3,000th career hit.
2000 - The
Roman Catholic Church's
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under
Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes
Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the
filioque clause in the
Latin text of the
Nicene Creed.
2001 -
White House briefing entitled
Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to
George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
2002 -
Marquis de la Fayette is made
Honorary Citizen of the United States2002 -
Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing
number theory conjecture in the article entitled Primes in P.2002 - A coal mine cave collapes in Colorado trapping 6 men.2007 - The
Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah collapses trapping 6 men.
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