- 1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.[1]
- 1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.[2]
- 1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.[3]
- 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
- 1498 – The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years’ War.
- 1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
- 1792 – French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.[4]
- 1835 – The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
- 1854 – Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.
- 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
- 1860 – The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
- 1870 – The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
- 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
- 1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming president upon James A. Garfield’s death.
- 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- 1911 – The White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: British police known as “Black and Tans” burned the town of Balbriggan and killed two local men in revenge for an Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassination.[5]
- 1941 – The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.[6]
- 1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
- 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.[7]
- 1946 – Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.
- 1955 – The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
- 1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
- 1965 – Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched Clydebank, Scotland.
- 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
- 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
- 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
- 1977 – Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- 1979 – A French-supported coup d’état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
- 1982 – 1982 NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.[8]
- 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- 1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2000 – The United Kingdom’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
- 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a “War on Terror“.
- 2003 – Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
- 2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
- 2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
- 2011 – The United States military ends its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
- 2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.
- 2018 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.[9]
- 2019 – Roughly 4 million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world against climate change.[10][11] 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.[12][13][14]
-Source: wikipedia
