- 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
- 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
- 632 – Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
- 663 – Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
- 1189 – Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
- 1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
- 1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1542 – Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
- 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- 1619 – Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1640 – Second Bishop’s War: King Charles I‘s English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
- 1648 – The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
- 1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
- 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
- 1810 – Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
- 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad‘s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in U.S. railroads.
- 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
- 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
- 1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
- 1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
- 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
- 1898 – Caleb Bradham‘s beverage “Brad’s Drink” is renamed “Pepsi-Cola“.
- 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
- 1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
- 1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
- 1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
- 1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
- 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
- 1921 – The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
- 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1943 – Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
- 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
- 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
- 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
- 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1968 – Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity.[1]
- 1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
- 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
- 1993 – NASA’s Galileo probe fly by the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discovers a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and names it Dactyl.
- 1998 – Pakistan‘s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
- 1998 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
- 2003 – In “one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI“, Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.[2]
-Source: wikipedia
