1210 Joan of England (born), Queen of Scotland (died 1238)
1298 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1456 Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
1461 Charles VII of France (died) (born 1403)
1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1510 Alessandro de’ Medici (born), Duke of Florence (died 1537)
1525 Richard Wingfield (died), English diplomat (born 1426)
1559 Lawrence of Brindisi (born), Italian priest and saint (died 1619)
1587 Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1619 Lawrence of Brindisi (died), Italian priest and saint (born 1559)
1686 Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1702 Alessandro Besozzi (born), Italian oboe player composer (died 1775)
1706 The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1711 Georg Wilhelm Richmann (born), German-Russian physicist (died 1753)
1713 Jacques-Germain Soufflot (born), French architect, designed the Panthéon (died 1780)
1784 Friedrich Bessel (born), German mathematician and astronomer (died 1846)
1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1826 Giuseppe Piazzi (died), Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1746)
1832 Napoleon II (died), French emperor (born 1811)
1839 Jakob Hurt (born), Estonian folklorist, theologist, and linguist (died 1907)
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1869 John A. Roebling (died), German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (born 1806)
1882 Edward Hopper (born), American painter (died 1967)
1887 Gustav Ludwig Hertz (born), German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
1888 Kirk Bryan (born), American geologist (died 1950)
1890 Rose Kennedy (born), American philanthropist (died 1995)
1893 Karl Menninger (born), American psychiatrist (died 1990)
1894 The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but The ‘official’ victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
1898 Alexander Calder (born), American sculptor (died 1976)
1898 Stephen Vincent Benét (born), American poet and author (died 1943)
1908 Amy Vanderbilt (born), American author (died 1974)
1915 Sandford Fleming (died), Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (born 1827)
1916 James Whitcomb Riley (died), American poet and author (born 1849)
1923 Bob Dole (born), American soldier and politician
1928 Orson Bean (born), American actor
1932 Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (died), American actor and producer (born 1867)
1932 Oscar de la Renta (born), Dominican fashion designer
1933 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 John Dillinger (died), American bank robber (born 1903)
1934 Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1936 Tom Robbins (born), American author
1937 New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1940 Alex Trebek (born), Canadian-American game show host and producer
1941 David M. Kennedy (born), American historian and author
1941 Estelle Bennett (born), American singer (The Ronettes) (died 2009)
1941 George Clinton (born), American singer-songwriter and producer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1941 Ron Turcotte (born), Canadian jockey
1941 Vaughn Bodē (born), American illustrator (died 1975)
1942 The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1944 Dennis Firestone (born), Australian race car driver
1944 Rick Davies (born), English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Supertramp)
1946 Danny Glover (born), American actor, director, and producer
1946 Mireille Mathieu (born), French singer
1947 Albert Brooks (born), American actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 Don Henley (born), American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Eagles)
1951 Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1953 Brian Howe (born), English rock singer and songwriter (Bad Company)
1955 Willem Dafoe (born), American actor
1961 Calvin Fish (born), English race car driver
1962 Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1963 Emily Saliers (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1964 David Spade (born), American actor
1964 John Leguizamo (born), Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1967 Carl Sandburg (died), American journalist and author (born 1878)
1976 Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan’s conquest of the country in the Second World War
1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1979 Lucas Luhr (born), German race car driver
1980 Scott Dixon (born), New Zealand race car driver
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
1992 Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1993 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (born), Chechen-American suspected Boston Marathon bomber
1993 Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
2003 Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
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