29 BC Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
582 Tiberius II Constantine (died), Byzantine emperor (born 535)
1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1464 Pope Pius II (died) (born 1405)
1479 Catherine of York (born) (died 1527)
1642 Cosimo III de’ Medici (born), Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)
1714 Claude Joseph Vernet (born), French painter (died 1789)
1720 The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1727 William Croft (died), English organist and composer (born 1678)
1740 Pope Pius VII (born) (died 1823)
1758 Carle Vernet (born), French painter (died 1835)
1840 Richard von Krafft-Ebing (born), German-Austrian psychologist and author (died 1902)
1842 American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848 Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1851 Doc Holliday (born), American dentist (died 1887)
1860 André Marie Constant Duméril (died), French zoologist (born 1774)
1863 Ernest Thayer (born), American poet (died 1940)
1866 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin (born), Belgian mathematician (died 1962)
1867 John Galsworthy (born), English author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
1870 David Farragut (died), American admiral (born 1801)
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1881 Francis Ford (born), American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1953)
1882 Gisela Richter (born), English archaeologist and historian (died 1972)
1885 Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England.
1893 France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1912 Frank Oppenheimer (born), American physicist and academic (died 1985)
1933 Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
1935 Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1941 Connie Smith (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 David Crosby (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR)
1941 Lynne Cheney (born), American wife of Dick Cheney, 32nd Second Lady of the United States
1942 Jackie Oliver (born), English race car driver
1945 Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
1945 Steve Martin (born), American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1946 Larry Graham (born), American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station)
1946 Susan Saint James (born), American actress
1946 Tom Walkinshaw (born), Scottish race car driver (died 2010)
1947 Danielle Steel (born), American author
1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1950 Gary Larson (born), American cartoonist
1951 William Randolph Hearst (died), American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (born 1863)
1954 Stanley A. McChrystal (born), American general
1956 Bertolt Brecht (died), German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
1958 Frédéric Joliot-Curie (died), French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1961 Susan Olsen (born), American actress and singer
1964 Johnny Burnette (died), American singer-songwriter (The Rock and Roll Trio) (born 1934)
1966 Halle Berry (born), American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986
1967 UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1971 Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
1972 Oscar Levant (died), American actor, pianist, and composer (born 1906)
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1980 Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1988 Enzo Ferrari (died), Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (born 1898)
1992 Tony Williams (died), American singer (The Platters) (born 1928)
1994 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
1999 Pee Wee Reese (died), American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1918)
2003 Widespread power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2010 The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 Allen Lanier (died), American guitarist and songwriter (Blue Öyster Cult) (born 1946)
2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
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