410 The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1521 Josquin des Prez (died), Flemish composer (born 1450)
1577 Titian (died), Italian painter (born 1488)
1590 Pope Sixtus V (died) (born 1521)
1593 Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
1664 Francisco de Zurbarán (died), Spanish painter (born 1598)
1724 John Joachim Zubly (born), Swiss-American pastor, planter, and politician (died 1781)
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born), German philosopher (died 1831)
1776 Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1803 Edward Beecher (born), American theologian (died 1895)
1809 Hannibal Hamlin (born), American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (died 1891)
1828 Eise Eisinga (died), Dutch astronomer, built the Eisinga Planetarium (born 1744)
1832 Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
1861 American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1865 James Henry Breasted (born), American archaeologist and historian (died 1935)
1871 Theodore Dreiser (born), American journalist and author (died 1945
1874 Carl Bosch (born), German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1875 Katharine McCormick (born), American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (died 1967)
1875 William Chapman Ralston (died), American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (born 1826)
1877 Charles Rolls (born), English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (died 1910)
1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1904 John Hay Whitney (born), American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (died 1982)
1908 Kurt Wegner (born), German painter (died 1985)
1908 Lyndon B. Johnson (born), American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
1909 Emil Christian Hansen (died), Danish physiologist and mycologist (born 1842)
1927 Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, “Does the word ‘Persons’ in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”
1928 Joan Kroc (born), American philanthropist (died 2003)
1939 Edward Patten (born), American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) (died 2005)
1939 First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
1942 Daryl Dragon (born), American keyboard player and songwriter (Captain & Tennille)
1943 Tuesday Weld (born), American actress and singer
1943 World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1949 Jeff Cook (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama)
1950 Neil Murray (born), Scottish bass player and songwriter (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Colosseum II, and Gogmagog)
1953 Alex Lifeson (born), Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rush and Big Dirty Band)
1954 Derek Warwick (born), English race car driver
1957 Malaysia’s constitution comes into force.
1959 Gerhard Berger (born), Austrian race car driver
1961 Mark McConnell (born), American drummer (Blackfoot, Madam X, and Southern Rock Allstars) (died 2012)
1962 The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1963 W. E. B. Du Bois (died), American sociologist, historian, and activist (born 1868)
1964 Gracie Allen (died), American actress and singer (born 1895)
1964 The Walt Disney musical film Mary Poppins is released.
1965 Le Corbusier (died), Swiss-French architect, designed the Philips Pavilion (born 1887)
1967 Brian Epstein (died), English businessman and manager (born 1934)
1969 Cesar Millan (born), Mexican-American dog trainer
1971 Bennett Cerf (died), American publisher, co-founded Random House (born 1898)
1975 Haile Selassie I (died), Ethiopian emperor (born 1892)
1976 Mark Webber (born), Australian race car driver
1979 A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
1979 Louis Mountbatten (died), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (born 1900)
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan (died), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1954)
1991 Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2012 Russell Scott (died), American clown (born 1921)
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