| 2012 | As part of ongoing political reforms in Myanmar, the country announces it will end media censorship |
| 2012 | After not being seen for weeks, Ethiopia's long-term Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi dies of a mystery illness |
| 2011 | First Air fails in an attempt to land a Boeing 737 in poor conditions; 12 of 15 people die after the plane crashes near Canada's Resolute Bay |
| 2011 | Tropical Storm Irene forms with warnings in place for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, The British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda |
| 2010 | Game-maker NCsoft is sued by a man claiming he would not have played Lineage II if he knew it was addictive and render him unable to function |
| 2010 | Thousands of Kyrgyzstani's rally in response to rumors that Osh's mayor was fired by Kyrgyzstan's interim government |
| 1997 | Shelly Moore, 18, of Tennessee, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA |
| 1996 | India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's |
| 1995 | "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 75 performances |
| 1995 | Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save |
| 1995 | Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
| 1994 | 109.8 degrees F (43.2 degrees C) in Cordoba, Spain |
| 1994 | Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina |
| 1994 | Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed |
| 1993 | Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91) |
| 1993 | Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1993 | Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria |
| 1992 | England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record |
| 1992 | Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler |
| 1991 | Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29) |
| 1991 | Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million |
| 1991 | Estonia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. itself independent |
| 1990 | Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson |
| 1990 | George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner |
| 1990 | Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields) |
| 1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat) |
| 1989 | Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed |
| 1989 | Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases |
| 1989 | Janet Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22) |
| 1989 | Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45) |
| 1988 | 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed |
| 1988 | Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21) |
| 1986 | Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead |
| 1986 | Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th |
| 1985 | 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden) |
| 1985 | Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US |
| 1985 | Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers |
| 1985 | Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win |
| 1985 | Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle |
| 1982 | Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils |
| 1982 | U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon |
| 1980 | Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone |
| 1980 | New York Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day |
| 1980 | Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season |
| 1980 | Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mount Everest |
| 1980 | Cleveland Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles |
| 1980 | U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital |
| 1979 | India premier Charan Singh resigns |
| 1979 | Singer Vikki Carr and Michael Nilsson wed |
| 1978 | Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London |
| 1978 | Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds |
| 1978 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open |
| 1978 | Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) |
| 1977 | NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune |
| 1975 | Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 |
| 1975 | Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing |
| 1974 | Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat |
| 1974 | Nelson Rockefeller becomes V.P. |
| 1974 | Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) |
| 1974 | President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation |
| 1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1971 | FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr |
| 1970 | Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique |
| 1969 | 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record) |
| 1968 | 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, and fired again as manager of A's |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| 1966 | Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit) |
| 1965 | Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team |
| 1964 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion |
| 1964 | President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act |
| 1964 | Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings |
| 1964 | Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves |
| 1961 | East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13 |
| 1960 | Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R. recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space |
| 1959 | Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months |
| 1958 | Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years |
| 1958 | Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0 |
| 1957 | "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances |
| 1957 | Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0 |
| 1957 | USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) |
| 1957 | White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0 |
| 1956 | Republicans convene at Cow Palace |
| 1955 | 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California |
| 1955 | Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria |
| 1953 | General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia |
| 1953 | Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation |
| 1952 | Stalin meets Chou Enlai |
| 1949 | 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland |
| 1949 | Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution |
| 1948 | 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220) |
| 1948 | U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin |
| 1947 | Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time |
| 1947 | Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph |
| 1945 | Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a home run |
| 1945 | Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1945 | Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden |
| 1945 | Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest home run hitter (17) |
| 1944 | "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway |
| 1944 | 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G and CC Spokane Wash |
| 1944 | General de Gaulle returns to France |
| 1944 | Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev |
| 1944 | U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap |
| 1942 | Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco |
| 1941 | Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males |
| 1940 | 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain |
| 1940 | Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21 |
| 1940 | British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" |
| 1939 | 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc) |
| 1939 | Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia |
| 1938 | Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and last grand slam |
| 1935 | Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador |
| 1934 | Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match |
| 1931 | 45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61) |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval |
| 1930 | Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (New York City) |
| 1929 | 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed |
| 1926 | Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia |
| 1925 | WJR-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions |
| 1923 | London harbor strike ends |
| 1922 | 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris |
| 1921 | 35th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62) |
| 1920 | 1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting |
| 1920 | Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes |
| 1920 | Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah" |
| 1920 | Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League |
| 1920 | Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland |
| 1919 | Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg) |
| 1918 | Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I |
| 1915 | Italy declares war on Turkey |
| 1915 | White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500 |
| 1914 | Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre and Meuse, Mons |
| 1914 | Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans |
| 1914 | Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s |
| 1914 | Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France |
| 1914 | German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp |
| 1913 | 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France) |
| 1913 | Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine) |
| 1912 | Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect |
| 1912 | Washington Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings |
| 1910 | U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua |
| 1908 | Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo |
| 1901 | Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony |
| 1900 | Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games |
| 1896 | Dial telephone patented |
| 1895 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" |
| 1893 | Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland |
| 1888 | Longest U.S. men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest |
| 1882 | Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow |
| 1879 | Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns |
| 1866 | President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over |
| 1865 | President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx |
| 1864 | 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia (about 3900 casualties) |
| 1856 | Wilberforce University forms in Ohio |
| 1852 | Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard |
| 1795 | Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England |
| 1794 | General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio |
| 1791 | Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska |
| 1781 | George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland |
| 1741 | Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering |
| 1648 | Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards |
| 1641 | Britain and Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification |
| 1619 | 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia |
| 1604 | Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice |
| 1597 | 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East |
| 1585 | English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland |
| 1566 | Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium |
| 1534 | Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis |
| 1191 | Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko |
| 917 | Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines |
| 573 | Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours |
| 2 | Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem |
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