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Events:C/P.
526 King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
1363 Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 Creek War Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 American Civil War Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramσn Blanco y Erenas.
1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
1918 Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940 The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942 World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1956 The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 A BelgradeDortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1981 President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1999 East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2003 While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
526 King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
1363 Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 Creek War Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 American Civil War Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramσn Blanco y Erenas.
1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
1918 Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940 The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942 World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1956 The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 A BelgradeDortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1981 President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1999 East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2003 While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
End of C/P.