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29 BC Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1183 Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1288 Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Dόsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Dόssel.
1352 War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1370 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad (subsequently was named after him).
1385 Portuguese Crisis of 138385: Battle of Aljubarrota Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Αlvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
1415 Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1592 Imjin War: at the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
1598 Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1720 The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1816 The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
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.
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
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.
1897 Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1911 United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after Josι Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 World War I: start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
1921 Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
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.
1937 Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
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 The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
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 An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
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.
1987 All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 Ilich Ramνrez Sαnchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured.
1996 Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
2007 The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
Events:C/P.
29 BC Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1183 Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1288 Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Dόsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Dόssel.
1352 War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1370 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad (subsequently was named after him).
1385 Portuguese Crisis of 138385: Battle of Aljubarrota Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Αlvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
1415 Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1592 Imjin War: at the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
1598 Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1720 The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1816 The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
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.
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
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.
1897 Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1911 United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after Josι Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 World War I: start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
1921 Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
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.
1937 Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
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 The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
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 An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
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.
1987 All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 Ilich Ramνrez Sαnchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured.
1996 Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
2007 The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.