708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1261 – Pope Urban IV (Jacques Pantaleon) succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England. King Louis XI buys English contacts
1484 – Giovanni Battista Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII; succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
1526 – Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent. The last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia is defeated and killed.
1533 – Spaniard Francisco Pizarro executes Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empire, who is suspected to have been buried in Northern Peru or in Ecuador.
1540 Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges,
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1612 Battle of Surat, India: English fleet beats Portuguese,
1640 English King Charles I signs a peace treaty with Scotland,
1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1664 Adriaen Pieck and Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam,
1696 King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg,
1708 British troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia.
1708 Haverhill, Massachusetts destroyed by French & Indians.
1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
1742 Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist.
1756 England & France meet in war.
1756 – Prussian Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
1758 – New Jersey Legislature forms the first American Indian reservation at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising in Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, of farmers, begins in response to high debt and the government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their businesses
1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed.
1793 Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed.
1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1833 Britain’s 1st Factory Act becomes law "to regulate the Labour of Children and young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom".
1838 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years.
1842 – Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ending the First Opium War.
1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win.
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay).
1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1861 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run - one of the Confederacy’s greatest victories of the entire war - was fought near Manassas, Virginia.
1862 Battle of Aspromonte; Italian royal forces defeat rebels.
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, fought in Manassas, Virginia begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War).
1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation.
1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae.
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1883 First Carnegie library financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie opens in Dunfermline, Scotland, the 1st of 2,509 libraries built around the world.
1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
1885 – John L. Sullivan is the first heavyweight boxing champion. The title match was fought with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds.
1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1900 Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy, is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment; he will commit suicide in jail on 22 May 1901.
1903 – The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
1903 The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese.
1905 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza leaves Brazzaville.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m.
1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea. Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1913 – Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
1914 – New Zealand forces capture German Samoa,
1914 – 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Second Army panics, General Martos caught.
1914 – Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal.
1914 – Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army under General Lanrezac counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act (Jones Act).
1916 – The U.S. Naval Reserve is created by Congress.
1916 – General Paul von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1916 – Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1,000 die
1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
1924 Germany's Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan, which sought to solve the WWI reparations problem
1929 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight.
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1932 International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932 United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1946 – USS Nevada is decommissioned.
1947 B.R. Ambedkar is appointed chairman of the drafting committee for the Indian constitution
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1950 International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952
1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1952 – New York premiere of history-based film "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima"
1953 – USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb
1953 – Speedy Gonzales, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Chuck Jones and Michael
Maltese (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Cat-Tails for Two"
1954 – San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens
1956 – French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1957 – Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1958 – Cliff Richard and the Drifters release single "Move It", Richards debut single. Credited as 1st British Rock n Roll song.
1958 – George Harrison joins The Quarrymen, who later become The Beatles
1960 – Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1962 – Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962 – US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1964 – Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", starring Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 965 performances and 6 Tony Awards.
1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
1966 Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before a crowd of 25,000, and 7,000 unsold seats, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen watched by 78 million people,
1968 Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US President at their convention in Chicago.
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed).
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
1974 USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR.
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky.
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network.
1979 – Jeffrey R. MacDonald is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission.
1986 Moroccan King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya.
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13.
1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.
1991 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signs decree to close Semipalatinsk test site (site of 456 Soviet nuclear tests 1949-89) after protests by Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1992 Irish rock band U2 plays the 1st of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NYC.
1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.
1991 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signs decree to close Semipalatinsk test site (site of 456 Soviet nuclear tests 1949-89) after protests by Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1992 Irish rock band U2 plays the 1st of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NYC.
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
1997 Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business.
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
1997 Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business.
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
2012 Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction.
2012 Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed.
2012 Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23.
2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.
2013 41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya.
2014 Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals.
2014 Senegal is 5th country hit by Ebola.
2016 Italian coastguard says 6,500 migrants rescued at sea in 40 separate incidents in 1 day off coast of Sabratha, Libya.
2017 Hurricane Harvey sets rainfall record (51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou) from a tropical cyclone in continental US, according to US National Weather Service.
2017 Monsoon rains in Mumbai cause chaos closing schools and airports.
2017 US President Donald Trump visits flood affected Texas.
2018 Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond resigns from the Scottish National Party amid sexual abuse allegations.
2018 Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin.
2018 John McCain is only the third person to lie in state at the Arizona state capital rotunda in Phoenix.
2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces new retirement ages, 60 for women, 65 for men in TV address, amid protests.
2019 Discovery of world's largest child sacrifice site announced by archaeologists with 227 victims from Chimú culture in Huanchaco, Peru.
2019 Scientists announce there is no single 'gay' gene with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior, in study published in "Science".
2020 Elon Musk unveils pig named Gertrude with coin-sized computer in her brain, part of his Nuralink start-up creating a brain-to-machine interface.
2021 Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
2021 Missile and drone attack on al-Anad airbase in south Yemen kills at least 30 soldiers, one of the deadliest attacks in recent years.
2022 Worst violence in Iraqi capital Baghdad in years with 30 killed and 700 injured after Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr announces he is withdrawing from politics.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Beheading of St. John the Baptist Greater Double
Commemoration of St. Sabina, Martyr
Commemoration of St. Sabina, Martyr
Contemporary Western
Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
Sabina
Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
Sabina
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (ca. 28)
Saints Candida (418) and Gelasia (422), of Constantinople
Saint Theodora, nun, of Thessaloniki, who was from Aegina (892)
Saint Arcadius of Arsinoe, Cyprus, Bishop and Wonderworker
Saint Basil I the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor (886)
Saint Sabina, matron and martyr from Rome (c. 126)
Saint Sabina of Troyes, by tradition the sister of St Sabinian of Troyes in France
where she was venerated together with him (c. 275)
Saint Candida, one of a group of martyrs who suffered on the Ostian Way
outside the gates of Rome
Saint Euthymius, a Roman who fled to Perugia in Italy with his wife and his child,
St Crescentius, during the persecution of Diocletian (4th century)
Saint Adelphus, an early Bishop of Metz and Confessor (5th century)
Saint Sæbbi of Essex (Sebbi, Sebba), King of Essex and monk (c. 694)
Saint Medericus (Merry), a monk at St Martin's in Autun,
where he eventually became abbot (c. 700)
Saint Velleicus (Willeic), born in England, he followed St Swithbert
to Germany and became Abbot of Kaiserswerth (8th century)
Saint Eadwold of Cerne (Edwold), hermit at Cerne in Dorset in England (9th century)
Saint Alberic, a monk who lived at Bagno de Romagua in Italy (1050)
Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th century)
New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)
New Hieromartyr Peter Reshetnikov, Priest of Perm (1918)
New Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1936)
New Martyr Theodore Ivanov of Tobolsk (1937)
Commemoration of all Orthodox soldiers killed on the field of battle
Translation of the relics (1699) of St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)
Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Poemen of Cernica (1831)
Repose of Righteous Pachomius the Silent, of Valdai Monastery (1886)
The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (ca. 28)
Saints Candida (418) and Gelasia (422), of Constantinople
Saint Theodora, nun, of Thessaloniki, who was from Aegina (892)
Saint Arcadius of Arsinoe, Cyprus, Bishop and Wonderworker
Saint Basil I the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor (886)
Saint Sabina, matron and martyr from Rome (c. 126)
Saint Sabina of Troyes, by tradition the sister of St Sabinian of Troyes in France
where she was venerated together with him (c. 275)
Saint Candida, one of a group of martyrs who suffered on the Ostian Way
outside the gates of Rome
Saint Euthymius, a Roman who fled to Perugia in Italy with his wife and his child,
St Crescentius, during the persecution of Diocletian (4th century)
Saint Adelphus, an early Bishop of Metz and Confessor (5th century)
Saint Sæbbi of Essex (Sebbi, Sebba), King of Essex and monk (c. 694)
Saint Medericus (Merry), a monk at St Martin's in Autun,
where he eventually became abbot (c. 700)
Saint Velleicus (Willeic), born in England, he followed St Swithbert
to Germany and became Abbot of Kaiserswerth (8th century)
Saint Eadwold of Cerne (Edwold), hermit at Cerne in Dorset in England (9th century)
Saint Alberic, a monk who lived at Bagno de Romagua in Italy (1050)
Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th century)
New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)
New Hieromartyr Peter Reshetnikov, Priest of Perm (1918)
New Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1936)
New Martyr Theodore Ivanov of Tobolsk (1937)
Commemoration of all Orthodox soldiers killed on the field of battle
Translation of the relics (1699) of St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)
Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Poemen of Cernica (1831)
Repose of Righteous Pachomius the Silent, of Valdai Monastery (1886)
Coptic Orthodox
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