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2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1675 – Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1813 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1864 – Winchester, Virginia was captured by Union troops under General Phil Sheridan after the departure of Confederate General Jubal Early from the city.
1898 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1909 – The American ship Arapahoe is the first to use the SOS signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
1919 – Green Bay Packers football club founded was founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau.
1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1920 – The first newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken.
1920 – The first newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken,
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1960 – Chad declares independence.
1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1965 – The Watts Riots: Rioting and looting that claimed 34 lives broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles, California.
1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail.
1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1973 – DJ Kool Herc has been credited with originating hip hop music on this day in 1973 when he began rapping at a party in the Bronx.
1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2006 – The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of St. Lawrence.
Commemoration of SS. Tiburtius and Susanna.
Commemoration of SS. Tiburtius and Susanna.
Contemporary Western
Athracht
Clare of Assisi
Fiacre
Gaugericus
Philomena
Susanna
Taurinus of Évreux
Tiburtius and Chromatius
Clare of Assisi
Fiacre
Gaugericus
Philomena
Susanna
Taurinus of Évreux
Tiburtius and Chromatius
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
John Henry Newman (Church of England)
Eastern Orthodox
August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
Virgin-martyr Susanna[3] and those with her (295)
Hieromartyrs Gaius, Pope of Rome;[note 3] the priest Gabinus;
Martyrs Maximus, Claudius and his wife Praepedigna;
and their sons Alexander and Cuthias.
Holy Hieromartyr Archdeacon Euplus of Catania (304)
Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius, and Gaianus, by fire.
Martyr Ia and 9,000 with her in Persia (363)
Venerable Passarion, Bishop in Palestine (428)
Saint Rufinus and Companions, an early bishop (Episcopus Marsorum)
martyred with companions in Italy
Saint Tiburtius, a martyr in Rome (c. 288)
connected with the soldier-martyr St Sebastian
and was entombed at the Via Lavicana
Saint Chromatius, the Prefect of Rome
and father of St Tiburtius the martyr (3rd century)
Saint Digna, a holy virgin in Todi in Umbria in Italy, lived as an anchoress
in the mountains nearby during the persecution of Diocletian (4th century)
Saint Taurinus, first Bishop of Evreux, Gaul (c. 412)
Saint Attracta (Athracht), an anchoress, first in Killaraght on Lough Gara
and then in Drum near Boyle (5th century)
Saint Equitius, founder of a number of monasteries
in the province of Valeria in Italy (c. 540)
Saint Bláán (Blane), Bishop of Bute, Scotland (c. 590)
Saint Gaugericus (Gau, Géry), Bishop of Cambrai and Arras in France, Confessor (c. 625)
Saint Lelia, a holy virgin connected with Limerick and Kerry
several places in Ireland are named after her
Monk-martyrs Basil and Theodore, of the Kiev Caves (1098)
Saint Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves
Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia (1483)
Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1508)
New Martyrs Anastasius Paneras of Asomaton, and Demetrius Begiazis
of Agiasos on Lesbos, at Kasamba in Asia Minor (1816)
Saint John, recluse of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1867)
Venerable Martyr St Rafaela (Tertatska) - (Rafaela of Chyhyryn), Igumenia (1926)
Commemoration of the Miracle (1716) of St. Spyridon (348) on Corfu with the Hagarenes
Repose of Elder Sampson (Sievers) (Edward von Sievers), Spiritual Director
at Poltava's Monastery of the Exaltation of the Precious Cross (1979)
Repose of Archpriest Nicholas Guryanov of Talabsk Island,
in Pskov (Chudskoye) lake (2002)
Coptic Orthodox
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