1000 – Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea. King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age.
1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 – Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1675 – New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (d. 1910) was born.
1830 – Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1876 – American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1892 – E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
1904 – Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1924 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 – In the United States the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is formed.
1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1967) was born.
1946 – Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Iron Butterfly) was born.
1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian bass player (Buffalo Springfield and The Mynah Birds) (d. 2004) was born.
1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1947 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders) was born.
1948 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
1950 – Mass arrests of communists in France
1950 – John McFee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Doobie Brothers and Southern Pacific) was born.
1952 – David Stewart, rock guitarist (Eurtyhmics-Here Comes the Rain Again) Born
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1957 – Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1962 – Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
1963 – Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
1965 – Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1966 – Adam Sandler, Brooklyn New York, actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Saturday Night Live)Born
1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
1971 – John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)airs Sept 11th
1971 - John Lennon releases “Imagine” album
1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1974 – Marcos Curiel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (P.O.D. and Daylight Division) was born.
1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary & Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82
1976 – New Zealand government establishes the country’s first centralized electronic database through the Wanganui Computer Act, raising questions about the state’s ability to gather information on its citizens
1983 – Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1985 – President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1987 – Gary Hart admits on “Nightline,” to cheating on his wife (as he was running for POTUS)
1987 – Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
1990 – George H W Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & “urge” Iraq to leave Kuwait
1991 – Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington
1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
1997 – Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
1999 – Sega releases the first 128 bit video game console the Dreamcast.
1999 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)Dies
2001 – At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, dies at 95
2004 – Roland Sherwood “Ernie” Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)dies
2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Outlaws) (b. 1952) died.
2010 – A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1,000 feet (300 m) high and kills eight people.