479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted.
1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
1667 – Earliest recorded hurricane in north America (Jamestown Virginia)
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)Birthed
(Hegelian Dialectic: Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis or…. Problem + Reaction = Solution)
1776 – Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talks
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1883 – Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1892 – NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 – Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1896 – Britain defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer / Cannibal (d. 1984)Birthed
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (Conspirator in JFK assassination, Gulf of Tonkin False Flag, USS Liberty Attack…) (d. 1973) was birthed.
1908 – Frank Leahy, O’Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)Born
1912 – Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes “Tarzan of the Apes”
1916 – The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1919 – Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies at 56
1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, “Does the word ‘Persons’ in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”
US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1937 – Alice Coltrane, jazz musician, Born
1939 – Heinkel He-178 makes first manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1940 – Warren Harding “Sonny” Sharrock, American jazz guitarist – Born
1941 – Shah of Iran abdicates throne favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1942 – Daryl Dragon, Pasadena California, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)Born
1943 – Bob Kerrey, (Sen-D Nebraska) Born
1944 – 200 Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg
1945 – US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1947 – Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens, New York, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me, Force 10 from Navarone)Born
1950 – Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Colosseum II, and Gogmagog) was born.
1950 – General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1952 – Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee’s Big Adventure)Born naked
1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rush and Big Dirty Band) was born.
1955 – “Guinness Book of World Records” 1st published
1956 – Glen Matlock, rock bassist (Sex Pistols)Born
1958 – USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
1958 – Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], Flint, Michigan, body modifier (world record holder in body modification), (d. 2012) Born?
1961 – “Downtown” Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition) Birthed
1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer, born
1963 – W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1963 – Walter Martin Leinonen (Seattle Blues Musician, Racer, Bon Vivant, and Philosopher…) Son of Pete Leinonen (Guitar Legend), Born.
1964 – Gracie Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1965 – The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1967 – Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 – Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1970 – Tony Kanal, English-born musician, Bassist (No Doubt) Born
1971 – An attempted coup d’état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1976 – Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1979 – A (alleged) Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Louis Mountbatten (Churchill bloodline, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin) and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. (1979 – Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten’s grandson, murdered at 14)
1984 – US President Ronald Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1986 – Protest erupt in Soweto, South Africa, demonstrating against evictions which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is completed.
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
2012 – First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
