29 – John the Baptist, beheaded
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
1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
1533 – Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1632 – John Locke, Wrington England, philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the “Father of Classical Liberalism” – Born
1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
1793 – Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)Born
1833 – Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act becomes law
1842 – Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1877 – Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies of peritonitis at 76
1883 – Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1885 – Boxing’s 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1909 – World’s 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Stockholm, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower), (d. 1982) Born
1920 – Charlie “Bird” Parker, US jazz saxophonist Born
1923 – Richard Attenborough, Cambridge, English actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston) Born
1924 – Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)Born
1929 – German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1935 – William Friedkin, Chicago, Illinois, American director/producer/writer (The Exorcist, The French Connection)Born
1938 – Elliott Gould, Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)Born
1938 – Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury – Birthed
1939 – Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1940 – James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014) was born.
1941 – Robin Leach, London England, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)Born
1943 – Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer (Blood, Sweat & Tears) was born.
1944 – 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1945 – Chris Copping, Essex England, rock bassist (Procol Harum)Born
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1950? – Robbie Noel (South African American, Radio personality, revolutionary..) Born
1952 – Mike Rivero (underground political analyst, founder of WhatReallyHappened.com) Born
1953 – USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb
1953 – Rick Downey, rocker drummer/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)Born
1955 – Diamanda Galas, composer, avant-garde vocalist / Performance artist – Born
1956 – GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)Born
1957 – Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (d. 2009) was born.
1958 – George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, Santa Rose Cal, actress (Hand that Rocks Cradle)Born
1959 – Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut was born.
1965 – Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1967 – Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) Born
1969 – Me’Shell NdegéOcello, American singer – Born
1970 – Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
1975 – Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1976 – Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), ODs at 18
1976 – Jimmy Reed, rocker, dies of epileptic seizure at 50
1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1987 – Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63
1990 – Saddam Hussein declares America can’t beat Iraq
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces. (It was a NWO war!)
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
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 (day 2) devastates 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 – 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.
2007 – Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing – Cleared! Hero. (b. 1962)Dies
2012 – Operation Eagle (CIA), undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23
2012 – The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles
2012 – Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction