310 | BC | a solar eclipse was visible across Greece |
29 | BC | Octavian celebrated the third day of his Triumph, for the conquest of Egypt -- Learn More |
0 | | Feast of St. Neapolus/Napoleon, Roman Soldier and Martyr, Patron of Warriors |
0 | | Armed Forces Day in Poland and Navy Day in Romania |
717 | | Arab-Barbarian hordes abandon the siege of Constantinople (from 25 Aug 716) |
778 | | the Basques attacked Charlemagne's rear guard at Roncesvalles; the death of Roland -- Learn More |
1040 | | Battle of Elgin: MacBeth defeats King Duncan I of Scotland, & usurps the throne (1040-1057) |
1057 | | Battle of Lumphanan: Malcolm III Canmore defeats King MacBeth of Scotland |
1097 | | Battle of Consuegra: Yusuf ibn Tashfin's Almoravids defeat Alfonso VI of Castille & Leon |
1118 | | Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos, co-ruler since 1092, becomes sole Emperor (1118-1143) |
1209 | | Albigensians surrender Carcassonne to the Crusaders (besieged since Aug 1st) |
1388 | | Battle of Otterbourne: Scots under James, Earl of Douglas defeat & capture Henry Hotspur's English |
1515 | | Lorenzo de'Medici the Younger is created Captain General of the Florentine militia |
1645 | | Battle of Klisyth: Montrose's Royalists slaughter 6000 Scots Covenanters |
1760 | | Battle of Leignitz/The Katzbach: Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians |
1799 | | Battle of Novi: Austro-Russians defeat the French |
1824 | | the Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving Continental Army general, landed at New York, to begin a triumphal tour of the U.S. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the American Revolution |
1845 | | the U.S. Naval Academy was established at Ft Severn, Annapolis |
1848 | | Battle of Luino: The Garibaldini defeat the Austrians |
1854 | | Anglo-French fleet bombards the Russian defenses at Bomersund in the Baltic |
1863 | | Submarine CSS 'Hunley' arrives in Charleston by rail |
1864 | | CSS 'Tallahassee' captures 6 U.S. schooners off New England |
1895 | | Second class battleship 'Texas' commissioned; sunk as target, 1911 |
1896 | | The "Bicycle Corps" of the 25th Infantry began a "march" from Ft. Missoula, Montana, to Mammoth Springs, Wyoming -- Learn More |
1920 | | Battle of Warsaw: Marshal Jozef Pilsudzki leads the Polish Army to rout the Soviet Red Army at the gates of Warsaw, ending the Soviet-Polish War (1918-1920) |
1940 | | Hitler's first "D-Day" for Operation Sea Lion |
1941 | | Kovono, Lithuania: Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto |
1942 | | 'I-6', last Japanese submarine in the Aleutians, is withdrawn. |
1942 | | U.S. transports land supplies at Guadalcanal |
1942 | | the 83rd Infantry Division was reactivated by the War Department -- Learn More [Societal Motorization] |
1943 | | Elms 25th Inf Div land on Vella Lavella, opposed only by Japanese a/c. |
1943 | | Kiska: U.S. and Canadian troops land with heavy naval and air support` |
1944 | | Operation Anvil-Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
1945 | | Japan agreed to surrender, and Hirohito broadcast a message to his people. |
1945 | | Japanese a/c raid TF 38, 12 hours after Hirohito's surrender order |
1945 | | Soviet aircraft sink 860 ton frigate 'Kenju' off Hokkaido; last Japanese warship lost during World War II |
1945 | | US ends wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil |
1947 | | Mir Usman Ali, the Nizam of Hyderabad, declared his realm independent of India -- Learn More |
1973 | | Athens: Black September bomb, 3 die, 55 injured |
1171 | | King Alfonso IX "the Slobberer" of León and Galicia (1188-1230) |
1761 | | Edward Preble, Commodore, USN, First Barbary War, d. 1807 -- Learn More |
1769 | | Napoleone Bounaparte, Corsican adventurer, notorious deserter, d. 1821 -- Learn More |
1771 | | Sir Walter Scott, sometime volunteer cavalryman, novelist ("Ivanhoe"), d. 1832 |
1823 | | Orris Sanford Ferry, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1875 |
1878 | | Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian "White Guard" Leader, d. 1928 |
1912 | | Julia Child, OSS worker, chef, d. 2004 |
1917 | | Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, later Archbishop of San Salvador, murdered 1980, beatified 2015 |
423 | | Flavius Honorius, the most inept Roman Emperor (395-423), at 38 -- Learn More |
465 | | Roman Emperor in the West Flavius Libius Augustus (Nov. 19, 461-Aug. 15, 465), c. 65, probably of natural causes, possibly poisoned -- Learn More |
778 | | Roland, kia at Roncesvalles |
1057 | | Mac Bethad mac Findlaích -- Macbeth, King of the Scots (1040-1057), slain by the future Malcolm III (1058-1093) |
1118 | | Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118), 70 |
1380 | | Vettor Pisani, 56, Venetian admiral |
1388 | | James, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358-1388), c. 30 , kia, Otterbourne |
1528 | | Odet de Foix, c. 43, Vicomte de Lautrec, Marshal of France, of plague on campaign in Italy |
1636 | | Marquis Ranuccio Pallavicino, Captain of Imperial Cuirassiers, kia Rottofreddo |
1935 | | William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers, 55, Cherokee-American humorist, journalist, actor, and aviator Wiley Post, 36, airplane accident, Point Barrow |
1975 | | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st President of Bangladesh (1971-1972), PM (1972-1975), in a military coup |
1989 | | Minoru Genda, one day short of 89, Japanese airman who planned the Pearl Harbor attack |
1992 | | Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist diplomat who saved 5,200 Jews in Hungary, at 82 |
2003 | | Jannie Brandes-Brilleslijper, 86, Dutch Resistance fighter, friend to Anne Frank. |