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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical observances

References

External links

Events

★ 982 - Otto II is defeated in Calabria by the Saracens, Pandulf II of Salerno and Landulf IV of Benevento killed in battle.

★ 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

★ 1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.

★ 1573 - Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.

★ 1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.

★ 1772 - HMS ''Resolution'', under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth, England.

★ 1787 - The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.

★ 1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria

★ 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.

★ 1830 - Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

★ 1832 - The source of the Mississippi River is discovered, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

★ 1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.

★ 1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.

★ 1863 - New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

★ 1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.

★ 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers.

★ 1908 - Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.

★ 1909 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.

★ 1912 - Leader of the Indian freedom movement and scholar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad brought out his noted Urdu news journal, ''al-Hilal''.

★ 1914 - Simone Pianetti's mass murder action in Camerata Cornello, Italy

★ 1919 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

★ 1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywood''land'' " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.

★ 1936 - A heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States. The all-time highest temperatures for the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana are all recorded on this date.

★ 1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (''Trinaestojulski ustanak'').

★ 1942 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.

★ 1948 - The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate.

★ 1973 - Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

★ 1977 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.

★ 1978 - Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men.

★ 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.

★ 1985 - Vice President George H.W. Bush became the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

★ 2001 - Beijing, China is selected to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

★ 2002 - A lightning strike sets off the Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²) when finally contained on September 5.

★ 2005 - Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.

Births

★ 100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) (born either July 12 or July 13)

★ 40 AD - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93 AD)

★ 1527 - John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)

★ 1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)

★ 1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)

★ 1607 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born artist (d. 1677)

★ 1608 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)

★ 1745 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)

★ 1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)

★ 1793 - John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)

★ 1808 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (d. 1893)

★ 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (not the current one) (d. 1877)

★ 1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)

★ 1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)

★ 1859 - Sidney Webb, British socialist (d. 1947)

★ 1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)

★ 1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)

★ 1895 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)

★ 1896 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)

★ 1898 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)

★ 1900 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)

★ 1901 - Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969)

★ 1913 - Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)

★ 1918 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)

★ 1920 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)

★ 1921 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)

★ 1921 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)

★ 1921 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)

★ 1922 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)

★ 1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer

★ 1924 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)

★ 1927 - Simone Veil, French politician

★ 1928 - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist

★ 1928 - Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)

★ 1928 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)

★ 1929 - Alan Civil, English musician (d. 1989)

★ 1929 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast

★ 1931 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player

★ 1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist

★ 1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate

★ 1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut

★ 1935 - Jack Kemp, American football player and politician

★ 1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)

★ 1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor

★ 1941 - Robert Forster, American actor

★ 1941 - Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker

★ 1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor

★ 1942 - Roger McGuinn, American musician

★ 1944 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor

★ 1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor

★ 1948 - Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter

★ 1950 - George "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut

★ 1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang(KMT)

★ 1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician

★ 1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney

★ 1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer

★ 1954 - Louise Mandrell, American musician

★ 1954 - Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player

★ 1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler

★ 1956 - Michael Spinks, American former boxer

★ 1957 - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera

★ 1957 - Cameron Crowe, American film director

★ 1957 - Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver

★ 1959 - Richard Leman, English field hockey player

★ 1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of ''Private Eye''

★ 1961 - Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer

★ 1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager

★ 1962 - Rhonda Vincent, American singer

★ 1962 - Tom Kenny, American voice actor

★ 1963 - Neal Foulds, English snooker player

★ 1963 - Spud Webb, American basketball player

★ 1966 - Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)

★ 1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey

★ 1967 - Sandy Fox, American voice actress

★ 1967 - Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger

★ 1968 - Robert Gant, American actor

★ 1969 - Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist

★ 1969 - Mark Greenway, British vocalist

★ 1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter

★ 1970 - Barry Pinches, English snooker player

★ 1972 - Sean Waltman, American wrestler

★ 1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer

★ 1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver

★ 1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer

★ 1975 - Danni Boatwright, American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant

★ 1976 - Al Santos, American model and actor

★ 1977 - Ashley Scott, American actress

★ 1978 - Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer

★ 1982 - Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)

★ 1982 - Simon Clist, English footballer

★ 1982 - Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)

★ 1982 - Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

★ 1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete

★ 1985 - Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer

★ 1989 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

★ 1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor

★ 1994 - Ridge Canipe, American actor

Deaths

★ 939 - Pope Leo VII

★ 1189 - Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)

★ 1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England

★ 1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)

★ 1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)

★ 1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)

★ 1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)

★ 1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)

★ 1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)

★ 1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)

★ 1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)

★ 1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)

★ 1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)

★ 1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)

★ 1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)

★ 1755 - Edward Braddock, British general

★ 1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)

★ 1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)

★ 1762 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)

★ 1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)

★ 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)

★ 1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)

★ 1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)

★ 1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)

★ 1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)

★ 1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)

★ 1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)

★ 1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)

★ 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)

★ 1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)

★ 1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)

★ 1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)

★ 1965 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (b. 1895)

★ 1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)

★ 1973 - Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)

★ 1974 - Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

★ 1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)

★ 1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)

★ 1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)

★ 1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)

★ 1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)

★ 1996 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)

★ 1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)

★ 2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)

★ 2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)

★ 2003 - Jeff Groteboer, American writer (b. 1960)

★ 2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1951)

★ 2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)

★ 2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

★ Kiribati - Independence Day, 2nd day (not a holiday)

★ Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day

★ Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kálimát (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar

★ Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)

Liturgical observances

★ Abd-al-Masih, Christian saint and martyr ^[1]

★ Abel of Tacla Haimonot in the Coptic Church

★ Saint Anacletus, pope, martyr [southern France, Franciscans]

★ Saint Eugenius, bishop of Carthage, and companions, confessors (died 505)

★ Saint Henry, Holy Roman Emperor, confessor [common] (died 1024)

★ Saint Joel

★ Saint Silas, apostle northern France

★ Saint Thuriaf, bishop of Dol, confessor Paris, as Curien

★ Saint Willehad, bishop of Bremen, confessor (Ordination) Bremen

★ Saint Margaret, virgin, martyr common

★ Saint Mildrada, abbess, virgin Utrecht, Exeter

★ Saint Sara

References

1. Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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