Year 29 » Octavian holds the second of three consecutive Roman triumph called triumphs in Ancient Rome named Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
Year 1040 » King Duncan I of Scotland Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth, King of Scotland Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as List of Scottish monarchs King of Scotland.
Year 1183 » Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the Imperial Regalia of Japan named three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese calendar known as Japanese date: Twent
Year 1288 » Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
Year 1352 » War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the Kingdom of France named French in the Battle of Mauron.
Year 1370 » Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary or Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
Year 1385 » 1383–85 Crisis Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal King John I and his General officer general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castile (historical region) Castilian army of John I of Cast
Year 1415 » Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
Year 1592 » Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) or Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
Year 1720 » The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee people called Pawnee and Otoe tribe called Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
Year 1816 » The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering them from the British Cape Colony called Cape Colony in South Africa.
Year 1842 » American Indian Wars: Seminole Wars known as Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
Year 1848 » Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
Year 1880 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
Year 1893 » France becomes the first country to introduce vehicle registration plate e.g motor vehicle registration.
Year 1897 » Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
Year 1900 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
Year 1901 » The first claimed aviation called powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Whitehead No. 21 named Number 21.
Year 1912 » United States Marine Corps called U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
Year 1914 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
Year 1916 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I.
Year 1933 » Loggers cause a Wildfire forest fire in the Pacific Coast Ranges Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying convert 240,000 acre km2.
Year 1935 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
Year 1936 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public capital punishment in the United States called execution in the United States.
Year 1937 » Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of Air combat manoeuvring called air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Republic of China Air Force or Nati
Year 1941 » World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
Year 1945 » Japan accepts the Allied Japanese Instrument of Surrender terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor of Japan Emperor records the Gyokuon-hōsō Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
Year 1945 » The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
Year 1947 » Pakistan gains Pakistan Movement known as Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
Year 1959 » Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
Year 1967 » UK Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 or Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
Year 1969 » Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
Year 1971 » Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
Year 1972 » An East Germany known as East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
Year 1973 » The Constitution of Pakistan named Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
Year 1974 » The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus known as Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Around 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
Year 1975 » 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
Year 1980 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
Year 1987 » All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the The Family (Australian New Age group) known as Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
Year 1994 » Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
Year 1996 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
Year 2003 » A Northeast blackout of 2003 or widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
Year 2005 » Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
Year 2006 » Chencholai bombing: Sixty-one Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
Year 2007 » The 2007 Yazidi communities bombings called Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
Year 2010 » The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
Year 2013 » Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces August 2013 Egyptian raids e.g kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.