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1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1758 - Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage.
1814 - Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812
1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Spain.
1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1916 - The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1950 - President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1967 - American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
1980 - The Broadway musical 42nd Street opens; the show's director, Gower Champion, had died earlier that day.
1988 - The historical center of Lisbon is destroyed by a fire.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune, the last major planet it could visit before leaving the Solar System.
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system.
1991 - Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union
1991 - Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix
2002 - ESPN signature show SportsCenter has their 25,000 episode
2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2003 - Fifty-two are killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on the Miami-Dade/Broward county line, hours after reaching hurricane strength.
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