| 0 | | Feast of St. Elvis/Ailby/Ailbe/Eilfyw of Emly, Patron of Wolves |
| 490 | BC | the Athenians and Plataeans defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon [Trad] -- Learn More |
| 1213 | | Battle of Muret: Crusaders defeat the Albigensians |
| 1396 | | Crusaders under the Count of Nevers reach Nicopolis |
| 1609 | | Henry Hudson landed on a hilly island "as pleasant with grasse and flowers, and goodly trees, as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them" -- Manhattan |
| 1683 | | Battle of Vienna, Day 2: Christian armies under Poland's King John Sobieski defeat the Turks, who lift the siege of Vienna |
| 1733 | | War of the Polish Succession: Former King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland (1706-1709), the father-in-law of Louis XV, is again elected king (1733-1736) |
| 1740 | | Voltaire and Frederick the Great meet |
| 1776 | | Nathan Hale leaves Washington's camp on Harlem Heights (at 127th St) on a spy mission |
| 1814 | | Battle of North Point: Regulars & Militiamen prevent the British from capturing Baltimore |
| 1861 | | Confederates invest Lexington, Mo (Falls 20th) |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Black River, Mo |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Cheat Mtn, WVa |
| 1862 | | Battle of Harpers Ferry VA |
| 1901 | | Arabs attack Jewish settlement of Gedara, Palestine |
| 1912 | | Cadet Dwight D. Eisenhower, of the West Point football squad, flubbed a tackle of Jim Thorpe, who then scored a touchdown, helping the Carlisle Indian School thump USMA, 26-6. |
| 1917 | | Battle of the Bainsizza (11th Isonzo) ends (from Aug 19) |
| 1919 | | Gefreiter Adolf Hitler joins the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei -- German Workers' Party", becoming its 55th member |
| 1938 | | Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia |
| 1940 | | Italian troops under Rudolfo Graziani invade Egypt |
| 1941 | | Coast Guardsmen capture the German trawler 'Busko' in Greenland waters |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal, Battle of Bloody Ridge: Marines repulse the Kawaguchi Detachment |
| 1943 | | New Guinea: Australian and U.S. troops capture Salamaua |
| 1943 | | Otto Skorzeny's commandos liberate Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso |
| 1944 | | FDR & Churchill met at Quebec for the Octagon Conference -- Learn More [Battlefield Expertise |
| 1944 | | John Blythe crash landed his USAAF Spitfire recon plane at Mount Farm Air Base, England -- Learn More |
| 1948 | | The Indian Army began 'Operation Polo,' to bring secessionist Hyderabad under government control -- Learn More |
| 1974 | | Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie |
| 1983 | | USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its downing of KAL Flight 007 |
| 1990 | | US, Britain, France, & the USSR agree to reunification of Germany |
| 1995 | | Belarussian armed forces shoot down a balloon in an international race, 2 Americans die |
| 1494 | | Prince Francis of Orléans, later King François I of France (1515-1547), esthete, blockhead, and liar -- Learn More |
| 1659 | | Pr Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Wurttemberg-Neuenstadt, Dutch general (Steenkerque, 1692), d 1701. |
| 1806 | | Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Adm, U.S., d. 1863 |
| 1818 | | Richard Jordan Gatling, who invented a clever device, d.1903 |
| 1852 | | Hubert H Asquith, premier of Great Britain (1908-16), d. 1928 |
| 1888 | | Maurice Chevalier, poilu, prisoner-of-war, entertainer, d. 1972 |
| 1891 | | Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican nationalist, d. 1965 |
| 1913 | | James "Jesse" Owens, who spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics, d. 1980 |
| 1015 | | Count Lamert "the Bearded" of Louvain (????-1015), 65, kia at Florennes, by Duke Godfrey II of Lower Lorraine |
| 1185 | | Andronicus I Comnenus, 67, Byzantine Emperor (1183-85), torn to pieces by a mob |
| 1213 | | King Pedro II of Aragon (1196-1213), kia at Muret, at c. 39 |
| 1362 | | Pope Innocent VI - Étienne Aubert (1352-1362), c. 70-80 |
| 1500 | | Duke Albert III "the Courageous" of Saxony (1664-1500), 36, of natural causes |
| 1642 | | Henri Coiffier de Ruzé (22), Marquis of Cinq-Mars, favorite of Louis XIII, and François De Thou (35), decapitated by Richelieu at Lyon for conspiracy |
| 1683 | | King Afonso VI of Portugal (1656-67), at 40 |
| 1691 | | Elector Johan Georg III of Saxony (1680-91), at 44 |
| 1810 | | Capt. Robert Corbet of HMS 'Africaine', notorious flogger, kia or fragged -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | Capt. Bertrand Stewart, British solicitor, soldier, and spy, kia at 41, on the Marne -- Learn More |
| 1965 | | Gen. Lucian King Truscott, Jr., who commanded the Fifth Army in Italy, died at 70 -- Learn More |
| 1977 | | Stephen Biko, murdered at 30 by the South African apartheid regime |