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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-* [[708]] - Copper coins are minted in [[Japan]] for the first time (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[August 10]], [[708]]).+*[[1943]] - [[André Breton]] is questioned by agents of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
-*[[1189]] - [[Ban Kulin]] wrote "[[The Charter of Kulin]]", which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] statehood.+
-*[[1350]] - [[Battle of Winchelsea]] (or [[Les Espagnols sur Mer]]): The [[England|English]] [[naval fleet]] under King [[Edward III of England|Edward III]] defeats a [[Crown of Castile|Castilian]] fleet of 40 ships.+
-*[[1475]] - The [[Treaty of Picquigny]] ends a brief war between [[France]] and [[England]].+
-*[[1498]] - [[Vasco da Gama]] decides to depart [[Calicut]] and return to [[Portugal]].+
-*[[1521]] - The [[Ottoman Turks]] capture [[Nándorfehérvár]], now known as [[Belgrade]].+
-*[[1526]] - [[Battle of Mohács]]: The [[Ottoman Turks]] led by [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] defeat and kill the last [[Jagiellonian]] king of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]].+
-*[[1533]] - [[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire]]: [[Inca]] [[emperor]] [[Atahualpa]] is [[Execution (legal)|executed]] in [[Cajamarca]] by the [[garrote]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] invaders known as [[Conquistadores]].+
-*[[1541]] - The [[Ottoman Turks]] capture [[Buda]], the [[capital]] of the [[Hungarian Kingdom]].+
-*[[1655]] - [[Warsaw]] falls without resistance to a small force under the command of [[Charles X Gustav of Sweden]] during [[Deluge (history)|The Deluge]].+
-*[[1756]] - [[Frederick the Great]] attacks [[Saxony]], beginning the [[Seven Years' War]].+
-*[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]], an armed uprising of [[Massachusetts]] farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.+
-*[[1825]] - [[Portugal]] recognizes the Independence of [[Brazil]].+
-*[[1831]] - [[Michael Faraday]] discovers [[electromagnetic induction]].+
-*[[1833]] - The [[United Kingdom]] legislates the abolition of [[slavery]] in its empire.+
-*[[1842]] - [[Treaty of Nanking]] signing ends the [[First Opium War]].+
-*[[1861]] - [[Civil War]]: [[US Navy]] squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, [[North Carolina]].+
-*[[1862]] - [[Second Battle of Bull Run]]+
-*[[1869]] - The [[Mount Washington Cog Railway]] opens, making it the world's first [[rack railway]].+
-*[[1871]] - [[Emperor Meiji]] orders the [[Abolition of the han system]] and the establishment of [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] as local centers of administration. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[July 14]], [[1871]]).+
-*[[1882]] - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of [[The Ashes]]. This is the date according to the mock obituary in [[The Sporting Times]].+
-*[[1885]] - [[Gottlieb Daimler]] patents the world's first [[motorcycle]].+
-*[[1895]] - The formation of the [[Rugby Football League|Northern Rugby Union]] at the [[George Hotel]], [[Huddersfield]], [[England]].+
-*[[1898]] - The [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]] tire company is founded.+
-*[[1907]] - The [[Quebec Bridge]] collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.+
-*[[1910]] - [[Japan]] changes [[Korea|Korea's]] name to [[Joseon|Chōsen]] and appoints a [[governor-general]] to rule its new [[colony]].+
-*[[1911]] - [[Ishi]], considered the last [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] to make contact with [[European Americans]], emerges from the wilderness of northeastern [[California]].+
-*[[1915]] - [[US Navy]] salvage divers raise [[USS F-4 (SS-23)|F-4]], first U.S. [[submarine]] sunk in accident. +
-*[[1918]] - [[Bapaume]] taken by [[Australian Corps]] and [[Canadian Corps]] in the [[Hundred Days Offensive]]+
-*[[1922]] - [[Turkey|Turkish]] forces set [[Great Fire of Smyrna|fire]] to [[Smyrna]], in [[Asia Minor]].+
-*[[1930]] - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of [[St Kilda, Scotland|St Kilda]] are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of [[Scotland]].+
-*[[1943]] - [[Occupation of Denmark|German-occupied Denmark]] scuttles most of its [[navy]];[[Germany]] dissolves [[Denmark|Danish]] government.+
-*[[1944]] - [[Slovak National Uprising]] takes place as 60,000 [[Slovaks|Slovak]] troops turn against the [[Nazism|Nazi]]s.+
-*[[1949]] - [[Soviet atomic bomb project]]: The [[Soviet Union]] tests its first [[atomic bomb]], known as ''[[First Lightning]]'' or ''[[Joe 1]]'', at [[Semipalatinsk Test Site|Semipalatinsk]], [[Kazakhstan]].+
-*[[1958]] - [[United States Air Force Academy]] opens in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].+
-*[[1962]] - The lower deck of the [[George Washington Bridge]] opens in [[New York]] and [[New Jersey]]+
-*[[1966]] - Last scheduled [[The Beatles|Beatles]] [[concert]], in [[Monster Park|Candlestick Park]] [[San Francisco, California]].+
-*[[1970]] - First flight of the [[McDonnell Douglas]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] jetliner, a competitor to the [[Boeing 747]].+
-* 1970 - [[Chicano Moratorium]] against the [[Vietnam War]], [[East Los Angeles, California]]. Police riot kills three people, including journalist [[Ruben Salazar]].+
-*[[1982]] - The synthetic [[chemical element]] [[Meitnerium]], [[atomic number]] 109, is first synthesized at the [[Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung]] in [[Darmstadt]], [[Germany]].+
-*[[1991]] - [[Supreme Soviet]] suspends all activities of the [[Soviet Communist Party]].+
-*[[1995]] - [[NATO]] launches [[Operation Deliberate Force]] against [[Bosnian Serb]] forces. +
-*[[1996]] - [[Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801]], a [[Vnukovo Airlines]] [[Tupolev Tu-154]] crashes into a mountain on the [[Arctic]] island of [[Spitsbergen]], killing all 141 aboard.+
-*[[1997]] - At least 98 villagers are killed by the [[Armed Islamic Group|GIA]] in the [[Rais massacre]], [[Algeria]].+
-*[[2003]] - [[Ayatollah]] [[Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]], the [[Shia Muslim]] leader in [[Iraq]], is [[assassin]]ated in a [[terrorism|terrorist]] bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a [[mosque]] in [[Najaf]].+
-*[[2005]] - [[Hurricane Katrina]] [[Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans|devastates]] much of the [[U.S. Gulf Coast]] from [[Louisiana]] to the [[Florida Panhandle]], killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage. Most of the damage and all of the resulting deaths in the New Orleans area were caused my a subsequent [[federal levee failure]] after the storm had passed.+
==Births== ==Births==
-*[[1619]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]], French minister of finance (d. [[1683]]) 
-*[[1628]] - [[John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath]], English royalist statesman (d. [[1701]]) 
*[[1632]] - [[John Locke]], English philosopher (d. [[1704]]) *[[1632]] - [[John Locke]], English philosopher (d. [[1704]])
-*[[1725]] - [[Charles Townshend]], English politician (d. [[1767]]) 
-*[[1756]] - [[Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde]], Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. [[1845]]) 
-* 1756 - [[Jan Śniadecki]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1830]]) 
-*[[1777]] - [[Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin]], founder of [[Sinology]] (d. [[1853]]) 
*[[1780]] - [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Jean Ingres]], French painter (d. [[1867]]) *[[1780]] - [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Jean Ingres]], French painter (d. [[1867]])
-*[[1805]] - [[Frederick Maurice]], English theologian (d. [[1872]])+*[[1862]] - [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer (d. [[1949]])
-*[[1809]] - [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]], American physician (d. [[1894]])+
-*[[1810]] - [[Juan Bautista Alberdi]], founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. [[1884]])+
-*[[1843]] - [[David B. Hill]], Governor of New York (d. [[1910]])+
-*[[1844]] - [[Edward Carpenter]], English poet (d. [[1929]])+
-*[[1862]] - [[Andrew Fisher]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1928]])+
-* 1862 - [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1949]])+
-*[[1871]] - [[Albert Lebrun]], French politician (d. [[1950]])+
-*[[1876]] - [[Charles F. Kettering]], American inventor (d. [[1958]])+
-*[[1898]] - [[Preston Sturges]], American filmmaker (d. [[1959]])+
-*[[1901]] - [[Aurel Joliat]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[1986]])+
-*[[1905]] - [[Werner Forssmann]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1979]])+
-*[[1905]] - [[Dhyan Chand]], Indian hockey player (d. [[1979]])+
-*[[1912]] - [[Wolfgang Suschitzky]], Austrian-Polish cinematographer+
-* 1912 - [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]], American actor (d. [[1994]])+
*[[1915]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (d. [[1982]]) *[[1915]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (d. [[1982]])
-*[[1916]] - [[George Montgomery]], American actor (d. [[2000]])+*[[1920]] - [[Charlie Parker]], American musician (d. 1955)
-* 1916 - [[Luther Davis]], American playwright+*[[1935]] - [[William Friedkin]], American film director (d. 2023)
-*[[1917]] - [[Isabel Sanford]], American actress (d. [[2004]])+*[[1938]] - [[Hermann Nitsch]], Austrian artist (d. 2022)
-*[[1920]] - [[Charlie Parker]], American musician (d. [[1955]])+*[[1956]] - [[GG Allin]], American singer (d. 1993)
-*[[1923]] - [[Richard Attenborough]], English film director+*[[1958]] - [[Michael Jackson]], American singer (d. 2009)
-* 1923 - [[Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley|Marmaduke Hussey]], BBC Chairman (d. [[2006]])+
-*[[1924]] - [[Consuelo Velázquez]], Mexican songwriter (d. [[2005]])+
-* 1924 - [[Dinah Washington]], American singer (d. [[1963]])+
-*[[1926]] - [[María Dolores Pradera]], Spanish melodic singer+
-*[[1928]] - [[Charles Gray (actor)|Charles Gray]], English actor (d. [[2000]])+
-*[[1929]] - [[Thom Gunn]], British poet (d. [[2004]])+
-*[[1930]] - [[Jacques Bouchard]], Quebec advertising executive (d. [[2006]])+
-*[[1931]] - [[Stelios Kazantzidis]], Greek singer (d. [[2001]])+
-* 1931 - [[Lise Payette]], Quebec politician, writer and columnist+
-*[[1933]] - [[Arnold Koller]], Swiss Federal Councilor+
-*[[1935]] - [[William Friedkin]], American film director+
-*[[1936]] - [[John McCain]], American politician+
-*[[1937]] - [[James Florio]], Governor of New Jersey+
-*[[1938]] - [[Elliott Gould]], American actor+
-* 1938 - [[Robert Rubin]], [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]]+
-* 1939 - [[Joel Schumacher]], American film director+
-*[[1940]] - [[Gary Gabelich]], American race car driver (d. [[1984]])+
-*[[1941]] - [[Robin Leach]], English television host+
-* 1942 - [[James Glennon]], American cinematographer (d. [[2006]])+
-*[[1942]] - [[John Heuser]], Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis+
-*[[1945]] - [[Wyomia Tyus]], American athlete+
-*[[1946]] - [[Bob Beamon]], American jumper+
-*[[1947]] - [[James Hunt]], English race car driver (d. [[1993]])+
-*[[1952]] - [[Karen Hesse]], American children's writer+
-* 1952 - [[Dave Malone]], American rock guitarist+
-*[[1953]] - [[James Quesada]], Nicaraguan-American anthropologist+
-*[[1954]] - [[Michael P. Kube-McDowell]], American science fiction novelist+
-*[[1956]] - [[GG Allin]], American singer (d. [[1993]])+
-* 1956 - [[Viv Anderson]], English former footballer+
-* 1956 - [[Mark Morris]], American choreographer+
-*[[1957]] - [[Jerry D. Bailey]], American racing jockey+
-*[[1958]] - [[Michael Jackson]], American singer+
-* 1958 - [[Lenny Henry]], British comic+
-*[[1959]] - [[Ernesto Rodrigues]], Portuguese composer+
-* 1959 - [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]], Telugu film actor+
-* 1959 - [[Timothy Perry Shriver]], Member of the Kennedy Family+
-* 1959 - [[Chris Hadfield]], Canadian astronaut+
-* 1959 - [[Rebecca De Mornay]], American actress+
-*[[1961]] - [[Carsten Fischer]], German field hockey player +
-*[[1962]] - [[Hiroki Kikuta]], Japanese composer+
-*[[1963]] - [[Elizabeth Fraser]], Scottish singer+
-*[[1965]] - [[Dina Spybey]], American actress+
-*[[1967]] - [[Anton Newcombe]], American musician ([[The Brian Jonestown Massacre]])+
-*[[1969]] - [[Me'Shell NdegéOcello]], American singer+
-* 1969 - [[Joe Swail]], Northern Irish snooker player+
-*[[1970]] - [[Jacco Eltingh]], Dutch tennis player+
-*[[1971]] - [[Carla Gugino]], American actress+
-*[[1972]] - [[Bae Yong Joon]], South Korean actor+
-*[[1973]] - [[Adam Sessler]], American TV show host+
-* 1973 - [[Olivier Jacque]], motorcyclist+
-*[[1974]] - [[Kumi Tanioka]], Japanese composer+
-*[[1975]] - [[Dante Basco]], Filipino-American actor+
-*[[1976]] - [[Stephen Carr]], Irish footballer+
-* 1976 - [[Pablo Mastroeni]], American soccer player+
-* 1976 - [[Jon Dahl Tomasson]], Danish footballer+
-*[[1977]] - [[John O'Brien (soccer)|John Patrick O'Brien]], American soccer player+
-* 1977 - [[Aaron Rowand]], American baseball player+
-* 1977 - [[Roy Oswalt]], American baseball player+
-* 1977 - [[Charlie Pickering]], Australian comedian+
-*[[1978]] - [[Celestine Babayaro]], Nigerian footballer+
-*[[1979]] - [[Ali Eftekhari]], Iranian scientist+
-* 1979 - [[Chieu Luu]], Canadian journalist+
-*[[1980]] - [[David Desrosiers]], Canadian musician+
-* 1980 - [[Chris Simms]], American football player+
-* 1980 - [[David West (basketball)|David West]], American basketball player+
-* 1980 - [[Nicholas Tse]], Hong Kong singer and actor+
-*[[1981]] - [[Lanny Barbie]], Canadian adult actress+
-* 1981 - [[Geneviève Jeanson]], Quebec bicycle racer+
-*[[1982]] - [[A+ (rapper)|A+]], American rapper+
-* 1982 - [[Carlos Delfino]], Argentinean basketball player+
-*[[1985]] - [[Pouyan Afkary]], American musician ([[Scary Kids Scaring Kids]])+
-* 1985 - [[Jeffrey Licon]], American actor+
-*[[1986]] - [[Lauren Collins]], Canadian actress+
-*[[1987]] - [[Tony Kane]], Irish footballer+
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==Deaths== ==Deaths==
-* [[886]] - [[Basil I]], [[Byzantine Emperor]] (b. [[811]])+*[[1953]] - [[Richard Euringer]], German writer and Nazi censor (b. 1891)
-*[[1093]] - [[Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy]] (b. [[1057]])+
-*[[1123]] - King [[Eystein I of Norway]] (b. ca. [[1088]])+
-*[[1395]] - Duke [[Albert III of Austria]] (b. [[1349]])+
-*[[1442]] - [[John VI, Duke of Brittany]] (b. [[1389]])+
-*[[1526]] - King [[Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia]] (killed in battle) (b. [[1506]])+
-*[[1542]] - [[Cristovão da Gama]], Portuguese soldier (born c. [[1510s|1516]])+
-*[[1657]] - [[John Lilburne]], English dissenter+
-*[[1712]] - [[Gregory King]], English statistician (b. [[1648]])+
-*[[1769]] - [[Edmund Hoyle]], English author and teacher (b. [[1672]])+
-*[[1780]] - [[Jacques-Germain Soufflot]], French architect (b. [[1713]])+
-*[[1799]] - [[Pope Pius VI]] (b. [[1717]])+
-*[[1844]] - [[Edmund Ignatius Rice]], Irish founder of the [[Congregation of Christian Brothers|Christian Brothers]] and [[Presentation Brothers]] (b. [[1762]])+
-*[[1856]] - [[Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck]], British Christian writer (b. [[1778]])+
-*[[1877]] - [[Brigham Young]], American religious leader and western settler (b. [[1801]])+
-*[[1889]] - [[Stefan Dunjov]], [[Banat Bulgarian]] military figure (b. [[1815]])+
-*[[1891]] - [[Pierre Lallement]], inventor of the [[bicycle]] (b. [[1843]] or [[1844]])+
-*[[1904]] - [[Murad V]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1840]])+
-*[[1930]] - [[William Archibald Spooner]], English writer (b. [[1844]])+
-*[[1931]] - [[David Abercrombie]], [[Abercrombie & Fitch]] founder+
-*[[1935]] - [[Astrid of the Belgians|Queen Astrid of Belgium]] (b. [[1905]])+
-*[[1966]] - [[Sayyid Qutb]], Egyptian theoretician (b. [[1906]])+
-*[[1968]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American soldier and planner (b. [[1881]])+
-*[[1972]] - [[Lale Andersen]], German singer (b. [[1905]])+
-*[[1975]] - [[Eamon de Valera]], first [[Taoiseach]] and third [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1882]])+
-*[[1976]] - [[Jimmy Reed]], American blues singer (b. [[1925]])+
-* 1976 - [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]], [[Bengali people|Bengali]] poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. [[1899]])+
-*[[1977]] - [[Brian McGuire]], Australian racing driver (b. [[1945]])+
-*[[1981]] - [[Lowell Thomas]], American writer and broadcaster (b. [[1892]])+
*[[1982]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (b. [[1915]]) *[[1982]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (b. [[1915]])
-*[[1984]] - [[Muhammad Naguib]], Egyptian statesman (b. [[1901]])+*[[1987]] - [[Lee Marvin]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
-*[[1987]] - [[Archie Campbell]], American country music comedian (b. [[1914]])+*[[1992]] - [[Félix Guattari]], French philosopher [[1930]])
-* 1987 - [[Lee Marvin]], American actor (b. [[1924]])+*[[1998]] - [[Charlie Feathers]], United States musician (b. [[1932]])
-*[[1989]] - [[Peter Scott]], English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. [[1909]])+*[[2021]] - [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]], 85, Jamaican composer, musician and record producer (b. 1936).
-*[[1992]] - [[Teddy Turner]], comedian (b. [[1917]])+
-*[[1995]] - [[Frank Perry]], American film director (b. [[1930]])+
-*[[2000]] - [[Willie Maddren]], English former footballer (b. [[1951]])+
-*[[2001]] - [[Francisco Rabal]], Spanish actor (b. [[1926]])+
-*[[2002]] - [[Alan MacNaughtan]], Scottish actor (b. [[1920]])+
-*[[2003]] - Ayatollah [[Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]], Iraqi political leader (b.[[1939]])+
-* 2003 - [[Patrick Procktor]], English artist (b. [[1936]])+
-* 2003 - [[Michel Constantin]], French film actor (b. [[1924]])+
-*[[2004]] - [[Hans Vonk]], Dutch conductor (b. [[1942]])+
-*[[2007]] - [[Richard Jewell]], central figure in the 1996 [[Centennial Olympic Park bombing]] (b. [[1962]])+
-* 2007 - [[Pierre Messmer]], French politician and Prime Minister (b. [[1916]])+
-* 2007 - [[Alfred Peet]], Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. [[1920]])+
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-== Notes ==+
-# Maurice Maeterlinck+
-# Félix Guattari+
-# Hermann Nitsch+
-# Richard Euringer+
-# Federal Bureau of Investigation+
-# Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres+
-* GG Allin+
-* Veikko Ennala+
-# John Locke+
-# Charlie Parker+
-# William Friedkin+
-# Charlie Feathers+
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