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Events
- 1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
- 1561 - Mary Stuart proclaimed Queen of Scotland
- 1812 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) defeats the British frigate Guerrière off the coast of Nova Costa
- 1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate
- 1818 - United States annexes Oregon Territory
- 1917 - Manager John McGraw and player Christy Mathewson arrested for playing baseball on Sunday
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes President of Germany
- 1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio
- 1942 - Canadian, British, American and Free French forces raid Dieppe, France
- 1942 - Battle of Guadalcanal
- 1953 - The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Iran and reinstates the Shah
- 1960 - Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage
- 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki elected first non-Communist President of Poland
- 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev deposed in a coup
Births
- 1870 - Bernard Baruch, financier (+ 1965)
- 1871 - Orville Wright, aviator (+ 1958)
- 1883 - Coco Chanel, clothing designer (+ 1971)
- 1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor
- 1902 - Ogden Nash, poet (+ 1971)
- 1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor, television pioneer (+ 1971)
- 1907 - Thruston B. Morton, former Representative and Senator from Kentucky (+ 1982)
- 1916 - Marie Wilson, actress (+ 1972)
- 1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr., actor, screenwriter (+ 2000)
- 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, publisher (+ 1990)
- 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, author, producer (+ 1991)
- 1930 - Frank McCourt, author
- 1931 - Willie Shoemaker, jockey
- 1938 - Diana Muldaur, actress, dog breeder, dog judge
- 1939 - Ginger Baker, drummer, trumpet player
- 1940 - Johnny Nash, singer
- 1940 - Jill St. John, actress
- 1942 - Fred Thompson, Watergate counsel, Senator from Tennessee, actor
- 1946 - Bill Clinton, U.S. president
- 1948 - Tipper Gore, author, activist for "Parental Advisory" labels on music
- 1952 - Jonathan Frakes, actor, director
- 1954 - Mary Matalin, Republican Party political activist
- 1956 - Peter Gallagher, actor
- 1963 - John Stamos, actor
- 1965 - Kevin Dillon, actor
- 1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress
- 1969 - Matthew Perry, actor
- 1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway
Deaths
- 14 - Augustus, Roman emperor
- 1662 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
- 1819 - James Watt, engineer
- 1895 - John Wesley Hardin, gunfighter
- 1936 - Federico García Lorca, author
- 1957 - David Bomberg, painter
- 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
- 1976 - Alastair Cook, journalist, television host
- 1977 - Groucho Marx, comedian, actor
- 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
- 1994 - Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist
- 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
Holidays and observances
See Also:
August 18 - August 20 - July 19 - September 19 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December