| 2012 | Angola holds Parliamentary elections |
| 2012 | The winner of Mexico's presidential elections is Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| 2011 | Venice, Italy hosts the 68th Venice International Film Festival |
| 2011 | Severe damage to homes and infrastructure occurs as wildfires sweep through the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas |
| 2010 | In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of 2010 |
| 2010 | Hurricane Earl shifts toward the east coast of the U.S., placing most of North Carolina's coast on hurricane watch |
| 2004 | The Republican party nominates George W. Bush as its presidential candidate |
| 2002 | WNBA Championships, Los Angeles Sparks beat New York Liberty 2 games to 0 |
| 1997 | "Gin Game," closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 144 performances |
| 1997 | Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by New York Yankees |
| 1997 | Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 26807721201 |
| 1994 | Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia |
| 1994 | Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire |
| 1993 | Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings |
| 1993 | Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees |
| 1992 | 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd and Dana Delane |
| 1992 | Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die |
| 1992 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM |
| 1991 | Houston quarterback David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3 |
| 1991 | Jan Berry (Jan and Dean) weds Gertie Filip |
| 1991 | Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1991 | Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning |
| 1991 | William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA |
| 1990 | Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season |
| 1990 | East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems |
| 1990 | Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners |
| 1988 | 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins |
| 1988 | Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents |
| 1988 | Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches |
| 1987 | Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385) |
| 1987 | Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV |
| 1987 | South Africa longest mine strike in history ends |
| 1986 | Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die |
| 1985 | "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill |
| 1985 | Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M |
| 1984 | Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1983 | Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1981 | Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, vs. England at Lord's |
| 1981 | Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser |
| 1980 | "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 301 performances |
| 1980 | 80th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton |
| 1980 | Poland's Solidarity labor union forms |
| 1979 | 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at U.S. Open |
| 1979 | Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun |
| 1979 | Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador |
| 1979 | Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green |
| 1978 | Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka |
| 1978 | Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst |
| 1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1977 | Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524') |
| 1977 | Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus |
| 1977 | Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote |
| 1976 | George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord" |
| 1976 | Mexican peso devalued |
| 1976 | Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution |
| 1976 | Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0) |
| 1975 | Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing |
| 1973 | 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) |
| 1973 | PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony |
| 1972 | Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4) |
| 1972 | Olga Korbut, U.S.S.R., wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics |
| 1971 | Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) |
| 1971 | Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon |
| 1970 | 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0) |
| 1970 | Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted |
| 1970 | Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar |
| 1970 | Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14 |
| 1970 | WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival |
| 1968 | 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran |
| 1968 | 68th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher |
| 1968 | Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover |
| 1968 | Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club |
| 1968 | Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
| 1966 | Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria) |
| 1965 | House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop |
| 1964 | Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels |
| 1962 | Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1961 | Amsterdam National Ballet forms |
| 1960 | Agricultural Hall of Fame forms |
| 1959 | 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
| 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| 1959 | Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game |
| 1957 | Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain |
| 1955 | 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Texas) |
| 1955 | 1st solar automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1955 | KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die |
| 1954 | Indians beat Yankees 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's) |
| 1954 | WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins |
| 1953 | KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins |
| 1951 | 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf |
| 1950 | Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 home runs and a single in a game vs Braves |
| 1948 | Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee |
| 1947 | Hungarian Communist Party wins election |
| 1947 | New York Giants set season record for home runs by a club 183 (en route to 221) |
| 1944 | Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy |
| 1944 | French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris |
| 1944 | French troops liberate Bordeaux |
| 1944 | Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest |
| 1943 | 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: U.S. assault on Marcus Island |
| 1943 | Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo |
| 1942 | Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault |
| 1942 | U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton) |
| 1941 | 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton) |
| 1941 | Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC |
| 1940 | 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands |
| 1940 | 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton) |
| 1940 | Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes |
| 1940 | German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration |
| 1940 | U.S. National Guard assembles |
| 1939 | Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia |
| 1939 | Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz |
| 1938 | 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250) |
| 1937 | Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for home runs of 18 home runs in August |
| 1935 | 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis) |
| 1935 | Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0 |
| 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents |
| 1935 | Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages |
| 1935 | White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0 |
| 1934 | 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432) |
| 1928 | Brecht and Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres |
| 1924 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2) |
| 1923 | League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German) |
| 1923 | Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu |
| 1920 | Belgium starts paying old age pensions |
| 1920 | Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air |
| 1919 | John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago |
| 1919 | Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group |
| 1919 | Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev |
| 1918 | Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) |
| 1916 | Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London |
| 1915 | Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits New York Giants, 2-0 |
| 1914 | 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan, state record |
| 1914 | General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris |
| 1914 | German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia |
| 1914 | Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die) |
| 1913 | Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands |
| 1911 | Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip" |
| 1909 | A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball |
| 1909 | Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2) |
| 1907 | Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet |
| 1907 | England, Russia and France form Triple Entente |
| 1905 | 25th U.S. Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119) |
| 1905 | Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa |
| 1903 | Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month |
| 1902 | Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider) |
| 1900 | British troops over run Johannesburg |
| 1900 | Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies |
| 1897 | General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum |
| 1896 | Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in New York City |
| 1895 | 1st pro football game (quarterback John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0) |
| 1894 | Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" |
| 1886 | 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern U.S., at Charleston SC, 110 die |
| 1886 | Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized |
| 1881 | 1st U.S. men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI) |
| 1864 | Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties |
| 1843 | Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate |
| 1842 | Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine |
| 1842 | U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands |
| 1829 | Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris) |
| 1778 | British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution |
| 1772 | Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica |
| 1751 | English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland |
| 1535 | Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII |
| 1310 | German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia |
| 1230 | Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice |
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