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Gertrud Ederle
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Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
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Street fighting during the Battle of Saint-Malo
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Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, waving from its cockpit
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Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare
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The Genbaku Dome, a standing memorial of the bombing of Hiroshima
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Crew of the Enola Gay
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Effects of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima
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Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
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Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law
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| Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar); | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Bolivia (1825) and Jamaica (1962) | Bolivia: refimprove section; Jamaica: lots of CN tags (24) |
| 1538 – Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded a European urban settlement in what is today Bogotá, Colombia. | refimprove sections |
| 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by its last emperor, [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap]], during the aftermath of the War of the Third Coalition. | unreferenced section |
| 1861 – Under the threat of military bombardment, Dosunmu, Oba of Lagos, ceded the island of Lagos to British forces. | Date not cited |
| 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: At the Battle of Wörth, German troops under Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm defeated the French under Marshal Patrice de MacMahon near the village of Wœrth. | single source |
| 1890 – At Auburn Prison in the U.S. state of New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair. | Referencing issues |
| 1914 – First World War: Germany's Atlantic U-boat campaign began when ten U-boats sailed from their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea, the first ever submarine war patrol in history. | refimprove section |
| 1915 – First World War: The Allied Powers launched the Battle of Sari Bair at Gallipoli. | needs more footnotes |
| 1926 – American competitive swimmer Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – DuMont, one of the world's first television networks, aired its last program. | Referencing issues |
| 1964 – American researcher Donald Currey had a bristlecone pine tree known as Prometheus cut down, only to find that it was the oldest known non-clonal organism ever discovered, at least 4,862 years old at the time. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi, succeeding his brother, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état. | refimprove section |
| 1988 – New York City Police officers charged a crowd protesting a curfew for the previously 24-hour Tompkins Square Park, sparking a riot that led to more than 100 complaints of police brutality. | refimprove section |
| Diego Velázquez |d|1660| | Too much uncited |
| Daniel O'Connell |b|1755| | birthday not cited |
| James Henry Greathead |b|1844| | Too much uncited |
| Jesse Ryder |b|1984| | Birthday not cited |
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- 686 – Second Fitna: Pro-Alid forces defeated the Umayyad Caliphate in the Battle of Khazir, allowing them to take control of Mosul in present-day Iraq.
- 1623 – After the death of Gregory XV, a papal conclave in Rome elected Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII.
- 1892 – The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company was founded in Antwerp to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State.
- 1930 – New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Force Crater disappeared in Manhattan, in a case that was never solved.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied forces attacked German fortifications at Saint-Malo, France, beginning the Battle of Saint-Malo (pictured).
- 1979 – An earthquake struck along the Calaveras Fault near Coyote Lake, California, injuring sixteen people.
- 1996 – Researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.
- 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.
- 2010 – Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.
- 2011 – A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.
- 2013 – A gas leak caused an explosion that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in Rosario, Argentina.
- Born this day: | Saint Dominic |d|1221| [[Stephen V of Hungary|Template:Nowrap of Hungary]] |d|1272| Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg|d|1588| Ludwig Ross |d|1859| George Kenney |b|1889| Lucille Ball |b|1911| Maria Simon|b|1918| Bix Beiderbecke |d|1931| John Richard Clark Hall |d|1931| Aniru Conteh |b|1942| William McCrea |b|1948| Michelle Yeoh |b|1962| Vera Farmiga |b|1973| Edsger W. Dijkstra |d|2002
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- 1777 – The Battle of Oriskany, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolutionary War, was fought about Template:Cvt east of Fort Stanwix, New York.
- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly.
- 1965 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.
- 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, known as the World Wide Web.
- 2008 – Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.