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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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German bomber over London
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Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber over Wapping in September 1940
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The last thylacine
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Prise de la Dominique,
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Desmond Tutu
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Replica of the Turtle
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Philo Farnsworth
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| : Independence Day in Brazil (1822) | refimprove section |
| 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his involvement in a plot to overthrow Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Template:Nowrap]] and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. | refimprove |
| 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army fought near the village of Borodino during the French invasion of Russia. | Too much uncited |
| 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Sergeant Ezra Lee made the first documented attack using a submersible when he piloted the Turtle to attempt to attach explosive charges on the hull of Template:HMS in New York Harbor. | refimprove |
| 1893 – British expatriates in Italy founded the Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, today one of Italy's oldest association football clubs. | unreferenced sections |
| 1927 – American inventor Philo Farnsworth (pictured) transmitted the first images using his all-electronic television system. | refimprove |
| 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Pakistan Navy began a raid on the Indian coastal town of Dwarka in its first engagement against India. | unsourced section |
| 1977 – Panamanian de facto leader Omar Torrijos and U.S. president Jimmy Carter signed the Torrijos–Carter Treaties, agreeing that Panama would retake control of the Panama Canal at the end of the 20th century. | unreferenced section |
| 1979 – The cable television network ESPN made its debut, broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. | refimprove section |
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- Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2026)
- 1159 – Pope Alexander III was chosen to succeed of Adrian IV in a disputed election.
- 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory.
- 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
- 1778 – Anglo-French War: Having established an alliance with the United States, France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort.
- 1822 – Pedro I declared the independence of Brazil from Portugal, establishing the Empire of Brazil.
- 1901 – With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal treaty that ended the Boxer Rebellion.
- 1936 – The last thylacine (pictured) died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns.
- 1986 – Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
- 1996 – American rapper Tupac Shakur (pictured) was shot by an unknown assailant in Las Vegas, dying from his injuries six days later.
- 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least 85 percent of buildings on the island.
- 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
- Born/died this day: | Gregory Bicskei |d|1303| John Shakespeare |d|1601| Johan Ludvig Holstein |b|1694| William Burnet |d|1729| Henry Sewell |b|1807| Emil Korytko |b|1813| Thomas Talbot |b|1818| Grandma Moses |b|1860|Brian Horrocks|b|1895| Paul Brown|b|1908| Michael DeBakey|b|1908| William Stewart Halsted|d|1922| Abdurrahman Wahid |b|1940| Ersin Tatar|b|1960| Regina Martínez Pérez |b|1963| Cecil Aronowitz |d|1978| Natalie McGarry|b|1981| Miniminter|b|1992| Elinor Barker|b|1994| Mobutu Sese Seko |d|1997|
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- 1191 – Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf (depicted) in present-day Israel.
- 1916 – World War I: The Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers.
- 1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
- 1999 – Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
- 2011 – Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board.