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    1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).

    1385 - Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385: Battle of Aljubarrota - Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I.

    1598 - Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford - Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

    1791 - Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins.

    1842 - Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.

    1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

    1848 - Congress created the Oregon Territory, an area encompassing present-day Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and western Montana.

    1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed.

    1881 - Completion of the construction of Cologne Cathedral - the work having been started in 1248.

    1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

    1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration. plates are introduced.

    1897 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe
    defenders in Madagascar.

    1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

    1901 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.

    1908 - Staging of Britain's first international beauty contest - at the Pier Hippodrome in Folkestone, England.

    1911 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.

    1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier.

    1921 - Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).

    1928 - The world's first scheduled television pro grammes are broadcast by WRNY in New York.

    1925 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.

    1933 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²).

    1935 - United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.

    1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.

    1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

    1945 - Japan agrees to surrender to the Allies. The decision, which brought an end to the most costly war in human history, came after a momentous week that saw two U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Japan and a declaration of war by the Soviets. In the evening, 1,000 Japanese army officers attacked the imperial palace with the intention of seizing a recorded message of Emperor Hirohito announcing the surrender; the imperial guards repulsed them. The next day, Hirohito's speech, which asked his people to endure the unendurable, was played on national radio, and hundreds of millions of people around the world celebrated V-J Day. Victory over Japan Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).

    1947 - Pakistan (my love my janu) gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth. (its also 27th of Ramadan Allahmudallah )

    1948 - Australian cricketer Don Bradman plays his last Test match innings at the Oval Cricket Ground in London. After receiving a standing ovation, he is bowled out for nought - blinded, its claimed, by the tears in his eyes.

    1948 - Opening of the Olympic Games in London.

    1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.

    1969 - British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland - to help quell sectarian riots in Londonderry.

    1969 - Keith Castle becomes the first British patient to receive a heart transplant.

    1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.

    1979 - 15 yachtsmen are killed by a Force 10 gale during the Fastnet Yacht Race.

    1979 - Former MP John Stonehouse is released from prison after being jailed for trying to
    fake his own death.

    1976 - The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.

    1980 - Lech Wa??sa leads strikes at Gda?sk, Poland shipyards.

    1986 - Pakistan politician Benazir Bhutto, eldest daughter of former president Ali Bhutto who had been executed for murder and corruption in 1979, is arrested and detained in prison under the orders of President Zia.

    1994 - Ilich Ram*rez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

    2000 - Rescuers race to save stricken Kursk. A rescue operation is underway to save the lives of more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea.

    2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

    2004 - Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of
    $2500 or less.

    2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.

    2006 - The 2006 Lebanon War cease fire goes into effect.

    Births

    1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan
    1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence
    1575 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet
    1586 - William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist
    1599 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar
    1625 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris
    1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
    1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman
    1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia
    1714 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter
    1740 - Pope Pius VII
    1758 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter
    1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies
    1777 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist
    1817 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician
    1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist
    1847 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council
    1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler
    1857 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer
    1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet
    1865 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician
    1866 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician
    1867 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate
    1867 - Cupid Childs, American baseball player
    1876 - Aleksandar Obrenovi?, King of Serbia
    1881 - Francis Ford (actor), American actor
    1882 - Gisela Richter, English art historian
    1909 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor
    1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer
    1911 - Vethathiri, Indian yogi
    1913 - Paul Dean, American baseball player
    1916 - Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants
    1924 - Georges Prêtre, French conductor
    1925 - Russell Baker, American columnist
    1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author
    1926 - Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
    1929 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
    1930 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager
    1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Prize Laureate
    1935 - John Brodie, American football player
    1940 - Dash Crofts, American musician
    1941 - David Crosby, American musician
    1941 - Connie Smith, American singer
    1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
    1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian
    1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
    1946 - Antonio Fargas, American actor
    1946 - Susan Saint James, American actress
    1946 - Larry Graham, American musician
    1947 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
    1950 - Bob Backlund, American wrestler
    1950 - Gary Larson, American cartoonist
    1952 - Carl Lumbly, American actor
    1952 - Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
    1953 - James Horner, American composer
    1953 - Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
    1954 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
    1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
    1956 - Luther Wamble, American guitarist
    1957 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler
    1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
    1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
    1960 - Sarah Brightman, English soprano
    1961 - Susan Olsen, American actress
    1961 - "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler
    1964 - Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter
    1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
    1966 - Halle Berry, American actress
    1968 - Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
    1968 - Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
    1968 - Catherine Bell, American actress
    1969 - Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
    1970 - Ctislav Dosed?l, Czech tennis player
    1972 - Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist
    1973 - Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
    1973 - Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
    1973 - Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
    1973 - Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
    1974 - Ana Matronic, singer
    1974 - Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
    1974 - Christopher Gorham, American actor
    1976 - Steve Braun, Canadian actor
    1977 - Juan Pierre, American baseball player
    1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
    1978 - Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
    1979 - Paul Burgess, Australian athlete
    1980 - Roy Williams, American football player
    1981 - Julius Jones, American football player
    1981 - Matthew Etherington, English footballer
    1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born tennis player
    1983 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born actress
    1984 - Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
    1985 - Christian Gentner, German footballer
    1986 - Terin Humphrey, American gymnast


    Deaths

    582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
    1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
    1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun
    1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier
    1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant
    1433 - King John I of Portugal
    1464 - Pope Pius II
    1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord
    1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel
    1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader
    1727 - William Croft, English composer
    1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician
    1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter
    1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist
    1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist
    1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician
    1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist
    1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet
    1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician
    1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer
    1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
    1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr
    1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player
    1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate(US publishing tycoon)
    1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
    1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer
    1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
    1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat
    1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer
    1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver
    1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor
    1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor
    1972 - Jules Romains, French author
    1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer
    1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model
    1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor
    1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright
    1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player
    1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress
    1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker
    1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver
    1992 - John Sirica, American judge
    1992 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters)
    1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist
    1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster
    1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player
    2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher
    2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool)
    2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer
    2004 - Czes?aw Mi?osz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
    2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver
    2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor

    Holidays and observances

    Morocco - Allegiance of Oued Eddahab or R*o de Oro.
    Pakistan - Independence Day (From the Indian Empire and from the British colonialist and imperialists under the foreign control of the United Kingdom, 1947).
    Paraguay - Flag Day.
    United States - National Creamsicles Day.


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    Quaid e azam with all the patriotic ppl have really done much hardwork...whose fruit will always be cherished...



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    Quaid e azam with all the patriotic ppl have really done much hardwork...whose fruit will always be cherished...
    very ture ..b/w ur welcome guyz

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