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.