Events

• 29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
• 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
• 1264 – After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
• 1352 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
• 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383-1385: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
• 1592 – The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
  • Falklands Day.
• 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.
• 1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
• 1790 – The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788-1790 Russo-Swedish War.
• 1791 – Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
• 1814 – A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish-Norwegian War.
• 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
• 1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
• 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• 1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
• 1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
• 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating post-war aims.
• 1947 – Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire.
• 1969 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
• 1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
• 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
• 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
• 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.
• Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947.

People (Births)

• 1653 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (d. 1688).
• 1896 – Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (d. 1917).
• 1952 – Debbie Meyer, American swimmer.
• 1973 – Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer.

People (Deaths)

• 1573 – Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548).
• 1691 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1630).
• 1870 – David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801).
• 1905 – Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840).