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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar) | Refimprove |
| National Aviation Day in the United States | stub |
| 295 BC – The oldest known temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated. | refimprove section |
| 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English Rear-Admiral Robert Holmes led a raid on Terschelling and on the Vlie estuary in the Netherlands, destroying 130 merchant ships within two days. | refimprove sections |
| 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Ten months after the British had surrendered, a combined force of British rangers and American Indians routed Kentucky militiamen at the Battle of Blue Licks. | needs more footnotes |
| 1812 – War of 1812: American Navy frigate USS Constitution defeated British Royal Navy frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, earning her nickname "Old Ironsides". | refimprove |
| 1895 – American outlaw and folk hero John Wesley Hardin was shot dead by an off-duty lawman in El Paso, Texas. | refimprove section, primary sources |
| 1909 – The first auto race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the highest-capacity sports venue in the world. | unreferenced section |
| 1936 – The first of the Moscow Trials, instigated by Joseph Stalin against so-called Trotskyists began in the House of the Unions. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – Second World War: Allied forces suffered over 3,000 casualties when they unsuccessfully raided the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France. | Lots of cn/pn |
| 1945 – During the August Revolution against French colonial rule, the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh took control of Hanoi in northern Vietnam. | refimprove section |
| 1953 – The intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States orchestrated a coup d'état of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored the constitutional monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. | Too much uncited text, page numbers needed. |
| 1960 – Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka began to orbit the Earth aboard the Korabl-Sputnik 2 spacecraft. | refimprove section |
| 1978 – The Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, was set on fire, leading to the death of at least 420 people. | Lead claims that fire was the cause of the subsequent revolution in the lead. The impact/aftermath is not explained at all. |
| 1980 – A fire on Saudia Flight 163 killed all 301 people on board after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport. | refimprove section |
| 1981 – Two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22 Fitters during military exercises over the Gulf of Sidra. | No explanation of aftermath/response to this military incident |
| 1987 – A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer shot and killed sixteen people and wounded fifteen others before fatally shooting himself in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Hungary opened its border with Austria as part of the Pan-European Picnic, allowing several hundred East Germans to defect to the West. | refimprove |
| 1991 – During a Soviet coup attempt led by Gennady Yanayev and other top level government officials, it was announced to the public that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been relieved of his duties "due to illness". | refimprove section |
| 1991 – A Hasidic man accidentally struck two Guyanese immigrant children with his car in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City, initiating three days of rioting. | in popular culture |
| 2003 – A car bomb destroyed the United Nations headquarters at Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing Brazilian diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 others. | outdated section |
| Jan Fyt |b|1609| | Birthday not cited |
| Paweł Jasienica |d|1970 | refimprove section |
| Linus Pauling |d|1994| | multiple cn tags |
Eligible
Tu B'Av (Judaism, 2024)
- 1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie (pictured) raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, in an attempt to regain the British throne for his father, beginning the Jacobite rising of 1745.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: Having damaged several French vessels, British ships pursued the remainder of the fleet to Lagos, Portugal, and continued the battle there (depicted) in violation of Portuguese neutrality.
- 1897 – The Bersey Electric Cab entered service as the first electric taxi in London.
- 1920 – Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate began a rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.
- 1950 – The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Korea was disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the Korean War.
- 2003 – A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded more than 130 others, including many Orthodox Jewish children, on a crowded public bus in Shmuel HaNavi, Jerusalem.
- 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
- Born/died: |Abu Yazid |d|947| Tom Wills |b|1835| C. I. Scofield |b|1843| Gene Roddenberry |b|1921| Hsing Yun|b|1927|Bernard Levin |b|1928| Henry Wood |d|1944|Bill Clinton |b|1946|John Deacon |b|1951| Aleksander Kreek |d|1977| Missy Higgins |b|1983|
Notes
- Battle of Evesham appears on August 4, so Edward I should not appear in the same year
August 19: Afghan Independence Day; National Aviation Day in the United States
Edward I of England
- 1274 – Shortly after his return from the Ninth Crusade, Edward I (pictured) was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, nearly two years after his father's death.
- 1934 – A referendum supported the recent merging of the posts of chancellor and president of Germany, consolidating Adolf Hitler's assumption of supreme power.
- 2002 – Second Chechen War: A Russian Mil Mi-26 was brought down by Chechen separatists with a man-portable air-defense system near Khankala, killing 127 people in the deadliest helicopter crash in history.
- 2017 – Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.
- Edward Boscawen (b. 1711)
- Gustave Caillebotte (b. 1848)
- Clay Walker (b. 1969)
- Donald William Kerst (d. 1993)