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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Burkina Faso (1960); | refimprove section |
| 910 – The combined forces of Mercia and Wessex led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, defeated the Northumbrian Danes returning from a raid on Mercia. | date unreferenced |
| 1279 – King Alfonso X of Castile (pictured) was forced to abandon the Siege of Algeciras, the first of many on the city during the Spanish Reconquista. | 5 August 1279 is stated in the infobox only; it's not in the prose and neither is it referenced |
| 1388 – Scottish forces defeated the English during a border skirmish near Otterburn, Northumberland. | needs more footnotes |
| 1583 – Explorer Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. | refimprove section |
| 1796 – War of the First Coalition: The Austrian army attempted to break the Siege of Mantua, but were repelled by the French Army of Italy under Napoleon. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field and his colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island in Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. | refimprove section |
| 1861 – With the passage of the Revenue Act, the United States issued its first income tax: 3% of all incomes over $800 (later rescinded in 1872). | refimprove section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Rear Admiral David Farragut successfully led the Union fleet through a mine field to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay. | refimprove |
| 1925 – The Welsh political party Plaid Cymru was founded with the goals of promoting the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation. | Plaid Cymru: refimprove section; History: unreferenced section |
| 2003 – A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in Setiabudi, South Jakarta, Indonesia, killing twelve people and injuring 150. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – A cave-in at a mine north of Copiapó, Chile, trapped 33 miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground. | appears on October 13, date of rescue |
| 2010 – War in Afghanistan: Ten foreign aid workers of the International Assistance Mission were killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province. | expansion |
| Ivar Aasen |b|1813| | Birthday not cited |
Eligible
- AD 25 – Liu Xiu proclaimed himself the monarch of the Han dynasty as Emperor Guangwu.
- 641 or 642 – King Penda of Mercia defeated and killed King Oswald of Northumbria at the Battle of Maserfield, traditionally believed to have been fought in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.
- 1100 – Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1460 – The Kingdom of Scotland captures Roxburgh, one of the last English strongholds in Scotland, following a siege.
- 1506 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk.
- 1600 – Scottish nobleman John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, was killed during what was most likely a failed attempt to kidnap King James VI.
- 1689 – Beaver Wars: Aggravated by increased French incursions into their territory, a large force of Mohawk warriors substantially destroyed the settlement of Lachine in present-day Quebec.
- 1716 – Austro-Turkish War: The Ottoman army were defeated in their attempt to capture the Habsburgs-controlled Petrovaradin Fortress despite having double the number of soldiers.
- 1772 – Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria began the First Partition of Poland, whose primary motive was to restore the regional balance of power in Eastern Europe.
- 1916 – First World War: The British Empire's Sinai and Palestine campaign began with a victory at the Battle of Romani.
- 1962 – American actress and model Marilyn Monroe was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
- 1969 – Police raided a screening of the film Lonesome Cowboys in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Gay Liberation Front.
- 1981 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse.
- 1993 – Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game.
- 2011 – NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
- 2012 – Radio Network House (pictured), damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, becomes the first building to be demolished by implosion in New Zealand.
- 2015 – Environmental Protection Agency personnel accidentally caused a spillage of 3 million gallons (11 ML) of mine waste water and tailings trapped inside the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, U.S.
- Born/died: | Euthymius I of Constantinople |d|917| Edmund of Woodstock |b|1301|Richard Ottley |b|1626| Dorothy Thomas |d|1846| Edvard August Vainio |b|1853| Harry Trott |b|1866| Jerry Pentland |b|1894| Jacquetta Hawkes |b|1910| Motoi Sakuraba |b|1965| Soichiro Honda |d|1991| Kirk Urso |d|2012| Ruth Asawa |d|2013
Notes
- Alice Huyler Ramsey appears on August 7, so Bertha Benz should not appear in the same year.
August 5: Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day in Croatia (1995)
Henry I of England
- 1100 – Henry I (pictured) was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1716 – Austro-Turkish War: The Ottoman army were defeated in their attempt to capture the Habsburgs-controlled Petrovaradin Fortress despite having double the number of soldiers.
- 1816 – Sir John Barrow, secretary at the Admiralty, rejected a proposal to use Francis Ronalds's electrical telegraph, deeming it "wholly unnecessary".
- 1888 – Bertha Benz made the first long-distance automobile trip, driving 106 km (66 mi) from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, in a Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
- 1949 – An earthquake registering 6.4 Ms struck near Ambato, Ecuador, killing 5,050 people.
- 1984 – A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft crashed while attempting to land in Dhaka, killing 49 people in the deadliest aviation accident in Bangladeshi history.
- 2012 – An American white supremacist carried out a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding four others.
- Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (d. 1799)
- Tom Thomson (b. 1877)
- Pete Burns (b. 1959)
- Eddie Nolan (b. 1988)