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| 1714 | Elisabeth Farnese marries Philip V of Spain, to found three dynasties |
| 1795 | British capture Capetown from the Dutch |
| 1810 | Grito de Delores: Fr. Hidalgo proclaims Mexican independence |
| 1812 | Great Fire of Moscow frustrates Napoleon's attempt to hold the city |
| 1830 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., writes "Old Ironsides" |
| 1831 | Auber's "Fra Diavolo" has its American premiere, Philadelphia |
| 1854 | Cdr David G. Farragut opens 1st Navy Yard on the Pacific, at Mare I. |
| 1861 | Battle of Princeton, WV |
| 1864 | Battle of Coggin's Point, VA |
| 1917 | Navy Department authorizes 16 naval air stations to be built abroad |
| 1919 | American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress |
| 1922 | Last Greek troops evacuate Asia as Turks advance |
| 1940 | Dutch SS is formed |
| 1941 | Jews of Vilna, Poland, confined to Ghetto |
| 1941 | Shah Riza of Iran abdicates in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza |
| 1942 | Aussies hold Imita Ridge, NG, high tide point of the Japanese offensive |
| 1942 | 3rd Marine Div is activated at San Diego. |
| 1943 | US Fifth and British Eighth Armies unite in Italy |
| 1943 | Australian troops capture Lae, in northeastern New Guinea. |
| 1944 | 548th Night Fighter Squadron arrives in the Marianas |
| 1950 | Viet Minh begin offensive against French bases in Vietnam |
| 1955 | Coup ousts Juan Peron as President of Argentina |
| 1957 | Premier Songgram deposed by a coup in Thailand |
| 1958 | Sub Grayback fires first Regulus II cruise missile, carrying mail |
| 1974 | Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters |
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| 1394 | Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI |
| 1631 | Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustavus Adolphus defeats General Tilly |
| 1745 | Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under the Young Pretender |
| 1859 | Norton I proclaims himself Emperor of America, in San Francisco |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Morristown, Mo |
| 1861 | Combat at Blue Mills, Mo |
| 1862 | Battle of Mumfordville, KY: US Col John Wilder surrenders |
| 1862 | Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN |
| 1862 | Battle of Antietam: Bloodiest day of Civil War, over 3,000 die |
| 1895 | Second Class Battleship Maine commissioned |
| 1901 | Anglo-Boer War: Botha cuts up Gough's force at Blood River Poort |
| 1916 | Seventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Sep 4) |
| 1939 | Soviet Union invades Poland |
| 1939 | German U-boat sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous |
| 1943 | B-24s bomb Tarawa, Gilbert I, from Canton and Funafuti. |
| 1943 | Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station |
| 1944 | Operation Market Garden: Allied Airborne invasion of the Netherlands |
| 1944 | Elms 81st Div land on Anguar, near Peleliu. |
| 1944 | Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers |
| 1944 | USAAF abandons airbase at Kweilin, China, as the Japanese close in. |
| 1947 | James Forrestal sworn in as first Secretary of Defense |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Council meets for the first time |
| 1978 | Begin, Sadat, & Carter sign Camp David Accords |
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| 1739 | Treaty of Belgrade: Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks |
| 1755 | Ft Ticonderoga, NY opens |
| 1778 | US concludes its first treat with an Indian nation, the Delaware |
| 1806 | Fra Diavolo defeated by the French near Itri, Naples |
| 1851 | The New-York Times begins publication |
| 1860 | Sardinians defeat Papal Army at Castefidardo |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Barboursville, Wva |
| 1864 | Battle of Martinsburg WV |
| 1914 | South African troops land in German South West Africa |
| 1914 | Battle of Aisne ends; Germans hold off the French, trench warfare begins |
| 1918 | Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) begins |
| 1931 | Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo |
| 1934 | USSR admitted to League of Nations |
| 1940 | Italians troops capture Sidi Barrani |
| 1942 | British troops land at Tamatave, on the east coast of Madagascar. |
| 1943 | B-24s bomb Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands. |
| 1982 | Christian militia kills 600 Palestinians in Lebanon, the Jews are blamed |
| 1988 | Coup in Haiti |
| 1991 | Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS 47 (Endeavor 2) lands |
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