31 BC - Rōmānisc Ingefeoht : Actium Sæfeoht - Be westen Crecalandes særime, wonne Octauianes ðreat sige ofer wigum ðærof wæs Marcus Antonius heretoga mod his wife Cleopatra .1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral .1752 - Þæt Geanlǣhte Cȳnedōm adopts þā Gregoriscan gerīmbōc , nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.1789 - United States Department of the Treasury was founded.1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denemearc from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon . 70% of the city was destroyed and 2,000 burgƿara ƿurdon gecƿeald.1862 - Americanisc Ingefeoht : President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope 's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run .1864 - Americanisc Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.1870 - Franco-Prussian War : Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat þone Frencisc here and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan .1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming , 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.1898 - Beadu Omdurmanes - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi , thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan .1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick " at the Minnesota State Fair .1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 : A large hurricane hit the Florida Keys killing 423.1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.1944 - Eallbærnet : Anne francan dægbocwritere and hiere cynn wæron adrifen on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz . They arrive three days later.1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.1945 - Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam ).
1963 - CBS Evening News television 's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.1967 - The microstate Principality of Sǣland unilaterally declared its independence.1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York .1987 - In Moscow , the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust , who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.1991 - Þā Geānlǣht Underrīcu recognizes the independence of the Baltic states : Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania .1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio .1998 - In Canada , pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.1998 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove in Nīƿe Scotland after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva . All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu , the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda , guilty of nine counts of genocide , marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
2001 - Blizzard Entertainment ābīteþ þæt gamen Ƿoruld þæs Gūþcræftes .
1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii , Queen of the Hawaiian Islands (d. 1917 )1850 - Albert Spalding , Americanisc baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald , Þēodisc chemist 1866 - Hiram Johnson , former Governor of California and political activist1877 - Frederick Soddy , Britisc chemist 1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach , crīsten missionary and founder of Laubach Literacy1917 - Cleveland Amory , author1923 - Rene Thom , Frencisc mathematician 1929 - Hal Ashby , film director1934 - Dominic Chianese , actor1936 - Andrew Grove , co-founder and chairman of Intel 1944 - Al Matthews , Americansc actor (d. 2002 )1948 - Terry Bradshaw , Americanisc football player1948 - Christa McAuliffe , Americanisc teacher , astronaut (d. 1986 )
1951 - Mark Harmon , actor1952 - Jimmy Connors , Americanisc tennis player1961 - Carlos Valderrama , Colombian fōtball player1964 - Keanu Reeves , American actor1965 - Lennox Lewis , Canadisc /Britisc boxer 1968 - Salma Hayek , Mexicanisc actress1971 - Tommy Maddox , Americanisc fōtball quarterback 1972 - Sergei Zholtok , andƿīs īshocig player
421 - Constantius III , Romanisc cāsere 1764 - Revd Nathaniel Bliss , Astronomer Royal 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach , Scientific Editor, Astronomer1834 - Thomas Telford , Britisc civil engineer1898 - Wilford Woodruff , foresittend þǣm Cirice of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807 )1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (b.1855 )1921 - Henry Austin Dobson , poet (b. 1840 )1934 - Alcide Nunez , jazz musician (b. 1884 )1937 - Pierre de Coubertin , Frencisc founder of the modern Olympic Games 1953 - US General Jonathan Wainwright , Medal of Honor recipient1964 - Alvin York , most decorated American soldier of Ǣrest Ƿoruldgūþ 1981 - Andrija Maurovic , Croatisc illustrator (b.1901 )1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien , Bryttisc ƿrītere and philologist (b. 1892 ).1973 - Carl Dudley , Americanisc movie director (b. 1910 )
1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak , Polisc poet and dramatist (b. 1934 )1992 - Barbara McClintock , Americanisc geneticist 1997 - Rudolph Bing , opera manager1998 - Allen Drury , author2000 - Elvera Sanchez , Puertorican dancer2000 - Curt Siodmak , science fiction author2001 - Christiaan Barnard , Sūðaffricanisc heart surgeon2001 - Troy Donahue , actor2004 - Joan Orō , scientist.1 Hāligmōnaþ - 3 Hāligmōnaþ - 2 Wēodmōnaþ - 2 Winterfylleþ - Getalu ealra daga
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