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[edit] Events
- 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1533 - Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadores.
- 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
- 1825 - Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- 1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
- 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
[edit] Births
- 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1936 - John McCain, American politician
[edit] Deaths
- 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
