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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.
• 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.

Births

• 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
• 1817 - John Leech, English caricaturist and illustrator (d. 1864)
• 1862 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
• 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
• 1936 - John McCain, American politician

Deaths

• 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
• 1971 – Nathan Leopold, American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
• 1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)