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Events
- 122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
- 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
- 1788 - The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
- 1814
- The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
- Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
- 1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
- 1914 - During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera comes to power in a military coup in Spain.
- 1926 - The Ku Klux Klan parades in Washington DC.
- 1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
- 1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
- 1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
Births
- 1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
- 1851 - Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)
- 1860 - John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)
- 1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
- 1936 - Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Fascist
- 1964 - Tavis Smiley, American talk show host
Deaths
- 81 - Titus, Roman emperor (b. 39)
- 1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)
- 1946 - Amon Göth, commandant of German labour camp (b. 1908)
- 1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
- 2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
