70 Titus captured Jerusalem amid great slaughter [Alt]

530 Election of Pope Boniface II (530-532)

1176 Battle of Miriocefalo: The Seljuks defeated the Byzantines

1394 Jews are expelled from France by King Charles VI

1462 Battle of Puck/Swiecin/Zarnowiec: Casimir IV of Poland defeats the Teutonic Knights

1631 Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustavus Adolphus defeats General Tilly

1745 Edinburgh was occupied by Jacobites under the Young Pretender

1776 The Spanish begin building the Presidio of San Francisco

1787 The Constitutional Convention completes its work

1810 King Joachim Murat of Naples attempts a nocturnal amphibious assault on Sicily near Messina, which is beaten off

1833 A Zulu impi sacks and burns the Portuguese fort at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique

1849 Harriet and her brothers Ben and Henry steal themselves out of slavery

1859 San Francisco: Joshua Abraham Norton proclaims himself Norton I, Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico (1859-1880)

1861 Combat at Blue Mills, Mo

1861 Skirmish at Morristown, Mo

1862 Battle of Antietam: Bloodiest day of the Civil War, over 3,000 die

1862 Battle of Munfordville, Ky: US Col John Wilder surrenders

1895 Second Class Battleship 'Maine' is commissioned, blows up, 1898

1900 Battle of Mabitac: Filipinos defeat the Americans

1916 Seventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Sep 4)

1939 German sub 'U-29' sinks British aircraft carrier 'Courageous'

1939 Soviet Union invades Poland

1943 Ammunition explosion at the Norfolk Naval Air Station

1943 B-24s bomb Tarawa, in the Gilbert Is, from Canton and Funafuti.

1944 Dutch begin a railroad strike against German occupiers

1944 Elms 81st Div land on Anguar, near Peleliu.

1944 Operation Market Garden begins: Allied Airborne invasion of the Netherlands

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

1965 Premiere of "Hogan's Heroes", on CBS-TV

1972 Premiere of "M*A*S*H", on CBS-TV

1978 Begin, Sadat, & Carter sign Camp David Accords

1997 Dedication of a monument commemorating the horses and mules who died in military service during the Civil War, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond